The Andrew Review

Thank you Andrew for asking the question "What's the exam going to be on? What'd we learn, anyway?"

Things you learned:

Film and literature terms and constructs (things that are used in film and literature)

Gladiators and ancient Rome.
Structure of Roman society.
Reasons for the Fall of Rome

How the fall of Rome lead to the Dark Ages.
Why the Dark Ages were called "dark"
Urban planning and structure in the Dark Ages (how the cities and villages closed in upon themselves w/o Roman support, learning, and innovation)
Reasons for quests and crusades.
The significance of the "holy grail" legend in history
Connections to the historical King Arthur and the King Arthur of literature legend
Reasons for the European and American witch trials
How the Renaissance saved Europe from the Dark Ages

All about the holocaust and genocide
About the story of Oskar Schindler
Why genocide still occurs
About other genocides in the world.

About Civil Rights from Gandhi to America.
About Gandhi's connection to Indian freedom, African decolonization, world freedom movements, and the peace movement
About "satyagraha"--Gandi's philosophy of peaceful noncooperation involving sit ins, boycotts, prayer, fasting, and civil disobedience.
about conditions of colonization at the end of World War II
How MLK brought Gandhi's methods of resistance into the American Civil Rights Movement
How college groups like SNCC and CORE used these methods in the struggle for Civil Rights
How the women's movement evolved out of Civil Rights
About the split in the Civil Rights movement between those advocating peace, and those advocating militancy (Black Panthers, Nation of Islam)

About Malcolm X's role in the Civil Rights movement
About how Malcolm X's philosophy changed after his hajj
To compare and contrast Nation of Islam and traditional Islam

We compared the Bobby Kennedy presidential race to the race for President in 08
We discussed campaign issues that were pressing at the time of RFK and compared them to issues today.
We speculated about what might have happened if RFK had won.

Period 4:

You additionally looked at Forrest Gump and discussed special effects, the historical events in Gump, the Vietnam War, "ping pong diplomacy" and many other Gump issues.

Thank you Andrew for bringing such an extensive list of learning to the top of my mind in time for this review.
Don't forget to review notes about anything you might have forgotten and place those notes in your notebook for this week's quarter 2 notebook check and for the midterm!