Tuesday/Wednesday 4.28.15-4.29.15

Agenda: 
-warm up
-religion presentations 
     PLEASE MAKE A COPY OF THIS DOCUMENT TO TAKE NOTES 
-Religion synthesis question
-Documentary 

•Objective: SWBAT to present about their assigned religions.

•Warm up: Get your chrome book. Go to the blog. Make a copy of the note taking spread sheet. Title it: “P___ Your Name "Religion Chart."”

•Have one person in your group share a copy of your presentation with me.

•Homework: Current events!

Monday 4.27.15

Agenda: 
-warm up
-finish religion project
-work on Asia maps
-(Asia maps due 4.18.15)

•Objective: SWBAT complete religion presentations and work on Asia maps.

•Warm up: What country are you most interested in learning about in the Middle East? Why?

•Homework: Current events (15) due last week in May.

Thursday/Friday 4.23.15-4.24.15

Agenda: 
-work on religion presentations

•Objective: SWBAT create presentations about a religion.

•Warm up: Write down one new fact about any religion that you learned during block one.

•Homework: Current events! You should have 15!

Tuesday/Wednesday 4/21/15-4/22/15

Agenda: 

-Warm up

-Intro to world religions

-religion comparison projects

 

 

•Objective: SWBAT understand the five largest religions in the world and how they spread.

•Warm up: What do you think the five largest religions are? Can you rank them in order from largest to smallest?

•Homework: Current events due in six weeks!

Mapping Monday 4.20.15

Welcome back! Six more weeks and you will have officially survived your first year of high school! 

Agenda: 
-warm up
-change seats 
-Mapping Monday: Asia

•Objective: SWBAT begin mapping the political and physical features of Asia.

•Warm up: What would you include as part of “Asia”? Just the continent? Are other areas included? List as many countries as you can.

•Homework: Current events due during last notebook check…in SIX weeks!

Thursday/Friday 4/9-4/10

If you were absent we wrote an in class DBQ based on the documents we analyzed during block one of this week (refer to the previous blog post).

Question: What was the driving force behind European imperialism in Africa?
Steps for DBQ:
1. Write thesis about documents.
2. Write three interior paragraphs (two chunk paragraphs using the documents)
3. Make a bullet point list for the conclusion
4. Turn it into turnitin.com
5. Share with google classroom.

For those of you who were in class, I'm looking forward to reading your essays. You all worked very hard and I am proud of your efforts! Enjoy your break!

Tuesday/Wednesday 4/7/15-4/8/15

Agenda: 
-warm up
-MAP QUIZ
-Document analysis for DBQ!

•Objective: SWBAT show mastery of Latin/South America maps.

•Warm up: Take out a writing utensil. Put everything else away.

•Homework: Work on current events.

Monday 4/6/15

KAHOOT!

Thursday/Friday 4/2/15-4/3/15

Agenda: 
-Finish Invictus
-Mini DBQ Practice

Prompt

Sample A

Sample B

Sample C

•Objective: SWBAT analyze DBQ samples and apply it to their own writing styles.

•Warm up: What has been your favorite part of the movie so far? Why?

•Homework: Map quiz on block one next week. STUDY!