Global Awareness

The Humanities 9 classes have been studying Global Awareness through a novel study, it's some really eye opening stuff! Child labour, poverty, AIDS, slavery, prositiution, it goes on. Most students have already felt deeply the emotions and empathy that go along with this powerful unit.  Here's a documentary I showed in class today on cotton farming in India:

I showed this documentary on child labour in the chocolate industry, it really got my students thinking about their shopping choices:
http://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/the_dark_side_of_chocolate_2010/