Monday 12/14/15

Agenda:
-turn in notebooks/current events
-kahoot review

Survey for Charger Account

This is a survey for our school newspaper, The Charger Account.

Thursday/Friday 12/10/15-12/11/15

Agenda: 
-warm up
-finish political platform
-study guide for final 
-Review/Kahoot
-Current Events due 12/14

•Objective: SWBAT review political platforms for candidates and for finals.

•Warm up: What is the difference between conservative and liberal? Can you give an example of a liberal issue? What about a conservative issue?

•Homework: Current events due 12/14. THAT IS MONDAY!!!

Tuesday/Wednesday 12//8/15-12/9/15

Agenda: 
-warm up
-politics 
-candidate project
   -template for candidate project
   - website

Quiz to determine which candidate you align with

•Objective: SWBAT understand the nominating process for US president.

•Warm up: What do you currently know about the 2016 presidential election?

•Homework: Current events due 12/14

Monday 12/7/15

Agenda:
-work on current events all period

Thursday/Friday 12/3/15-12/4/15

Agenda: 
-warm up
-finish mini society project
-present mini society project
-begin political ideologies 

•Objective: SWBAT share their societies and learn political ideologies.

•Warm up: Name and explain one system of government. Name and explain one economic system.

•Homework: Current events due 12/14.

Tuesday/Wednesday 12/1/15-12/2/15

Agenda: 
-warm up
-government/economics lecture
-ideal society mini project 

•Objective: SWBAT learn about systems of government and economics.

•Warm up: What do you already know about government and/or economics? It can be anything!

•Homework: Current events due 12/14

Monday 11/30/15

Agenda: 
-warm up
-review culture quiz
-debrief collages with table partners
-work on current events

•Objective: SWBAT review assessments and culture collages.

•Warm up: How do you think you did on the assessment? Should you have studied more or less? Advice for studying in this class? Was the study guide helpful?

•Homework: Current Events due 12/14!!

Monday/Tuesday 11/23/15-11/24/15

Agenda: 
-warm up
-Culture Collage
-Culture Collage Partner Share
-Current Events/Review for quiz (you need to be able to define/understand the following concepts for the quiz on Wednesday)

·      Define culture

·      How is culture transmitted

·      Isolated cultures?

·      How do cultures change

·      Symbols

·      Cultural landscape

·      Patterns of behavior and thought

·      Material culture

·      Pop culture

·      High culture

·      Ideological culture

·      Art as culture

·      Cultural norms

·      Sequent occupance

·      Acculturation

·      Transculturation

·      Cultural diffusion

·      Culture v ethnicity

·      Pop culture v high culture

·      Culture person and high culture

 Links to lectures: 
Culture Part I 
Culture Part II
Culture Part III

•Objective: SWBAT define their own culture by making a collage.

•Warm up: How does knowledge about culture allow us to be more thoughtful, tolerant, and caring global citizens?

•Homework: Study for quiz on Wednesday. (study guide is on today’s blog post)

Thursday/Friday 11/19/15-11/20/15

Agenda: 
-warm up
-review writing samples of compare/contrast paragraph 
-Culture Part III
-Current Event work time 

•Objective: SWBAT understand the transmission of cultures.

•Warm up: Reflect on the etiquette project. What did you like the most? The least? What would you do differently next time?

•Homework: Current events due 12/14/15. Culture quiz on 11/25/15

Video from Mikey V.

Mikey suggested this BuzzFeed Video about Americans Trying Indian McDonald's.

Enjoy!

Tuesday/Wednesday 11/17/15-11/18/15

Agenda: 
-warm up
-finish gallery walk 
-class compare/contrast example 
   use this template 
-individual paragraphs (these are due before block two) 
-Current Events 

Directions for Paragraphs: 

1.Create a new Google Doc

1.File name = P__ Your Name – Etiquette Comparison Paragraphs

2.Access Google Classroom

1.Access PDF File with the paragraph template

1.Follow the template and use the red comment boxes to help guide you on how to best use the template

3.OBJECTIVE = Write two compare and contrast paragraphs that indicates the differences and similarities of etiquette between the country you researched and the etiquette of a countries in different regions in the world.

1.Make sure to mention three of the Etiquette qualities in your response. (Greetings, Dining, Family, or Misc.)

4.HINT – As you write your paragraphs, make sure to reread, revise, and change your paragraphs to improve the quality of the writing

Period One Etiquette Projects 
Period Three Etiquette Projects  
Period Five Etiquette Projects 
Period Six Etiquette Projects

•Objective: SWBAT finish etiquette gallery walk and write etiquette paragraph. 

•Warm up: What are some areas of contrast (differences) between your country’s etiquette and that of the US?  

•Homework: Submit paragraph before block two. Current events due 12/14/15.

Monday 11/16/15

Agenda: 
-warm up
-last minute changes to presentations
-submit presentations to Google Classroom 
-gallery walk 

•Objective: SWBAT finish etiquette project.

•Warm up: What is one interesting fact that you learned about your assigned country?

•Homework: Current Events due 12/14/15

Thursday/Friday 11/12/15-11/13/15

Agenda: 
-warm up
-review everyone has culture (turn in)
-Culture Part II
-Etiquette Project
   Country List 
   Instructions for Etiquette Project

Two great links to help you research: 
Kwintessential
Swissotel

•Objective: SWBAT define what culture looks like as well as etiquette in different cultures.

•Warm Up: Watch the following video clip and explain the etiquette issues in this scene?

•Homework: Finish etiquette project research.

Monday/Tuesday 11/9/15-11/10/15

Agenda: 
-warm up
-CE/Biomes Quiz
-review warm up
-Culture Intro 
-Features of Culture / Everyone has culture

•Objective: SWBAT show mastery of the Columbian Exchange and review culture.

•Warm Up: List out as many words as possible that relate to culture.

•Homework: Finish features of culture and everyone has culture worksheet.

Thursday/Friday 11/5/15-11/6/15

Agenda: 
-warm up

1.Check out chrome book

2.Copy and paste your paragraph into three and four.

3.Share your document with one person at your table.

4.Use suggesting mode

5.Share with another person at your table

6.Use suggesting mode

7.Read through the changes they suggested

8.Revise your paragraph accordingly

9.When you are finished with your final draft complete the Self Assessment (number six on the document) 

 

•Objective: SWBAT peer review intro paragraphs and self assess.

•Warm up: How do you feel about the paragraph you wrote? Was it easy? Hard? Did you struggle? What was challenging for you? What was easy for you? How would you do it differently?

•Homework: Make sure your intro paragraph is submitted by Sunday night.

 

Tuesday/Wednesday 11/3/15-11/4/15

Agenda: 
-warm up
-writing prompt 
-review what we have learned up through this point in the year 
Period One
Period Three
Period Five
Period Six 
 
-Intro Writing: Make a copy of this! 
Task:

•Task = Design a question that through a thoughtful response allows us to examine what we have learned and connect/build off of that knowledge to more fully explain our current course of study.

•Questions need to:

•Make a connection between where we are and what we have learned

•5 Themes, Biomes, Map Making, and Columbian Exchange

•Question example (from different content)

•Ex. How did the institution of American slavery lead to a social disparity between Whites and African Americans that culminated in a response through the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s?

•Topics addressed while answering this question: slavery, civil rights, leaders of the movement, examples of the social disparity building from slavery to present

•Objective: SWBAT write essay prompts and thesis statements.

•Warm up: What is something that you wish to improve in your writing?

• Homework: Current Events due 12/14/15

Monday 11/2/15

Agenda: 
-warm up
-review tests 
-current events 

•Objective: SWBAT review tests and work on current events.

•Warm up: Think back to two weekends ago…did you actually study for the Latitude/Longitude/Time zone/Seasons test? What did you do to study? How do you usually study for other tests?

•Homework: Work on current events.

Thursday/Friday 10/29/15-10/30/15

Agenda: 
-warm up
-turn in notebooks 
-turn in Colombian Exchange Paragraph to Google Classroom
-practice annotation (due by the end of the period) 
-finish spreadsheets

}Objective: SWBAT finalize paragraphs, finish spread sheets, and complete compare/contrast assignment.

}Warm up: What was easy about creating the spreadsheet? What was difficult? Was it your first time using a program like Sheets? If not, what else have you used it for?

}Homework: Spreadsheets due to Google Classroom before midnight on 10.30.15

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Tuesday/Wednesday 10.27.15/10.28.15

Agenda: 
-warm up
-peer editing 
   -find a partner at your table (if you are in a group of three do a three way switch) 
   - read your partner's paragraph 
   - using "Suggesting Mode" please make suggestions/comments on your partners paragraph 
  - fill out the worksheet about your partner (turn in to the sub when you finish) 

- Research/Spreadsheet (sample spreadsheet)
   -finish making the spread sheet using these two videos 
         -watch this video first 
         - watch this video second 
   -fill out the spread sheet using chapter 2.2 in your textbook and this website  

What to write in your spreadsheet: 

Location

General latitude zone of this biome (low, mid, or high) with coordinates of the zone

List 3 or more examples of where you can find this Biome

Include a picture of this Biome on a distribution map (think of a world map with specific areas highlighted for the biomes area)

Average Temperature

Average Temp in Summer and Winter

Rainfall

Average Rainfall in wet and dry seasons

Vegetation

List 3 or more plants in the biome with pictures

Animals

List 3 or more animals in the biome with pictures

Seasons

Describe what the Biome is like during each of the 4 seasons

   -submit to Google Classroom when you finish  (due Friday 10/30 before midnight)

- Current Events (when you finish the other two activities

Objective: SWBAT create a spreadsheet on Google Drive and complete basic research on biomes.

Warm up: Did writing using sentence frames make it easier or harder for you to complete the assignment? Why? Do you like writing with sentence frames? Why or why not?

Homework: Spreadsheets due to Google Classroom before midnight on 10.30.15

Monday 10.26.15

Agenda:
-warm up
-structured paragraph 
-start building spread sheet
  -watch this video first 
  - watch this video second

}Objective: SWBAT write structured paragraphs and create a spread sheet.

}Warm up: Explain how the maps you completed for homework visually represent the Colombian Exchange?

}Homework: Current Events! Finish any assigned classwork.