Parent Teacher conferences tomorrow 4:30-8:30. Please remind your parents to attend.
Civics: Today we applied the concepts related to democracy and by now you should have solid understanding of the forms of government and the WHY behind those forms. Tomorrow we will focus on philosophy. Due for Thursday are reading and Cornell Notes: Ch. 3.1-3.3. Please continue to review the material to date.
Focus: 3rd blog post should be on your page. Glogster is due on Thursday.
World: Today we applied the internal and external factors related to the fall of empire. NICE job! You looked at the factors in a variety of ways today and did a nice job of reasoning through the material. We debriefed the graphic organizer.. I will credit it tomorrow, although I did eyeball the room. You received a prompt about:
Civilizations die by suicide, not murder... We discussed this and you used your understanding of the factors for fall of empire to justify your response. We concluded that Suicide is a choice and Murder is not, thus it is internal factors that bare more weight when considering fall of empire.
I provided short interview reading of Jared Diamond...remember him. It is on his book called Collapse. For tomorrow, you have an entry slip due. Respond to the following:
1. Do you agree or disagree with diamond's analysis regarding the collapse of civilizations? Why or Why not?
2. Would Diamond agree or disagree with the notion that civilizations die by suicide not murder? Why or Why not?
