Day 9: One Million Bones

This Thursday, the Bridge program will participate in a bone-making party in support of the One Million Bones initiative. As you may have heard us say before, One Million Bones is an art and activism project aimed at raising awareness and commemorating victims of genocide. They will try to collect 1,000,000 handmade bones--bones that look like actual human bones--to display on the mall in Washington, DC.

For today's blog, I'd like for you to spend some time exploring the One Million Bones website. If you are going to participate in this project, you should be informed. Remember what Ames Hawkins said during the first lecture: being educated means being able to actively participate in the world around you. We involve the Bridge students in the OMB initiative for this very reason; we want you to be part of the conversation.

So, during today's lab time, I want you to accomplish two things:

1. Spend at least 25 minutes looking over and reading through the various pages on the One Million Bones site: http://www.onemillionbones.org/. Most especially, I would like for you to read through the "Conflicts Today" tab. Here, you will learn about contemporary genocides; you will learn about genocides taking place as you sit in class each day.

2. After you've spent a great deal of time reading through the website, I would like for you to come back to our blog and do a freewrite in response to what you just saw/read. Think of this as a journal entry. Basically, as long as you're thinking about what you just read, anything goes. Try to spend at least 15 minutes writing.