Buy buy...

Short video on BUY NOTHING DAY from BBC News

Questions:

1. What and when is "Black Friday"?
2. How much was spent in the US on Black Friday in 2012?
3. What does "GDP" mean?
4. Why have there been stampedes, injuries and even deaths during Black Friday?
5. Why would YOU (not) join the online backlash against Black Friday?

BUY NOTHING DAY website (UK)

According to the BUY NOTHING DAY website:

1. What is so bad about shopping?
2. How does consumerism cause environmental damage?
3. Why is it preferable to use local independent shops?

Other things you could do instead of shopping...

Questions:

1. How high up on the list of your favorite activities is shopping?
2. Do you overshop (binge shop)?
3. How much of the stuff in your shopping trolley was not on your shopping list?!

22 November 1963...

Elegy
What is an elegy?
The US remembers
The Undelivered Speech

20th November every year is Universal Children's Day

The United Nations' (UN) Universal Children's Day, which was first celebrated in 1954, is on November 20th each year. UNICEF, the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, promotes and coordinates this special day. UNICEF works towards improving children's welfare throughout the world.

UNICEF

Questions:

1. What is the purpose of Universal Children's Day?
2. What does UNICEF do (give examples of its actions)?
3. Why do you (not) give to UNICEF?

HAIYAN...

Listen to a BBC report on the disaster: click HERE!

Article on Our Little Earth: click HERE!

How are people coping?
UNICEF

Questions:

1. What is your position on global warming?
2. How are people coping after the typhoon?
3. How much is being done to help the people of the Philippines (is donor fatigue a problem)?

World Kindness Day is on 13th November every year...

What's it all about?

8-9 November 1938... 75 years ago: Kristallnacht

Jewish-owned stores damaged during Kristallnacht...

Click HERE to watch a BBC News report on Kristallnacht!

What was the Night of Broken Glass?

Power to the people...

Click HERE to find out who Forbes considers the world's most powerful people!

USA still n°1?

Does power corrupt?

To do (using the Forbes list):

1. Who are the most power people in the world?
2. What makes them powerful (according to Forbes)?
3. Choose three people among the list and write a very short biography of each.
4. Which person in the list do you admire most and why?
5. Which person in the list do you admire the least and why?
6. If you had the same amount of power as the people in the list, what would you do with it?!
7. Does power necessarily corrupt?
8. What is "anarchy" and what do you think of it?

Remember, remember the 5th of November!

"Penny for the Guy please!"

What is Guy Fawkes night?

Lest we forget...

Why wear a poppy on the 11th of November?

Questions:

1. Do we have a duty of remembrance?
2. What do you think of  the ways the Armistice of 1918 is commemorated?
3. How would you like the event to be commemorated?