My dad took this photo of me at a "Turkey Bowl" on Thanksgiving, in 2011. I hope you enjoy your break!
Hello everyone,
Welcome to your Thanksgiving break! Thanks for doing your homework and checking in on the blog to see what we are up to. Here's what happened in class today:
Learning Targets:
Knowledge LT 17: I can explain how and why world societies organize themselves and how power is established and maintained.
Communication LT 1: I can communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing.
Soundtrack: "Thank You" by Dido. Selected for today because of it being the week of Thanksgiving. I am very thankful to get to be your teacher, and for all of you! Lyrics here.
AGENDA 11/21/17:
News Brief – Sean
Shibboleth
Study Who Rules
Work Time
Homework: Read the blog. Study for your Forms of Government Quiz, next class! Complete any missing work and have it ready to turn in. Have a great Thanksgiving! Next news brief: Daniel.
News Brief: Sean had the news brief today and selected an article about this story: BBC.com - Nigeria suicide bombing kills 50 in Adamawa state. We found Nigeria on the world map, and I talked about what is happening there in terms of religious conflict.
Daniel was selected to do the next news brief.
We also watched the one minute BBC World News update. Here's the link to see the latest one minute update, at any time of day (it will probably be different from what we watched in class):
Finally, we checked in about the upcoming break and what everyone is up to. I hope that it is a great time for everyone, and I also know that the holidays can be hard for a variety of reasons. Take care of yourselves!
Shibboleth: In keeping with the theme of Thanksgiving, and our work looking at various forms of government, we closed class before the break by watching this episode of The West Wing, which had to do with Thanksgiving, immigration, school prayer, direct democracy, and representative democracy. There were no notes or any other requirement - it was just a relaxing way to go out to Thanksgiving Break. Here's the funniest scene of the episode, in my opinion:
Study Who Rules?/Work Time: The rest of class was devoted to going through this packet, designed to be a review before the forms of government test:
The first page has a good overview of the types and classifications of governments that we are studying. The following pages are practice, to help compare and contrast the systems of government. A question from the test, for checking the blog, is: What form of government ...is ruled by a small group of people, usually the wealthy elite?
a. oligarchy, b. theocracy, c. communism, d. anarchy. Guess in the comments and I will tell you if you are correct!
Please study and ask questions if you are at all confused! See you next class! :-)
The first page has a good overview of the types and classifications of governments that we are studying. The following pages are practice, to help compare and contrast the systems of government. A question from the test, for checking the blog, is: What form of government ...is ruled by a small group of people, usually the wealthy elite?
a. oligarchy, b. theocracy, c. communism, d. anarchy. Guess in the comments and I will tell you if you are correct!
Please study and ask questions if you are at all confused! See you next class! :-)
A. Oligarchy
ReplyDeleteCorrect! Thanks for reading the blog!
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