Today we are going to look at different points of view around the world with the election of our 44th President, Barack Obama. We did some work on how different American identities might percieve McCain and Obama in September (soccer moms, Nascar Dads...).
Click on the below links to identify a country and newspaper. Open the link up and read an article on how another paper covered the election of Obama. Record the perspectives on the graphic organizer. Check out at least 2 countries. For example how did Iran see this election? How did Russia look at it? How did Iraqis process the election of Obama?
Finally in the main idea sentence area of your graphic organizer explain why we should care about other points of view. How did the points of view from another part of the world shape the way you think about Obama's election. Think of our conversations so far in diplomacy and or human situations (historical and contemporary) other than our own.
http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/?p_size=344
We can also access international newspapers through Google.
http://www.google.com/
do an advanced search
Obama election site:.return Iranian sites that are discussing the election.
http://www.dawn.com/2008/11/06/index.htm (Pakistan) then click on editorials
http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/ search engine for international papers
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These are good links and an interesting lesson. Another interesting viewpoint is to listen to the BBC radio news to hear how they are reporting on it. What do THEY say are the biggest challenges for the new President? When they don't have a personal bias about the parties, it's interesting to hear their concerns.
I always think it's interesting that folks were SO eager for the election to be over. It's almost as if they didn't care WHO won, just so it's over. Does that say that they feel that it doesn't matter who is in the Office - they're going to get shafted either way? Or, was it that their minds were already made up and the commercials and speeches were superfluous?
But, how we take for granted the notion of a peaceful transfer of power. Sad, eh?
http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/politics/2008/11/05/colin.powell.reaction.cnn.html
An Interview with Colin Powell, former official with the Bush administration.
Very interesting, I think
And, of course, political cartoons: http://cagle.com/news/ObamaWins08/1.asp
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