1. Session 1: The Square Netflix Original Documentary Analysis
Skills Focus: Analysis and Claim (Thesis) Development with evidence

2. What we are exploring:
We will be screening and analyzing the Documentary The Square- highlighting the 2011 Egyptian revolution that began in the center of Cairo, Egypt known as Tahrir Square
You will be practicing the skill of breaking apart information into pieces and summarizing what you are interpreting
You will then write a claim (thesis) answering a question to consider using evidence to support that CLAIM/THESIS
You will then gather the appropriate evidence/data and justify WHY and HOW it supports your CLAIM/THESIS
These are the first few steps toward getting ready for 8-10 page research paper at end of semester in May for Econ and English 12/AP Lit

3. Question to Consider: Question to Consider for the documentary
The Square:
Based on what you interpreted from the documentary,
Were the Tahrir Square revolutionaries successful?
Remember the Larger Question of Unit:
Can there be significant social change without violence?

4. Democracy & Revolution in Poetry: A Poem by Charles Bukowski (Los Angeles poet & author):
the problem, of course, isn’t the Democratic System,
it’s the
living parts which make up the Democratic System.
the next person you pass on the street,
multiply
him or
her by
3 or 4 or 30 or 40 million
and you will know
immediately
why things remain non-functional
for most of
us.
I wish I had a cure for the chess pieces we call Humanity… we’ve undergone any number of political cures and we all remain foolish enough to hope that the one on the way NOW will cure almost everything. fellow citizens, the problem never was the Democratic System, the problem is you.

5. Preamble-Successful Revolution?
Take 3 mins to make a list of what you think would be a successful revolution vs. what makes a revolution a failure?
Take 2 mins to check in with SW partner- Jedi you speak first- Empire you will be reporting out to the floor
Bringing ideas out to the floor…

6. The Language of Dissent
There is a special language to dissent and revolution and in order to understand it, you have to speak it.
With your partner, take 5 mins to review the Language of Dissent cheat sheet- word- definition- example
Let’s talk about the language:
Dissident
Overthrow
Resistance
Movement
Activist
Regime
Revolution

7. Cast of Characters in The Square
Khalid Abdalla- British-Egyption actor-star of Kite Runner-father jailed and lives in exile due to his anti-government protests
Magdy Ashour- Member of the Muslim Brotherhood- jailed and tortured by government due to his involvement
Ahmed Hassan- Street revolutionary and voice of documentary
Ragia Omran- Human rights lawyer fighting for people’s legal rts
Ramy Essam-Unofficial singer of revolution
Aida El Kashef-Filmmaker who documents the revolution

8. Cast of Characters-Continued
Hosni Mubarak- Former President of Egypt from
Mohamed Morsi- President after Mubarak was removed from office- from June 2012-July member of Muslim Brotherhood-
Muslim Brotherhood- A political party in Egypt, that is made up of Islamist members- A party that pushed religious issues through government-Brotherhood was banned under Mubarak regime

9. Quick Review of Timeline of Events
Jan. 25, 2011-Pro­test­ers take to the streets of Cairo to demon­strate against polit­ic­al re­pres­sion and un­em­ploy­ment un­der Pres­id­ent Hosni Mubarak. Sev­er­al thou­sand people clash with po­lice on Egypt’s “Day of An­ger.”
Jan. 30, 2011- Egypt’s mil­it­ary moves more ag­gress­ively to take con­ trol of parts of the cap­it­al-in­creas­ing ques­tions about how much longer Pres­id­ent Hosni Mubarak can with­stand calls for his resig­na­ tion
Feb. 2, 2011- Clashes between Mubarak’s sup­port­ers and anti-gov­ ern­ment demon­strat­ors in Tahrir Square turn vi­ol­ent, with three people killed and more than 600 in­jured.

10. Quick Review of Timeline of Events
Feb. 11, 2011-Pres­id­ent Hosni Mubarak resigns, hand­ing power to the Egyp­tian mil­it­ary be­fore flee­ing Cairo. Demon­strat­ors cel­eb­rate in Tahrir Square.
Feb. 13, 2011-Egypt’s mil­it­ary dis­solves par­lia­ment and sus­pends the con­sti­tu­tion, say­ing it will rule for six months or un­til pres­id­en­tial and par­lia­ment­ary elec­tions are held.
April 30, 2011-The Muslim Broth­er­hood, a pop­u­lar Is­lam­ic move­ment long banned from polit­ics by Hosni Mubarak, forms a polit­ic­al party.
June 24, 2012-Muslim Broth­er­hood can­did­ate Mo­hamed Mor­si is de­clared Egypt’s first freely elec­ted pres­id­ent
July 3, 2013- Egypt’s mil­it­ary, which two days earli­er had is­sued an ul­ti­mat­um that Mor­si end the dis­rupt­ive tur­moil para­lyz­ing the coun­try with­in 48 hours, an­ nounces that it has re­moved him from of­fice and sus­pen­ded the con­sti­tu­tion. Demon­strat­ors cel­eb­rate in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, restor­ing the scene of re­volu­ tion­ary chaos that en­sued after Mubarak’s Feb­ru­ary 2011 ouster.

11. Findings and Evidence from The Square
Based on what you interpreted from the documentary, This is what your Thinking Log should look like: Were the Tahrir Square revolutionaries successful? (Be sure to have this written down on your log Findings and Evidence:
Evidence of Success
Evidence of Challenges/Obstacles

12. Session 2: The Square
Skills Focus: Developing Claim/Thesis with supporting evidence
Workshop:#goals to write a draft thesis and select 3-5 pieces of strong supportive evidence

13. What you are exploring in this session…
#goals by end of session is to develop/write a DRAFT claim/thesis with 3-4 pieces of carefully selected evidence to support claim/thesis
You will be working first in pairs- then in a cohort (fancy word for group) to help think through your evidence from thinking log
You will then workshop by yourself to develop draft claim/thesis with evidence
You will have a chance to revise your thesis/claim at a later session

14. Preamble-Reviewing Evidence Were the Tahrir Square revolutionaries successful?
By yourself, take the next 3 mins to review your evidence from the Thinking Log for The Square
Take the next 2 mins to share with your partner
Jedis You share evidence of success (1 min)
Empire You Share evidence of challenges (1 min)
*Note- you can fill in any missing gaps during this process
Bringing this out to the floor…

15. Ranking Evidence Were the Tahrir Square revolutionaries successful?
Now that you have shared your evidence with your partner- here are next steps
With your partner take 3 mins to rank your evidence in each category
You will be color coding in Green for 2-3 top evidence of success
You will be color coding in red for 2-3 top evidence of challenges
For example:
Evidence of Success
Evidence of Challenges
Evidence #1
Evidence #2
Evidence #3
Evidence #4
Evidence #5

16. Reminder of your #goal
#goals by end of session is to develop/write a DRAFT claim/thesis with 3-4 pieces of carefully selected evidence to support claim/thesis
In your conversation with your cohort- this is your focus
You are helping each other through this process

17. Cohort Workshop Were the Tahrir Square revolutionaries successful?
You will now move into what is called a Cohort (group)
Take the next min to move into cohorts of 3-4
You need your thinking log for this process with ranked and color coded evidence
In your assigned Cohorts you will be doing the following:
Discussing the evidence you found in The Square to help you answer the essential question
You will need the following roles to help manage convo:
Facilitator- guides conversation
Time Keeper- each person gets 2 mins to discuss their evidence
Reporter- Who will report out summary of conversation to the floor for clarifications
To help guide the conversation if you need it:
I think the revolutionaries were successful BECAUSE (use evidence from your notes here)…
I think the revolutionaries were not successful BECAUSE (use evidence from your notes here)…

18. The Square Cohort Debrief Were the Tahrir Square revolutionaries successful?
Facilitators: Instructions
Have timekeeper put 2 mins on the clock
Have every person present their color coded evidence for both success and challenges
Once everyone has presented for 2 mins
Discuss any patterns that may have been discussed- i.e. did everyone have the same evidence? Were there certain pieces of evidence that stood out more than others? Etc
Next have reporters prepare to make initial inferences and observations – cohort help reporter come to consensus on what your cohort would like to report out- what key evidence stands out? Any inferences that maybe cohort agrees on potential answer to the essential question
Bringing out to the floor by each cohort…

19. Discussion Questions To Think About
Evidence of Successes
Evidence of Challenges
Role of physical space of Tahrir on unity and discourse (talking)
What does it mean to establish a “true democratic society”?
What does it mean to have a “conscience”?
Was removing Mubarak from office enough? What about the regime?
Challenge and role of military on revolution?
Role of Muslim Brotherhood on revolution?
What does “radical” change mean?

20. Reminder of your #goal
#goals by end of session is to develop/write a DRAFT claim/thesis with 3-4 pieces of carefully selected evidence to support claim/thesis
Now that you have review evidence
Ranked evidence
Discussed questions to think about
You are now ready to compose your own thoughts

21. Claim/Thesis & The Roadmap Workshop
By yourself now- its time to workshop your argument and claim/thesis on the essential question
Were the Tahrir Revolutionaries successful?
You’ve got 3 options:
Yes, and this is how & why
No, and this is why not
Yes, but…this is how and why
One way to think about your claim/thesis and your “roadmap”:
Each “foot” = Your Evidence The “Feet” keep the leg up  The Thesis or Claim
This provides the “ROADMAP” to show where your ideas and claims/thesis are going!

22. Writing Draft Thesis Worhshop
It is now time to sit and write-
You will have mins to individually take a CLEAR STANCE and use the MOST APPROPRIATE evidence to support your claim
Some help for you:

23. Reviewing Draft Thesis
Now that you have a draft- give it one last chance to review before your submit for my review
Take the next 5 mins to re-read what you have and use the checklist from rubric to see where you are
Make any necessary revisions if you need to
Criteria
Introduction:
Orients the reader to the writer’s claim in an engaging way
Provides needed context for the claim
Makes a claim that takes a clear stance on the question based on the provided evidence
Includes a roadmap of insightful reasons that support the claim and that will be discussed in each body paragraph in a logical and compelling order

24. Lifeless Motion A Poem by Denilson Carranza, Class of 2016
Drifting across the savanna lies a body
A body of a boy with no
food, clothes, shelter, living life commando
Thin and scared, without nature's mercy
Floating on the Nile lies a body
A body of a girl stretched
by war, turmoil, life, scars left etched
Afloat the Mediterranean lies a body 
A body of a refugee ripped by
political constructs of their own deadly lullaby 
Alone in the Libyan streets lies a body A body of an orphan ripped apart through political corruption, social constructs, left to rot in his own queue Thin and scared, without nature's mercy Bent over in prayer in Tahrir lies a body A body of a full grown man tired by the irrationally corrupt state, restraining body, protesting in peace Alive and upset, giving himself a set form of mercy