HIV mult-choice test (6 questions)

Go to www.classmarker.com/register/ and under Test Takers, click "register here to take tests". Use the registration code that was sent to you in the week 1 email to create a login and password (everyone has their own code so we can see your results). Then take the HIV Test week 1, which focuses on the section I: Introduction through section IV: Transmission of HIV section of your HIV/AIDS Curriculum.

Region Specific Education

This week we are focusing on the origin of inequality and the history of Zanzibar before colonization.

Jared Diamond's Pulitzer Prize winning non-fiction book Guns, Germs and Steel was made into a National Geographic three part series. Please watch part 1 and part 3 this week.

Guns, Germs and Steel part 1 (The origin of inequality based on geography)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyRa5P6xVo8

Guns, Germs, and Steel part 3 (across Africa)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EffnUE5LpyE

If you're tight for time, you can read the transcript for part 1 and part 3 (~20 minutes each) on the right side of the following link:
http://www.pbs.org/gunsgermssteel/show/index.html

Task Discussion:

Remember we are trying to get many stories for each topic we discuss. This week please post something (video, article, excerpt, etc.) that will give us more information about the people native to Zanzibar or the livestyle that they lived prior to colonization. And read each other's posts!