Four years equates to approximately 2 million minutes; some of those minutes fly by and some feel interminably long. How do high school students around the world - those lucky enough to attend high school - spend their 2 million minutes? Before examining 'high achieving' students from three countries (USA, China, and India), take a moment to reflect on your own experience and how you spent your 2 million minutes?
Part I: How did you spend your 2 million minutes in HS?
Using a pie chart and your best memory, approximate the % of time you spent doing various activities in your four years of high school. It might be helpful to think of this in terms of hours dedicated to different activities in a typical week and extrapolate from there.
Here's an example (feel free to use your own categories and methods of calculation):https://washington.kanopy.com/video/two-million-minutes
After watching, please respond to the following questions in 1-2 paragraphs per prompt:
1) How did this film confirm or contradict what you've read so far in The Smartest Kids in the World?
2) Do you think the portrayals were fair; why or why not?
3) Why do you think this film was produced?