Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Civics, Focus, World

Happy Thanksgiving!  Enjoy your time off with friends and family. Be safe!

Civics: Today we applied the forms of government to the systems and attached a potential economic system to a scenario related to efficiency, prosperity, security..... We have finished the intro to the forms of government and will not move on to the philosophy that is underlying to government. 

We have visitors (two other teachers) on Monday.  On Monday we will begin the Roots of Democracy and begin a week long focus on philosophy.... If you do not feel secure about the material in Chapter 2, please review. You have completed Cornell notes and a few activities related to the content. 

Short essay and argument were returned today. Your grades have been posted to power school.
Focus: Today we played around with GLOGSTER-EDU. For your 4th post you will be using Glogster so we used the time to get acquainted.  Next week Thursday, is the last day for this focus strand, so we will attempt to do lunch.

World: We debriefed MULAN today and those completely finished turned in the entire packet and critical analysis.  On Monday we will do Han CSI to focus on the factors that led to fall of the Han. At this point, you should have a solid understanding on patriarchy, filial piety, and some aspects of the fall of empire.