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.