Week 7, Periclean Scholars Class of 2016!

This week the Periclean Class of 2016 focused in on some movies related to the problems we are learning about in Honduras and other Latin American countries. We divided into small groups and each group chose a film to watch and analyze for the rest of the class in hopes that we could find a few movies that would benefit the whole class to watch, while learning new information and gaining insight to the problems in these countries. Movies that were watched included, Honduras the War on Children, that described the growing tensions and distrust between adults and children in Honduras. Which Way Home entailed a story of children trying to immigrate to the United States via the train systems. One classmate watched a documentary called Unos pocos con valor and said that this movie shows many positive aspects of Honduras and that amongst all the bad that we hear about, there are good people in the country and not everyone is corrupt. While we still have many movie presentations to listen to, the class as a whole has really enjoyed this assignment. Each group has picked out lessons to learn and scenarios that are applicable to our current and future work in Honduras. Our mentor April described her difficulty in finding movies made in Honduras. This only encouraged us to think about the possibility of creating a positive documentary, promoting the good in Honduras that is rarely found on screens or in news. In other news, we are in the midst of writing individual mid-semester reviews and re-evaluating our work in the classroom for the Periclean Scholars. This important assignment will help us reflect and re-focus on our work and hopefully lead to some productive goals for the rest of the semester.

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