Thursday 12/15/16

Agenda:
-no warm up
-turn in notebooks with warm ups/current events
-finish mini society project
-study guide for final
-questions for Kahoot

Tuesday 12/13/16

Agenda: 
-warm up
-economic systems 
-Create your own mini society 

•Objective: SWBAT examine governmental and economic concepts.

•Warm up: What type of government does the US have? Explain.

•Homework: Current Events due 12/15/16

Monday 12/12/16

Agenda: 
-warm up
-Gov/Econ PPT
-questions about gov/econ 

•Objective: Examine governmental and economic concepts.

•Warm up: What is the purpose of government?

•Homework: Current events due 12/15. Research methods workshop due TONIGHT!

Thursday 12/8/16

Agenda: 
-warm up
-continue research methods packet 
packet due Monday evening 12/12/16 before 11:59 PM

•Objective: SWBAT complete research methods workshop.

•Warm up: What is a peer reviewed journal? Why are they a good source to use when researching?

•Homework: Current Events due 12/15!!

Tuesday 12/6/16

Agenda: 
-warm up
-research methods notes 
-research methods practice

•Objective: SWBAT review basic research information.

•Warm up: What are the differences between a primary and a secondary source? What is an example of each?

•Homework: Current Events due 12/15!!

Monday 12/5/16

Agenda: 
-warm up
-finish generation like
-begin research methods mini unit

•Objective: SWBAT define types of sources

•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 12/15!!

Tuesday 11/29/16

Agenda: 
-warm up
-Culture part III 
-peer edit paragraphs
-submit paragraphs
-study for culture quiz on Thursday 
 
Study Guide for Culture Quiz on Thursday:

·      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

•Objective: SWBAT peer edit compare/contrast paragraphs.

•Warm up: What was easiest about writing your paragraph? What was difficult?

•Homework: Culture quiz on Thursday. Current events due 12/15/16.

Monday 11/28/16

Agenda: 
-warm up
-write compare contrast paragraph 
-frame for compare/contrast paragraph 
-work on current events 

•Objective: SWBAT write compare/contrast paragraphs.

•Warm up: What was your favorite thing about Thanksgiving break?

•Homework: Finish first draft of paragraph. Current Events due 12/15/16

Wednesday 11/23/16

Agenda: 
-warm up
-Compare/contrast USA/India Sample Paragraph
Period 1 Sample
Period 3 Sample
Template for paragraph writing.

•Objective: Write a practice compare contrast paragraph.

•Warm up: What is one interesting fact your learned about someone else’s country?

•Homework: Have a Happy Thanksgiving 

Tuesday 11/22/16

Agenda:
-warm up
-etiquette presentations 
-begin compare contrast practice paragraph (we did not finish this, we will finish tomorrow) 

•Objective: SWBAT share out about etiquette in your assigned country.

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

•Homework: Current events due 12/15/16.

Thursday 11/17/16

Agenda:
Culture Part II
EtiquetteProject Directions
Listof Countries

http://www.kwintessential.co.uk/resources/country-profiles.html

http://www.swissotel.com/promo/etiquette-map/

 

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

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

•Homework: Finish etiquette project research.

Tuesday 11/15/16

Agenda:
-warm up
-intro to culture
-features of culture
-everyone has culture 

•Objective: SWBAT define culture and list features of your culture.

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

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

Monday 11/14/16

Agenda: 
-no warm up
-take out notes/chromebooks
-open notes quiz (20 minutes) 
-current events 

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

•Warm up: Take five minutes to organize your notes/get your chromebook.

•Homework: Current Events due 12/15/16.

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Thursday 11/10/16

Agenda: 
-warm up
-Biomes Comparison Reading: Temperate and Taiga (google classroom) 
-Current Events

•Objective: SWBAT practice annotation and writing a summary paragraph.

•Warm up: What did you think the election results from Tuesday? Do you have any questions?

•Homework: Open notes quiz on biomes/Columbian Exchange on Monday.

Tuesday 11/8/16

Agenda:
-warm up
-change seats
-review Lat/Long Test
-Political Proposition mini project

•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.

Journalism Survey

https://docs.google.com/a/sjusd.org/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeXG9jhBzLyM0W7Ie-rWB_PjduAmEYuDsezTmZWMt1EgAQuyg/viewform?c=0&w=1

Journalism Survey

https://goo.gl/forms/v84hFLqJtOrqP9hD2​

Thursday 11/3/16

Agenda:  
-warm up
-reminder: grading period is over tomorrow. 
-biomes...how do they relate to the Columbian Exchange 
-Spreadsheets 
Tutorial Video One (how to create a spreadsheet)
 

Tutorial Video Two (additional spreadsheet features) 

-biomes web/textbook quest
http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/world_biomes.htm

1.Fill out your spreadsheet from the information in the textbook and online.

1.Use the textbook as your first point of contact (CH 2.1 and 2.2)

2.http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/

2.The spreadsheet is due Monday 11/7 by 11:59PM

What to write: 

•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

•Average Temperature

•Average Temp

•Rainfall

•Average Rainfall

•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

}Objective: SWBAT create a spread sheet.

}Warm up: Have you ever heard of Excel/Google Sheets? Have you used it before? If so, how? If not, what do you think you could potentially use them for?

}Homework: Current Events!

Mindfulness program

Tuesday 11/1/16

It's November!

Agenda:
-warm up
-turn in Columbian Exchange Map
-Food Origins Project
-Food Origins Map 
-Pixlr Editor Tutorials
Origins of food crops connect countries worldwide

Objective: SWBAT apply the concepts of the Columbian Exchange?

Warm up:  What is your favorite food OR a food you like a lot? Is the main ingredient a from the New World or the Old World?

Homework: Finish recipe project.

Monday 10/31/16

Happy Halloween

Agenda:
-warm up
-finish Columbian Exchange map (due on Tuesday at the start of class)
-work on Current Events

Friday 10/28/16

Agenda:
-Columbian Exchange Maps (due Tuesday)

No warm up today.

Thursday 10.27.16

Agenda: 
-warm up
-stamp EdPuzzle Video Questions and Review
-Structured Paragraph about Columbian Exchange Reading (turn in to google classroom) 
-Columbian Exchange Map

¡Objective: SWBAT map the Columbian Exchange.

¡Warm up: Why was the Columbian Exchange significant in the development of the modern world? (Answer in at least three sentences)

¡Homework: Finish any assigned classwork.

Tuesday 10/25/16

Agenda:
-warm up
-turn in Court Cartographer project
-order of papers for project:
   1. Cover sheet/annotated story
   2. Final copy of map
   3. Rough Draft.
-Columbian Exchange Reading/Annotation (on googl classroom)
-John Green Ed Puzzle Video (answer on the worksheet given out by the substitute) 
Don't answer the questions in the space provided by the video...answer them on the worksheet. Please skip the questions in the video to keep watching :)



In case the above link doesn't work...use this link to watch the video. OR watch with a table partner. 

Objective: SWBAT identify the causes of the Columbian Exchange.
Warm up: What are some legacies/contributions of Christopher Columbus? Think back to middle school.
Homework: Work on current events. 

Thursday 10.20.16

Agenda:
-no warm up
-Latitude, Longitude, Time Zones, Seasons Unit Test
-finish court cartographer project

•Objective: SWBAT complete unit test.

•Warm up: Any last minute questions?

•Homework: Court Cartographer project due Tuesday.

Tuesday 10.18.16

Agenda: 
-warm up
-review for test
-court cartographer project 

•Objective: SWBAT review for test and finish court cartographer project.

•Warm up:  Create a diagram of the earth that include:

•The equator

•Prime Meridian

•Tropics

•Antarctic Circle

•Arctic Circle

•Homework: Study for unit test on Thursday . Court cartographer project due on Tuesday 10/25.

Monday 10.17.16

Agenda: 
-warm up
-turn in time zone project
-turn in scavenger hunt
-continue to work on court cartographer project. 

•Objective: SWBAT continue court cartographer project.

•Warm up: Draw three circles that represent the earth. Please draw what the earth looks like during the winter solstice, summer solstice, and the equinoxes. (From the perspective of the northern hemisphere)

•Homework: Test on 10/20/16. Please continue to work on current events.Court cartographer project due on Thursday.

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Thursday 10.13.16

Agenda:

-warm up

-quiz

-continue time zone project

-map projection review


-court cartographer project




ìObjective: Review time zones and latitude/longitude.
ìWarm up: Fill in the blanks (write each sentence out completely)
1.There are ___________ time zones in the world.
2.They are ___________ degrees on average apart.
3.Every ___________ degrees longitude is ________ hour.
ìHomework: Pinwheel TZ project due Monday.
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