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Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Wednesday/Thursday 8.27-8.28


¨Objective: Continue country research for fairy tale project.
¨Warm up: What are the last three themes of geography? What are their sub-categories (if they have any)?
¨Homework: Consult with groups about projects.

Agenda: 
  • warm up
  • share out which fairy tale your group picked
  • go over specifics of five themes project
  • continue research for the five themes

Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Monday/Tuesday 8.25-8.26


¨Objective: Finish the five themes of geography and begin poster project.
¨Warm up: What are the two themes we learned last week and their sub categories.
¨Homework: None.

Five Themes Of Geography Power Point 
Agenda: 
  • warm up
  • last three themes of geography
  • introduce fairy tale project
  • find a group
  • begin research

Monday, August 25, 2014

Five Themes Fairy Tale Project



Students will be assigned a country in which to answer the 5 Themes worksheet -( 5 themes worksheet). Students will be given time in class to research the answers to the questions on the 5 themes as they relate to their country. One source of research will be the Culture Gram website - (Culture Gram website ). Once students have finished researching their country, they should then review the requirements for the Fairy Tale assignment - ( Fairy Tale Assignment ).




Fairy Tale Project Guidelines




Culture Grams Website




Five Themes Objectives

Friday, August 22, 2014

Thursday/Friday 8.21.14-8.22.14

nObjective: Identify the five themes of geography.
nWarm Up: Are the following questions about geography? Why or why not?
nWhy is Texas among the fastest-growing states?
nHow many professional sports teams does San Francisco have?
nIs Michigan part of the Rust Belt?
nHow did the invention of the refrigerated train car affect farmers?

nHomework: Read Chapter 1.1 (pages 35-42). Define the key terms and answer all questions.
Agenda: 
Create customized slide nine on presentation (Requirements)
abbreviated Cornell notes (Three column cornell notes)
Five themes. 
Homework 1.1 Reading and questions. 

Tuesday, August 19, 2014

8/10/14-8/20/14

nObjective: Finish 3 paragraph about me. Begin Google Presentation practice.
nWarm up:
nList 3 new things you learned yesterday.
nWhat was the most valuable thing learned from yesterday’s lesson?

nHomework: Finish any assigned classwork.

Agenda: 
  • Warm up
  • Share out Documents 
  • Google Presentation Presentation 
A great video of the features of Google drive presentation can be seen by following this link ( Presentation tool in Drive)

A great video that explains the important design principles in making a presentation. There are additional directions to this video that explain certain features that are advanced, so pay close attention to
this first few minutes and the ending summary ( design principles )
Presentation Guidelines Presentation

For this activity you will be making a new Google Presentation, creating eight slides about presenting, and sharing it with your teacher.  You do not need to do your own research, you will use the links below to build your presentation.

Formatting:
Each must exemplify the principles of a GOOD presentation:
  • Some topics may need more than one slide in order to be explained in full. Use your discretion to make this decision.
  • Be sure to include at least FOUR images.
  • Ensure that the wording on each slide is in a format that is able to be easily read by a large audience
    • No small font size
    • The rule of 4 by 5 says four bullet points of five words each
    • The rule of 33 says a maximum of 33 words per slide

Content (What are your slides about?):
Slide 1: Title Slide
  • “Title” for you presentation
  • Name
  • Period
  • Date
Slide 2: Basic presentation tips
  • An outline of what will come in the rest of the slides
Slide 3: Body Language
  • What you should do while presenting
Slide 4: Slide Appearance
  • What your slides should look like
Slide 5: Audience
  • How you should address your audience
    • Eye contact
Slide 6: PARC/CRAP Principle
  • An explanation of what this looks like
Slide 7: Pacing/Practice
  • What does this look like for a high school student
Slide 8: Language/Speech
  • Word Choice






Presentation Project Description

Monday, August 18, 2014

Monday 8.18.14

nObjective: Finish intro to google drive assignment
nWarm up: Describe the procedure for checking out a chrome book as well as the login process.

nHomework: Finish three paragraph about me with comments.
Agenda: 
  • warm up
  • finish three paragraph about me. 

Thursday, August 14, 2014

August 14/15 Agenda, Warm Up, and Homework

—Objective: SWBAT access Google Drive and create Google docs.
—Warm up: Set one academic goal for yourself this semester. Set one social goal for yourself this semester. (A total of two goals).


—Homework: Parent/guardian signature due 8/18/14.

Agenda:
  • Clock buddies
  • discuss drive/chrome books
  • assign computer numbers/change seats
  • practice with chrome books
  • start getting to know you assignment.

Intro to Google Drive Assignment

For this activity you will be creating a new Google Doc, writing a three paragraph introduction to yourself, and sharing it with a partner.  After you have completed your three paragraphs you will be sharing it with me on Google Drive.


Style Guide: your Doc must be formatted according to these Chicago guidelines:
  • double-spaced with left-justification
  • Times New Roman 12pt font with 1” margins
  • Title Page (center justified)
    • Title
    • You Name
    • Teacher’s Name
    • Period
    • Date
  • Include Page numbers - begin numbering on the first page of text, not the title page


Content (What are you writing about?):
Each paragraph must be a minimum of five (5) complete sentences
Paragraph 1 - Personal biography (tell us about you and your family, where does your family come from? What is your cultural history?)
Paragraph 2 - Your favorite things (travel, food, hobbies, music, movies, books, etc.)
Paragraph 3 - What did you do over the summer?  OR What are you looking forward to about high school? OR What are you going to miss about middle school?


Share Time:
Once you have completed your three paragraphs, share it with a partner on Google Drive.  
Once you have shared your document, and your partner has shared theirs, read your partner’s three paragraphs.  Using the comments feature, make some annotations about your partner’s document (what did you find interesting?  what are some similarities between the two of you?).  When you are finished, write three complete sentences about your partner to share with the class (one sentence regarding each paragraph).

Three Paragraph Assignment

Wednesday, August 13, 2014

First Day 8.13.14

Agenda:

  • Greenshets/syllabus
  • Getting to know you questions
Homework: Syllabus signature due 8/18 and getting to know you questions due at next class session. 


Objective: Discuss classroom expectations.

Warm up: What are you most excited about for your freshman year? 

Wednesday, August 6, 2014

Remind.com

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Syllabus

Welcome back to high school! I am looking forward to a very productive year.

Below is the link to our syllabus.