The Statue of Liberty in New York, which is a symbol of immigration to the United States.
Photo taken in 2011.
Dear class,
Welcome back from your long weekend! 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: "Kings and Queens" by 30 Seconds to Mars. Selected for today because of the connection to monarchy, and this song gets me fired up because it reminds me of watching ESPN tennis tournaments. Lyrics here.
AGENDA 11/28/17:
News Brief – Daniel
Study Time
Government Test
Lost!
Homework: Read the blog. Turn in any missing work ASAP! Next news brief: Yash.
News Brief: Daniel had the news brief today and selected an article about this story: NYTimes.com - Chinese General Being Investigated for Bribery Kills Himself. We found China on the world map (in Asia) and talked about this story for a bit. We also talked about the long weekend, before moving on.
Yash 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):
Study Time: For this section, I talked about the Forced Choice debate reflection grades and I gave about five minutes before the test for study of notes for the Government quiz, as well.
Government Test: I do not think this was especially difficult, if you have been in class and following along with what has been going on the last few days! I will try to have these entered as soon as I can, so everyone has up to date information as we start our last unit before Winter Break (wow!), next class.
Lost!: At the end of class, we had a little fun with a scenario inspired by "Lord of the Flies" and the TV series "Lost." I asked everyone to get into small groups and then passed out one of these papers to each group, which contain the scenario and questions for the group to answer:
I had a lot of fun listening to all of your ideas here! See you next class! Thanks, everyone!
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