WHAG Agenda October 31st - November 4th

Last week of Quarter One!!!

Monday

• Do Now: Do you think the government should help?
• Line of contention
• What is communism? - a definition
• HW = Chapter 30, section 3 Summary: Active read, answer two questions at the bottom and three questions on the right

Tuesday

• Do Now: finish communism definitions
• Tank Man film and questions
• HW= study for your test - Friday (use your study guide)

Wednesday

• Finish Tank Man
• HW= study for your test - Friday (use your study guide)

Thursday

• Timeline Review for test - Friday
• After school study session
• HW= complete timeline review

Friday

• Test - Unit 2: China
• Turn in ISN
• HW = extra credit about China (Due Monday, no exceptions - not even absences)

WHAG Agenda: October 10-14

Monday

• Do Now: Chinese Belief Quotes
• record four quotes from around the room (see me for quotes if you need them)
• for each quote identify which of the three belief systems it corresponds to (daoism, buddhism, confucianism)
• justify your response
• Read together about the Mongols
• HW= Study for Asia Geography quiz on Friday

Tuesday

• Do Now: Set up Two Column Notes
• Mongols - From the film Barbarian
• Advanced Civilization
• Barbarians
• Watch Film "Barbarians" and record information in notes.
• HW=read Chapter 12, section 2 and record notes in two column chart Mongols - From Chapter 12-2

Wednesday

• Do Now:Set-up and fill in your table of Contents
• Continue Two Column Notes using the background essay and Document packet
• Mongols - From Documents (cite each doc)
• Advanced Civilization
• Barbarians
• HW= Study for Asia Geography Quiz on Friday

Thursday

• Do Now: What is a thesis?
• Create a thesis and an outline for a Mongol Essay Outline
• HW= Study for Asia Geography Quiz on Friday

Friday

• Do Now: Geography Quiz
• Correct Quizzes
• Work on Mongol Essay Outline
• HW
• finish Mongol Outline
• Update ISN including TOC 
• Both due Monday

WHAG Agenda: October 25-29

Monday

• Unit 2, Journal 11 - you can answer as a group
• Why did Japan want to imperialize China?
• Why did the Soviet Union (USSR) want to imperialize China?
• What do you think might be China's response to the imperialism? (think about their response to British imperialism)
• Read "Shifting Winds of Communism" together
• Begin reading and filling in chart in groups:
• Events of the Chinese Revolution
• HW= Copy Unit 2 Vocab list from blog, define each BRIEFLY in your own words

Tuesday

• Check in HW/put "be able to" study guide questions in ISN
• Complete Charts
• Quiz (on Communist Revolution)
• HW = Notes pp.1076-1078 China Today

Wednesday

• Silent Review Activity
• Go over answers to Quiz
• Watch film clip - Tank Man
• HW= update TOC (see blog) MAKE SURE YOU HAVE PG #S
• HW= re-read your ISN - journals and notes following journals will be helpful for studying
• HW= Study Guide #s 4, 6, 9, 13, 15, 17 (may become short-answer questions for the test)

Thursday

• Finish Tank Man
• Timeline review
• HW= finish timeline
• HW= study

Friday

• Unit 2 Test
• Collect ISNs from 4th and 5th hour
• HW= Extra Credit Due Wednesday 11-3

World History and Geography Agenda September 20-24

Monday

• Unit 1, Journal 7
• have you ever told a story that included a lie?  What did you lie about?  What was your motivation for lying?  How did things turn out in the end?  Were you glad you lied, or no?  Why or why not?
• Bias - a preference for one thing over another
• Sources - where we get our information from
• Talk to the Text:  Primary vs Secondary sources
• HW= first column only of primary/secondary worksheet

Tuesday

• Unit 1, Journal 8
• If someone were to research the history of your life, what would be the best primary and secondary sources for them to consult? Explain why each source would be P or S.
• Stamp in HW - PvsS source, go over answers
• Read about Time and Place Rule, and Bias Rule
• HW= complete the last two columns of charts (be sure to read directions - complete the smallest column last!)

Wednesday

• Unit 1, Journal 9
• What is included in a textbook?  How can you use the different parts?  Do you think textbooks are easy or difficult to read?  What strategies do you have for reading them?
• Check in homework
• 4th hour and 6th hour get permanent seats
• Go over bias in sources
• The Five themes of Geography ppt - students fill in chart in notebooks
• HW= Textbook Scavenger Hunt - due Friday

Thursday

• Unit 1, Journal 10
• Describe where you live - include lots of information, and consider all of the different ways you can describe this place.
• 5th hour gets permanent seats
• Finish ppt
• Five themes gallery walk
• HW= Finish Textbook Scavenger Hunt

Friday

• Unit 1, Journal 11
• Draw a map of the world (don't cheat and look at one).  Label as much of the map as you can in the five minutes given.Finish five themes gallery walk
• Study guide - how to study for the test
• HW= Study for Test - Tuesday

World H&G Agenda September 13-17

Monday

• Unit 1, Journal 3
•  Draw a map of Plymouth High School.
• Share artifacts with a partner
• Introduce partners to the class
• HW= decorate Interactive Student Notebook

Tuesday

• Unit 1, Journal 4
• Write a literacy narrative (10 minutes, one page)
• Interactive Student Notebook - instructions
• Begin the calendar of the world
• HW= Write down the 5-8 most important personal events of your life

 Wednesday

• Unit 1, Journal 5
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  How old do you think the earth is?  How long do you think that humans have existed?  How can we represent time? 
  Which events were the easiest to place in order yesterday?  Which did you absolutely know were first and last?  Why were they so easy to figure out?
• Calendar of the World
• Compare calendar to timeline
• HW= create your own (thoroughly decorated) timeline, due Friday

Thursday

• Unit1, Journal 6
• Look at your list of most important events.  When do they take place?  early in your life? recently?  what do you think this says about your lifetime?  Which of the events happen for most people, and which are unique to you?
• Create a timeline of Ms. Kraft's life
• Begin your own timeline - due Monday
• HW= Create an acurate and complete timeline (no pictures or color yet)

Friday

• No Journal - Quick Quiz
• Critique Timelines
• Work on correcting timelines
• HW= Add images and color to your timeline...finished product due Monday!

Anthropology Agenda September 13-17

Monday

• Share artifacts with a partner and with the class
• HW= Read Chapter 1 of textbook

Tuesday

• Historical Archaeology - identify objects using clues
• Overview ppt:  The scope of Anthropology

Wednesday

• Fort Michilimackinac Historical Archaeology Analysis
• HW= look over notes, revise if necessary

Thursday

• Senior Meetings - students A-L absent
• HW= look over notes from analysis

Friday

• Finish analyzing Historical Archaeology
• Discuss implications of artifacts revealed by the dig
• Introduce Essay
• HW= begin outline of essay

Economics Agenda September 13-17

Monday

• Unit 1, Journal 4
  Explain five decisions you made in the last 24 hours. Identify the options available to you, what you ultimately decided on, and what your opportunity cost was by making the choice you did.
• Cost/Benefit Analysis
• Flashcard Gallery
• HW= read chapter 1, sections 1 & 2 (prep for a quiz tomorrow)

Tuesday

• Unit 1, Journal 5
•  What is the difference between a need and a want.  List plenty of each.
• Finish index card gallery walk
• Quiz: Ch 1, section 1&2
• HW= list at least 30 decisions that you make between now and the time we meet tomorrow

Wednesday

• Unit 1, Journal 6
• What were the three decisions that you made yesterday that were most challenging?  What made them so difficult to decide?
• Decision-making Grid Model
• Economic Enigmas 1&2
• HW= Create your own economic enigma - due Friday

Thursday

• Unit 1, Journal 7
• Name a job that you've had, or that your parents have.  List all of the Land, Labor, and Capital necessary for the business they worked for to run smoothly.
• Finish Economic Enigmas
• Begin ppt - scarcity, shortage, and the factors of production
• HW= Create your own economic enigma - due Friday

Friday

• Unit 1, Journal 8
• Listen to the song "you can't always get what you want" by the Rolling Stones (or look up the lyrics on-line)...what economic principle is this song talking about?
• Turn in Economic Enigmas
• Personal finance:  Needs and Wants - what do you spend your money on?
• Finish ppt from Thursday...scarcity, shortage, factors of production
• HW= read chapter 1, section 3 for monday

World History and Geography Agenda September 7-10

Tuesday

• Introductions and Nametents
• Supply list: Necessary= notebook for ISN, Helpful= sticky notes, colored pencils, stapler or glue stick, highlighter

Wednesday

• Class Expectations and Syllabus
• HW= Personal Information
• HW= visit and book mark this blog, send me an e-mail, obtain your ISN, get your parent signature

Thursday

• Unit 1, Journal 1: What can we use to learn about the past? What methods, which things, what tools? Lis and explain as many as you can think of. Are some tools, objects, methods better than others?
• Artifact Analysis: Ms. Kraft

1. What do you see? (observations)

2. What might it mean? (inference)

3. What other information would be useful? (follow-up)

• HW= Bring 2 artifacts for analysis Friday
• 5th hour has 9th grade class meeting on Friday! (bring artifacts on Monday)

Friday

• Unit 1, Journal 2: Write a story about Ms. Kraft's life based on the artifacts that you analyzed yesterday.
• Ms Kraft answers questions for students
• Students answer questions about artifact analysis process
• Students analyze each others' artifacts
• Share artifacts with larger class (continued on Monday)

Anthropology Agenda September 7-10

Tuesday

• what is anthropology? why did you take this class?
• Introductions and nametents

Wednesday

• Analysis of an artifact - fish hook
• Personal Information

Thursday

• Analysis of Ms Kraft's life through artifacts
• HW= Read Chapter 1 for Tuesday
• HW= Bring in two artifacts for Monday

Friday

• Class Meetings
• Syllabus and Blog

Economics Agenda September 7-10

Tuesday

• Introductions and name tents

Wednesday

• Unit 1, Journal 1: What do you know about economics; what do you hope to learn?
• HW=Personal Information Sheet

Thursday

• Unit 1; Journal 2: Why do you think we teach economics in High School?
• Group work - charts on the seven principles of economics
• HW=7 principles notecards, due monday

Friday

• Unit 1, Journal 3: Of the 7 principles you read about, which seem like they were the easiest to understand, which seem most difficult? Which example were you most proud of constructing?
• Finish 7 principles chart and discuss
• look at syllabus on-line
• HW= finish 7 principles notecards, due monday