Google Classroom Codes for 2020-2021
Google Classroom Codes for 2020-2021
Welcome aboard - surely 2021 will have to be better than this apocalyptic year? :)
Instructions and codes to join my google classes are here - you need to be logged into your CSD account to view the doc
Well, it might have been the weirdest year ever, but at least it’s over :)
This last week of World History is entirely for making up anything that was due since April 24. If you are missing any of the personal responses you can do those this week, and you can also do a current event log and journal if you want those to fill in for weeks where you didn’t.
I have to turn in my final grades by Friday, and I’m immediately afterwards going into the wilderness for the next few weeks to restore my sanity and forget about the madness that’s touched all of us over the past 3 months. Therefore, if there’s any work you want me to include in your final grade, the absolute final deadline is Thursday, 6/18, at noon. You can send current event work directly to me, personal responses go to Turnitin.com (then email to let me know I can go grade it)
I should have last week’s work updated in Skyward by around noon tomorrow (Monday, 6/15). If necessary, I will shortly thereafter contact you, if I haven’t already, to alert you that you might get an incomplete due to your baseline grade or lack of engagement since the closure began. In many of these cases, these people can use this week to ensure they avoid the incomplete and have to repeat the semester. You should know if you’re in this situation already, so get started Monday morning and don’t wait for me to remind you.
Be aware, the score you see right now on Skyward as your overall grade might very well be wrong. This is because Skyward isn’t programmed to use the special closure final grade rules in the display. On Friday, I will manually enter into the system your final grade. If you were unengaged during the closure or had a below passing grade on March 13 and haven’t subsequently brought it to a 60%, your final grade will be “incomplete.” If your grade on March 13 was higher than your grade at the moment, the March 13 grade will be your final grade. Finally, if your overall grade has gone up since March 13, the higher grade will be your final grade.
I’m sorry that this is how we must part company for the year, but I hold out hope that I’ll see you again as seniors in my CWI class, and that the world will have returned to something like normal by then. I enjoyed what part of the year we had together, and I commend the majority of you who have continued striving for success during this difficult time, taking greater personal responsibility for your own education than ever before – the ability to teach yourself and excel even in adverse circumstances is at least as important as doing well on one of my many miserable quizzes, no? :)
Let me know if you have any questions. I’ll still be available for my 1-2 PM office hour this week, except on Tuesday, when my son has his graduation from Odyssey Middle School (I can still answer emails before and after then though).
Forward!
Seniors,
Monday starts our last week together.
There is only one assignment this week: most of you haven’t written the “Letter to the Future” yet – it’s a special tradition and I’d hate to see the COVID kill it – don’t let the pandemic win – please, write yourself a letter that I will send you in 2024 – instructions here – it’s a private letter between just you and yourself, all I do is mail them
This week is for doing any late work you might need to raise your grade above your March 13 baseline, if that’s what you want, or to meet my definition of engaged so that you can retain your baseline (which most of you have already done). My goal is to reach out to you individually on Monday morning if you are heading towards an incomplete. I was given by my boss a deadline of today, 6/5, for filling out incomplete forms for seniors, so there are some of you who I will be doing this for today, though you likely could still fix the situation next week. Your counselor/admin might also reach out to you once they get those incomplete forms today. As always, reach out to me if you have questions.
I’d like to leave you how I met you. Do you remember class that first day, back when the world was only mostly normal crazy? I started by saying I only had one rule for my class – do you remember it? I’m betting you do, and as I say fair-well today, I just want to suggest that you extend that rule to the world outside of my class now that you’re leaving it forever. If you can set that rule as your guiding star and follow it as truly as you can, you’ll be a treasure to your family and friends and to the fellow-citizens of this nation we all live in and are obligated to improve. Remember Linthwaite Rule #1 for the rest of your days and even if you forget everything else about government or history or anything else I tried to teach you, I will feel I did at least a halfway decent job of teaching you.
Thanks for the memories, and congratulations on your impending graduation!
Eric Linthwaite
The plan for the week of 6/8 – 6/12
Announcements:
- This is the last week of new assignments. Next week is the final week of the year and will be used as a make-up week for anyone in danger of receiving an incomplete. I will notify you at the start of the week if that’s a possibility, but it is ultimately your responsibility to make sure you’re on track to receive credit for this semester.
- Grades updated on 6/1 (I’m now doing all my grading on Monday mornings, so if you haven’t gotten something to me by around noon on that day, it will sit in my inbox for a week unless we talk during office hours and you make a priority of it)
- My 2nd Semester grading policy explained here
- Participation Warning Emails: after I grade everything on Monday submitted to me since the past Monday, I’m then looking to see who is not currently meeting my definition of “engaged” (which is attempting at least half of the work due between 4/24 and the end of the semester) – anyone below the 50% threshold is sent a form letter – the intention of the letter is not to threaten or punish, but to prevent you from not realizing you are in danger of getting an “incomplete” as your final grade until the last week of school – please keep in touch to prevent that from happening, especially if your baseline grade (your grade on 3/13) was below a 60%
- Attendance: I take attendance on Fridays. You will be considered as present if, at some point during the week, you have turned in work or communicated with me in some fashion (phone, video, email). I will submit my attendance at 3 PM on Friday, so if you haven’t interacted with me in some way by then, you’ll be marked as “not engaged”
- Reminder: If you’re turning something in late to Turnitin.com (like last week’s personal response, for example), I need an email from you letting me know so I can grade it – I don’t need an email if you turned it in by the deadline
- Office Hour info here
Two assignments for the week:
- Expect these 2 assignments/virtual class to take, in total, roughly the same amount of time required prior to the closure
- There are 2 assignments this week:
o Assignment #1: Fill out either a current event log (there’s a pdf of the form you can print off here) OR create a 2 page current event journal (if you haven’t done one of these before the instructions are here) - you can do oral journals with me during office hours if you prefer
§ Your log or journal will count as a 20 pt project grade
§ Note: this is different from the 1st 6 weeks project – you used to be able to take a week off from doing current event work and also you could do 40 points of work a week, now you are required to do current event work each week, but only 20 points worth
§ Additional note: you DON’T have to look at just Covid19 news – if you’re feeling overwhelmed by that story which is dominating the news, try to ignore the feeling by deliberately searching out other kinds of news: sports, entertainment, science, technology, etc.
§ Send me the completed log or journal when you finish it by Friday morning – you can email or google share your docs with me or send me pictures of work you did on paper
o Assignment #2: After attending this week’s virtual class (the videos listed in the next section below), write a 500 word personal response to that class, answering any or all of the following questions in your own words (you can also answer questions of your own – the idea of this activity is to get you to think and engage with the content):
§ What did you learn this week?
§ What was the most interesting or surprising thing you learned?
§ What did you like/not like?
§ How is this knowledge useful or relevant today?
§ What is your opinion on this information? What does it mean or why is it important?
§ If you could go back in time, what would you change about what we learned that happened and why?
§ How does this content change your view of government or history or humanity?
§ What questions do you have about this content? What would you like to know more about?
o Turn in this personal response to Turnitin.com (you should already have an account but if you need it, I have details here)
o Remember, tii.com checks for plagiarism – you should not be cutting and pasting significant portions of your response from other sources – any of your response significantly lifted from a source should be quoted and/or cited – you will not get credit for a response that is not significantly of your own
o The personal response counts as a 40 point classwork assignment – the response will be graded on tii.com so look there for your score and comments
Virtual Class:
- The virtual class and assignments for every week since 4/24 through to the end of the year is here: World History doc
- Class will consist of watching the following, then writing the 500 word personal response explained in the section above
- 10th Grade World History Class: Watch the following Khan Academy classes:
o Independence Movements in the 20th Century
The plan for the week of 6/1 – 6/5
Announcements:
- Seniors: This is the last week of new work! Next week you graduate and I’m setting that week aside for any makeup work required to avoid an incomplete, as well as for an annual tradition that the covid can’t kill, the Letter to the Future (explained here)
- Grades updated on 5/25 (I’m now doing all my grading on Monday mornings, so if you haven’t gotten something to me by around noon on that day, it will sit in my inbox for a week unless we talk during office hours and you make a priority of it)
- My 2nd Semester grading policy explained here
- Participation Warning Emails: after I grade everything on Monday submitted to me since the past Monday, I’m then looking to see who is not currently meeting my definition of “engaged” (which is attempting at least half of the work due between 4/24 and the end of the semester) – anyone below the 50% threshold is sent a form letter – the intention of the letter is not to threaten or punish, but to prevent you from not realizing you are in danger of getting an “incomplete” as your final grade until the last week of school – please keep in touch to prevent that from happening, especially if your baseline grade (your grade on 3/13) was below a 60%
- Attendance: I take attendance on Fridays. You will be considered as present if, at some point during the week, you have turned in work or communicated with me in some fashion (phone, video, email). I will submit my attendance at 3 PM on Friday, so if you haven’t interacted with me in some way by then, you’ll be marked as “not engaged”
- Reminder: If you’re turning something in late to Turnitin.com (like last week’s personal response, for example), I need an email from you letting me know so I can grade it – I don’t need an email if you turned it in by the deadline
- Office Hour info here
Two assignments for the week:
- Expect these 2 assignments/virtual class to take, in total, roughly the same amount of time required prior to the closure
- There are 2 assignments this week:
o Assignment #1: Fill out either a current event log (there’s a pdf of the form you can print off here) OR create a 2 page current event journal (if you haven’t done one of these before the instructions are here) - you can do oral journals with me during office hours if you prefer
§ Your log or journal will count as a 20 pt project grade
§ Note: this is different from the 1st 6 weeks project – you used to be able to take a week off from doing current event work and also you could do 40 points of work a week, now you are required to do current event work each week, but only 20 points worth
§ Additional note: you DON’T have to look at just Covid19 news – if you’re feeling overwhelmed by that story which is dominating the news, try to ignore the feeling by deliberately searching out other kinds of news: sports, entertainment, science, technology, etc.
§ Send me the completed log or journal when you finish it by Friday morning – you can email or google share your docs with me or send me pictures of work you did on paper
o Assignment #2: After attending this week’s virtual class (the videos listed in the next section below), write a 500 word personal response to that class, answering any or all of the following questions in your own words (you can also answer questions of your own – the idea of this activity is to get you to think and engage with the content):
§ What did you learn this week?
§ What was the most interesting or surprising thing you learned?
§ What did you like/not like?
§ How is this knowledge useful or relevant today?
§ What is your opinion on this information? What does it mean or why is it important?
§ If you could go back in time, what would you change about what we learned that happened and why?
§ How does this content change your view of government or history or humanity?
§ What questions do you have about this content? What would you like to know more about?
o Turn in this personal response to Turnitin.com (you should already have an account but if you need it, I have details here)
o Remember, tii.com checks for plagiarism – you should not be cutting and pasting significant portions of your response from other sources – any of your response significantly lifted from a source should be quoted and/or cited – you will not get credit for a response that is not significantly of your own
o The personal response counts as a 40 point classwork assignment – the response will be graded on tii.com so look there for your score and comments
Virtual Class:
- The virtual class and assignments for every week since 4/24 through to the end of the year is here: World History doc and CWI doc
- If you want to do this week’s class and then start on next week’s work, feel free – set your own pace, but at minimum, do the work assigned for this week – you should look at the doc above to get a sense of how much I have planned from week to week as some week’s are bigger than others
- Class will consist of watching the following, then writing the 500 word personal response explained in the section above
- 10th Grade World History Class: Watch the following Khan Academy classes:
o The Pattern of US Interventions
- 12th Grade CWI Class:
o Watch West Wing 22 on Netflix or here and read my notes here - you can also listen to this podcast about the episode
o Watch these short Khan Academy classes:
§ Balancing Minority and Majority Rights
The plan for the week of 5/25 - 5/29
Announcements:
- Grades updated on 5/18 (I’m now doing all my grading on Monday mornings, so if you haven’t gotten something to me by around noon on that day, it will sit in my inbox for a week unless we talk during office hours and you make a priority of it)
- My 2nd Semester grading policy explained here
- Participation Warning Emails: after I grade everything on Monday submitted to me since the past Monday, I’m then looking to see who is not currently meeting my definition of “engaged” (which is attempting at least half of the work due between 4/24 and the end of the semester) – anyone below the 50% threshold is sent a form letter – the intention of the letter is not to threaten or punish, but to prevent you from not realizing you are in danger of getting an “incomplete” as your final grade until the last week of school – please keep in touch to prevent that from happening, especially if your baseline grade (your grade on 3/13) was below a 60%
- Attendance: I take attendance on Fridays. You will be considered as present if, at some point during the week, you have turned in work or communicated with me in some fashion (phone, video, email). I will submit my attendance at 3 PM on Friday, so if you haven’t interacted with me in some way by then, you’ll be marked as “not engaged”
- Reminder: If you’re turning something in late to Turnitin.com (like last week’s personal response, for example), I need an email from you letting me know so I can grade it – I don’t need an email if you turned it in by the deadline
- Office Hour info here
Two assignments for the week:
- Expect these 2 assignments/virtual class to take, in total, roughly the same amount of time required prior to the closure
- There are 2 assignments this week:
o Assignment #1: Fill out either a current event log (there’s a pdf of the form you can print off here) OR create a 2 page current event journal (if you haven’t done one of these before the instructions are here) - you can do oral journals with me during office hours if you prefer
§ Your log or journal will count as a 20 pt project grade
§ Note: this is different from the 1st 6 weeks project – you used to be able to take a week off from doing current event work and also you could do 40 points of work a week, now you are required to do current event work each week, but only 20 points worth
§ Additional note: you DON’T have to look at just Covid19 news – if you’re feeling overwhelmed by that story which is dominating the news, try to ignore the feeling by deliberately searching out other kinds of news: sports, entertainment, science, technology, etc.
§ Send me the completed log or journal when you finish it by Friday morning – you can email or google share your docs with me or send me pictures of work you did on paper
o Assignment #2: After attending this week’s virtual class (the videos listed in the next section below), write a 500 word personal response to that class, answering any or all of the following questions in your own words (you can also answer questions of your own – the idea of this activity is to get you to think and engage with the content):
§ What did you learn this week?
§ What was the most interesting or surprising thing you learned?
§ What did you like/not like?
§ How is this knowledge useful or relevant today?
§ What is your opinion on this information? What does it mean or why is it important?
§ If you could go back in time, what would you change about what we learned that happened and why?
§ How does this content change your view of government or history or humanity?
§ What questions do you have about this content? What would you like to know more about?
o Turn in this personal response to Turnitin.com (you should already have an account but if you need it, I have details here)
o Remember, tii.com checks for plagiarism – you should not be cutting and pasting significant portions of your response from other sources – any of your response significantly lifted from a source should be quoted and/or cited – you will not get credit for a response that is not significantly of your own
o The personal response counts as a 40 point classwork assignment – the response will be graded on tii.com so look there for your score and comments
Virtual Class:
- The virtual class and assignments for every week since 4/24 through to the end of the year is here: World History doc and CWI doc
- If you want to do this week’s class and then start on next week’s work, feel free – set your own pace, but at minimum, do the work assigned for this week – you should look at the doc above to get a sense of how much I have planned from week to week as some week’s are bigger than others
- Class will consist of watching the following, then writing the 500 word personal response explained in the section above
- 10th Grade World History Class: Watch the following Khan Academy classes:
o The Allies Advance in Europe
- 12th Grade CWI Class:
o Watch West Wing 21 on Netflix or here and read my notes here - you can also listen to this podcast about the episode
o Watch these short Khan Academy classes:
The plan for the week of 5/18 - 5/22
Announcements:
- Grades updated on 5/11 (I’m now doing all my grading on Monday mornings, so if you haven’t gotten something to me by around noon on that day, it will sit in my inbox for a week unless we talk during office hours and you make a priority of it)
- My 2nd Semester grading policy explained here
- Participation Warning Emails: after I grade everything on Monday submitted to me since the past Monday, I’m then looking to see who is not currently meeting my definition of “engaged” (which is attempting at least half of the work due between 4/24 and the end of the semester) – anyone below the 50% threshold is sent a form letter – the intention of the letter is not to threaten or punish, but to prevent you from not realizing you are in danger of getting an “incomplete” as your final grade until the last week of school – please keep in touch to prevent that from happening, especially if your baseline grade (your grade on 3/13) was below a 60%
- Attendance: The state requires teachers to take attendance on Fridays. You will be considered as present if, at some point during the week, you have turned in work, participated in a live class or communicated with a teacher in some fashion (phone, video, email). I will submit my attendance at 3 PM on Friday, so if you haven’t interacted with me in some way by then, you’ll be marked as “not engaged”
- Reminder: If you’re turning something in late to Turnitin.com (like last week’s personal response, for example), I need an email from you letting me know so I can grade it – I don’t need an email if you turned it in by the deadline
- Seniors: Your ASB leadership is asking you to go to this Instagram page and participate in sharing information about where you’re going after graduation: https://instagram.com/camasclassof20?igshid=1omclq2g1teab
- Seniors: Are you considering becoming a teacher, counselor or otherwise working in public education in the future? My union just doubled its annual Future Educator Scholarship, so apply here by the May 21 deadline
- Office Hour info here
Two assignments for the week:
- Expect these 2 assignments/virtual class to take, in total, roughly the same amount of time required prior to the closure
- There are 2 assignments this week:
o Assignment #1: Fill out either a current event log (there’s a pdf of the form you can print off here) OR create a 2 page current event journal (if you haven’t done one of these before the instructions are here) - you can do oral journals with me during office hours if you prefer
§ Your log or journal will count as a 20 pt project grade
§ Note: this is different from the 1st 6 weeks project – you used to be able to take a week off from doing current event work and also you could do 40 points of work a week, now you are required to do current event work each week, but only 20 points worth
§ Additional note: you DON’T have to look at just Covid19 news – if you’re feeling overwhelmed by that story which is dominating the news, try to ignore the feeling by deliberately searching out other kinds of news: sports, entertainment, science, technology, etc.
§ Send me the completed log or journal when you finish it by Friday morning – you can email or google share your docs with me or send me pictures of work you did on paper
o Assignment #2: After attending this week’s virtual class (the videos listed in the next section below), write a 500 word personal response to that class, answering any or all of the following questions in your own words (you can also answer questions of your own – the idea of this activity is to get you to think and engage with the content):
§ What did you learn this week?
§ What was the most interesting or surprising thing you learned?
§ What did you like/not like?
§ How is this knowledge useful or relevant today?
§ What is your opinion on this information? What does it mean or why is it important?
§ If you could go back in time, what would you change about what we learned that happened and why?
§ How does this content change your view of government or history or humanity?
§ What questions do you have about this content? What would you like to know more about?
o Turn in this personal response to Turnitin.com (you should already have an account but if you need it, I have details here)
o Remember, tii.com checks for plagiarism – you should not be cutting and pasting significant portions of your response from other sources – any of your response significantly lifted from a source should be quoted and/or cited – you will not get credit for a response that is not significantly of your own
o The personal response counts as a 40 point classwork assignment – the response will be graded on tii.com so look there for your score and comments
Virtual Class:
- The virtual class and assignments for every week since 4/24 through to the end of the year is here: World History doc and CWI doc
- If you want to do this week’s class and then start on next week’s work, feel free – set your own pace, but at minimum, do the work assigned for this week – you should look at the doc above to get a sense of how much I have planned from week to week as some week’s are bigger than others
- Class will consist of watching the following, then writing the 500 word personal response explained in the section above
- 10th Grade World History Class: Watch the following Khan Academy classes:
o The Night of the Long Knives
o Nazi Aggression and Appeasement
o Mussolini Becomes Prime Minister
o Mussolini Teams Up with Hitler
o The First Half of the 20th Century in China
- 12th Grade CWI Class:
o Watch West Wing 20 on Netflix or here and read my notes here - you can also listen to this podcast about the episode
o Watch these short Khan Academy classes:
The plan for the week of 5/11 - 5/15
Announcements:
- Grades updated on 5/4 (going forward, I’m now doing all my grading on Monday mornings, so if you haven’t gotten something to me by around noon on that day, it will sit in my inbox for a week unless we talk during office hours and you make a priority of it)
- No new major announcements since last week
- CHS GRADING POLICY: These are the instructions from Principal Morris that I’m operating under:
o Pre-Closure: grades prior to closure will be the baseline for the final semester grade;
o Grades can only go up from that baseline or be assigned an incomplete;
o Final grades can be anything in the C to A range, or an incomplete. We will not be assigning D’s;
o Students in jeopardy of not passing prior to closure will work with teachers individually to ensure they can meet the C or better standard, or take an incomplete;
o The school will develop plans to help students with an incomplete finish and earn the credit for the class.
- ENGAGEMENT: Dr. Snell’s instructions on grades says in part: “No grades will be lowered below the baseline grade if students engage with remote learning opportunities offered by their teachers. Teachers will assign grades or assign an “incomplete” for students that cannot engage in an equitable way.”
- MY GRADING POLICY:
o Your 1st 6 Week grade is the baseline for your 2nd semester grade (the 1st 6 Week term ended on 3/13, the day the closure began)
o The definition of an “A” and a “B” remains the same – a “C” is now defined as between 79% and 60% - a score below a 60% is now considered “incomplete”
o So long as you “engage” in the virtual class/work I’ve assigned since April 17 (which was due on 4/24), your grade can only go up from the baseline
o If you don’t “engage” my options are to report your final grade as whatever the baseline was or as “incomplete”
o In the interest of clarity and openness, going forward, I am defining “engaged” as turning in at least 50% of the work assigned since April 17 through the end of the year (June 12 for seniors, June 19 for everybody else) – “turning in work” is a separate consideration from the grade on the assignment – so long as you in good faith attempt the assignment, I’ll consider it turned in – if you do face obstacles, let me know as I can modify my assignments and expectations – keep in mind that your other teachers may have different ways of defining “engaged”
o I will enter scores for assignments into Skyward as they come due and they can improve your final grade above the baseline
o If you had a score of a D or F on 3/13, you should reach out to me during my office hours (or anytime really) so we can talk through a plan to get your credit
- ATTENDANCE: The state requires teachers to take attendance on Fridays. You will be considered as present if, at some point during the week, you have turned in work, participated in a live class or communicated with a teacher in some fashion (phone, video, email). I will submit my attendance at 3 PM on Friday, so if you haven’t interacted with me in some way by then, you’ll be marked as “not engaged” – I won’t be able to change this in Skyward after the end of the day.
- Reminder: If you’re turning something in late to Turnitin.com (like last week’s personal response, for example), I need an email from you letting me know so I can grade it
- Seniors: Your ASB leadership is asking you to go to this Instagram page and participate in sharing information about where you’re going after graduation: https://instagram.com/camasclassof20?igshid=1omclq2g1teab
- Seniors: Are you considering becoming a teacher, counselor or otherwise working in public education in the future? My union just doubled its annual Future Educator Scholarship, so apply here by the May 21 deadline
Office Hours:
- My formal office hours are Monday-Friday from 1 – 2 PM
- Use that time to ask questions of me about assignments, instructions, grades, life or if you just want to have a breezy chat with a nice guy with a bad haircut but a first-rate intellect :)
- We can talk via email or phone or Google Meet, just initiate the process by sending me an email with your question or with your phone number/invitation (I can send the Google Meet invite if you don’t know how to, just let me know that’s how you’d like to talk)
- I will be monitoring my email during this hour and will get back to you immediately unless I’m with another student at that time, in which case I’ll get back to you as soon as I’m done with them
- Like always, I will also respond to emails and questions outside my formal office hours as quickly as I can, which shouldn’t be more than an hour or two during school hours and within several hours in the evenings and on weekends
Assignments for the week:
- You should expect these assignments and the class to take, in total, roughly the same amount of time this class required prior to the closure between class time and homework – luckily you can choose the hours to do this work and complete it all in your jammies with your cat on your lap to keep you company :)
- There are 2 assignments this week – these are the standard 2 assignments each week going forward to the end of the year
- Assignment #1: Fill out either a current event log (there’s a pdf of the form you can print off here) OR create a 2 page current event journal (if you haven’t done one of these before the instructions are here) - you can do oral journals with me during office hours if you prefer
- Your log or journal will count as a 20 pt project grade
- Note: this is different from the 1st 6 weeks project – you used to be able to take a week off from doing current event work and also you could do 40 points of work a week, now you are required to do current event work each week, but only 20 points worth
- Additional note: you DON’T have to look at just Covid19 news – if you’re feeling overwhelmed by that story which is dominating the news, try to ignore the feeling by deliberately searching out other kinds of news: sports, entertainment, science, technology, etc.
- Send me the completed log or journal when you finish it by Friday morning – you can email or google share your docs with me or send me pictures of work you did on paper
- Assignment #2: After attending the virtual class explained in the next section below, write a 500 word personal response to that class, answering any or all of the following questions in your own words (you can also answer questions of your own – the idea of this activity is to get you to think and engage with the content):
o What did you learn this week?
o What was the most interesting or surprising thing you learned?
o What did you like/not like?
o How is this knowledge useful or relevant today?
o What is your opinion on this information? What does it mean or why is it important?
o If you could go back in time, what would you change about what we learned that happened and why?
o How does this content change your view of government or history or humanity?
o What questions do you have about this content? What would you like to know more about?
- Turn in this personal response to Turnitin.com (you should already have an account but if you need it, I have details here)
- Remember, tii.com checks for plagiarism – you should not be cutting and pasting significant portions of your response from other sources – any of your response significantly lifted from a source should be quoted and/or cited – you will not get credit for a response that is not significantly of your own
- The personal response counts as a 40 point classwork assignment – the response will be graded on tii.com so look there for your score and comments
Virtual Class:
- I have now charted out the remainder of our online classes for the rest of the school year - you can see it in this World History doc and in this CWI doc
- If you want to do this week’s class and then start on next week’s work, feel free – set your own pace, but at minimum, do the work assigned for this week – you should look at the doc above to get a sense of how much I have planned from week to week as some week’s are bigger than others
- At this time I do not plan on holding live classes, but I can use Google Meet to speak with you or several of you during office hours if you like
- Class will consist of watching the following, then writing the 500 word personal response explained in the section above
- 10th Grade World History Class: Watch the following Khan Academy classes:
o Theodore Herzl and the Birth of Political Zionism
o Sinai, Palestine and Mesopotamia Campaigns
o Sykes-Picot Agreement and the Balfour Declaration
o Paris Peace Conference and the Treaty of Versailles
o The Treaty of Versailles and Germany
- 12th Grade CWI Class:
o Watch West Wing 19 on Netflix or here and read my notes here - you can also listen to this podcast about the episode
o Watch these short Khan Academy classes:
§ The Bill of Rights: Introduction
The plan for the week of 5/4 - 5/8
Announcements:
- Grades updated on 4/28
- CHS GRADING POLICY: No significant changes since last week. These are the instructions from Principal Morris that I’m operating under:
o Pre-Closure: grades prior to closure will be the baseline for the final semester grade;
o Grades can only go up from that baseline or be assigned an incomplete;
o Final grades can be anything in the C to A range, or an incomplete. We will not be assigning D’s;
o Students in jeopardy of not passing prior to closure will work with teachers individually to ensure they can meet the C or better standard, or take an incomplete;
o The school will develop plans to help students with an incomplete finish and earn the credit for the class.
- ENGAGEMENT: Dr. Snell’s instructions on grades says in part: “No grades will be lowered below the baseline grade if students engage with remote learning opportunities offered by their teachers. Teachers will assign grades or assign an “incomplete” for students that cannot engage in an equitable way.”
- MY GRADING POLICY:
o Your 1st 6 Week grade is the baseline for your 2nd semester grade (the 1st 6 Week term ended on 3/13, the day the closure began)
o The definition of an “A” and a “B” remains the same – a “C” is now defined as between 79% and 60% - a score below a 60% is now considered “incomplete”
o If you turn in late work from the 1st 6 weeks, that raises the baseline (you have until May 8 to do this)
o So long as you “engage” in the virtual class/work I’ve assigned since April 17, your grade can only go up from the baseline
o If you don’t “engage” my options are to report your final grade as whatever the baseline was or as “incomplete”
o In the interest of clarity and openness, going forward, I am defining “engaged” as turning in at least 50% of the work assigned since April 17 through the end of the year (June 12 for seniors, June 19 for everybody else) – “turning in work” is a separate consideration from the grade on the assignment – so long as you in good faith attempt the assignment, I’ll consider it turned in – if you do face obstacles, let me know as I can modify my assignments – keep in mind that your other teachers may have different ways of defining “engaged”
o I will enter scores for assignments into Skyward as they come due and they can improve your final grade above the baseline
o If you had a score of a D or F on 3/13, you should reach out to me during my office hours (or anytime really) so we can talk through a plan to get your credit
- ATTENDANCE: The state now requires your teachers to take attendance on Fridays. You will be considered as present if, at some point during the week, you have turned in work, participated in a live class or communicated with a teacher in some fashion (phone, video, email)
- Missing 1st 6 Week makeup work final deadline: May 8 (talk to me during office hours if you need help with this)
- Reminder: If you’re turning something in late to Turnitin.com (like last week’s personal response, for example), I need an email from you letting me know so I can grade it
- Seniors: Your ASB leadership is asking you to go to this Instagram page and participate in sharing information about where you’re going after graduation: https://instagram.com/camasclassof20?igshid=1omclq2g1teab
- Seniors: Are you considering becoming a teacher, counselor or otherwise working in public education in the future? My union just doubled its annual Future Educator Scholarship, so apply here by the May 21 deadline
Office Hours:
- My formal office hours are Monday-Friday from 1 – 2 PM
- Use that time to ask questions of me about assignments, instructions, grades, life or if you just want to have a breezy chat with a nice guy with a bad haircut but a first-rate intellect :)
- We can talk via email or phone or Google Meet, just initiate the process by sending me an email with your question or with your phone number/invitation (I can send the Google Meet invite if you don’t know how to, just let me know that’s how you’d like to talk)
- I will be monitoring my email during this hour and will get back to you immediately unless I’m with another student at that time, in which case I’ll get back to you as soon as I’m done with them
- Like always, I will also respond to emails and questions outside my formal office hours as quickly as I can, which shouldn’t be more than an hour or two during school hours and within several hours in the evenings and on weekends
Assignments for the week:
- You should expect these assignments and the class to take, in total, roughly the same amount of time this class required prior to the closure between class time and homework – luckily you can choose the hours to do this work and complete it all in your jammies with your cat on your lap to keep you company :)
- There are 2 assignments this week – these are the standard 2 assignments each week going forward to the end of the year
- Assignment #1: Fill out either a current event log (there’s a pdf of the form you can print off here) OR create a 2 page current event journal (if you haven’t done one of these before the instructions are here) - you can do oral journals with me during office hours if you prefer
- Your log or journal will count as a 20 pt project grade
- Note: this is different from the 1st 6 weeks project – you used to be able to take a week off from doing current event work and also you could do 40 points of work a week, now you are required to do current event work each week, but only 20 points worth
- Additional note: you DON’T have to look at just Covid19 news – if you’re feeling overwhelmed by that story which is dominating the news, try to ignore the feeling by deliberately searching out other kinds of news: sports, entertainment, science, technology, etc.
- Send me the completed log or journal when you finish it by Friday morning – you can email or google share your docs with me or send me pictures of work you did on paper
- Assignment #2: After attending the virtual class explained in the next section below, write a 500 word personal response to that class, answering any or all of the following questions in your own words (you can also answer questions of your own – the idea of this activity is to get you to think and engage with the content):
o What did you learn this week?
o What was the most interesting or surprising thing you learned?
o What did you like/not like?
o How is this knowledge useful or relevant today?
o What is your opinion on this information? What does it mean or why is it important?
o If you could go back in time, what would you change about what we learned that happened and why?
o How does this content change your view of government or history or humanity?
o What questions do you have about this content? What would you like to know more about?
- Turn in this personal response to Turnitin.com (you should already have an account but if you need it, I have details here)
- Remember, tii.com checks for plagiarism – you should not be cutting and pasting significant portions of your response from other sources – any of your response significantly lifted from a source should be quoted and/or cited – you will not get credit for a response that is not significantly of your own
- The personal response counts as a 40 point classwork assignment – the response will be graded on tii.com so look there for your score and comments
Virtual Class:
- I have now charted out the remainder of our online classes for the rest of the school year - you can see it in this World History doc and in this CWI doc
- If you want to do this week’s class and then start on next week’s work, feel free – set your own pace, but at minimum, do the work assigned for this week – you should look at the doc above to get a sense of how much I have planned from week to week as some week’s are bigger than others
- At this time I do not plan on holding live classes, but I can use Google Meet to speak with you or several of you during office hours if you like
- Class will consist of watching the following, then writing the 500 word personal response explained in the section above
- 10th Grade World History Class: Watch the following Khan Academy classes:
o Schlieffen Plan and the First Battle of the Marne
o Comparing the Western and Eastern Fronts of WW1
o Battles of Verdun, Somme and the Hindenburg Line
o Blockades, U-Boats and the Sinking of the Lusitania
- 12th Grade CWI Class:
o Watch West Wing 18 on Netflix or here and read my notes here - you can also listen to this podcast about the episode
o Watch these short Khan Academy classes:
§ Increased Politicization of the Supreme Court
§ How Have Congressional Elections Changed Over Time?
§ How Has the Position of Speaker of the House Changed?
The plan for the week of 4/27-5/1
Announcements:
- Grades updated on 4/24
- GRADING UPDATE: Much has changed since my communication of last week. The pass/fail option mentioned last week is gone now. These are the most recent instructions I’ve gotten from Principal Morris:
o Pre-Closure: grades prior to closure will be the baseline for the final semester grade;
o Grades can only go up from that baseline or be assigned an incomplete;
o Final grades can be anything in the C to A range, or an incomplete. We will not be assigning D’s;
o Students in jeopardy of not passing prior to closure will work with teachers individually to ensure they can meet the C or better standard, or take an incomplete;
o The school will develop plans to help students with an incomplete finish and earn the credit for the class.
- ENGAGEMENT: Dr. Snell’s instructions on grades says in part: “No grades will be lowered below the baseline grade if students engage with remote learning opportunities offered by their teachers. Teachers will assign grades or assign an “incomplete” for students that cannot engage in an equitable way.”
- MY TAKEWAY ON GRADES:
o Your 1st 6 Week grade is the baseline for your 2nd semester grade (the 1st 6 Week term ended on 3/13, the day the closure began)
o The definition of an “A” and a “B” remains the same – a “C” is now defined as between 79% and 60% - a score below a 60% is now considered “incomplete”
o If you turn in late work from the 1st 6 weeks, that raises the baseline (you have until May 8 to do this)
o So long as you “engage” in the virtual class/work I’ve assigned since April 17, your grade can only go up from the baseline
o If you don’t “engage” my options are to report your final grade as whatever the baseline was or as “incomplete”
o Teachers are each to determine what “engage” means in the context of their class and to take into consideration obstacles students might have in engaging in the work assigned
o In the interest of clarity and openness, going forward, I am defining “engaged” as turning in at least 50% of the work assigned since April 17 through the end of the year (June 12 for seniors, June 19 for everybody else) – “turning in work” is a separate consideration from the grade on the assignment – so long as you in good faith attempt the assignment, I’ll consider it turned in – if you do face obstacles, let me know as I can modify my assignments
o I will enter scores for assignments into Skyward and they can improve your grade above the baseline
o If you had a score of a D or F on 3/13, you should reach out to me during my office hours so we can talk through a plan to get your credit
- ATTENDANCE: Starting this week, the state is requiring us to take attendance on Fridays. You will be considered as present if you have turned in work, participated in a live class or communicated with a teacher in some fashion (phone, video, email)
- Missing 1st 6 Week makeup work final deadline: May 8 (talk to me during office hours if you need help with this)
- Reminder: If you’re turning something in late to Turnitin.com (like last week’s personal response, for example), I need an email from you letting me know so I can grade it
- Seniors: Your ASB leadership is asking you to go to this Instagram page and participate in sharing information about where you’re going after graduation: https://instagram.com/camasclassof20?igshid=1omclq2g1teab
- Seniors: Are you considering becoming a teacher, counselor or otherwise working in public education in the future? My union just doubled its annual Future Educator Scholarship, so apply here by the May 21 deadline
Office Hours:
- My formal office hours are Monday-Friday from 1 – 2 PM
- Use that time to ask questions of me about assignments, instructions, grades, life or if you just want to have a breezy chat with a nice guy with a bad haircut but a first-rate intellect :)
- We can talk via email or phone or Google Meet, just initiate the process by sending me an email with your question or with your phone number/invitation (I can send the Google Meet invite if you don’t know how to, just let me know that’s how you’d like to talk)
- I will be monitoring my email during this hour and will get back to you immediately unless I’m with another student at that time, in which case I’ll get back to you as soon as I’m done with them
- Like always, I will also respond to emails and questions outside my formal office hours as quickly as I can, which shouldn’t be more than an hour or two during school hours and within several hours in the evenings and on weekends
Assignments for the week:
- You should expect these assignments and the class to take roughly the same amount of time this class required prior to the closure – I realize this may feel burdensome after nearly a month of having more minimal expectations - luckily you can now choose the hours to do this work to fit your life though and complete it all in your jammies with your cat on your lap :)
- There are 2 assignments this week – these will be the standard 2 assignments each week going forward
- Assignment #1: Fill out either a current event log (there’s a pdf of the form you can print off here) OR create a 2 page current event journal (if you haven’t done one of these before the instructions are here) - you can do oral journals with me during office hours if you prefer
- Your log or journal will count as a 20 pt project grade
- Note: this is different from the 1st 6 weeks project – you used to be able to take a week off from doing current event work and also you could do 40 points of work a week, now you are required to do current event work each week, but only 20 points worth
- Additional note: you DON’T have to look at just Covid19 news – if you’re feeling overwhelmed by that story which is dominating the news, try to ignore the feeling by deliberately searching out other kinds of news: sports, entertainment, science, technology, etc.
- Send me the completed log or journal when you finish it by Friday morning – you can email or google share your docs with me or send me pictures of work you did on paper
- Assignment #2: After attending the virtual class explained in the next section below, write a 500 word personal response to that class, answering any or all of the following questions in your own words (you can also answer questions of your own – the idea of this activity is to get you to think and engage with the content):
o What did you learn this week?
o What was the most interesting or surprising thing you learned?
o What did you like/not like?
o How is this knowledge useful or relevant today?
o What is your opinion on this information? What does it mean or why is it important?
o If you could go back in time, what would you change about what we learned that happened and why?
o How does this content change your view of government or history or humanity?
o What questions do you have about this content? What would you like to know more about?
- Turn in this personal response to Turnitin.com (you should already have an account but if you need it, I have details here)
- Remember, tii.com checks for plagiarism – you should not be cutting and pasting significant portions of your response from other sources – any of your response significantly lifted from a source should be quoted and/or cited – you will not get credit for a response that is not significantly of your own
- The personal response counts as a 40 point classwork assignment – the response will be graded on tii.com so look there for your score and comments
Virtual Class:
- I have now charted out the remainder of our online classes for the rest of the school year - you can see it in this World History doc and in this CWI doc
- If you want to do this week’s class and then start on next week’s work, feel free – set your own pace, but at minimum, do the work assigned for this week – you should look at the doc above to get a sense of how much I have planned from week to week as some week’s are bigger than others
- At this time I do not plan on holding live classes, but I can use Google Meet to speak with you or several of you during office hours if you like
- Class will consist of watching the following, then writing the 500 word personal response explained in the section above
- World History Class: Watch the following Khan Academy classes:
o German and Italian Empires in 1914
o Language and Religion of the Former Yugoslavia
o Assassination of Franz Ferdinand
o Serbian and Macedonian Fronts
o Italy Backs Out of the Triple Alliance
- CWI Class:
o Watch West Wing 17 on Netflix or here and read my notes here - you can also listen to this podcast about the episode
o Watch these short Khan Academy classes:
§ Why do Midterm Elections Matter?
Announcements:
- Grades updated on 4/17
- IMPORTANT: the state has recently passed along guidance on grading student work during the closure – the CSD will announce the details of our district’s policy early next week, but for now here are the 2 most important points for my class: 1) you will have a choice on how your end of the year grade will be reported on your high school transcript (either pass/no-credit or the usual A-F system you’re used to) and 2) starting this week I will give you grades on the assigned work and it WILL impact your overall class grade – there are going to be a lot more details and specifics from the CSD soon and I should be able to have all of them in next week’s email/website post (you can always talk to me during office hours as well)
- Missing 1st 6 Week makeup work final deadline: May 8 (talk to me during office hours if you need help with this)
- Seniors: Your ASB leadership is asking you to go to this Instagram page and participate in sharing information about where you’re going after graduation: https://instagram.com/camasclassof20?igshid=1omclq2g1teab
- Seniors: Are you considering becoming a teacher, counselor or otherwise working in public education in the future? My union just doubled its annual Future Educator Scholarship, so apply here by the May 21 deadline
Office Hours:
- My formal office hours are now Monday-Friday from 1 – 2 PM
- Use that time to ask questions of me about assignments, instructions, grades, life or if you just want to have a breezy chat with a nice guy with a bad haircut but a first-rate intellect :)
- We can talk via email or phone or Google Meet, just initiate the process by sending me an email with your question or with your phone number/invitation (I can send the Google Meet invite if you don’t know how to, just let me know that’s how you’d like to talk)
- I will be monitoring my email during this hour and will get back to you immediately unless I’m with another student at that time, in which case I’ll get back to you as soon as I’m done with them
- Like always, I will also respond to emails and questions outside my formal office hours as quickly as I can, which shouldn’t be more than an hour or two during school hours and within several hours in the evenings and on weekends
Assignments for the week:
- You should expect these assignments and the class to take roughly the same amount of time this class required prior to the closure – I realize this may feel burdensome after nearly a month of having more minimal expectations - luckily you can now choose the hours to do this work to fit your life though and complete it all in your jammies with your cat on your lap :)
- There are 2 assignments this week – these will be the standard 2 assignments each week going forward
- Assignment #1: Fill out either a current event log (there’s a pdf of the form you can print off here) OR create a 2 page current event journal (if you haven’t done one of these before the instructions are here) - you can do oral journals with me during office hours if you prefer)
- Your log or journal will count as a 20 pt project grade
- Note: this is different from the 1st 6 weeks project – you used to be able to take a week off from doing current event work and also you could do 40 points of work a week, now you are required to do current event work each week, but only 20 points worth
- Additional note: you DON’T have to look at just Covid19 news – if you’re feeling overwhelmed by that story which is dominating the news, try to ignore the feeling by deliberately searching out other kinds of news: sports, entertainment, science, technology, etc.
- Send me the completed log or journal when you finish it by Friday morning – you can email or google share your docs with me or send me pictures of work you did on paper
- Assignment #2: After attending the virtual class explained in the next section below, write a 500 word personal response to that class, answering any or all of the following questions in your own words (you can also answer questions of your own – the idea of this activity is to get you to think and engage with the content):
o What did you learn this week?
o What was the most interesting or surprising thing you learned?
o What did you like/not like?
o How is this knowledge useful or relevant today?
o What is your opinion on this information? What does it mean or why is it important?
o If you could go back in time, what would you change about what we learned that happened and why?
o How does this content change your view of government or history or humanity?
o What questions do you have about this content? What would you like to know more about?
- Turn in this personal response to Turnitin.com (you should already have an account but if you need it, I have details here)
- Remember, tii.com checks for plagiarism – you should not be cutting and pasting significant portions of your response from other sources – any of your response significantly lifted from a source should be quoted and/or cited – you will not get credit for a response that is not significantly of your own
- The personal response counts as a 40 point classwork assignment – the response will be graded on tii.com so look there for your score and comments
Virtual Class:
- I have now charted out the remainder of our online classes for the rest of the school year - you can see it in this World History doc and in this CWI doc
- If you want to do this week’s class and then start on next week’s work, feel free – set your own pace, but at minimum, do the work assigned for this week – you should look at the doc above to get a sense of how much I have planned from week to week as some week’s are bigger than others
- At this time I do not plan on holding live classes, but I can use Google Meet to speak with you or several of you during office hours if you like
- Class will consist of watching the following, then writing the 500 word personal response explained in the section above
- World History Class: Watch the following Khan Academy classes:
o Industrialization and Imperialism
- CWI Class:
o Watch West Wing 16 on Netflix or here and read my notes here - you can also listen to this podcast about the episode
o Watch these short Khan Academy classes:
§ Why was Washington the First President?
§ Why was Reagan’s Presidency Significant?
§ How did Reagan’s Policies Affect the Economy?
§ How have Reagan’s Policies Affected the Government?
§ Which Reagan Policies are Still Debated Today?
The plan for the week of 4/13-4/17
Announcements:
- Grades updated on 4/7 – notice you will be able to see the points you’re getting for the new work turned in during the closure – these assignments are marked “no count” though so aren’t calculated into your overall grade (yet) – now that the closure has been extended through the rest of the school year, the state is issuing guidance to schools on how grading will work, but it is not yet clear to us teachers what it means – there are many possibilities it sounds like, and it is possible that we will take into consideration work turned in during the closure in issuing a pass/fail grade for the semester - I will share more as I learn more – the bottom line: TURN IN WORK DURING THE CLOSURE, YOU SHOULD NOT BE TREATING THE CLOSURE LIKE AN ENDLESS SPRING BREAK :)
- While new work assigned by your teachers during the closure can’t count at the moment towards your class grade, old work from the 1st 6 weeks can – that means this week you can do work you see missing on Skyward (talk to me during office hours if you need help with this) and I can use it to improve your class grade- your final grade for the semester might be largely determined by that 1st 6 week work, so if you were not passing at that time, definitely make it up!
- If you had less than 100 pts on the 1st 6 week current event project, I’ll use the points from this week’s logs and journals to raise that score to the max of 100
- Seniors: Are you considering becoming a teacher, counselor or otherwise working in public education in the future? My union just doubled its annual Future Educator Scholarship, so apply by the May 21 deadline: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sPk_zGdRnuEJmxzz0oNrsIER7FOL6BXt/view?usp=sharing
- Did you leave something at school that you need to pick up? Info here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1u97orLIneqAf0rG8jfo0BQOJtr3QD9MjAR6XOtxUQyw/edit?usp=sharing
Office Hours:
- Monday-Wednesday from 9:00-9:45 and 12:30-3:30
- Use this time to ask questions of me about assignments, instructions, grades, life or if you just want to have a breezy chat with a nice guy with a bad haircut but a first-rate intellect :)
- We can talk via email or phone, just initiate the process by sending me an email with your question or with your phone number
- I will be monitoring my email during these hours and will get back to you as fast as I can – I’m not sure just how many of ya’ll while be wanting my attention
Assignments for the week:
- There are 3 assignments this week below in bold font
- Fill out a normal current event log – there’s a pdf of the form you can print off here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kwQ6qDVyNKYWQEJSOK902LNEvb2yaCHj/view
- Create a normal 2 page current event journal – if you haven’t done one of these before the instructions are here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-SAwXa67qaQZ29WUnJqMk9FSlE/view - you can do oral journals with me during office hours if you prefer
- Send me the completed log and journal when you finish them or by Friday morning – you can email or google share your docs with me or send me pictures of work you did on paper
- Take one page of notes during our virtual class (described below) to document what you learned – turn them in like you would the current event work
Virtual Class:
- We’ll have one virtual class this week according to the schedule below
- Since we don’t yet have the option of a live class, this week’s class will be a video which you watch during the time for our class below, or whenever else you want
- World History: We left off at the end of the Napoleonic Era, so let’s move on to the next important moment in history, the Industrial (or Modern) Revolution – watch the following videos:
o 2-minute introduction: https://youtu.be/2EJzrIKtKok
o 11-minute Crash Course: https://youtu.be/zhL5DCizj5c
o 12-minute How Did Change Accelerate? https://youtu.be/VTtlgX27FgI
- CWI: Let’s go back to watching the West Wing – we have just enough time to finish the first season if we watch one episode a week between now and graduation – this week is episode #15, “Celestial Navigation” – you can watch it on Netflix or here: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5spbpq - here are my notes on the episode, you should read them while watching: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-SAwXa67qaQZ1ZPZlB2Y3ZaRlk/view?usp=sharing – for virtual extra-credit, listen to this podcast about the episode when done, it includes a real-life White House Press Secretary in the discussion: http://thewestwingweekly.com/episodes/115
- Class Schedule:
o 1st Period, Monday, 4/13, 10:00-10:30-45
o 3rd Period, Tuesday, 4/14, 10:00-10:30-45
o 4th Period, Tuesday, 4/14, 11:00-11:30-45
o 5th Period, Wednesday, 4/15, 10:00-10:30-45
o 6th Period, Wednesday, 4/15, 11:00-11:30-45
Well, I was all geared up to have Zoom-based classes with you guys starting tomorrow but the district has just told us that we can’t use this product at the moment due to security concerns.
I will therefore not be able to do Zoom office hours with you or the class I had prepared for this week, which is sad :(
I can still talk with you via email and/or the phone during the office hours previously described in my email of earlier today.
You should still complete a current event log and journal for this week and turn them in by Friday morning.
I look forward to talking with you during this week’s office hours :)
The plan for the week of 4/6-4/10
Office Hours:
- Monday-Wednesday from 9:00-9:45 and 12:30-3:30 (except Wednesday, 4/8 – I’ll be available for the morning office hour but not the afternoon hours)
- Use this time to ask questions of me about assignments, instructions, grades, life or if you just want to have a breezy chat with a nice guy with a bad haircut but a first-rate intellect :)
- We can talk via email, phone or Zoom, just initiate the process by sending me an email with your question or with your phone number or your Zoom request (if you don’t know how to do Zoom that’s okay, I can send you the request and you should just have to click on the link to work)
- I will be monitoring my email during these hours and will get back to you as fast as I can – I’m not sure just how many of ya’ll while be wanting my attention
- Class grades are up to date in Skyward as of 3/24 but I hope to get another update in this Sunday night – again, we can use these office hours to talk about grades, so don’t be shy, they’re paying us teachers during the closure and we all want to earn our keep so make us work :)
Assignments for the week:
- Fill out a normal current event log – there’s a pdf of the form you can print off here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kwQ6qDVyNKYWQEJSOK902LNEvb2yaCHj/view
- Create a normal 2 page current event journal – if you haven’t done one of these before the instructions are here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-SAwXa67qaQZ29WUnJqMk9FSlE/view - you can do oral journals with me during office hours if you prefer
- Send me the completed log and journal when you finish them or by Friday morning – you can email or google share your docs with me or send me pictures of work you did on paper
- New work assigned by your teachers during the closure can’t count at the moment towards your class grade, but old work from the 1st 6 weeks can – that means this week you can do work you see missing on Skyward (talk to me during office hours if you need help with this) and I can use it to improve your class grade
- If you had less than 100 pts on the 1st 6 week current event project, I’ll use the points from this week’s logs and journals to raise that score to the max of 100
Virtual Class:
- We’ll have 1 on-line class this week according to the schedule below
- Class will last 30-45 minutes depending on how many of you show up and how talkative you’re feeling
- This week we’ll discuss how you’ve been doing the past 3 weeks, what you’ve been up to, how you and your friends/family are feeling, what you’ve been following in the news and current events in general – my goal is to get us all reconnected and part of a community again – I suspect it will feel a little like the first day of school all over again
- Your other classes might not be live and I might do things differently next week depending on how this week goes – teachers have a range of options on how they’ll use the scheduled time so look for communications from them
- I will push out a Zoom meeting invite via your school email shortly before our scheduled class – just click the link to join the class – I’m still quite new to the Zoom app, so please be patient with me as I learn – also remember Linthwaite Rule #1 as you participate in class, a lot of folks are feeling pretty fragile right now I suspect
- Participation in the virtual class is not mandatory (again, no new work can effect your class grade during the closure) but the school is asking me to track attendance so we can reach out to folks who might be getting left behind in these crazy times
- Class Schedule:
o 1st Period, Monday, 4/6, 10:00-10:30-45
o 3rd Period, Tuesday, 4/7, 10:00-10:30-45
o 4th Period, Tuesday, 4/7, 11:00-11:30-45
o 5th Period, Wednesday, 4/8, 10:00-10:30-45
o 6th Period, Wednesday, 4/8, 11:00-11:30-45
Things to do to beat the coronavirus blues:
Announcements:
•Grades Updated on: 3/24
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•Grades Updated on: 3/24
Announcements:
•Grades Updated on: 3/12
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•Grades Updated on: 3/12
Announcements:
•Days to Spring Break: ? (65% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 3/12
Announcements:
•Days to Spring Break: ? (65% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 3/12
•During school closure, check this website daily for announcements and assignments – continue to work on the current event project for the 2nd 6 weeks – turn in work via email and google-share – you can submit pictures of work you wrote on paper
•Final deadline for any late work from the 1st 6 week grading period: Tuesday, 3/24 (this deadline will not be affected by any school closure)
•2nd 6 week current event project goes into effect on 4/17, becomes final on 5/1 – you can turn in more than 100 pts to raise your 1st 6 week project score to a max of 70, if applicable – still a max of 1 log and 1 journal a week
•1st 6 week grade reported on 3/17 based on work I had on hand as of Thursday, 3/12 – work turned in for the 1st 6 week term after 3/12 will still ultimately be included in your overall grade, just not before the reporting deadline – only your final grade, issued in June, is used in computing your GPA
•Mid-term Exam postponed and perhaps cancelled - exam review handout: https://drive.google.com/file/d/15uig0gXyYZn_qPTxJ1s8fwJdLx7rZN_4/view?usp=sharing – in-class review day will precede exam
•Quiz 4 will be the Friday after we return to school, whenever that is – follow current events over the closure (except previously scheduled spring break 3/27-4/5) – Quiz 4 will cover the major events of the 2 weeks prior to the quiz
Activities:
1.Brainfood: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
2.Review last class
3.“Napoleon” documentary, finish part 4(we stopped at 22:06) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khjutpeuVgo, take 1 page of notes (that’s 6 total, turn in when complete) - my notes: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JBvwbNV-9l-4GAVkyAzpCARhiSUDJjn5/view?usp=sharing
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
1.Why did Napoleon invade Spain in 1808? What kind of ugly warfare did Napoleon find himself forced to fight there (French for “little war,” it took its name from this invasion)?
2.Why was this “new” kind of warfare disastrous for Napoleon’s reputation?
3.Why did Napoleon divorce his life-long love Josephine after 1808? What was bizarre about the choice he made to replace her?
4.Still distracted by Spain, Napoleon decided to invade what country in 1812? Overconfident of success, Napoleon didn’t contemplate that his opponent would adopt what strategy?
5.Who won the Battle of Borodino, fought just outside Moscow, in 1812? Why didn’t it matter?
6.Russia’s most famous author used in the climax of his most famous book that 1812 battle – who was the author, and what was his famous book?
7.What caused Napoleon to abdicate as emperor in 1814?
8.Why didn’t the monarchs of Europe kill Napoleon for his role in two decades of near non-stop war? What punishment did they think was more appropriate (and amusing)?
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Explain how, having conquered much of Europe, Napoleon lost his empire
Answer the historically puzzling question: was Napoleon a good guy?
Announcements:
•Days to Spring Break: ? (65% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 3/12
•During school closure, check this website daily for announcements and assignments – continue to work on the current event project for the 2nd 6 weeks – turn in work via email and google-share – you can submit pictures of work you wrote on paper
•1st 6 week grade reported on 3/17 based on work I had on hand as of Thursday, 3/12 – work turned in for the 1st 6 week term after 3/12 will still ultimately be included in your overall grade, just not before the reporting deadline – only your final grade, issued in June, is used in computing your GPA
•Final deadline for any late work from the 1st 6 week grading period: Tuesday, 3/24 (this deadline will not be affected by school closure)
•If turning in a late ACA-debate brief/opinion, send me an email after you’ve submitted it to Turnitin.com
•Interested in a career in education and want help with college expenses? Apply for my union’s 2020 Future Educators Scholarship by May 21: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sPk_zGdRnuEJmxzz0oNrsIER7FOL6BXt/view?usp=sharing
•2nd 6 week current event project goes into effect on 4/17, becomes final on 5/1 – you can turn in more than 100 pts to raise your 1st 6 week project score to a max of 70, if applicable – still a max of 1 log and 1 journal a week
•Part 3 of Write Your Rep due by Friday, 4/10 – instructions: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1w9UAFGfD7VnjCn7k1qXWP04BMcmvVUx1/view?usp=sharing
•Quiz 4 will be the Friday after we return to school, whenever that is – follow current events over the closure (except previously scheduled spring break 3/27-4/5) – Quiz 4 will cover the major events of the 2 weeks prior to the quiz
Activities:
1.Brainfood/Learning Targets
2.Work on:
a. Death Penalty activity (due by 3/18) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RZT6pFQX5ZPd8qx9oh3rn3fq2mDYGHSovnbMFgctLXo/edit?usp=sharing
b. Write Your Rep pt 3 (due by 4/10)
c. current events project (turn in by the Friday of the week you’re doing logs/journals for)
d. late work for the 1st 6 weeks (due no later than 3/24)
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
none
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Express a personal opinion on the numerous reasons supporters and critics of the death penalty espouse
Design and execute a campaign to pressure a public official to address an issue you care about
Announcements:
•Days to End Spring Break: 9 (65% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 3/8
•1-on-1 grade conferences next week – final deadline for any late work from the 1st 6 week grading period: Tuesday, 3/24
•1st 6 week grade reported on 3/17 will be based on work I have on hand as of Thursday, 3/12 – work turned in for the 1st 6 week term after 3/12 will still ultimately be included in your overall grade, just not before the reporting deadline – only your final grade, issued in June, is used in computing your GPA
•Current Event Project the same in the 2nd semester as in the 1st – turn in a max of 1 log, 1 journal a week for 40 pts/week – project totals will appear in Skyward but won’t actually impact class grade until 2/21 – project score becomes final on 3/13
•Retake Quiz 3 by Friday, 3/13
•Mid-term Exam tentatively scheduled for 3/19, exam review handout: https://drive.google.com/file/d/15uig0gXyYZn_qPTxJ1s8fwJdLx7rZN_4/view?usp=sharing – in-class review day will precede exam
•Quiz 4, Friday, 3/27
Activities:
1.Brainfood/Learning Targets
2.Review last class
3.“Napoleon” documentary, part 4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khjutpeuVgo, take 1 page of notes - my notes: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JBvwbNV-9l-4GAVkyAzpCARhiSUDJjn5/view?usp=sharing
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
1.Napoleon’s great victory at Austerlitz inspired him to order the creation of what tremendous monument, still one of the biggest tourist attractions in Paris today?
2.What did Napoleon do with his family upon becoming Emperor?
3.Napoleon's style of leadership would today earn him the label of “micro-manager” – what does that mean? A good example of this would be his (perhaps legendary) demand that his soldier’s uniforms have lots of big, bright buttons on the sleeves – why? On the subject of leadership, Napoleon astutely said, “a leader must be a dealer in _________.”
4.Napoleon’s great undoing was the Continental System – who was it aimed against, and what was it supposed to do? Why would it eventually cause Napoleon’s downfall?
5.After Austerlitz, who did Napoleon form an intense “bromance” with at the peace conference of Tilsit? What did they agree to do together? Why would Napoleon find it so hard to avenge the breaking of the peace deal?
6.What 1000 year old empire died as a result of Napoleon’s conquests?
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Explain how, having conquered much of Europe, Napoleon lost his empire
Answer the historically puzzling question: was Napoleon a good guy?
Announcements:
•Days to End Spring Break: 9 (65% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 3/11
•1-on-1 grade conferences this Thursday-Friday – final deadline for any late work from the 1st 6 week grading period: Tuesday, 3/24
•1st 6 week grade reported on 3/17 will be based on work I have on hand as of Thursday, 3/12 – work turned in for the 1st 6 week term after 3/12 will still ultimately be included in your overall grade, just not before the reporting deadline – only your final grade, issued in June, is used in computing your GPA
•If turning in a late ACA-debate brief/opinion, send me an email after you’ve submitted it to Turnitin.com
•Interested in a career in education and want help with college expenses? Apply for my union’s 2020 Future Educators Scholarship by May 21: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sPk_zGdRnuEJmxzz0oNrsIER7FOL6BXt/view?usp=sharing
•Current Event Project the same in the 2nd semester as in the 1st – turn in a max of 1 log, 1 journal a week for 40 pts/week – project totals will appear in Skyward but won’t actually impact class grade until 2/21 – project score becomes final on 3/13
•Part 2 of Write Your Rep due to turnitin.com by 3/13 –instructions: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HzG8XeGTFd71ejtymQENr-Aei6pVoIwy/view?usp=sharing
•Part 3 of Write Your Rep due by Friday, 4/10 – instructions: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1w9UAFGfD7VnjCn7k1qXWP04BMcmvVUx1/view?usp=sharing
•Retake Quiz 3 by Friday, 3/13
•Quiz 4 => Friday, 3/27
Activities:
1.Brainfood/Learning Targets
2.Review Last Class
3.Explain Write Your Rep, pt 3: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1w9UAFGfD7VnjCn7k1qXWP04BMcmvVUx1/view?usp=sharing
4.Grade conferences and work time for Death Penalty activity, Write Your Rep pts 2 and/or 3, current events project, and/or late work: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RZT6pFQX5ZPd8qx9oh3rn3fq2mDYGHSovnbMFgctLXo/edit?usp=sharing
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
1.Roughly what percent of American states use the death penalty? What state uses it the most? What has happened to the frequency of states use the death penalty over the past 20 years?
2.Our country used to do executions in public, often before large crowds – why don’t we do that anymore? Other than prison officials, what’s one kind of person still allowed to watch executions in America?
3.The 2016 case Foster v Chapman considered the problem of peremptory challenges in death penalty cases. What does a peremptory challenge allow a lawyer to do? Foster ruled that lawyers could not use their peremptory challenges to do what (though it conceded it is very hard to prove when this is occurring)?
4.Who is the only Catholic president in American history? A century of religious bigotry against Catholics made many Americans fear he would make his principal political advisor whom?
5.Only a few nations execute more of their citizens annually then the USA – name 2.
6.Nationally, what’s the average stay (in years) for a prisoner on “death row?” Why that long?
7.According to the Supreme Court, are the following constitutional: executing teenagers? Using the “3-shot cocktail” for lethal injection? Electric chair? Firing squads?
8.In Atkins v Virginia, what did the Supreme Court said about executing people with “intellectual disabilities?” Two recent cases involving this ruling in Texas though exposed what glaring defect in Atkins?
9.Attempting to extract modern laws from the Bible can be tricky because of the problems of translating into English. For example, Hebrew scholars point out that the famous commandment “thou shalt not kill” really is more properly translated how?
10.The ___________ is the official residence of Russia’s president and, like “the White House” here in the USA, a slang term for the leader of that nation.
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Express a personal opinion on the numerous reasons supporters and critics of the death penalty espouse
Design and execute a campaign to pressure a public official to address an issue you care about
Announcements:
•Days to End Spring Break: 10 (65% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 3/8
•1-on-1 grade conferences next week – final deadline for any late work from the 1st 6 week grading period: Tuesday, 3/24
•Current Event Project the same in the 2nd semester as in the 1st – turn in a max of 1 log, 1 journal a week for 40 pts/week – project totals will appear in Skyward but won’t actually impact class grade until 2/21 – project score becomes final on 3/13
•Retake Quiz 3 by Friday, 3/13
•Mid-term Exam tentatively scheduled for 3/19, exam review handout and in class review day will precede that
•Quiz 4, Friday, 3/27
Activities:
1.Brainfood/Learning Targets
2.Review last class
3.“Napoleon” documentary, finish part 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zy1B8rwMyqM, take 2 page of notes - my notes: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JBvwbNV-9l-4GAVkyAzpCARhiSUDJjn5/view?usp=sharing
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
1.Napoleon claimed, “I am the Revolution!” How, in a sense, was that true? How was it false?
2.To defeat England in 1805, Napoleon contemplated an ambitious engineering project that would not be accomplished until the late 20th Century, and that is today regarded as one of the “7 Wonders of the Modern World” – what was it?
3.The military uniforms of the Napoleonic era would seem absurd on a modern battlefield – why? Why did they made perfect sense at that time though?
4.What was the significance of the 1805 naval battle of Trafalgar for Napoleon? For the young USA?
5.Napoleon’s most remarkable battle, the one that best displayed his tactical and strategic genius, occurred near the town of __________, and was fought against the much larger armies of Austria and _________.
6.Key to his victory was, as the ancient Chinese general Sun Tsu said, “knowing his enemy,” in this case Alexander I – what did Napoleon know about him that he used to his advantage? Sun Tsu also said, “all warfare is based on __________” – how did Napoleon heed that advice before the battle and take advantage of his knowledge of Alexander?
7.What was the leading killer of soldiers in all wars, including the Napoleonic ones, until World War 1? Why were gunshot wounds even worse in Napoleon’s time than on today’s battlefields?
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Explain how, having conquered much of Europe, Napoleon lost his empire
Answer the historically puzzling question: was Napoleon a good guy?
Announcements:
•Days to End Spring Break: 10 (65% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 3/8
•1-on-1 grade conferences this Thursday-Friday – final deadline for any late work from the 1st 6 week grading period: Tuesday, 3/24
•If turning in a late ACA-debate brief/opinion, send me an email after you’ve submitted it to Turnitin.com
•Interested in a career in education and want help with college expenses? Apply for my union’s 2020 Future Educators Scholarship by May 21: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sPk_zGdRnuEJmxzz0oNrsIER7FOL6BXt/view?usp=sharing
•Current Event Project the same in the 2nd semester as in the 1st – turn in a max of 1 log, 1 journal a week for 40 pts/week – project totals will appear in Skyward but won’t actually impact class grade until 2/21 – project score becomes final on 3/13
•Part 2 of Write Your Rep due to turnitin.com by 3/13 –instructions: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HzG8XeGTFd71ejtymQENr-Aei6pVoIwy/view?usp=sharing
•Retake Quiz 3 by Friday, 3/13
•Quiz 4 => Friday, 3/27
Activities:
1.Brainfood/Learning Targets
2.Review Last Class
3.Finish/turn-in West Wing #14 – “Take This Sabbath Day” – take 1 ½ pg of notes/reactions – my notes: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-SAwXa67qaQVG40N013RDB2dXM/view?usp=sharing
4.Grade conferences and Death Penalty activity: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RZT6pFQX5ZPd8qx9oh3rn3fq2mDYGHSovnbMFgctLXo/edit?usp=sharing
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
1.In 1965, LBJ created the HUD Department. It’s main mission was to help poor people do what? What else does HUD try to do?
2.HUD has, like many other government agencies, often had the problem of its officers engaging in “kickback” schemes – what are those?
3.What have almost all HUD secretaries had in common (starting with the first one?)
4.The current HUD Secretary received a virtual party-line vote in the confirmation process – what were Democrats principle objection?
5.The current HUD Secretary’s name is ____________. What’s something interesting about him?
6.National studies of the role of race in capital punishment reveal that a black man is ______ (much more likely/slightly more likely/equally likely/much less likely) to be sentenced to death for the same crime committed by a white man. Two studies done in 2010 in New York and 2012 at Duke concluded that the race of the _________ and the __________ also effected death penalty sentences.
7.The most relevant part of the Constitution in the death penalty debate is the 8th Amendment – what does it protect us from? What’s the problem with this right, as it’s described in the amendment?
8.As a large group, Christians are divided on the death penalty. Why do some denominations oppose it? Why do others support it?
9.What is the viewpoint of the Catholic church on the death penalty? Of the Quaker faith?
10.Historically, Quakers were persecuted for their views on the death penalty and thus fled to America – what is another conviction they held that made them intensely unpopular in Europe? What did the Federal government do to Quakers during the Civil War (and every war since then)?
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Compare and contrast the USA to other nations in terms of the death penalty
Compare and contrast approaches to the death penalty used by the 50 states in the USA
Explain the statistical evidence used by opponents of capital punishment that claim it is a racially biased punishment
Explain constitutional arguments both for and against the death penalty
Announcements:
•Days to End Spring Break: 11 (65% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 3/8
•Current Event Project the same in the 2nd semester as in the 1st – turn in a max of 1 log, 1 journal a week for 40 pts/week – project totals will appear in Skyward but won’t actually impact class grade until 2/21 – project score becomes final on 3/13
•Retake Quiz 3 by Friday, 3/13
•Mid-term Exam tentatively scheduled for 3/19, exam review handout and in class review day will precede that
•Quiz 4, Friday, 3/27
Activities:
1.Brainfood/Learning Targets
2.Review last class
3.“Napoleon” documentary, part 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zy1B8rwMyqM, take 2 page of notes - my notes: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JBvwbNV-9l-4GAVkyAzpCARhiSUDJjn5/view?usp=sharing
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
1.In 1799, shortly after returning to France from Egypt, Napoleon began a “coup,” which is what? After it was done, he had a new title, First _______.
2.His coup likely would have failed if it were not for the intervention of what person?
3.Triumphantly, Napoleon declared: “The __________ is over. I am the ____________.”
4.Napoleon amazed the world in 1800 by pulling off a stunt that no army had managed since Hannibal, 2000 years earlier. What was it?
5.Many historians think Napoleon’s most important accomplishment was the creation of his Civil Code – why might that deserve the accolade?
6.Napoleon created a dictatorship – why did so many people gladly accept it? What did he create to deal with those who wanted a real republic and grumbled about their lack of liberty?
7.Essentially, in terms of government, the France of 1800 was very similar to what modern country today?
8.His government was essentially a meritocracy – what’s that?
9.In 1804, Napoleon held an elaborate ceremony in Paris, at the end of which he took a new title, ___________. Who did he bring in from Italy to approve of the new title?
10.Throughout the Napoleonic era, what country was France perpetually incapable of defeating? Why?
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Explain how, having conquered much of Europe, Napoleon lost his empire
Answer the historically puzzling question: was Napoleon a good guy?
Announcements:
•Days to End Spring Break: 11 (65% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 3/8
•Interested in a career in education and want help with college expenses? Apply for my union’s 2020 Future Educators Scholarship by May 21: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sPk_zGdRnuEJmxzz0oNrsIER7FOL6BXt/view?usp=sharing
•Current Event Project the same in the 2nd semester as in the 1st – turn in a max of 1 log, 1 journal a week for 40 pts/week – project totals will appear in Skyward but won’t actually impact class grade until 2/21 – project score becomes final on 3/13
•Part 2 of Write Your Rep due to turnitin.com by 3/13 –instructions: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HzG8XeGTFd71ejtymQENr-Aei6pVoIwy/view?usp=sharing
•Retake Quiz 3 by Friday, 3/13
•Quiz 4 => Friday, 3/27
Activities:
1.Brainfood/Learning Targets
2.Review Last Class
3.Big Wig #14 - https://drive.google.com/file/d/11Pi1pHUBlTABoFXwlv-KA1GI_wbnVidf/view?usp=sharing
4.West Wing #14 – “Take This Sabbath Day” – take 1 ½ pg of notes/reactions – my notes: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-SAwXa67qaQVG40N013RDB2dXM/view?usp=sharing
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
1.The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) contains the NIH, the CDC, and the FDA–what’s the job of 2 of those agencies?
2.The current HHS Secretary is ____________. What’s one of his qualifications? A large number of Senators voted against his confirmation – what was one of their objections?
3.The HHS Secretary successfully encouraged Congress to pass a law that prevents the “Dickey Amendment” from keeping the CDC from researching what common cause of death?
4.Americans are more likely to recognize the ______ (currently Dr. Jerome Adams), an HHS official, then the Secretary who leads the Department.
5.Dr. Adams announced his priorities in office are to raise awareness and address what 2 big medical issues in the USA?
6.What days of the week does the US NOT execute people? What time of day are executions usually performed?
7.What does the Jewish Torah (also called the Old Testament by Christians) say about capital punishment? What did the ancient Jewish book of law, the Talmud, do about capital punishment? The modern state of Israel has only once used capital punishment in their 70 year history – who for?
8.Who’s the last president to commute a death sentence? What explains the rarity of presidential commutations?
9.In many countries, the job of a judge in a criminal trial is to determine the guilt or innocence of an accused person. In our country though, that job is instead given to whom? What then is the job of a judge in a criminal trial? Who ultimately decides if the death penalty will be invoked or not?
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Describe the responsibilities and history of the Housing and Urban Development Department and discuss it’s current leader
Compare and contrast the USA to other nations in terms of the death penalty
Compare and contrast approaches to the death penalty used by the 50 states in the USA
Explain the statistical evidence used by opponents of capital punishment that claim it is a racially biased punishment
Explain constitutional arguments both for and against the death penalty
Announcements:
•Days to End Spring Break: 12 (60% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 3/8
•Current Event Project the same in the 2nd semester as in the 1st – turn in a max of 1 log, 1 journal a week for 40 pts/week – project totals will appear in Skyward but won’t actually impact class grade until 2/21 – project score becomes final on 3/13
•Retake Quiz 3 by Friday, 3/13
•Mid-term Exam tentatively scheduled for 3/19, exam review handout and in class review day will precede that
•Quiz 4, Friday, 3/27
Activities:
1.Brainfood/Learning Targets
2.Review last class
3.Review/turn-in Hot Spots of Geography #12 - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1btCNnGICap_r3ih1kAxRaFR6OWsU9NUOKTFdcby4Z4E/edit?usp=sharing
4.Napoleon documentary, part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKgnfl0aDug– take 1 page of notes – my notes: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JBvwbNV-9l-4GAVkyAzpCARhiSUDJjn5/view?usp=sharing
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
1.Another great quote ascribed to Napoleon: “History is a set of _________ agreed upon.”
2.As a general rule, most of the population of countries that Napoleon vanquished initially welcomed him with open arms – why? Why did they often change their minds later on though?
3.Historically, a frequent problem with military leaders who use their battlefield successes to justify making themselves political leaders (like Napoleon) is that they eventually wear out their countries because, to stay in power, they do what?
4.Napoleon helped create what is today the most famous art museum in the world, called _______________. What was the problem with much of the artwork Napoleon filled it with though?
5.In dealing with diplomats and other folks who disagreed with him, Napoleon showed a similar personality trait with Hitler – what was it?
6.In 1798, Napoleon invaded Egypt for at least 2 reasons – what were they? What great educational benefit has the world derived from that invasion? Why did it end as a total debacle for Napoleon though?
7.Napoleon actually won the first set of battles in Egypt, against a people called the _________. Why was he able to beat such a fierce, warlike people?
8.Despite the screaming failure of Egypt, Napoleon was nonetheless greeted back in France as a conquering hero – that’s because, throughout his career, he was very good at what?
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Locate important places on the Earth’s surface and describe where they are relative to other important places
Explain the chain of events that transformed Napoleon from a nobody to an emperor
Answer the historically puzzling question: was Napoleon a good guy?
Announcements:
•Days to End Spring Break: 12 (60% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 3/8
•Interested in a career in education and want help with college expenses? Apply for my union’s 2020 Future Educators Scholarship by May 21: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sPk_zGdRnuEJmxzz0oNrsIER7FOL6BXt/view?usp=sharing
•Current Event Project the same in the 2nd semester as in the 1st – turn in a max of 1 log, 1 journal a week for 40 pts/week – project totals will appear in Skyward but won’t actually impact class grade until 2/21 – project score becomes final on 3/13
•Part 2 of Write Your Rep due to turnitin.com by 3/13 –instructions: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HzG8XeGTFd71ejtymQENr-Aei6pVoIwy/view?usp=sharing
•Retake Quiz 3 by Friday, 3/13
•Quiz 4 => Friday, 3/27
Activities:
1.Brainfood/Learning Targets
2.Review Last Class
3.Big Wig #13 - https://drive.google.com/file/d/11Pi1pHUBlTABoFXwlv-KA1GI_wbnVidf/view?usp=sharing
4.West Wing #14 – “Take This Sabbath Day” – take 1 ½ pg of notes/reactions – my notes: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-SAwXa67qaQVG40N013RDB2dXM/view?usp=sharing
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
1.Why did President LBJ call for the creation of PBS in the 1960s?
2.What medical condition is believed to the third leading cause of preventable death and is linked to 65 deaths/day on the highways, 40% of all crimes resulting in imprisonment, 75% of domestic violence cases, and 50% of all murders?
3.Daniel Ellsberg and Edward Snowden are two high-profile examples of “whistle-blowers” – what is a whistle-blower? What can be good about them? Why are they controversial? What did either Ellsberg or Snowden blow whistles on?
4.Aggravated first degree murder is the only capital crime in Washington State – what are 2 examples of this crime?
5.In 2018, the Washington State Supreme Court ruled capital punishment was unconstitutional – why?
6.Who performs more executions, the states or feds? What’s an example of a federal capital crime?
7.Studies which compare states that do and don’t use the death penalty in terms of their overall murder rate make what conclusion?
8.In 1995 a research poll asked police chiefs across the nation to rank the solutions they thought most likely to prevent or discourage violent crime – what did they think was the best solution? Which were they least interested in?
9.After the Supreme Court turns down your death penalty appeal, your only hope lies in the ___________, who has the power of the pardon, which means what?
10.That official also has the power to order a “stay,” which means what? He/she can also order a “commutation,” which means what?
11.The Supreme Court says that some accused people have a right to a PD – what’s that? Who did the Court say had that right?
12.Why did the court say people have the right to a PD? What’s wrong with the PD system today?
13.What does it mean to say a lawyer is working “pro bono?”
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Describe the responsibilities and history of the Health and Human Services Department and discuss it’s current leader
Compare and contrast the USA to other nations in terms of the death penalty
Compare and contrast approaches to the death penalty used by the 50 states in the USA
Explain the statistical evidence used by opponents of capital punishment that claim it is a racially biased punishment
Explain constitutional arguments both for and against the death penalty
Announcements:
•Days to End Spring Break: 13 (60% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 3/4
•If you’re 18, vote in our state primary by 3/10 (on line registration closed, but you can register in person)
•Interested in a career in education and want help with college expenses? Apply for my union’s 2020 Future Educators Scholarship by May 21: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sPk_zGdRnuEJmxzz0oNrsIER7FOL6BXt/view?usp=sharing
•Obamacare Debate: – brief/opinion instructions: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1T8QSa0tmcsjgAWNr08g2sVxvF59ysv-H - roll assignments: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DdGBWFwNwp-VGIyYOjk6KS_-cvBaKjT1qcG-oLamSJk/edit?usp=sharing – sample lawyer briefs and judges opinions here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WFX_MhF99JHyDnGFQcDwmgCq858s_NRtCSKsy1WzQ5o/edit?usp=sharing - Judges Opinions due to Turnitin.com by 3/5, client opinions to Turnitin.com by 3/9 - - if you missed the debate, to make up the lost participation points, read this article and take 1 page of notes/reactions/comments: https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1002752
•Current Event Project the same in the 2nd semester as in the 1st – turn in a max of 1 log, 1 journal a week for 40 pts/week – project totals will appear in Skyward but won’t actually impact class grade until 2/21 – project score becomes final on 3/13
•Part 2 of Write Your Rep due to turnitin.com by 3/13 –instructions: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HzG8XeGTFd71ejtymQENr-Aei6pVoIwy/view?usp=sharing
•Retake Quiz 3 by Friday, 3/13
•Quiz 4 => Friday, 3/27
Activities:
1.Brainfood/Learning Targets
2.Grade Quiz 3
3.West Wing #14 – “Take This Sabbath Day” – take 1 ½ pg of notes/reactions – my notes: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-SAwXa67qaQVG40N013RDB2dXM/view?usp=sharing
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
none
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Compare and contrast the USA to other nations in terms of the death penalty
Compare and contrast approaches to the death penalty used by the 50 states in the USA
Explain the statistical evidence used by opponents of capital punishment that claim it is a racially biased punishment
Explain constitutional arguments both for and against the death penalty
Announcements:
•Days to End Spring Break: 13 (60% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 3/8
•Current Event Project the same in the 2nd semester as in the 1st – turn in a max of 1 log, 1 journal a week for 40 pts/week – project totals will appear in Skyward but won’t actually impact class grade until 2/21 – project score becomes final on 3/13
•Retake Quiz 3 by Friday, 3/13
•Mid-term Exam tentatively scheduled for 3/19, exam review handout and in class review day will precede that
•Quiz 4, Friday, 3/27
Activities:
1.Brainfood/Learning Targets
2.Grade Quiz 3
3.Hot Spots of Geography #12 - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1btCNnGICap_r3ih1kAxRaFR6OWsU9NUOKTFdcby4Z4E/edit?usp=sharing
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
none
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Explain the chain of events that transformed Napoleon from a nobody to an emperor
Answer the historically puzzling question: was Napoleon a good guy?
Announcements:
•Days to End Spring Break: 15 (60% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 3/4
•Interested in Cascadia Tech next year? Info and application here (deadline 3/11): https://cascadiatechnicalacademy.org/
•Current Event Project the same in the 2nd semester as in the 1st – turn in a max of 1 log, 1 journal a week for 40 pts/week – project totals will appear in Skyward but won’t actually impact class grade until 2/21 – project score becomes final on 3/13
•Quiz 3 => Friday, 3/6
Activities:
1.Brainfood/Learning Targets (turn in brainfood)
2.Review Last Class
3.Napoleon documentary, part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKgnfl0aDug– take 1 page of notes – my notes: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JBvwbNV-9l-4GAVkyAzpCARhiSUDJjn5/view?usp=sharing
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
1.According to Napoleon, “_______ is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.” Who did he think particularly used it to their own advantage, to protect themselves and control others?
2.In his mid-20s, Napoleon did 2 things that gained him great prestige and favor in the eyes of the revolutionary government, earning him promotions – what were they?
3.During the Revolution, what were “monarchists?”
4.After the close of the French revolutionary period in 1815, many monarchs throughout Europe redesigned their capital cities, making broad, majestic avenues and streets and huge public squares and spaces, abandoning the tight streets and closely packed homes of feudal cities – what was the underlying reason for the change?
5.While in Paris in 1795 Napoleon met the great love of his life, named __________ – what was tragic about her?
6.Why was she interested in Napoleon? Other than love and perhaps a family, what did he hope to get from his marriage to her?
7.Upon promotion to full general, Napoleon was unleashed, with minimal expectations, upon the armies of what country? Why did his new army respond so enthusiastically to him?
8.Napoleon is remembered for revolutionizing the art of war – what major change did he bring to it?
9.Not surprisingly, give the dictatorship he would one day create, Napoleon, while enjoying the opportunities the Revolution opened up for him, intensely disliked what feature of the Revolution?
10.At the Battle of Lodi in 1796 Napoleon gained a nickname, the “____________________.” Though Napoleon might have fabricated the events surrounding the genesis of this nickname, it does get at what his soldiers most admired about his style of leadership, which was what?
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Explain the chain of events that transformed Napoleon from a nobody to an emperor
Answer the historically puzzling question: was Napoleon a good guy?
Announcements:
•Days to End Spring Break: 15 (60% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 3/4
•If you’re 18, vote in our state primary by 3/10 (on line registration closed, but you can register in person)
•Obamacare Debate: – brief/opinion instructions: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1T8QSa0tmcsjgAWNr08g2sVxvF59ysv-H - roll assignments: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DdGBWFwNwp-VGIyYOjk6KS_-cvBaKjT1qcG-oLamSJk/edit?usp=sharing – sample lawyer briefs and judges opinions here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WFX_MhF99JHyDnGFQcDwmgCq858s_NRtCSKsy1WzQ5o/edit?usp=sharing - Judges Opinions due to Turnitin.com by 3/5, client opinions to Turnitin.com by 3/9 - - if you missed the debate, to make up the lost participation points, read this article and take 1 page of notes/reactions/comments: https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1002752
•Current Event Project the same in the 2nd semester as in the 1st – turn in a max of 1 log, 1 journal a week for 40 pts/week – project totals will appear in Skyward but won’t actually impact class grade until 2/21 – project score becomes final on 3/13
•Part 2 of Write Your Rep due to turnitin.com by 3/13 –instructions: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HzG8XeGTFd71ejtymQENr-Aei6pVoIwy/view?usp=sharing
•Quiz 3 => Friday, 3/6
Activities:
1.Brainfood/Learning Targets
2.Review Last Class
3.Judges verdicts and client instructions
4.Finish/turn-in West Wing 13 – “Take Out the Trash Day” – take 1 ½ pg notes – my notes: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-SAwXa67qaQUGFJd1dNdFl2OEk/view?usp=sharing
5.Work Time:
A.Write Your Rep, pt 2
B.ACA opinions (judges and clients)
C.Current Events
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
1.The Labor Department was formed in 1903 in part to prevent what sinister thing from occurring?
2.Historically, who’s been opposed to the Labor Dept? What was historic about the confirmation vote for Obama’s Labor Secretary?
3.One of the Labor Department’s agencies is OSHA, whose main job is what?
4.Much of the Labor Secretary’s job is to enforce the Fair Labor Standards Act – what does it demand for wage-workers after 40 hours of work in a week? What kind of worker does it try to almost entirely get rid of?
5.The current Labor Secretary is __. What’s something interesting about him?
6.What branch of the government is given virtually unlimited investigatory powers by the Constitution? What’s good about that? Bad?
7.You’d think the advice of a doctor wouldn’t be politically controversial, but tell that to Clinton’s first Surgeon General, Jocelyn Elders, who was essentially fired for her professional comments in 1994 – what were 2 things she said that got her the boot?
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Discuss the origin of PBS and why it still occasionally controversial in the 21st century
Explain the role of Congress in investigating problems in the country, the limits to its investigatory powers, and potential problems with those limits
Announcements:
•Days to End Spring Break: 16 (60% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 3/1
•Interested in Cascadia Tech next year? Info and application here (deadline 3/11): https://cascadiatechnicalacademy.org/
•Current Event Project the same in the 2nd semester as in the 1st – turn in a max of 1 log, 1 journal a week for 40 pts/week – project totals will appear in Skyward but won’t actually impact class grade until 2/21 – project score becomes final on 3/13
•Quiz 3 => Friday, 3/6
Activities:
1.Brainfood/Learning Targets
2.Review Last Class
3.Napoleon documentary, part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrbiSUgZEbg – take 2 pages of notes – my notes: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JBvwbNV-9l-4GAVkyAzpCARhiSUDJjn5/view?usp=sharing
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
1.Given the events of the first part of the French Revolution, what was unusual about the place where Emperor Napoleon choose to have his imperial coronation? What did he mean to signify by putting the crown on his head himself?
2.Though he lived before the invention of the camera there are hundreds of pictures of Napoleon, most of which Napoleon himself commissioned and oversaw the creation of – why was he so interested in creating depictions of himself?
3.What were two things Napoleon Bonaparte and Adolph Hitler had in common?
4.Though he didn’t appreciate it at the time, Napoleon's father did him great service when he secured his son a scholarship to what kind of school? Why was Napoleon miserable there for a long time?
5.Napoleon, like many historical giants, profited most by learning in what style?
6.If he had been born 50 years earlier, Napoleon would likely have been a nobody. Why did the French Revolution give him a chance to escape the limits of his birth?
7.What happened when Napoleon returned home to Corsica in the early days of the Revolution?
8.In his mid-20s, Napoleon did 2 things that gained him great prestige and favor in the eyes of the revolutionary government, earning him promotions – what were they?
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Explain the chain of events that transformed Napoleon from a nobody to an emperor
Answer the historically puzzling question: was Napoleon a good guy?
Announcements:
•Days to End Spring Break: 16 (60% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 3/1
•If you’re 18, vote in our state primary by 3/10 (on line registration closed, but you can register in person)
•Obamacare Debate: – brief/opinion instructions: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1T8QSa0tmcsjgAWNr08g2sVxvF59ysv-H - roll assignments: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DdGBWFwNwp-VGIyYOjk6KS_-cvBaKjT1qcG-oLamSJk/edit?usp=sharing – sample lawyer briefs here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WFX_MhF99JHyDnGFQcDwmgCq858s_NRtCSKsy1WzQ5o/edit?usp=sharing - Judges Opinions due to Turnitin.com by 3/5 - - if you missed the debate, to make up the lost participation points, read this article and take 1 page of notes/reactions/comments: https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1002752
•Current Event Project the same in the 2nd semester as in the 1st – turn in a max of 1 log, 1 journal a week for 40 pts/week – project totals will appear in Skyward but won’t actually impact class grade until 2/21 – project score becomes final on 3/13
•Part 2 of Write Your Rep due to turnitin.com by 3/13 –instructions: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HzG8XeGTFd71ejtymQENr-Aei6pVoIwy/view?usp=sharing
•Quiz 3 => Friday, 3/6
Activities:
1.Brainfood/Learning Targets
2.Review Last Class
3.Big Wig #12 - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DiPd9AVzc2S1ShlMEnXA6-i1TZzBBb3c/view?usp=sharing
4.West Wing 13 – “Take Out the Trash Day” – take 1 ½ pg notes – my notes: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-SAwXa67qaQUGFJd1dNdFl2OEk/view?usp=sharing
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
1.This week, the CSD asked us to consider 5 things that could help stop the spread of Covid-19 in our community, what were 4 of them?
2.Presidents get to sign bills into laws –what are 2 things they often do on those occasions?
3.Historically, what has been the “take out the trash day” in politics? Why?
4.What approach do conservatives generally favor for sex-ed in public schools? What do state by state statistics on teen pregnancy suggest about this approach?
5.A 2015 CDC study found that, since the 1950s, teen pregnancies have ______(dramatically fallen, fallen slightly, stayed about the same, risen slightly or risen dramatically?) – according to the report, what is a possible cause of this result?
6.The same CDC study also delivered a “report card” on sex-ed at public schools – it found that about _____% of American high schools taught all of the subjects the CDC recommended. It found the most commonly taught subject was what? The least commonly taught subject was?
7.What does it mean to call a politician a “populist?” Who is a prominent liberal populist at the moment? Who’s a prominent conservative populist?
8.For 50 years many of the nations of Europe have been trying to create a common, centralized economy, called the ___. Why are many concerned about it today?
9.What does it mean to label a country a “banana republic?” Why is the much-loved Cavendish banana currently in trouble?
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Describe the responsibilities and history of the Labor Department and discuss it’s current leader
Discuss the origin of PBS and why it still occasionally controversial in the 21st century
Explain the role of Congress in investigating problems in the country, the limits to its investigatory powers, and potential problems with those limits
Announcements:
•Days to End Spring Break: 17 (60% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 3/1
•Interested in Cascadia Tech next year? Info and application here (deadline 3/11): https://cascadiatechnicalacademy.org/
•Current Event Project the same in the 2nd semester as in the 1st – turn in a max of 1 log, 1 journal a week for 40 pts/week – project totals will appear in Skyward but won’t actually impact class grade until 2/21 – project score becomes final on 3/13
•Retake Quiz 2 by Tuesday, 3/3
•Quiz 3 => Friday, 3/6
Activities:
1.Brainfood/Learning Targets
2.Review Last Class
3.Napoleon documentary, part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrbiSUgZEbg – take 2 pages of notes – my notes: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JBvwbNV-9l-4GAVkyAzpCARhiSUDJjn5/view?usp=sharing
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
1.What did France ultimately decide to do with King Louis and Queen Marie? Why?
2.Why did a young peasant girl kill Jean Paul Marat? Who did Marat soon become a replacement for in the minds of many revolutionaries?
3.As the Revolution intensified, Robespierre decided to begin a radical campaign of killing that became known as the _________. Ironically, he did this as the head of an organization called the _____.
4.How were Robespierre and his associates very hypocritical at this point in the Revolution? What ultimately caused their downfall.
5.At the height of “The Terror” France attempted to eradicate what ancient organization? How?
6.What legendary figure came to power in France soon after the overthrown of Robespierre, some saying he ended the French Revolution, others that he spread it across Europe?
7.How was the French revolution very different from the American one?
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Explain the origins of the man who led the second phase of the Revolution, Napoleon Bonaparte
Explain the chain of events that transformed Napoleon from a nobody to an emperor
Answer the historically puzzling question: was Napoleon a good guy?
Announcements:
•Days to End Spring Break: 17 (60% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 3/1
•If you’re 18, vote in our state primary by 3/10 (on line registration closed, but you can register in person)
•Obamacare Debate: – brief/opinion instructions: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1T8QSa0tmcsjgAWNr08g2sVxvF59ysv-H - roll assignments: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DdGBWFwNwp-VGIyYOjk6KS_-cvBaKjT1qcG-oLamSJk/edit?usp=sharing – Judges Opinions due to Turnitin.com by 3/5 - - if you missed the debate, to make up the lost participation points, read this article and take 1 page of notes/reactions/comments: https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1002752
•Current Event Project the same in the 2nd semester as in the 1st – turn in a max of 1 log, 1 journal a week for 40 pts/week – project totals will appear in Skyward but won’t actually impact class grade until 2/21 – project score becomes final on 3/13
•Part 2 of Write Your Rep due to turnitin.com by 3/13 – Pt 1 &2 instructions: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HzG8XeGTFd71ejtymQENr-Aei6pVoIwy/view?usp=sharing
•Retake Quiz 2 by Tuesday, 3/3
•Quiz 3 => Friday, 3/6
Activities:
1.Brainfood/Learning Targets
2.Judges instructions/conference
3.West Wing 13 – “Take Out the Trash Day” – take 1 ½ pg notes – my notes: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-SAwXa67qaQUGFJd1dNdFl2OEk/view?usp=sharing
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
none
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Use data to explain possible reasons for the change in teen pregnancy rates over the past 50 years
Discuss the origin of PBS and why it still occasionally controversial in the 21st century
Explain the meaning and origin of the historic term “banana republic”
Explain the role of Congress in investigating problems in the country, the limits to its investigatory powers, and potential problems with those limits
Announcements:
•Days to End Spring Break: 18 (55% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 3/1
•Interested in Cascadia Tech next year? Info and application here (deadline 3/11): https://cascadiatechnicalacademy.org/
•Current Event Project the same in the 2nd semester as in the 1st – turn in a max of 1 log, 1 journal a week for 40 pts/week – project totals will appear in Skyward but won’t actually impact class grade until 2/21 – project score becomes final on 3/13
•Retake Quiz 2 by Tuesday, 3/3
•Quiz 3 => Friday, 3/6
Activities:
1.Brainfood/Learning Targets
2.Review Last Class
3.The French Revolution documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3AbMUQXft4 and questions: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Qa-2PMA0KPcgsotrPcgbIruegnt3tcPW/view?usp=sharing
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
1.Shortly after Bastille Day, what happened to the Bastille? Why?
2.What did the famous “fish-women” of Paris do in October, 1789 that highlighted the importance of women during the French Revolution? At least 2 things set inspired them to action, what was one of them?
3.What did Louis try do in 1791 that caused him to completely lose the confidence of his people?
4.Why was Jean Paul Marat an important figure in the French Revolution?
5.What country quickly declared war on France early in its revolution? Why?
6.Once embroiled in war, France voted to form a new type of government (which France still is today), called a ________. What was the immediate consequence for King Louis?
7.A French doctor during the Revolution decided to create a high-tech new killing machine, called the _________. It was intended to be symbolic of the values of the Enlightenment – how?
8.During the French Revolution, what did it mean to be a “sans culottes?” A “girondist?”
9.4 years into the Revolution, France began killing thousands of political prisoners in the jails of Paris – what was the motivation? What effect did it have outside of France, especially in the USA?
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Identify and explain the significance of the major figures and events in the French Revolution
Announcements:
•Days to End Spring Break: 18 (60% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 3/1
•Obamacare Debate: – preparation instructions: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1T8QSa0tmcsjgAWNr08g2sVxvF59ysv-H - roll assignments: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DdGBWFwNwp-VGIyYOjk6KS_-cvBaKjT1qcG-oLamSJk/edit?usp=sharing – Judges Opinions due to Turnitin.com by 3/5
•Current Event Project the same in the 2nd semester as in the 1st – turn in a max of 1 log, 1 journal a week for 40 pts/week – project totals will appear in Skyward but won’t actually impact class grade until 2/21 – project score becomes final on 3/13
•Part 2 of Write Your Rep due to turnitin.com by 3/13 – Pt 1 &2 instructions: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HzG8XeGTFd71ejtymQENr-Aei6pVoIwy/view?usp=sharing
•Retake Quiz 2 by Tuesday, 3/3
•Quiz 3 => Friday, 3/6
Activities:
1.Brainfood/Learning Targets
2.Review Last Class
3.Explain Write Your Rep, Pt 2
4.Affordable Care Act Debate:
-Lawyers/Judges graded on oral participation in debate (5 contributions a minimal goal), clients take 1 page of notes of the proceedings for your points
-At end of debate, turn in debate prep work (facts and Q&A) and client notes – lawyers should have already shared their briefs on Turnitin.com
-Judges will conference at the start of tomorrow’s class and pick the winning side
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
1.Before the President gives a State of the Union, he picks a “designated survivor.” Why does he do this? Who does he pick from?
2.The modern battle over “big” vs “little” government has its origins with President FDR – why did he think a “big” government was necessary? What was the purpose of his WPA organization?
3.To ensure a society of equals, the Congress is specifically prohibited by the Constitution to grant titles of ________. Washington, therefore, choose what formal title for himself?
4.In diplomacy, one must often pick between “The Stick and The Carrot” – what does the US usually use as “the carrot?” Other than military force, what can we use as a “stick?”
5.For most of the past 100 years the USA has considered itself the head of the “First World” – what is that? What was “the Second World?” Our USAID targeted The Third World, which was what?
6.How do liberals differ from conservatives in regards to “the stick and the carrot?” How do they both agree?
7.Harvard and Yale are generally considered to be the USA’s two most prestigious schools – what is one of their equivalents in England?
8.The Indian economy, capitalizing on its fluency in the English language, has in the past 20 years come to be a dominant power in what industry?
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Pick and defend a position on the current movement to “repeal and replace” the ACA
Announcements:
•Days to End Spring Break: 19 (60% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 2/26
•Interested in Cascadia Tech next year? Info and application here (deadline 3/11): https://cascadiatechnicalacademy.org/
•Current Event Project the same in the 2nd semester as in the 1st – turn in a max of 1 log, 1 journal a week for 40 pts/week – project totals will appear in Skyward but won’t actually impact class grade until 2/21 – project score becomes final on 3/13
•Retake Quiz 2 by Tuesday, 3/3
•Quiz 3 => Friday, 3/6
Activities:
1.Brainfood/Learning Targets
2.Review Last Class
3.The French Revolution documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3AbMUQXft4 and questions: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Qa-2PMA0KPcgsotrPcgbIruegnt3tcPW/view?usp=sharing
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
1.King Louis XVI helped cause the French Revolution by racking up huge debts on what? His wife, Marie Antoinette, also helped increase that debt by spending lavishly on what?
2.What was the staple food of the French peasantry? When its price began to sky-rocket, according to legend, Marie Antoinette said what? Though its extremely unlikely she actually said that, nonetheless this legend reveals what popular opinion about her?
3.In 1789, Louis called a meeting of the traditional legislative body of France, the Estates General – what made it’s organization so unfair? After Louis responded to the complaints of the Third Estate by simply trying to lock them out of the meeting hall, its members made what famous pronouncement?
4.The 4th of July is the USA’s “birthday” – for the French its _____, the date when citizens attacked the ______________.
5.Why did the French make that attack?
6.What’s the French nickname for their flag? What are the colors on it meant to symbolize?
7.Early in the French Revolution, the new National Assembly issued a document quite similar to the American Declaration of Independence, called the ____________. French Revolutionary Olympe de Gouges wrote her own revised version soon thereafter, making what huge point?
8.In a classic quote from the French Revolution, revolutionary leader Bertrand Barere de Vieuzac said “the tree of liberty only grows when watered by _______________” – what did he clearly advocate doing during the Revolution?
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Identify and explain the significance of the major figures and events in the French Revolution
Announcements:
•Days to End Spring Break: 19 (60% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 2/23
•Obamacare Debate moved to Monday, 3/2 – preparation instructions: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1T8QSa0tmcsjgAWNr08g2sVxvF59ysv-H - roll assignments: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DdGBWFwNwp-VGIyYOjk6KS_-cvBaKjT1qcG-oLamSJk/edit?usp=sharing – in-class preparation day: 2/26
•Current Event Project the same in the 2nd semester as in the 1st – turn in a max of 1 log, 1 journal a week for 40 pts/week – project totals will appear in Skyward but won’t actually impact class grade until 2/21 – project score becomes final on 3/13
•Part 1 of Write Your Rep due by 2/28, Pt 2 due to turnitin.com by 3/13 – Pt 1 &2 instructions: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HzG8XeGTFd71ejtymQENr-Aei6pVoIwy/view?usp=sharing
•Retake Quiz 2 by Tuesday, 3/3
•Quiz 3 => Friday, 3/6
Activities:
1.Brainfood/Learning Targets
2.Review Last Class
3.West Wing #12 “He Shall From Time to Time” – take 1 ½ pg notes/reactions – my notes: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-SAwXa67qaQc0hCdFM2X2RneVU/view?usp=sharing
4.Work on Debate prep/current events
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
1.A 2017 study of the Affordable Care Act showed that overall, the law has had what effect on the number of Americans without health insurance? (gone up/down/stayed the same) The same study showed that not having insurance was most common with what ethnic group? What educational group was the least likely to be insured?
2.A 2018 study also looking at the ACA deduced that the most common reason for nonelderly adult to not have insurance was what?
3.The Departments of Labor and Commerce were established in 1903 and recognized what very significant change had occurred in the American economy since the 1860s?
4.What are two specific job responsibilities/programs managed by the Secretary of Commerce?
5.The Commerce Secretary is __________. He’s a billionaire – how’d he make his money?
6.The Commerce Secretary was recently embarrassed by the publication of the “Paradise Papers,” which revealed that he, as well as many other government officials throughout the world, has done what with his considerable wealth? He was also annoyed perhaps when the Supreme Court insisted that he drop what from the 2020 census?
7.What is the purpose of the federal program, created in 1965, called the NEA? Why have conservatives generally disliked the NEA ever since it’s creation?
8.When running for office, presidential candidates usually release their private medical records – why?
9.Multiple Sclerosis is an “auto-immune” disease, which means what? What does MS attack and damage?
10.What are 2 symptoms of MS?
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Explain the concept of the “stick and carrot” approach to foreign policy
Announcements:
•Days to End Spring Break: 20 (60% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 2/26
•Interested in Cascadia Tech next year? Info and application here (deadline 3/11): https://cascadiatechnicalacademy.org/
•Current Event Project the same in the 2nd semester as in the 1st – turn in a max of 1 log, 1 journal a week for 40 pts/week – project totals will appear in Skyward but won’t actually impact class grade until 2/21 – project score becomes final on 3/13
•Retake Quiz 2 by Tuesday, 3/3
•Quiz 3 => Friday, 3/6
Activities:
1.Brainfood/Learning Targets
2. Was the French Revolution a Success Essay - instructions: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sx17jZK6krQogiJV_zu7zXA-2qMhMQQ83oBVTzVCy24/edit?usp=sharing
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
none
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Evaluate the French Revolution as a failure or success
Announcements:
•Days to End Spring Break: 20 (60% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 2/23
•Obamacare Debate moved to Monday, 3/2 – preparation instructions: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1T8QSa0tmcsjgAWNr08g2sVxvF59ysv-H - roll assignments: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DdGBWFwNwp-VGIyYOjk6KS_-cvBaKjT1qcG-oLamSJk/edit?usp=sharing – in-class preparation day: 2/26
•Current Event Project the same in the 2nd semester as in the 1st – turn in a max of 1 log, 1 journal a week for 40 pts/week – project totals will appear in Skyward but won’t actually impact class grade until 2/21 – project score becomes final on 3/13
•Part 1 of Write Your Rep due by 2/28, Pt 2 due to turnitin.com by 3/13 – Pt 1 &2 instructions: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HzG8XeGTFd71ejtymQENr-Aei6pVoIwy/view?usp=sharing
•Retake Quiz 2 by Tuesday, 3/3
•Quiz 3 => Friday, 3/6
Activities:
1.Brainfood/Learning Targets
2.Work Day for:
1.Obamacare Debate preparation instructions: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1T8QSa0tmcsjgAWNr08g2sVxvF59ysv-H - roll assignments: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DdGBWFwNwp-VGIyYOjk6KS_-cvBaKjT1qcG-oLamSJk/edit?usp=sharing – debate Friday – prep assignment due from all 3 roles on Friday in addition to lawyer briefs (due to Turnitin.com)
2.Write Your Rep, Pt 1 (also due Friday) –instructions: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HzG8XeGTFd71ejtymQENr-Aei6pVoIwy/view?usp=sharing
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
none
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Pick and defend a position on the current movement to “repeal and replace” the ACA
Announcements:
•Days to End Spring Break: 21 (55% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 2/23
•Interested in Cascadia Tech next year? Info and application here (deadline 3/11): https://cascadiatechnicalacademy.org/
•Current Event Project the same in the 2nd semester as in the 1st – turn in a max of 1 log, 1 journal a week for 40 pts/week – project totals will appear in Skyward but won’t actually impact class grade until 2/21 – project score becomes final on 3/13
•Retake Quiz 2 by Monday, 3/2
•Quiz 3 => Friday, 3/6
Activities:
1.Brainfood/Learning Targets
2.Declaration of the Rights of Man (and Woman) Activity: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1b5UFdUYw3LxeY3mryXU8pBAXpYfKDM_wJp_9SEZpEfc/edit?usp=sharing
3.Time permitting, work on current events
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
none
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Describe the revolutionary values laid out during the French Revolution in the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Declaration of the Rights of Woman
Announcements:
•Days to End Spring Break: 21 (55% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 2/23
•Obamacare Debate Friday, 2/28 – preparation instructions: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1T8QSa0tmcsjgAWNr08g2sVxvF59ysv-H - roll assignments: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DdGBWFwNwp-VGIyYOjk6KS_-cvBaKjT1qcG-oLamSJk/edit?usp=sharing – in-class preparation day: 2/26
•Current Event Project the same in the 2nd semester as in the 1st – turn in a max of 1 log, 1 journal a week for 40 pts/week – project totals will appear in Skyward but won’t actually impact class grade until 2/21 – project score becomes final on 3/13
•Part 1 of Write Your Rep due by 2/28, Pt 2 due to turnitin.com by 3/13 – Pt 1 &2 instructions: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HzG8XeGTFd71ejtymQENr-Aei6pVoIwy/view?usp=sharing
•Retake Quiz 2 by Monday, 3/2
•Quiz 3 => Friday, 3/6
Activities:
1.Brainfood/Learning Targets
2.Work Day for:
1.Obamacare Debate preparation instructions: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1T8QSa0tmcsjgAWNr08g2sVxvF59ysv-H - roll assignments: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DdGBWFwNwp-VGIyYOjk6KS_-cvBaKjT1qcG-oLamSJk/edit?usp=sharing – debate Friday – prep assignment due from all 3 roles on Friday in addition to lawyer briefs (due to Turnitin.com)
2.Write Your Rep, Pt 1 (also due Friday) –instructions: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HzG8XeGTFd71ejtymQENr-Aei6pVoIwy/view?usp=sharing
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
none
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Pick and defend a position on the current movement to “repeal and replace” the ACA
Announcements:
•Days to End Spring Break: 22 (55% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 2/23
•Interested in Cascadia Tech next year? Info and application here (deadline 3/11): https://cascadiatechnicalacademy.org/
•Share your scientist presentation from 2/19 with me if you haven’t already – if you weren't here to present your scientist (or otherwise failed to present), come present to me during conference period for your participation points by 2/25
•Current Event Project the same in the 2nd semester as in the 1st – turn in a max of 1 log, 1 journal a week for 40 pts/week – project totals will appear in Skyward but won’t actually impact class grade until 2/21 – project score becomes final on 3/13
•Retake Quiz 2 by Monday, 3/2
•Quiz 3 => Friday, 3/6
Activities:
1.Brainfood/Learning Targets
2.Review Last Class
3.Review/turn-in Hot Spots of Geography #11: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1H_o3JuXM7RWijqSEMlxarDL5FhRcAQA4u3EoWx0nD5Q/edit?usp=sharing
4.The French Revolution documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3AbMUQXft4 and questions: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Qa-2PMA0KPcgsotrPcgbIruegnt3tcPW/view?usp=sharing
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
1.The “Wealth of Nations,” written by ______________, created the science that attempts to understand how humans behave in order to obtain their needs and wants – a study today that is known as: ______________.
2.In his book, the author said that the most powerful human instinct was _________, and that ultimately it improved all life – he furthermore advised governments to do what with businesses?
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Locate important places on the Earth’s surface and describe where they are relative to other important places
Describe pre-Revolutionary French society in terms of the “3 Estates”
Provide multiple causes for the French Revolution
Identify and explain the significance of the major figures and events in the French Revolution
Announcements:
•Days to End Spring Break: 22 (55% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 2/23
•Obamacare Debate Friday, 2/28 – preparation instructions: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1T8QSa0tmcsjgAWNr08g2sVxvF59ysv-H - roll assignments: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DdGBWFwNwp-VGIyYOjk6KS_-cvBaKjT1qcG-oLamSJk/edit?usp=sharing – in-class preparation day: 2/26
•Current Event Project the same in the 2nd semester as in the 1st – turn in a max of 1 log, 1 journal a week for 40 pts/week – project totals will appear in Skyward but won’t actually impact class grade until 2/21 – project score becomes final on 3/13
•Part 1 of Write Your Rep due by 2/28, Pt 2 due to turnitin.com by 3/13 – Pt 1 &2 instructions: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HzG8XeGTFd71ejtymQENr-Aei6pVoIwy/view?usp=sharing
•Retake Quiz 2 by Monday, 3/2
•Quiz 3 => Friday, 3/6
Activities:
1.Brainfood/Learning Targets
2.Review Last Class
3.Big Wig #11: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DiPd9AVzc2S1ShlMEnXA6-i1TZzBBb3c/view?usp=sharing
4.West Wing #12 “He Shall From Time to Time” – take 1 ½ pg notes/reactions – my notes: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-SAwXa67qaQc0hCdFM2X2RneVU/view?usp=sharing
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
1.A decade-long study of public opinion concerning the Affordable Care Act by the Kaiser Family Foundation shows that the popularity of the law has done what over the past 10 years? (gone way down/gone slightly down/remained static/gone slightly up/gone way up)
2.What are the 2 general purposes of the annual State of the Union address?
3.What month and day of the week does the State of Union usually occur on? Why that month and that day?
4.Why did Jefferson decide to do his SOU’s in a written form, not as a speech like Washington and Adams? Why have presidents for the past century done it as a speech?
5.Why did the Framers of the Constitution not want the President to be able to waltz into Congress whenever he wished, but instead have to be invited? In February, 2019, President Trump was the first president to ever have an invitation revoked – why?
6.Interestingly, the man known to history as _________, AKA the “Father of Philosophy,” was quite possibly of African descent. He famously taught his students using what method or technique? He is remembered for declaring: “The ___________ life is not worth living.”
7.Pakistan has come to rely on terrorism and nuclear weapons to deter India perhaps because of what basic, comparative geographical problem?
8.What’s the most basic piece of advice political consultants give on how to “control a story?”
9.What has happened to the pace of the “news cycle” since the commercialization of the internet? What’s good about this? What’s bad?
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Describe the responsibilities and history of the Commerce Department and discuss it’s current leader
Discuss the importance of the National Endowment for the Arts
Explain the concept of the “stick and carrot” approach to foreign policy
Announcements:
•Days to End Spring Break: 23 (55% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 2/23
•Interested in Cascadia Tech next year? Info and application here (deadline 3/11): https://cascadiatechnicalacademy.org/
•Share your scientist presentation from 2/19 with me if you haven’t already – if you weren't here to present your scientist (or otherwise failed to present), come present to me during conference period for your participation points by 2/25
•Current Event Project the same in the 2nd semester as in the 1st – turn in a max of 1 log, 1 journal a week for 40 pts/week – project totals will appear in Skyward but won’t actually impact class grade until 2/21 – project score becomes final on 3/13
•Retake Quiz 2 by Monday, 3/2
•Quiz 3 => Friday, 3/6
Activities:
1.Brainfood/Learning Targets
2.Grade Quiz 2
3.Hot Spots of Geography #11: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1H_o3JuXM7RWijqSEMlxarDL5FhRcAQA4u3EoWx0nD5Q/edit?usp=sharing
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
none
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Locate important places on the Earth’s surface and describe where they are relative to other important places
Announcements:
•Days to End Spring Break: 23 (55% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 2/23
•Obamacare Debate Friday, 2/28 – preparation instructions: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1T8QSa0tmcsjgAWNr08g2sVxvF59ysv-H - roll assignments: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DdGBWFwNwp-VGIyYOjk6KS_-cvBaKjT1qcG-oLamSJk/edit?usp=sharing – in-class preparation day: 2/26
•Current Event Project the same in the 2nd semester as in the 1st – turn in a max of 1 log, 1 journal a week for 40 pts/week – project totals will appear in Skyward but won’t actually impact class grade until 2/21 – project score becomes final on 3/13
•Part 1 of Write Your Rep due by 2/28, Pt 2 due to turnitin.com by 3/13 – Pt 1 &2 instructions: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HzG8XeGTFd71ejtymQENr-Aei6pVoIwy/view?usp=sharing
•Retake Quiz 2 by Monday, 3/2
•Quiz 3 => Friday, 3/6
Activities:
1.Brainfood/Learning Targets
2.Grade Quiz 2
3.West Wing #12 “He Shall From Time to Time” – take 1 ½ pg notes/reactions – my notes: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-SAwXa67qaQc0hCdFM2X2RneVU/view?usp=sharing
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
none
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Discuss the importance of the National Endowment for the Arts
Explain the concept of the “stick and carrot” approach to foreign policy
Announcements:
•Days to End Spring Break: 25 (55% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 2/18
•Interested in Cascadia Tech next year? Info and application here (deadline 3/11): https://cascadiatechnicalacademy.org/
•Share your scientist presentation from 2/19 with me if you haven’t already – if you weren't here to present your scientist (or otherwise failed to present), come present to me during conference period for your participation points by 2/25
•Current Event Project the same in the 2nd semester as in the 1st – turn in a max of 1 log, 1 journal a week for 40 pts/week – project totals will appear in Skyward but won’t actually impact class grade until 2/21 – project score becomes final on 3/13
•Quiz 2 => Friday, 2/21
Activities:
1.Brainfood/Learning Targets
2.Review Last Class
3.Age of Enlightenment – Fill in the Blank notes: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1l7rO3iqQCKZuQB7Ru6i0JyywyWkDD39E/view?usp=sharing – Adam Smith reading/questions: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vmKfnuhqZ75FAtw0OqUzV1pJ7IAmIPiw/view?usp=sharing 1.(answer these questions on the same document as the Execution of Charles I and submit when done)
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
1.What “invention” of Francis Bacon’s is used essentially by all modern scientists in attempting to understand the natural world?
2.Astronomers Copernicus & Kepler made what major change to the Ptolemaic system?
3.Why was Galileo’s observations of Jupiter important? What regrettable effect did it have on him though?
4.Who is the Father of Physics, who additionally invented calculus and made discoveries about the nature of light?
5.What basic branch of science did naturalists like Hooke and Leeuwenhoek greatly advance with their new inventions, observations and work? What term did Hooke coin for the basic building blocks of this new science that still is used today?
6.What did Carl Linnaeus’ invent a system for naming? What did that system eventually lead people to realize about the things being named?
7.What did scientist Robert Boyle realize experienced a change in volume as a result of changing temperatures and pressures?
8.The work of William Harvey led doctors to abandon what medieval practice, long used as a cure-all for most common maladies?
9.What terrible disease did Edward Jenner prove a method of preventing, leading to its eventual and total eradication?
10.Together, Joseph Priestly and Antoine Lavoisier came up with system of nomenclature that led to the creation of what basic science?
11.In the wake of the Reformation, and perhaps partly as a result of it, what sort of European countries were clearly left behind in the Age of Reason and Science?
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Describe the Age of Enlightenment and the Scientific Revolution in terms of its ideals and accomplishments using some of its most notable members as examples
Announcements:
•Days to End Spring Break: 25 (55% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 2/18
•Obamacare Debate Friday, 2/28 – preparation instructions: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1T8QSa0tmcsjgAWNr08g2sVxvF59ysv-H - roll assignments: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DdGBWFwNwp-VGIyYOjk6KS_-cvBaKjT1qcG-oLamSJk/edit?usp=sharing – in-class preparation day: 2/26
•Current Event Project the same in the 2nd semester as in the 1st – turn in a max of 1 log, 1 journal a week for 40 pts/week – project totals will appear in Skyward but won’t actually impact class grade until 2/21 – project score becomes final on 3/13
•Part 1 of Write Your Rep due by 2/28, Pt 2 due to turnitin.com by 3/13 – Pt 1 &2 instructions: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HzG8XeGTFd71ejtymQENr-Aei6pVoIwy/view?usp=sharing
•Quiz 2 => Friday, 2/21
Activities:
1.Brainfood/Learning Targets
2.Review/turn-in 2020 State of the Union Assignment: https://docs.google.com/document/d/11AC7TNeoku_sWhSozTcrUNCdEzeqBTCP1krqIPpljuU/edit?usp=sharing
3.Explain and pick debate rolls for the Affordable Care Act debate
4.West Wing #12 “He Shall From Time to Time” – take 1 ½ pg notes/reactions – my notes: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-SAwXa67qaQc0hCdFM2X2RneVU/view?usp=sharing
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
1.What are two things the President said in his 2020 State of the Union address that you agree with?
2.What are two things he said that you disagree with?
3.Who were 2 of the guests the President invited to the speech? What point was he trying to make with their presence?
4.Some observers noted that the normally buttoned-down affair that is the State of the Union felt more like a reality-TV show this year - what happened in the speech to support that observation?
5.What are two things the President said that fact-checkers in the national media questioned the truth or accuracy of?
6.Who gave the official Democratic rebuttal to the State of the Union this year? This year, the Democrats said they were choosing not to criticize the President and instead highlighting what they thought were their party’s accomplishments over the past year - what did they say were 2 of them?
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Pick and defend a position on the current movement to “repeal and replace” the ACA
Explain the purpose, history and common features of the annual “State of the Union” address
Discuss the importance of the National Endowment for the Arts
Explain the concept of the “stick and carrot” approach to foreign policy
Announcements:
•Days to End Spring Break: 26 (55% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 2/17
•Current Event Project the same in the 2nd semester as in the 1st – turn in a max of 1 log, 1 journal a week for 40 pts/week – project totals will appear in Skyward but won’t actually impact class grade until 2/21 – project score becomes final on 3/13
•Quiz 2 => Friday, 2/21
Activities:
1.Brainfood/Learning Targets
2.Review Last Class
3.Scientists of the Age of Reason Presentation Day– assignments & instructions: https://docs.google.com/document/d/18l5_zEjbkauMfpT1ZJvS63A-n2G53CkNilL76mcWHuY/edit?usp=sharing
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
1.What innate human ability became highly prized and encouraged during the Enlightenment?
2.This age produced men like Jefferson & Franklin who called themselves Deists, who believed what?
3.The age also produced philosophers like ____________, who wrote “Two Treatises on Government,” which he wrote after mediating on what he called “_______ laws.”
4. These laws led to his conclusion that all humans were entitled to the rights of life, liberty and ____________. He said that rational men gave up some of their freedoms and formed _____________ in order to protect the others.
5.Importantly, Enlightenment-era philosophers were deeply suspicious of what form of government, going so far to use it as an insult on their opponents? Who did they think should be in charge?
6.Forebodingly, in his “Social Contract,” author ______________, said that, once the popular will was established, governments should ______________ citizens in the minority to comply.
7.The intellectual center of the Enlightenment was the country of _____________. People from around the world met their in establishments called _____________ to debate ideas, current events and solutions for the future.
8.The philosopher Montesquieu, after careful study, concluded that __________ had the best government in the world – why?
9.Perhaps the greatest Enlightenment philosopher was _________________, who in his famous book “Candide” displayed his brilliance in using what literary technique to criticize his own government?
10.What did philosopher Dennis Diderot spend all his time writing, given his belief that mankind would be better off if it could know everything about everything? What difficult obstacles did he find in trying to create this work?
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Describe the Age of Enlightenment and the Scientific Revolution in terms of its ideals and accomplishments using some of its most notable members as examples
Announcements:
•Days to End Spring Break: 26 (55% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 2/17
•No need to watch the State of the Union live on 2/4, we’ll watch it in class on 2/13 & 18 – bring a laptop and headphones those days - (if you want to listen to it – you’ll also have the option of reading the transcript)
•Obamacare Debate Friday, 2/28 – preparation instructions: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1T8QSa0tmcsjgAWNr08g2sVxvF59ysv-H - roll assignments: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DdGBWFwNwp-VGIyYOjk6KS_-cvBaKjT1qcG-oLamSJk/edit?usp=sharing – in-class preparation day: 2/26
•Current Event Project the same in the 2nd semester as in the 1st – turn in a max of 1 log, 1 journal a week for 40 pts/week – project totals will appear in Skyward but won’t actually impact class grade until 2/21 – project score becomes final on 3/13
•Part 1 of Write Your Rep due by 2/28, Pt 2 due to turnitin.com by 3/13 – Pt 1 &2 instructions: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HzG8XeGTFd71ejtymQENr-Aei6pVoIwy/view?usp=sharing
•Quiz 2 => Friday, 2/21
Activities:
1.Brainfood/Learning Targets
2.2020 State of the Union Assignment: https://docs.google.com/document/d/11AC7TNeoku_sWhSozTcrUNCdEzeqBTCP1krqIPpljuU/edit?usp=sharing
3.If done early, work on:
A.Current Event Project
B.Write Your Rep Project
C.Obamacare Prep assignment
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
none
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Explain the constitutional requirement of the “State of the Union,” its 200+ year history, and the contents of the 2020 speech (as well as the opposition party’s rebuttal)
Announcements:
•Days to End Spring Break: 27 (55% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 2/17
•Bring laptops for research and presentations on 2/18-9 – instructions and signups here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/18l5_zEjbkauMfpT1ZJvS63A-n2G53CkNilL76mcWHuY/edit?usp=sharing
•Current Event Project the same in the 2nd semester as in the 1st – turn in a max of 1 log, 1 journal a week for 40 pts/week – project totals will appear in Skyward but won’t actually impact class grade until 2/21 – project score becomes final on 3/13
•Quiz 2 => Friday, 2/21
Activities:
1.Brainfood/Learning Targets
2.Scientists of the Age of Reason Work Day (presentations in class tomorrow) – assignments & instructions: https://docs.google.com/document/d/18l5_zEjbkauMfpT1ZJvS63A-n2G53CkNilL76mcWHuY/edit?usp=sharing
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
none
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Describe the Age of Enlightenment and the Scientific Revolution in terms of its ideals and accomplishments using some of its most notable members as examples
Announcements:
•Days to End Spring Break: 27 (55% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 2/17
•No need to watch the State of the Union live on 2/4, we’ll watch it in class on 2/13 & 18 – bring a laptop and headphones those days - (if you want to listen to it – you’ll also have the option of reading the transcript)
•Obamacare Debate Friday, 2/28 – preparation instructions: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1T8QSa0tmcsjgAWNr08g2sVxvF59ysv-H - roll assignments: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DdGBWFwNwp-VGIyYOjk6KS_-cvBaKjT1qcG-oLamSJk/edit?usp=sharing – in-class preparation day: 2/26
•Current Event Project the same in the 2nd semester as in the 1st – turn in a max of 1 log, 1 journal a week for 40 pts/week – project totals will appear in Skyward but won’t actually impact class grade until 2/21 – project score becomes final on 3/13
•Part 1 of Write Your Rep due by 2/28, Pt 2 due to turnitin.com by 3/13 – Pt 1 &2 instructions: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HzG8XeGTFd71ejtymQENr-Aei6pVoIwy/view?usp=sharing
•Quiz 2 => Friday, 2/21
Activities:
1.Brainfood/Learning Targets
2.2020 State of the Union Assignment: https://docs.google.com/document/d/11AC7TNeoku_sWhSozTcrUNCdEzeqBTCP1krqIPpljuU/edit?usp=sharing
3.If done early, work on:
A.Current Event Project
B.Write Your Rep Project
C.Obamacare Prep assignment
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
none
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Explain the essential details and pros/cons of the Affordable Care Act
Pick and defend a position on the current movement to “repeal and replace” the ACA
Announcements:
•Days to End Spring Break: 28 (55% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 2/9
•Bring laptops for research and presentations on 2/18-9 – instructions and signups here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/18l5_zEjbkauMfpT1ZJvS63A-n2G53CkNilL76mcWHuY/edit?usp=sharing
•Current Event Project the same in the 2nd semester as in the 1st – turn in a max of 1 log, 1 journal a week for 40 pts/week – project totals will appear in Skyward but won’t actually impact class grade until 2/21 – project score becomes final on 3/13
•If you missed Quiz 1 or need to do a retake, come in during conference period by Thursday, 2/13
•Quiz 2 => Friday, 2/21
Activities:
1.Brainfood/Learning Targets
2.Review Last Class
3.Scientists of the Age of Reason – signups & instructions: https://docs.google.com/document/d/18l5_zEjbkauMfpT1ZJvS63A-n2G53CkNilL76mcWHuY/edit?usp=sharing
4.Age of Enlightenment – Fill in the Blank notes: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1l7rO3iqQCKZuQB7Ru6i0JyywyWkDD39E/view?usp=sharing – Adam Smith reading/questions: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vmKfnuhqZ75FAtw0OqUzV1pJ7IAmIPiw/view?usp=sharing
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
1.Accounts of the execution of Charles I agree on several things – name 2 of them. Interestingly, the earliest accounts of the execution are mostly factual and avoid taking an opinion on the subject. After 1660, descriptions of the event usually expressed what opinion about it? What likely explained the change in the historical record?
2.Who ruled England as Lord Protector immediately after the execution of Charles I? What made his rule ultimately so unpopular?
3.Upon the death of the Lord Protector, Parliament “restored” what man? What was the problem with both he and his eventual successor, James II?
4.What actions did James II take as king that led to conflict with the Parliament again? What did Parliament eventually do as a result?
5.Afterwards, Parliament passed what is known as the “English Bill of Rights” – what were 2 of the ideas contained in that document that our nation’s founder adopted too just a century later?
6.The overall significance of the English Civil War and its aftermath for world, and eventually American, history is that England rejected absolutist government in favor of what kind, similar to what we would eventually adopt?
7.The “worldly philosopher” Adam Smith famously pointed out “it is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer or the baker that we expect our dinner,” but from what?
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Describe the Age of Enlightenment and the Scientific Revolution in terms of its ideals and accomplishments using some of its most notable members as examples
Announcements:
•Days to End Spring Break: 28 (55% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 2/9
•No need to watch the State of the Union live on 2/4, we’ll watch it in class on 2/13 & 18 – bring a laptop and headphones those days - (if you want to listen to it – you’ll also have the option of reading the transcript)
•We pick roles for our upcoming Obamacare debate on 2/12 – bring a laptop so you can start researching for your role on 2/12
•Current Event Project the same in the 2nd semester as in the 1st – turn in a max of 1 log, 1 journal a week for 40 pts/week – project totals will appear in Skyward but won’t actually impact class grade until 2/21 – project score becomes final on 3/13
•Part 1 of Write Your Rep due by 2/28, Pt 2 due to turnitin.com by 3/13 – Pt 1 &2 instructions: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HzG8XeGTFd71ejtymQENr-Aei6pVoIwy/view?usp=sharing
•If you missed Quiz 1 or need to do a retake, come in during conference period by Thursday, 2/13
•Quiz 2 => Friday, 2/21
Activities:
1.Brainfood/Learning Targets
2.Review Last Class
3.Obamacare Individual Research: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rxEzUN90uJa0VeLPaKPbg6vY1liyEJtZHdkljUDlLQw/edit?usp=sharing
4.Explanation of Debate Roles and Obamacare Debate Signups
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
1.Harriet Tubman is well remembered for leading slaves to freedom on the “underground railroad,” but what are 2 other important things she did to win historical fame?
2.According to the Constitution, after the House and the Senate each pass a unique bill on the same subject, what has to happen before the president can sign it into law? Usually that final step is pretty simple – what happened in Massachusetts in early 2010 to make that final step suddenly appear impossible though?
3.In terms of healthcare, Massachusetts was unique compared to the rest of the USA in 2009 – why? Ironically, that unique difference was due to whom?
4.The White House had only one hope to get Obamacare onto the presidents desk – to get the House of Representatives to do what? In order to make that happen, what did Obama do?
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Explain the essential details and pros/cons of the Affordable Care Act
Pick and defend a position on the current movement to “repeal and replace” the ACA
Announcements:
•Days to End Spring Break: 29 (55% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 2/9
•Bring laptops for research and presentations on Thursday, 2/13 and Tuesday, 2/18
•Current Event Project the same in the 2nd semester as in the 1st – turn in a max of 1 log, 1 journal a week for 40 pts/week – project totals will appear in Skyward but won’t actually impact class grade until 2/21 – project score becomes final on 3/13
•If you missed Quiz 1 or need to do a retake, come in during conference period by Thursday, 2/13
•Quiz 2 => Friday, 2/21
Activities:
1.Brainfood/Learning Targets
2.Review Last Class
3.Age of Absolutism: Fill in the blank notes - https://drive.google.com/file/d/16O42p4Cv4lnsDtOBumZSnH8cDjV93rzY/view?usp=sharing
4.The Execution of Charles I: primary document – read and answer questions: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1s1cqW6MxRrrCX2YNiB4KOJOeErRu5iC_/view?usp=sharing – video clip: https://vimeo.com/90507049
5.Age of Enlightenment – Fill in the Blank notes: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1l7rO3iqQCKZuQB7Ru6i0JyywyWkDD39E/view?usp=sharing – Adam Smith reading/questions: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vmKfnuhqZ75FAtw0OqUzV1pJ7IAmIPiw/view?usp=sharing
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
1.What was England free to do in North America afterwards as a result of beating the Spanish armada? What did that ultimately result in the creation of in 177?
2.What was the problem upon the death of Elizabeth I? Who succeeded her?
3.That king is most well remembered because he hired talented poets like William Shakespeare to create an iconic English version of what?
4.He and is son, Charles I, had a much more tumultuous relationship with Parliament than Elizabeth – why? Charles ultimately was forced to sign the Petition of Right, in which he made what promise (which he quickly broke)?
5.What did Charles I think about the concept of democracy? He foolishly started a civil war by trying to do what?
6.The two sides in the English Civil War were nicknamed the ___________________ and the ____________________.
7.Charles eventually lost, due to the brilliant generalship of what strict Puritan? What next-door island nation did he conquer in order to deny Charles a base of support, setting the stage for centuries of political violence as that nation resisted its loss of independence?
8.Having ultimately lost the war, what happened to Charles?
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Describe the chain of events that led to the English Civil War, and explain the ultimate importance that war would have for the as-yet-unborn USA
Evaluate the historical accuracy of a 20th Century depiction of the execution of King Charles I using primary sources
Describe the Age of Enlightenment in terms of its ideals and accomplishments using some of its most notable members as examples
Announcements:
•Days to End Spring Break: 29 (55% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 2/9
•No need to watch the State of the Union live on 2/4, we’ll watch it in class on 2/13 & 18 – bring a laptop and headphones those days - (if you want to listen to it – you’ll also have the option of reading the transcript)
•We pick roles for our upcoming Obamacare debate on 2/12 – bring a laptop so you can start researching for your role on 2/12
•Current Event Project the same in the 2nd semester as in the 1st – turn in a max of 1 log, 1 journal a week for 40 pts/week – project totals will appear in Skyward but won’t actually impact class grade until 2/21 – project score becomes final on 3/13
•Part 1 of Write Your Rep due by 2/28, Pt 2 due to turnitin.com by 3/13 – Pt 1 &2 instructions: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HzG8XeGTFd71ejtymQENr-Aei6pVoIwy/view?usp=sharing
•If you missed Quiz 1 or need to do a retake, come in during conference period by Thursday, 2/13
•Quiz 2 => Friday, 2/21
Activities:
1.Brainfood/Learning Targets
2.Review Last Class
3.Obamacare Debate Prep: Finish “Obama’s Deal” documentary (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/obamasdeal/view/) and turn-in 2 pages of notes/reactions – my notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1j6JWxoHTtmYeOZQ1nZze8AEjDaN1rh_aUqnKUVbYcN4/edit?usp=sharing
4.Obamacare Individual Research: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rxEzUN90uJa0VeLPaKPbg6vY1liyEJtZHdkljUDlLQw/edit?usp=sharing
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
1.Martin Luther King, Jr. famously declared “A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of ________ is approaching spiritual doom.” What defense priority was destroying Johnson’s Great Society program at the time he said this? Today, states like Washington spend the majority of their budget on what?
2.In 2009, why did the Obama administration feel such pressure to get Senator Chuck Grassley to approve of and support Obamacare? Why was Montana Senator Max Baucus key to getting Grassley?
3.Congress usually takes a recess during the summer to go home and do what? Importantly, what new political force began its rise in the summer of 2009?
4.This new political force believed the Obamacare law would do numerous things that ultimately it didn’t – what was one of their mistaken notions? What impact did this new force have on Republican lawmakers?
5.Whose death in the summer of 2009 dramatically changed the political landscape for health care reform? Other than his influence, what else did Senate Democrats ultimately lose as a result?
6. As the summer of 2009 ended, Obama made a major speech before a joint session of Congress when what first-of-a-kind thing occurred? What decision did Obama then make?
7.An ancient observation: “In politics, it is useful to have an enemy” – this is because fear, like love, tends to have what effect on human societies? Why is it a problem in the American system of democracy though?
8.As the ACA was moving through the Senate in late 2009, many Democrats threatened to bail out on it. Ultimately though, the White House was able to win back support of rebellious members like Ben Nelson of Nebraska by doing what?
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Explain the essential details and pros/cons of the Affordable Care Act
Pick and defend a position on the current movement to “repeal and replace” the ACA
Announcements:
•Days to End Spring Break: 30 (50% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 2/9
•Bring laptops for research and presentations on Thursday, 2/13 and Tuesday, 2/18
•Current Event Project the same in the 2nd semester as in the 1st – turn in a max of 1 log, 1 journal a week for 40 pts/week – project totals will appear in Skyward but won’t actually impact class grade until 2/21 – project score becomes final on 3/13
•If you missed Quiz 1 or need to do a retake, come in during conference period by Thursday, 2/13
•Quiz 2 => Friday, 2/21
Activities:
1.Brainfood/Learning Targets
2.Review/collect Hot Spots of Geography #10: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1V9_kaf6SfbOayc0GeabA13zts55upLyYAKkAZwqjBfM/edit?usp=sharing
3.Age of Absolutism: Fill in the blank notes - https://drive.google.com/file/d/16O42p4Cv4lnsDtOBumZSnH8cDjV93rzY/view?usp=sharing
4.The Execution of Charles I: primary document – read and answer questions: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1s1cqW6MxRrrCX2YNiB4KOJOeErRu5iC_/view?usp=sharing – video clip: https://vimeo.com/90507049
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
1.What did French philosopher Voltaire believe was the best policy for a country regarding people’s opinions?
2.Why did he say atheism was bad? What “modern” faith did he say should replace the “superstitious” faiths of the past?
3.Thomas Jefferson described both America and his University of Virginia as a place where “we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error, so long as _____________________.”
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Locate important places on the Earth’s surface and describe where they are relative to other important places
Describe the chain of events that led to the English Civil War, and explain the ultimate importance that war would have for the as-yet-unborn USA
Evaluate the historical accuracy of a 20th Century depiction of the execution of King Charles I using primary sources
Announcements:
•Days to End Spring Break: 30 (50% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 2/9
•No need to watch the State of the Union live on 2/4, we’ll watch it in class on 2/13 & 18 – bring a laptop and headphones those days - (if you want to listen to it – you’ll also have the option of reading the transcript)
•We pick roles for our upcoming Obamacare debate on 2/12 – bring a laptop so you can start researching for your role on 2/12
•Current Event Project the same in the 2nd semester as in the 1st – turn in a max of 1 log, 1 journal a week for 40 pts/week – project totals will appear in Skyward but won’t actually impact class grade until 2/21 – project score becomes final on 3/13
•Part 1 of Write Your Rep due by 2/28, Pt 2 due to turnitin.com by 3/13 – Pt 1 &2 instructions: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HzG8XeGTFd71ejtymQENr-Aei6pVoIwy/view?usp=sharing
•If you missed Quiz 1 or need to do a retake, come in during conference period by Thursday, 2/13
•Quiz 2 => Friday, 2/21
Activities:
1.Brainfood/Learning Targets
2.Review Last Class
3.Obamacare Debate Prep: Watch “Obama’s Deal” documentary (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/obamasdeal/view/) and take 2 pages of notes/reactions – my notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1j6JWxoHTtmYeOZQ1nZze8AEjDaN1rh_aUqnKUVbYcN4/edit?usp=sharing
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
1.Thomas Jefferson described both America and his University of Virginia as a place where “…we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error, so long as _____________________.”
2.Much of the work of the Congress is not done in front of all 535 members but instead in much smaller groups called _______________. Angry protesters interrupted one of these small group meetings in 2009 when Obamacare was getting its first hearing – what were they angry about?
3.Interestingly, the first version of the Affordable Care Act that was created in the Senate was written by whom?
4.Many of Obama’s most ardent supporters were troubled that Senator Max Baucus ended up becoming the spearhead for Obamacare in the Congress – what didn’t they like about him?
5.One of the important figures in Obamacare’s development was Billy Tauzin, a lobbyist representing what group? Why did the deal Obama worked out with him anger so many Obama supporters?
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Explain how the Obamacare bill changed as it moved through the Congress
Explain the forces and key players that shaped the law over the course of its year-long creation (Be able to answer the question: Could the Obamacare law have looked any different than it turned out? If so, how?)
Announcements:
•Days to End Spring Break: 31 (50% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 2/9
•Bring laptops for research and presentations on Thursday, 2/13 and Tuesday, 2/18
•Current Event Project the same in the 2nd semester as in the 1st – turn in a max of 1 log, 1 journal a week for 40 pts/week – project totals will appear in Skyward but won’t actually impact class grade until 2/21 – project score becomes final on 3/13
•If you missed Quiz 1 or need to do a retake, come in during conference period by Thursday, 2/13
•Quiz 2 => Friday, 2/21
Activities:
1.Brainfood/Learning Targets
2.Grade Quiz 1
3.Hot Spots of Geography #10: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1V9_kaf6SfbOayc0GeabA13zts55upLyYAKkAZwqjBfM/edit?usp=sharing
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
none
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Locate important places on the Earth’s surface and describe where they are relative to other important places
Announcements:
•Days to End Spring Break: 31 (50% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 2/9
•No need to watch the State of the Union live on 2/4, we’ll watch it in class on 2/13 & 18 – bring a laptop and headphones those days - (if you want to listen to it – you’ll also have the option of reading the transcript)
•We pick roles for our upcoming Obamacare debate on 2/12 – bring a laptop so you can start researching for your role on 2/12
•Current Event Project the same in the 2nd semester as in the 1st – turn in a max of 1 log, 1 journal a week for 40 pts/week – project totals will appear in Skyward but won’t actually impact class grade until 2/21 – project score becomes final on 3/13
•Part 1 of Write Your Rep due by 2/28, Pt 2 due to turnitin.com by 3/13 – Pt 1 &2 instructions: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HzG8XeGTFd71ejtymQENr-Aei6pVoIwy/view?usp=sharing
•If you missed Quiz 1 or need to do a retake, come in during conference period by Thursday, 2/13
•Quiz 2 => Friday, 2/21
Activities:
1.Brainfood/Learning Targets
2.Grade Quiz 1
3.Obamacare Debate Prep: Watch “Obama’s Deal” documentary (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/obamasdeal/view/) and take 2 pages of notes/reactions – my notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1j6JWxoHTtmYeOZQ1nZze8AEjDaN1rh_aUqnKUVbYcN4/edit?usp=sharing
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
none
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Explain how the Obamacare bill changed as it moved through the Congress
Explain the forces and key players that shaped the law over the course of its year-long creation (Be able to answer the question: Could the Obamacare law have looked any different than it turned out? If so, how?)
Announcements:
•Days to End Spring Break: 33 (50% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 2/2
•Current Event Project the same in the 2nd semester as in the 1st – turn in a max of 1 log, 1 journal a week for 40 pts/week – project totals will appear in Skyward but won’t actually impact class grade until 2/21 – project score becomes final on 3/13
•Quiz 1, Friday, 2/7
Activities:
1.Review Questions
2.Read the following and answer the questions: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zCOvTPORI_7I0UOF0HxTBIBnYMuga4ROEGdGkSDuuio/edit?usp=sharing
3.Use any remaining time to work on current events
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
1.Things didn’t get really bad for the Spanish Armada until after it gave up on its mission. What happened in the end that made the overall experience a total disaster for Spain?
2.Oddly, while the series of battles ended in total triumph for England, why too, did British sailors end up suffering terribly like their Spanish opponents?
3.In this era, common soldiers/sailors often were not taken prisoner but just killed outright – why were nobles and officers generally allowed to surrender though?
4.What was the overall significance of the Spanish Armada for England? For Spain?
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Explain French philosophe Voltaire’s thoughts on religion
Announcements:
•Days to End Spring Break: 33 (50% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 2/2
•No need to watch the State of the Union live on 2/4, we’ll watch it in class on 2/18 – bring a laptop and headphones that day (if you want to listen to it – you’ll also have the option of reading the transcript)
•Current Event Project the same in the 2nd semester as in the 1st – turn in a max of 1 log, 1 journal a week for 40 pts/week – project totals will appear in Skyward but won’t actually impact class grade until 2/21 – project score becomes final on 3/13
•Part 1 of Write Your Rep due by 2/28, Pt 2 due to turnitin.com by 3/13 – Pt 1 &2 instructions: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HzG8XeGTFd71ejtymQENr-Aei6pVoIwy/view?usp=sharing
•Quiz 1, Friday, 2/7
Activities:
1.Work Day: Work on the current event project (you are welcome to process the drama at CHS this week in a current event journal if you wish) and/or Part 1 of the Write Your Rep Project (due by 2/28 – instructions here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HzG8XeGTFd71ejtymQENr-Aei6pVoIwy/view?usp=sharing
Brain Food:
none
Review Questions:
none
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Pressure an elected official to take action on a cause you care about
Announcements:
•Days to End Spring Break: 34 (50% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 2/2
•Thursday, 2/3, an in-class workday – bring laptop
•Current Event Project the same in the 2nd semester as in the 1st – turn in a max of 1 log, 1 journal a week for 40 pts/week – project totals will appear in Skyward but won’t actually impact class grade until 2/21 – project score becomes final on 3/13
•Quiz 1, Friday, 2/7
Activities:
1.Brainfood/Learning Targets
2.Review Questions
3.Age of Absolutism: Fill in the blank notes - https://drive.google.com/file/d/16O42p4Cv4lnsDtOBumZSnH8cDjV93rzY/view?usp=sharing – Battlefield Britain: The Spanish Armada – take 1 ½ page of notes/reactions – film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jl3stf20X10 – my notes: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1O2Svt1le5l22B5PnzLP7pFEmdxOQ_LHy/view?usp=sharing
4.The Execution of Charles I: primary document – read and answer questions: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1s1cqW6MxRrrCX2YNiB4KOJOeErRu5iC_/view?usp=sharing – video clip: https://vimeo.com/90507049
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
1.The two navies that clashed in 1588 had very different goals and tactics. What was the overall goal of the Spanish fleet? What was the goal of the English fleet?
2.The two fleets ways of fighting were quite different. How did the Spanish prefer to fight at sea? Why did it not work well against the English? How did the English prefer to fight? Why didn’t it work very well?
3.Who were either of the two English commanders during the battle of the Spanish Armada? What did both commanders do at various times in the campaign that caused the English to lose opportunities for victory?
4.Modern English contains a number of expressions from this era of history – for example, what does it mean to call somebody a “loose cannon” today? Another: today you might say a very drunken person is “three sheets to the wind,” which in the 17th Century meant what?
5.The English navy was infamous for the brutal discipline it used on sailors – what did it mean to “let the cat out of the bag” in this era? What was another type of punishment?
6.A critical turning point of the battle was when the Spanish failed to stop at the English Isle of Wight – why did the Spanish need to pause there? Why was that failure to stop disastrous in the long run?
7.Most of the battles took place within a mile or two of shore; why though did the prospect of sinking scare the majority of combatants so much?
8.After numerous indecisive battles, the English finally figured out a way to break the armada up into smaller chunks – how? What did many of the Armada’s ships lose as a result of fear in this decisive attack? Why would this be a problem later on for the Spanish?
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Explain the goals and plans of the Spanish Armada of 1588
Explain why it ultimately failed, and the significance of its failure for world history
Describe the chain of events that led to the English Civil War, and explain the ultimate importance that war would have for the as-yet-unborn USA
Announcements:
•Days to End Spring Break: 34 (50% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 2/2
•Thursday, 2/6, an in-class workday – bring laptop
•No need to watch the State of the Union live on 2/4, we’ll watch it in class on 2/18 – bring a laptop and headphones that day (if you want to listen to it – you’ll also have the option of reading the transcript)
•Current Event Project the same in the 2nd semester as in the 1st – turn in a max of 1 log, 1 journal a week for 40 pts/week – project totals will appear in Skyward but won’t actually impact class grade until 2/21 – project score becomes final on 3/13
•Part 1 of Write Your Rep due by 2/28, Pt 2 due to turnitin.com by 3/13 – Pt 1 &2 instructions: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HzG8XeGTFd71ejtymQENr-Aei6pVoIwy/view?usp=sharing (expect work day in class on Thursday, 2/7)
•Quiz 1, Friday, 2/7
Activities:
1.Brainfood/Learning Targets
2.Review Last Class
3.Obamacare Debate Prep: Watch “Obama’s Deal” documentary (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/obamasdeal/view/) and take 2 pages of notes/reactions – my notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1j6JWxoHTtmYeOZQ1nZze8AEjDaN1rh_aUqnKUVbYcN4/edit?usp=sharing
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
1.Arguably the greatest abolitionist in American history was Frederick Douglass – dismissed as far-left idealists at the time, what did abolitionists want? Ironically, Douglass and other abolitionists were often frustrated and critical of President Lincoln – why? After the Civil War, abolitionists like Douglass went on to fight for what?
2.During the 1960s-70s, anti-war/government protestors were often told “love it or __________,” – in his “he is a lover of his country” quote though, what did Frederick Douglass say to people who said practically the same thing to him and his friends in the 1860s-70s?
3.It wasn’t until 1967, in the case Loving v Virginia, that the Supreme Court ruled state laws banning “miscegenation” were unconstitutional – what did those laws ban?
4.Discussions of potential nuclear conflicts often result in people quoting from the Book of Revelations in the Bible because that final book of the New Testament deals with what subject?
5.In 2009, Obama’s Vice President Joe Biden and Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel both initially advised against an aggressive health care reform attempt– why? Why was 2009 a particularly bad year for an ambitious (and potentially expensive) reform?
6.The passing of any law in 2009 should have been easy for Democrats though – why? In theory you only need 51 senators to pass a bill, but in practice you often really need 60 – why?
7.What role did the “Harry and Louise” ads play in the 1993 healthcare reform attempt? Who paid for the ads?
8.How was Obama’s approach to HC-reform differed significantly from the Clinton attempt? What kind of people did he hire for his WW staff to ensure it’s passage?
9.Karen Ignani was one of the most important forces that shaped Obamacare. She is a lobbyist who works on behalf of whom? She said they would only agree to health-care reform if it contained an “individual mandate.” What’s that?
10.Why did Ignani want an “individual mandate?” Obama had campaigned instead though for a “public option” – in theory, what would that let people do? Why did Ignani threaten to remove all support for Obamacare if the public option made it into the bill?
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Explain how the Obamacare bill changed as it moved through the Congress
Explain the forces and key players that shaped the law over the course of its year-long creation (Be able to answer the question: Could the Obamacare law have looked any different than it turned out? If so, how?)
Announcements:
•Days to End Spring Break: 35 (50% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 2/2
•Thursday, 2/3, an in-class workday – bring laptop
•Current Event Project the same in the 2nd semester as in the 1st – turn in a max of 1 log, 1 journal a week for 40 pts/week – project totals will appear in Skyward but won’t actually impact class grade until 2/21 – project score becomes final on 3/13
•Quiz 1, Friday, 2/7
Activities:
1.Brainfood/Learning Targets
2.Review Questions
3.Age of Absolutism: Fill in the blank notes - https://drive.google.com/file/d/16O42p4Cv4lnsDtOBumZSnH8cDjV93rzY/view?usp=sharing – Battlefield Britain: The Spanish Armada – take 1 ½ page of notes/reactions – film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jl3stf20X10 – my notes: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1O2Svt1le5l22B5PnzLP7pFEmdxOQ_LHy/view?usp=sharing
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
1.Elizabeth I was famously nicknamed “The Virgin Queen” because she chose to never marry – why not? What English colony was established during her reign that ultimately became one of the first of the thirteen United States?
2.One of the main reasons for Spain’s attempted English invasion of 1588 was the irritation caused by England just across the channel in the Netherlands – what was England doing there that enraged the Spanish king?
3.The militaries of 400 years ago were rather different from today – for example, what was the most important qualification a general/admiral needed in that era to get a top leadership job?
4.Why was the Spanish Admiral Medina Sedona not the best choice his king could have made? What excellent opportunity did he fail to take advantage of on first reaching the English coast in July, 1588?
5.Modern soldiers/sailors are primarily motivated to fight for reasons of patriotism, but 400 years ago, common sailors were probably more motivated by what?
6.Critical to naval battles in this era was getting “the weather gage” which meant what? Why was that important?
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Explain the goals and plans of the Spanish Armada of 1588
Explain why it ultimately failed, and the significance of its failure for world history
Announcements:
•Days to End Spring Break: 35 (50% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 2/2
•Thursday, 2/6, an in-class workday – bring laptop
•Current Event Project the same in the 2nd semester as in the 1st – turn in a max of 1 log, 1 journal a week for 40 pts/week – project totals will appear in Skyward but won’t actually impact class grade until 2/21 – project score becomes final on 3/13
•Part 1 of Write Your Rep due by 2/28, Pt 2 due to turnitin.com by 3/13 – Pt 1 &2 instructions: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HzG8XeGTFd71ejtymQENr-Aei6pVoIwy/view?usp=sharing (expect work day in class on Thursday, 2/7)
•Quiz 1, Friday, 2/7
Activities:
1.Brainfood/Learning Targets
2.Review Last Class
3.Finish/turn-in West Wing #11 – “Lord John Marbury” – take 1 ½ pg notes/reactions/comments – my notes: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-SAwXa67qaQTnlKRTkteVZtZ0U/view?usp=sharing
4.Obamacare Debate Prep: Watch “Obama’s Deal” documentary (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/obamasdeal/view/) and take 2 pages of notes/reactions - my notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1j6JWxoHTtmYeOZQ1nZze8AEjDaN1rh_aUqnKUVbYcN4/edit?usp=sharing
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
1.On what topics did notable 20th Century African-American leader Malcolm X disagree with his contemporary, Martin Luther King, Jr.? Though he didn’t agree with MLK about much, how did he effectively push white Americans to embrace MLK’s philosophy?
2.Malcom X argued it was critical to revive/re-create black history because, without it, African-Americans would feel how? What did the “X” in his last name symbolize?
3.For much of its modern history, India and Pakistan were dominated by England through an official called the ________. This official used a technique to rule the subcontinent that helped create the modern tensions between the 2 nations – describe it.
4.Though India and the USA are on opposite sides of the world, we actually have a lot in common. Our founding fathers Thomas Jefferson and Mahatma Gandhi, for example, were similar in many regards – how? What are two of our other commonalities?
5.There’s a moment in West Wing 11 where Sam tells Mandi her job is not to end the disharmony between our two political parties, but to win the political fights between them – this is a problematic statement though because, in a democracy, it’s practically impossible to have a final victory on any given political subject – in our system, why is no political victory a final one?
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Explain how the Obamacare bill changed as it moved through the Congress
Explain the forces and key players that shaped the law over the course of its year-long creation (Be able to answer the question: Could the Obamacare law have looked any different than it turned out? If so, how?)
Announcements:
•Days to End Spring Break: 36 (50% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on:
•Current Event Project the same in the 2nd semester as in the 1st – turn in a max of 1 log, 1 journal a week for 40 pts/week – project totals will appear in Skyward but won’t actually impact class grade until 2/21 – project score becomes final on 3/13
•Quiz 1, Friday, 2/7
Activities:
1.Brainfood/Learning Targets
2.Review Questions
3.Age of Absolutism: Fill in the blank notes - https://drive.google.com/file/d/16O42p4Cv4lnsDtOBumZSnH8cDjV93rzY/view?usp=sharing – Battlefield Britain: The Spanish Armada – take 1 ½ page of notes/reactions – film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jl3stf20X10 – my notes: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1O2Svt1le5l22B5PnzLP7pFEmdxOQ_LHy/view?usp=sharing
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
1.What does the inscription on Joseph II’s tomb remind us about the power of absolute monarchs?
2.What Prussian “enlightened despot” set himself to creating a society totally bent upon the military and imperial expansion? What modern world power would emerge from his originally small state?
3.Peter the Great of Russia was nicknamed “The Barber King” – why? The nickname was symbolic of the fact that he had what grand plan for the Russian empire?
4.What was the title of Russian rulers during this era? From whom, historically, had Russian rulers learned much of their (brutal) statecraft?
5.Peter the Great was eventually succeeded by a Prussian princess, who went on to rule Russia for 70 years, named _____________. What was one of the important things she did for Russia during her time in power?
6. Upon his death, what daughter of Henry VIII’s came to rule England? Who did she immediately decide to marry to increase her power and authority?
7.What did Henry’s daughter immediately set-out to undo upon taking over? What nickname did this earn her?
8.Henry’s first daughter to rule was intensely suspicious and jealous of her half-sister, who went on to become England’s 3rd longest serving queen – what was her name?
9.After Henry’s first daughter’s death, what assembly of wealthy Englishmen did the new Queen need to agree with her Act of Uniformity? What was her Act of Uniformity supposed to do?
10.What country attempted to invade England shortly after the Act of Uniformity was passed? Why would few people have predicted they would fail in their invasion?
11.The invasion famously failed, due in part to a tremendous geographical advantage that both England and the USA have in common, which is what?
12.Spain’s decision to attack England was in part based on the English abandonment of Catholicism and also its use of “privateers.” What were those?
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Explain the concept of “absolute rulers” and “enlightened despots” using several historical figures as examples
Explain the goals and plans of the Spanish Armada of 1588
Explain why it ultimately failed, and the significance of its failure for world history
Announcements:
•Days to End Spring Break: 36 (50% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on:
•Current Event Project the same in the 2nd semester as in the 1st – turn in a max of 1 log, 1 journal a week for 40 pts/week – project totals will appear in Skyward but won’t actually impact class grade until 2/21 – project score becomes final on 3/13
•Part 1 of Write Your Rep due by 2/28, Pt 2 due to turnitin.com by 3/13 – Pt 1 &2 instructions: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HzG8XeGTFd71ejtymQENr-Aei6pVoIwy/view?usp=sharing (expect work day in class on Thursday, 2/7)
•Quiz 1, Friday, 2/7
Activities:
1.Brainfood/Learning Targets
2.Review Last Class
3.Finish/turn-in West Wing #11 – “Lord John Marbury” – take 1 ½ pg notes/reactions/comments – my notes: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-SAwXa67qaQTnlKRTkteVZtZ0U/view?usp=sharing
4.Obamacare Debate Prep: Watch “Obama’s Deal” documentary (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/obamasdeal/view/) and take 2 pages of notes/reactions
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
1.The USDA was created in 1862 primarily to help what kind of Americans? Today, though, 80% of its budget is used for what purpose?
2.What are 2 other specific jobs/responsibilities of the USDA besides the above?
3.Who’s the current head of the USDA? What’s something interesting about him?
4.The USDA usually is disliked by “food liberals” – why?
5.Whether its caused by global warming or not, for years now an increasingly larger and larger chunk of the USDA’s budget has had to be devoted to dealing with what problem?
6.The USDA has been criticized for its position on Lean Finely Textured Beef (LFTB), which critics derisively call “__________.”
7.West Wing 11 shows a Press Secretary expressing frustrations similar to those of real Press Secretaries like those who served LBJ and Nixon – what do Presidents and Chiefs of Staff sometimes do to them that drives them crazy?
8.Nations and their governments are often referred to in short-hand by the names of their capitals – for example, India’s government is often referred to as its capital, ____________, Pakistan’s as _____________, and China’s as ___________.
9.For more than a century, the expectation for American presidents has been, when a war breaks out on the far side of the world, that he will help negotiate an end to the fighting. Name a president and a conflict he got involved in as a negotiator as an example. Why have we wanted presidents to do this?
10.During the Cold War, what nation did the US prefer: Pakistan or India? Why?
11.Our Cold War ally has continued to be a very important one since that period ended – why? What’s been one of the problems with our relationship though?
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Compare and contrast the visions Thomas Jefferson and Mahatma Gandhi had for their nations to the modern reality of those nations
Explain the historical role US presidents have played in wars not directly involving the USA as well as the motivation behind that role
Explain how the Obamacare bill changed as it moved through the Congress
Explain the forces and key players that shaped the law over the course of its year-long creation (Be able to answer the question: Could the Obamacare law have looked any different than it turned out? If so, how?)
Announcements:
•Days to End Spring Break: 37 (50% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on:
•Verify your 1st semester grade is accurate before throwing away/recycling notebook material – contents of “no name” box and outboxes will be thrown away on 1/31
•Current Event Project the same in the 2nd semester as in the 1st – turn in a max of 1 log, 1 journal a week for 40 pts/week – project totals will appear in Skyward but won’t actually impact class grade until 2/21 – project score becomes final on 3/13
•Quiz 1, Friday, 2/7
Activities:
1.Brainfood/Learning Targets
2.Review Questions
3.Age of Absolutism: Fill in the blank notes - https://drive.google.com/file/d/16O42p4Cv4lnsDtOBumZSnH8cDjV93rzY/view?usp=sharing – Battlefield Britain: The Spanish Armada – take 1 ½ page of notes/reactions – film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jl3stf20X10 – my notes: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1O2Svt1le5l22B5PnzLP7pFEmdxOQ_LHy/view?usp=sharing
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
1.The best example of an absolute monarch is France’s “Sun King,” called ___________.
2.He was so egotistical that he is best remembered for an expression that he probably never even said, “L’etat, c’est moi!” – which means what?
3.What extravagant palace did he build to show off his tremendous power?
4.That palace had another key purpose, to control the ___________________.
5.What’s something else the Sun King did that made him famous?
6.Though he was powerful and successful, the legacy of all his building had a bitter fruit – what was the immediate consequence of all that spending? What did it help lead to just 2 generations later that would destroy the monarchy in France?
7.Absolute monarchs usually justified their rule with the “Divine Right” idea, but they also said their absolute system was better than democracies for what reason?
8.What did it mean to be an “enlightened despot?”
9.Joseph II was an enlightened despot – what famous musician did he patronize to expand the glory of the Holy Roman Empire? What were two other things he tried to do during his rule?
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Explain the concept of “absolute rulers” and “enlightened despots” using several historical figures as examples
Explain the goals and plans of the Spanish Armada of 1588
Explain why it ultimately failed, and the significance of its failure for world history
Announcements:
•Days to End Spring Break: 37 (50% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on:
•Verify your 1st semester grade is accurate before throwing away/recycling notebook material – contents of “no name” box and outboxes will be thrown away on 1/31
•Current Event Project the same in the 2nd semester as in the 1st – turn in a max of 1 log, 1 journal a week for 40 pts/week – project totals will appear in Skyward but won’t actually impact class grade until 2/21 – project score becomes final on 3/13
•Part 1 of Write Your Rep due by 2/28, Pt 2 due to turnitin.com by 3/13 – Pt 1 &2 instructions: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HzG8XeGTFd71ejtymQENr-Aei6pVoIwy/view?usp=sharing
•Quiz 1, Friday, 2/7
Activities:
1.Brainfood/Learning Targets
2.Review Last Class
3.Big Wig #10 - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YzztoRpSMKLyJFEq8beRs78uApfQLFIA/view?usp=sharing
4.West Wing #11 – “Lord John Marbury” – take 1 ½ pg notes/reactions/comments – my notes: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-SAwXa67qaQTnlKRTkteVZtZ0U/view?usp=sharing
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
1.What cabinet official oversees the USGS, the BLM, the NPS, and the BIA? The Secretary always comes from a state west of the Mississippi – why?
2.Of the 4 agencies listed above, what do 2 of them do?
3.President Trump’s first secretary of this department, Ryan Zincke, served for less than 2 years – why did he leave? Who replaced him? What was it about his replacement that caused 41 senators to vote against his nomination?
4.This department is developing federal rules for what new high-tech form of mining natural gas? What are two of the good things associated with this new high tech form of mining? Two of the bad things?
5.People often think the EPA is part of this department as their missions do overlap, but the EPA is actually an entirely independent cabinet-level position – what is the entire mission of the EPA?
6.Which makes a bigger “boom,” an A-bomb or an H-bomb? How does this kind of bomb make such a powerful explosion?
7.During the Cold War, the US and USSR created checks and safeguards to prevent the accidental use of nuclear weapons against each other – what is an example of one these safeguards that we worry new nuclear powers aren’t also adopting?
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Describe the responsibilities and history of the Agriculture Department and discuss it’s current leader
Explain the historical tensions between Pakistan and India and why future conflicts between these two nations could be deeply dangerous to other nations
Compare and contrast the visions Thomas Jefferson and Mahatma Gandhi had for their nations to the modern reality of those nations
Explain the historical role US presidents have played in wars not directly involving the USA as well as the motivation behind that role
Announcements:
•Days to End Spring Break: 38 (50% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on:
•Verify your 1st semester grade is accurate before throwing away/recycling notebook material – contents of “no name” box and outboxes will be thrown away on 1/31
•Current Event Project the same in the 2nd semester as in the 1st – turn in a max of 1 log, 1 journal a week for 40 pts/week – project totals will appear in Skyward but won’t actually impact class grade until 2/21 – project score becomes final on 3/13
•Quiz 1, Friday, 2/7
Activities:
1.Brainfood/Learning Targets
2.Review Last Class
3.Big Wig #9 - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YzztoRpSMKLyJFEq8beRs78uApfQLFIA/view?usp=sharing
4.West Wing #11 – “Lord John Marbury” – take 1 ½ pg notes/reactions/comments – my notes: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-SAwXa67qaQTnlKRTkteVZtZ0U/view?usp=sharing
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
1.Outer-space has been used by the military since the beginning of spaceflight. What are 2 things the US military uses outer space for today?
2.The USA and most of the nations of the Earth have signed the Outer Space Treaty – what have nations that signed the OST promised not to do?
3.What disaster led to the creation of the CIA? What’s the CIA’s mission today?
4.What’s an example of the CIA failing in its task since its creation?
5.What region is at the center of conflicts between Pakistan and India?
6.Nations in theory have 2 kinds of weapons – what’s an example of a “conventional” weapon? What’s an example of an “unconventional” one?
7.Why would a future war between Pakistan and India likely be bad news for the whole world?
8.The Freedom of Information Act was created for what general purpose? Though generally regarded as positive, the law has some drawbacks – what’s one of them?
9.What’s it mean to be “deposed?” What does the legal term “perjury” mean?
10.What president committed perjury in a deposition? What happened to him as a result?
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Describe the responsibilities and history of the Interior Department and discuss it’s current leader
Explain the historical tensions between Pakistan and India and why future conflicts between these two nations could be deeply dangerous to other nations
Compare and contrast the visions Thomas Jefferson and Mahatma Gandhi had for their nations to the modern reality of those nations
Explain the historical role US presidents have played in wars not directly involving the USA as well as the motivation behind that role
Announcements:
•Days to End Spring Break: 38 (50% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on:
•Verify your 1st semester grade is accurate before throwing away/recycling notebook material – contents of “no name” box and outboxes will be thrown away on 1/31
•Current Event Project the same in the 2nd semester as in the 1st – turn in a max of 1 log, 1 journal a week for 40 pts/week – project totals will appear in Skyward but won’t actually impact class grade until 2/21 – project score becomes final on 3/13
•Quiz 1, Friday, 2/7
Activities:
1.Brainfood/Learning Targets
2.Review Questions
3.Age of Absolutism: Fill in the blank notes - https://drive.google.com/file/d/16O42p4Cv4lnsDtOBumZSnH8cDjV93rzY/view?usp=sharing – “Amadeus” scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zl-N2JleNeU&list=RDZl-N2JleNeU&index=1 – Peter the Great clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4M1-wLy4YH4
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
1.What happened to the power of monarchs during the Age of Absolutism? How did monarchs make this happen?
2.The country that had the most classic example of an absolute government in 16th-18th century Europe was ___________, where eventually a family known as the Bourbons came to rule. In the 16th century it fought a 36 year long civil war over religion, pitting Calvinists, known as _________________, against Catholics.
3.The problem with the Calvinists were that they were predominately from what class? What did Catherine Di Medici do on St Bartholomew’s Day in 1572 to try to resolve the conflict?
4.What did French King Henry IV mean when he said, “Paris was worth a mass?”
5.France’s behavior in the 30 Years War indicates that religious wars in Europe in many ways were less about religion, and more about ________. How does that war make it obvious?
6.The Edict of ________ largely ended the wars of religion in France, in part by allowing a measure of religious freedom, with an understanding that _________ would be the official religion of the state, but that other Christian denominations would get what?
7.Absolute monarchs loved the philosophy of Thomas _________, who said in his work, “Leviathan,” that the power of a king to rule comes directly from ______.
8.In “Leviathan,” Thomas Hobbes described what life would be like for primitives living in a “state of nature” using 5 memorable adjectives – what were 2 of them?
9.What did he think was the only solution for communities to prevent those problems?
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Explain the concept of “absolute rulers” and “enlightened despot” using several historical figures as examples
Announcements:
•Days to End Spring Break: 41 (45% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on:
•Verify your 1st semester grade is accurate before throwing away/recycling notebook material – contents of “no name” box and outboxes will be thrown away on 1/31
•Current Event Project the same in the 2nd semester as in the 1st – turn in a max of 1 log, 1 journal a week for 40 pts/week – project totals will appear in Skyward but won’t actually impact class grade until 2/21 – project score becomes final on 3/13
•Part 1 of Write Your Rep due by 2/28, Pt 2 due to turnitin.com by 3/13 – Pt 1 &2 instructions: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HzG8XeGTFd71ejtymQENr-Aei6pVoIwy/view?usp=sharing
•Quiz 1, Friday, 2/7
Activities:
1.Brainfood/Learning Targets
2.West Wing #11 – “Lord John Marbury” – take 1 ½ pg notes/reactions/comments – my notes: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-SAwXa67qaQTnlKRTkteVZtZ0U/view?usp=sharing
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
none
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Explain the historical tensions between Pakistan and India and why future conflicts between these two nations could be deeply dangerous to other nations
Compare and contrast the visions Thomas Jefferson and Mahatma Gandhi had for their nations to the modern reality of those nations
Explain the historical role US presidents have played in wars not directly involving the USA as well as the motivation behind that role
Announcements:
•Days to End Spring Break: 41 (45% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on:
•Verify your 1st semester grade is accurate before throwing away/recycling notebook material – contents of “no name” box and outboxes will be thrown away on 1/31
•Current Event Project the same in the 2nd semester as in the 1st – turn in a max of 1 log, 1 journal a week for 40 pts/week – project totals will appear in Skyward but won’t actually impact class grade until 2/21 – project score becomes final on 3/13
•Quiz 1, Friday, 2/7
Activities:
1.Brainfood/Learning Targets
2.Age of Absolutism: Fill in the blank notes - https://drive.google.com/file/d/16O42p4Cv4lnsDtOBumZSnH8cDjV93rzY/view?usp=sharing – Hobbes reading & questions: https://drive.google.com/file/d/14HcMAlN1SKq1wCc5tZ8YnizG88P8OL96/view?usp=sharing
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
none
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Explain the concept of “absolute rulers” and “enlightened despot” using several historical figures as examples
Explain Thomas Hobbes theory of the “divine right of kings,” identifying both positive and negative historical consequences of it
Announcements:
•Days to End Spring Break: 42 (45% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on:
•Verify your 1st semester grade is accurate before throwing away/recycling notebook material – contents of “no name” box and outboxes will be thrown away on 1/31
•Current Event Project the same in the 2nd semester as in the 1st – turn in a max of 1 log, 1 journal a week for 40 pts/week – project totals will appear in Skyward but won’t actually impact class grade until 2/21 – project score becomes final on 3/13
•Part 1 of Write Your Rep due by 2/28, Pt 2 due to turnitin.com by 3/13 – Pt 1 &2 instructions: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HzG8XeGTFd71ejtymQENr-Aei6pVoIwy/view?usp=sharing
•Quiz 1, Friday, 2/7
Activities:
1.Brainfood/Learning Targets
2.Change seats
3.2nd Semester: What’s the same & what’s different?:
The Same:
-Same Rule #1
-Same basic goals: 1) understand what’s going on in the world 2) have an opinion on that and 3) become a fully functioning adult and citizen of the USA
-Same method of computing grade
-Same attendance rule: If you’re absent unexcused, you lose all credit for participation pts that day as well as for any assignment due that day
-Same basic class routines: brainfood, review questions, lessons with participation points
-Same current event project
-Same bi-weekly quizzes on current events and review questions
-Same West Wing textbook (goal: Episode 22, end Season 1)
-Same examining of “Big Wigs”
Different:
•2nd Semester CWI – What’s DIFFERENT?
-Warming Weather & Serious Senioritis
-Failing this semester means you don’t have time to regain credit before graduation L
-Debates
-Mock election
-A 4-part Write Your Rep project
-Personal economics
-What would you like to learn/do in here that won’t get me fired? J
3. Write Your Rep, Pt 1 & 2 explanation and work time - instructions: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HzG8XeGTFd71ejtymQENr-Aei6pVoIwy/view?usp=sharing
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
none
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Pressure an elected official to take action on a cause you care about
Announcements:
•Days to End Spring Break: 42 (45% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on:
•Verify your 1st semester grade is accurate before throwing away/recycling notebook material – contents of “no name” box and outboxes will be thrown away on 1/31
•Current Event Project the same in the 2nd semester as in the 1st – turn in a max of 1 log, 1 journal a week for 40 pts/week – project totals will appear in Skyward but won’t actually impact class grade until 2/21 – project score becomes final on 3/13
•Quiz 1, Friday, 2/7
Activities:
1.Brainfood/Learning Targets
2.Change seats
3.2nd Semester – what’s new/what’s the same
2nd Semester World History – What’s the SAME?
-Same Linthwaite Rule #1
-Same basic goals: 1) understand what’s going on in the world 2) have an opinion on that and 3) become a fully functioning adult and citizen of the USA
-Same method of computing grade
-Same attendance rule: If you’re absent unexcused, you lose all credit for participation pts that day as well as for any assignment due that day
-Same participation rule: If you’re asleep, on your phone, playing games, watching videos, have hood/headphones on, taking long bathroom breaks, etc., you lose all the participation pts for that day
-Same basic class routines: brainfood, review questions, lessons with participation points
-Same current event project
-Same bi-weekly quizzes on current events and review questions
-Same recurring “Hot Spots of Geography” activity
-Same retake/redo policy (to a 70%) and late work policy (generally by within a week of due date for full credit, by end of grading period for any credit)
2nd Semester World History – What’s DIFFERENT?
-Warm weather soon & serious school-itis
4.Hot Spots of Geography #9 - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yJgkcWE-njzZ3PXYUTN2v3BESMKvoxRpr9J2uUrc82E/edit?usp=sharing
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
none
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Locate important places on the Earth’s surface and describe where they are relative to other important places
Announcements:
•Days to End of First Semester: 3 (45% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 1/20
•Retake Quiz 9 by Friday, 1/24 (last day of semester)
•Any and all late work from the 3rd 6 Week grade period is due absolutely no later than midnight on Friday, 1/24
•1st & 2nd 6 Week Current Event Project scores now final BUT if you have less than 70 pts on them, you can turn in more than 100 pts during the final 6 week project and raise them to a max score to a 70 – you are still limited to 1 log and 1 journal a week though – your 3rd 6 week score will begin to be calculated into your overall grade starting 1/10/2020 and will become final on 1/24
•Final Exams Schedule: 1/22, 1st & 6th Period exams, 1/23, 2nd & 5th, 1/24: 3rd & 4th – finals begin at 10:20 AM, if you ride bus or arrive early, you will need to pick a study hall (students will not be allowed in the common areas prior to exams beginning) – expect an exam review guide by 1/17 and an in-class review day on 1/21 – exam review document: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1V_8FxSIOGhssydH3J1tPxIeUz6M0txUi/view?usp=sharing
Activities:
1.Exam Review & Game: https://drive.google.com/file/d/10GCBcRLE6zxKbLMZi3zCWTtdtS8A7NBZ/view?usp=sharing – exam schedule listed under announcements - this semester’s notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rSwCT7zx7a113zr9trpP7laqQDKHckoaEKsYCBPOXms/edit?usp=sharing
Brain Food:
none
Review Questions:
none
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Be prepared for the final exam
Announcements:
•Days to End of First Semester: 3 (45% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 1/20
•Retake Quiz 9 by Friday, 1/24 (last day of semester)
•Any and all late work from the 3rd 6 Week grade period is due absolutely no later than midnight on Friday, 1/24
•1st & 2nd 6 Week Current Event Project scores now final BUT if you have less than 70 pts on them, you can turn in more than 100 pts during the final 6 week project and raise them to a max score to a 70 – you are still limited to 1 log and 1 journal a week though – your 3rd 6 week score will begin to be calculated into your overall grade starting 1/10/2020 and will become final on 1/24
•“Luther” – questions due to tii.com by 1/14: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jzoFJGjRmzrKiUQBBt3aZF4a1sUDh1oZ/view?usp=sharing - turn in notes also on 1/14 – my notes: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-Az2w20YagPpEDiExQ7emjziHRkQ62AT/view?usp=sharing
•Final Exams Schedule: 1/22, 1st & 6th Period exams, 1/23, 2nd & 5th, 1/24: 3rd & 4th – finals begin at 10:20 AM, if you ride bus or arrive early, you will need to pick a study hall (students will not be allowed in the common areas prior to exams beginning) – expect an exam review guide by 1/17 and an in-class review day on 1/21 – exam review document: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1V_8FxSIOGhssydH3J1tPxIeUz6M0txUi/view?usp=sharing
Activities:
1.Exam Review & Game: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1V_8FxSIOGhssydH3J1tPxIeUz6M0txUi/view?usp=sharing – exam schedule listed under announcements
Brain Food:
none
Review Questions:
none
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Be prepared for the final exam
Announcements:
•Days to End of First Semester: 4 (45% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 1/12
•Retake Quiz 9 by Friday, 1/24 (last day of semester)
•1st & 2nd 6 Week Current Event Project scores now final BUT if you have less than 70 pts on them, you can turn in more than 100 pts during the final 6 week project and raise them to a max score to a 70 – you are still limited to 1 log and 1 journal a week though – your 3rd 6 week score will begin to be calculated into your overall grade starting 1/10/2020 and will become final on 1/24
•“Luther” – questions due to tii.com by 1/14: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jzoFJGjRmzrKiUQBBt3aZF4a1sUDh1oZ/view?usp=sharing - turn in notes also on 1/14 – my notes: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-Az2w20YagPpEDiExQ7emjziHRkQ62AT/view?usp=sharing
•Final Exams Schedule: 1/22, 1st & 6th Period exams, 1/23, 2nd & 5th, 1/24: 3rd & 4th – finals begin at 10:20 AM, if you ride bus or arrive early, you will need to pick a study hall (students will not be allowed in the common areas prior to exams beginning) – expect an exam review guide by 1/17 and an in-class review day on 1/21 – exam review document: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1V_8FxSIOGhssydH3J1tPxIeUz6M0txUi/view?usp=sharing
Activities:
1.Brainfood/Learning Targets
2.Grade Quiz 9
3.Work on any of the following:
-Exam review
-Current Events
-“Luther” questions
-Any missing work from 3rd 6 Weeks
Brain Food:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
none
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Be prepared for the final exam
Announcements:
•Days to End of First Semester: 4 (40% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 1/12
•Retake Quiz 9 by Friday, 1/24 (last day of semester)
•1st & 2nd 6 Week Current Event Project scores now final BUT if you have less than 70 pts on them, you can turn in more than 100 pts during the final 6 week project and raise them to a max score to a 70 – you are still limited to 1 log and 1 journal a week though – your 3rd 6 week score will begin to be calculated into your overall grade starting 1/10/2020 and will become final on 1/24
•Final Exams Schedule: 1/22, 1st & 6th Period exams, 1/23, 2nd & 5th, 1/24: 3rd & 4th – finals begin at 10:20 AM, if you ride bus or arrive early, you will need to pick a study hall (students will not be allowed in the common areas prior to exams beginning) – expect an exam review guide by 1/17 and an in-class review day on 1/21 – exam review: https://drive.google.com/file/d/10GCBcRLE6zxKbLMZi3zCWTtdtS8A7NBZ/view?usp=sharing
Activities:
1.Brainfood/Learning Targets
2.Grade Quiz 9
3.Work on any of the following:
-Exam review
-Current Events
-“Sicko” questions
-Any missing work from 3rd 6 Weeks
Brain Food:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
none
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Be prepared for the final exam
Announcements:
•Days to End of First Semester: 6 (45% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 1/12
•Quiz 9 moved to Thursday, 1/16 – expect quiz on Thursday even if we miss school on Wednesday
•1st & 2nd 6 Week Current Event Project scores now final BUT if you have less than 70 pts on them, you can turn in more than 100 pts during the final 6 week project and raise them to a max score to a 70 – you are still limited to 1 log and 1 journal a week though – your 3rd 6 week score will begin to be calculated into your overall grade starting 1/10/2020 and will become final on 1/24
•“Luther” – questions due to tii.com by 1/14: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jzoFJGjRmzrKiUQBBt3aZF4a1sUDh1oZ/view?usp=sharing - turn in notes also on 1/14 – my notes: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-Az2w20YagPpEDiExQ7emjziHRkQ62AT/view?usp=sharing
•Final Exams Schedule: 1/22, 1st & 6th Period exams, 1/23, 2nd & 5th, 1/24: 3rd & 4th – finals begin at 10:20 AM, if you ride bus or arrive early, you will need to pick a study hall (students will not be allowed in the common areas prior to exams beginning) – expect an exam review guide by 1/17 and an in-class review day on 1/21 – exam review document: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1V_8FxSIOGhssydH3J1tPxIeUz6M0txUi/view?usp=sharing
Activities:
1.Review Last Class
2.The real Martin Luther – answer questions in this sample reading: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LYHpIBNTCh9A6lPSWQkj-bHV3KOO6yCTLXIosh1gbYo/edit?usp=sharing
3.Use any remaining time to work on current events and/or the final exam review: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1V_8FxSIOGhssydH3J1tPxIeUz6M0txUi/view?usp=sharing
Brain Food:
none today
Review Questions:
1.Struggles between Catholics and Lutherans during the Reformation ended in one of Europe’s longest and nastiest wars, called the __________________. What was a problem with the eventual Peace of Augsburg that ended the war?
2.During the Reformation another, more extreme Protestant religion formed in small enclaves in Switzerland and France, called _____________ - it believed in ______________, the idea that God has already decided on your fate.
3.In our country, we called people of this faith the _______________; what did they encourage their members to do to prevent them from blowing their ticket into Heaven?
4.Why did so many Protestant faiths end up relocating to North America in the 16th and 17th Centuries?
5.English monarch Henry VIII decided to create his own Protestant faith during the Reformation - why? What did he call his new Christian church?
6.Perhaps the most hated Protestant faith of the period were the Anabaptists – what did we call them here in the USA? Why were they so disliked?
7.After Lutheranism emerged the Catholic church launched its own “Counter Reformation” that included a new order of monks, called the _________________, created by a wounded soldier turned mystic named Ignatius of Loyola. What is one of the things his order thought was key to preserving the Catholic faith?
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Describe the darker side of Martin Luther omitted from the film “Luther”
Announcements:
•Days to End of First Semester: 6 (40% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 1/12
•Quiz 9 moved to Thursday, 1/16 – expect quiz on Thursday even if we miss school on Wednesday
•1st & 2nd 6 Week Current Event Project scores now final BUT if you have less than 70 pts on them, you can turn in more than 100 pts during the final 6 week project and raise them to a max score to a 70 – you are still limited to 1 log and 1 journal a week though – your 3rd 6 week score will begin to be calculated into your overall grade starting 1/10/2020 and will become final on 1/24
•Final Exams Schedule: 1/22, 1st & 6th Period exams, 1/23, 2nd & 5th, 1/24: 3rd & 4th – finals begin at 10:20 AM, if you ride bus or arrive early, you will need to pick a study hall (students will not be allowed in the common areas prior to exams beginning) – expect an exam review guide by 1/17 and an in-class review day on 1/21
Activities:
1.Review Last Class
2.Healthcare reading: Comparing the US to the rest of the world – read the following: https://www.pgpf.org/blog/2019/07/how-does-the-us-healthcare-system-compare-to-other-countries - write a 1 ½ pg response in which you: a) explain what the Peter G Peterson Foundation is and what likely biases it might contain b) summarize the information presented in the blog post and c) express personal opinions on that information (is this a problem? Why/why not? how can it be fixed? If you were in charge, what would be your solution to the healthcare question?) – turn in your work either to the inbox or share with me
3. If you have any additional time, work on the current event project
Brain Food:
none today
Review Questions:
1.The Attorney General oversees the FBI, ATF, DEA, BOP and the US Marshals – what does 2 of those agencies do?
2.The AG also oversees the Solicitor General – what’s their job? If the AG thinks a convicted felon has really turned their life around and shown true remorse for their crime, he can recommend the president do what?
3.The AG is the head of the Department of __________. Historically, dictators use their country’s version of this department to do what troubling thing?
4.President Trump fired his first AG after only 2 years – the principle reason seemed to be that he was angry that the AG had “recused” himself from the Mueller investigation – what does that mean? Why might a prosecutor recuse themselves from an investigation?
5.Who’s is the current Attorney General? What’s something he’s done since taking the job?
6.Moore goes to France. He finds there that France has socialized more than just healthcare. What are 2 other “free” things guaranteed for French citizens?
7.What effect does all these “free” things have on France’s unemployment rate? How has the French government tried to adapt to that problem?
8.One might argue that France has a government more responsive to its people’s demands than ours for what historical reason? Americans have been divided on their opinion of France since the 1790s, and that’s carried through to the present, where liberals and conservatives still tend to split on the subject. Which of the two political philosophies tends to like France more?
9.Despite Moore’s depiction of France as being a sort of paradise, since 2019 it has been wracked by “Yellow Vest” protestors – what is their core complaint?
10.“Sicko” features the phenomena of American hospitals engaging in “patient dumping” – who typically gets dumped? Why are they dumped?
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Compare and contrast the US approach to healthcare to the rest of the world in terms of expense and outcomes
Announcements:
•Days to End of First Semester: 7 (40% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 1/12
•Quiz 9 moved to Thursday, 1/16 – expect quiz on Thursday even if we miss school on Wednesday
•1st & 2nd 6 Week Current Event Project scores now final BUT if you have less than 70 pts on them, you can turn in more than 100 pts during the final 6 week project and raise them to a max score to a 70 – you are still limited to 1 log and 1 journal a week though – your 3rd 6 week score will begin to be calculated into your overall grade starting 1/10/2020 and will become final on 1/24
•“Luther” – questions due to tii.com by 1/14: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jzoFJGjRmzrKiUQBBt3aZF4a1sUDh1oZ/view?usp=sharing - turn in notes also on 1/14 – my notes: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-Az2w20YagPpEDiExQ7emjziHRkQ62AT/view?usp=sharing
•Final Exams Schedule: 1/22, 1st & 6th Period exams, 1/23, 2nd & 5th, 1/24: 3rd & 4th – finals begin at 10:20 AM, if you ride bus or arrive early, you will need to pick a study hall (students will not be allowed in the common areas prior to exams beginning) – expect an exam review guide by 1/17 and an in-class review day on 1/21 – exam review document: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1V_8FxSIOGhssydH3J1tPxIeUz6M0txUi/view?usp=sharing
Activities:
1.Brainfood/Learning Targets
2.Review Last Class
3.Reformation Notes - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GvaP3RO0XnDNXNDZbIiON3L1H_gILbpJ/view?usp=sharing
4.The Protestant Revolution: Finish “Luther” – questions due to tii.com by 1/14: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jzoFJGjRmzrKiUQBBt3aZF4a1sUDh1oZ/view?usp=sharing - turn in notes also on 1/14 – my notes: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-Az2w20YagPpEDiExQ7emjziHRkQ62AT/view?usp=sharing
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
1.What did Luther fancifully call the Decet Romanum Pontificem of 1521, in keeping with a cartoon he’d recently drawn of the pope’s cardinal who’d interrogated him at Augsberg?
2.What powerful empire stepped in to enforce the call for Luther’s trial by an inquisition?
3.Charles V was the head of that empire. He had very bizarre physical features (a constantly growing jaw, gout and epilepsy) – what most likely accounts for these oddities (as well as those of many other European nobles of the period?)
4.When Charles pressured Frederick the Wise to allow Luther to be put on trial, Frederick insisted on a condition for that trial that is part of American law too – where did Frederick insist Luther be tried? Why?
5.At his trial, what challenge did Luther make that was not accepted by the judges?
6.Luther did apologize at the trial to certain people present – who? Why was that a good idea?
7.Who kidnapped Luther on his way back from his trial? Why?
8.What major project did Luther spend his time in captivity working on? Why did the pope fear it?
9.During his project, Luther discovered there was a problem with extremely literal, “fundamentalist” interpretations of the Bible – why?
10.Luther’s calls for a religious revolution had a nasty and unintended political and social consequence in Germany – what happened?
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Explain what happened in the Protestant Reformation after Martin Luther
Announcements:
•Days to End of First Semester: 7 (40% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 1/12
•Quiz 9 moved to Thursday, 1/16 – expect quiz on Thursday even if we miss school on Wednesday
•1st & 2nd 6 Week Current Event Project scores now final BUT if you have less than 70 pts on them, you can turn in more than 100 pts during the final 6 week project and raise them to a max score to a 70 – you are still limited to 1 log and 1 journal a week though – your 3rd 6 week score will begin to be calculated into your overall grade starting 1/10/2020 and will become final on 1/24
•Final Exams Schedule: 1/22, 1st & 6th Period exams, 1/23, 2nd & 5th, 1/24: 3rd & 4th – finals begin at 10:20 AM, if you ride bus or arrive early, you will need to pick a study hall (students will not be allowed in the common areas prior to exams beginning) – expect an exam review guide by 1/17 and an in-class review day on 1/21
Activities:
1.Brainfood/Learning Targets
2.Review Last Class
3.Big Wig #8 - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MIMX-eRyDTjoVV6ioywGieQAJsOdD5hr/view?usp=sharing
4. Obamacare Debate Prep: “Sicko” and accompanying questions: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-SAwXa67qaQdGlhWTVacDE5V3M/view?usp=sharing – low quality version of movie here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkYCf4h5XgE
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
1.What did the USA formerly call the Department of Defense? Why did the name change?
2.By law, what extra requirement does the Defense Secretary have beside Senatorial approval? Why?
3.Usually the SecDef has to do what the President orders him to – what’s the one thing in theory though the president can’t do if the secretary doesn’t agree?
4.The current Secretary of Defense is named __________ - what was one of his qualifications for the job? Why did Trump’s first Secretary of Defense abruptly quit after 2 years, despite the fact he was unanimously approved for the job?
5.What new branch of the US military is the Secretary of Defense in the midst of organizing?
6.In Michael Moore’s “Sicko,” he talks to a British doctor about his personal finances, car and home to try to make what point? What’s the problem with his method of settling this question?
7.A 2003 Gallup Poll measured public attitudes regarding healthcare amongst Americans, Brits and Canadians – what did it conclude in comparing those 3 populations in terms of their opinion on healthcare quality? In terms of healthcare expense/affordability?
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Describe the job of the Attorney General, name the current office-holder and list some of his accomplishments in office
Identify techniques one-sided (“propaganda”) films and documentaries use to influence and manipulate your thinking
Compare and contrast the US approach to healthcare to Canada, Britain and France
Announcements:
•Days to End of First Semester: 8 (40% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 1/12
•Quiz 9 moved to Thursday, 1/16
•1st & 2nd 6 Week Current Event Project scores now final BUT if you have less than 70 pts on them, you can turn in more than 100 pts during the final 6 week project and raise them to a max score to a 70 – you are still limited to 1 log and 1 journal a week though – your 3rd 6 week score will begin to be calculated into your overall grade starting 1/10/2020 and will become final on 1/24
•Final Exams Schedule: 1/22, 1st & 6th Period exams, 1/23, 2nd & 5th, 1/24: 3rd & 4th – finals begin at 10:20 AM, if you ride bus or arrive early, you will need to pick a study hall (students will not be allowed in the common areas prior to exams beginning) – expect an exam review guide by 1/17 and an in-class review day on 1/21
Activities:
1.Brainfood/Learning Targets
2.Review Last Class
3.The Protestant Revolution: “Luther” and questions: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jzoFJGjRmzrKiUQBBt3aZF4a1sUDh1oZ/view?usp=sharing and notes: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-Az2w20YagPpEDiExQ7emjziHRkQ62AT/view?usp=sharing
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
1.Stress is a normal bodily reaction to the environment. Why is stress good? Why is stress bad?
2.What are 2 healthy ways of coping with stress?
3.A confused Pope Leo X famously responded to the 95 Theses by calling Luther a what? What does that indicate about the Catholic church in Germany at that time?
4.The Pope has the power of “excommunication,” which allows him to do what? In theory, why was that bad in Luther’s time?
5.Luther’s fight with Leo X boiled down to a basic disagreement over what was required to get into heaven. The Pope said there were 2 requirement – what were they? What did Luther say was the only thing required?
6.Soon after the 95 Theses were published, Johann Tetzel was arrested – why?
7.After the 95 Theses were published, Luther was summoned to Augsburg and told to do what? How did he respond?
8.Luther’s closest thing to a father was Augustinian Prior Johann von Staupitz – why did Staupitz expel Luther from the Augustinian order after the 95 Theses publication?
9.What are 2 reasons Luther was so popular with Germans?
10.How did Leo X attempt to convince Frederick the Wise to hand over Luther? Why did Frederick refuse?
11.What is a papal bull? What did Leo X say with his bull, the Decet Romanum Pontificem of 1521?
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Explain the significance of Martin Luther and his 95 Theses in creating/spreading the Reformation
Name and explain the significance of several contemporaries of Luther’s that were critical in promoting or trying to stop the Reformation
Explain the multiple steps the Church attempted to halt the Reformation, and why they didn’t work
Announcements:
•Days to End of First Semester: 8 (40% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 1/12
•Quiz 9 moved to Thursday, 1/16
•1st & 2nd 6 Week Current Event Project scores now final BUT if you have less than 70 pts on them, you can turn in more than 100 pts during the final 6 week project and raise them to a max score to a 70 – you are still limited to 1 log and 1 journal a week though – your 3rd 6 week score will begin to be calculated into your overall grade starting 1/10/2020 and will become final on 1/24
•Final Exams Schedule: 1/22, 1st & 6th Period exams, 1/23, 2nd & 5th, 1/24: 3rd & 4th – finals begin at 10:20 AM, if you ride bus or arrive early, you will need to pick a study hall (students will not be allowed in the common areas prior to exams beginning) – expect an exam review guide by 1/17 and an in-class review day on 1/21
Activities:
1.Brainfood/Learning Targets
2.Review Last Class
3.Big Wig #7 - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MIMX-eRyDTjoVV6ioywGieQAJsOdD5hr/view?usp=sharing
4.Obamacare Debate Prep: “Sicko” and accompanying questions: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-SAwXa67qaQdGlhWTVacDE5V3M/view?usp=sharing – low quality version of movie here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkYCf4h5XgE
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
1.Who was the 1st Treasury Secretary? What is one of the controversial decisions he made, the results of which are still clearly evident in the USA in the 21st Century?
2.What are 2 of the jobs of the Treasury Secretary?
3.Who is the current Treasury Secretary? What’s something interesting about him?
4.The Treasury Secretary was a big supporter of the 2017 tax cut, making 2 promises associated with it to Congress, neither of which has worked out – what were they?
5.Fans of the UK’s NHS system claim the reason why British babies don’t die as often as American babies is because British mothers are, by law, allowed to do what after the birth of their baby? American mothers can do this too, but with what notable difference?
6.What is the British government’s approach to providing prescription drugs to its citizen?
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Describe the job of the Secretary of Defense, name the current office-holder and list some of his accomplishments in office
Identify techniques one-sided (“propaganda”) films and documentaries use to influence and manipulate your thinking
Compare and contrast the US approach to healthcare to Canada, Britain and France
Announcements:
•Days to End of First Semester: 9 (40% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 1/7
•Retake Quiz 8 by Friday, 1/10
•Quiz 9 moved to Thursday, 1/16
•1st & 2nd 6 Week Current Event Project scores now final BUT if you have less than 70 pts on them, you can turn in more than 100 pts during the final 6 week project and raise them to a max score to a 70 – you are still limited to 1 log and 1 journal a week though – your 3rd 6 week score will begin to be calculated into your overall grade starting 1/10/2020 and will become final on 1/24
•Final Exams Schedule: 1/22, 1st & 6th Period exams, 1/23, 2nd & 5th, 1/24: 3rd & 4th – finals begin at 10:20 AM, if you ride bus or arrive early, you will need to pick a study hall (students will not be allowed in the common areas prior to exams beginning) – expect an exam review guide by 1/17 and an in-class review day on 1/21
Activities:
1.Brainfood/Learning Targets
2.Review Last Class
3.Big Wig #6 - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OOpYaFln0cL-v3-xl9oETaOdZTH3xNa6/view?usp=sharing
4.Obamacare Debate Prep: “Sicko” and accompanying questions: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-SAwXa67qaQdGlhWTVacDE5V3M/view?usp=sharing – low quality version of movie here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkYCf4h5XgE
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
1.What is the collective name for the heads of the 15 major departments of the Federal government that serve as key advisors to the President? The President appoints them, but the _____________ must provide “advice and consent” for his picks.
2.What form of government is typified by having large numbers of un-elected people providing services through highly specialized positions and offices? The word itself is often used negatively – other than it’s unelected nature, why do people often dislike this form of government?
3.What are 2 job responsibilities of the Secretary of State?
4.Who was the first Secretary of State in our history? Who is the current Secretary of State? What’s something interesting about him?
5.What are 2 major challenges the State Department is currently confronting?
6.Socialist countries use a “single-payer” healthcare system – what does that mean?
7.What’s an obvious difference between the American and Canadian approaches to healthcare? How are they still the same?
8.Canadian healthcare DOES have critics in the US – what are 2 common complaints they make (regardless of their veracity)?
9.Moore’s film “Sicko” shows another common problem with propaganda – he uses “anecdotal” evidence, rather than “scientific” evidence, to refute counter-arguments – what does it mean if evidence is “anecdotal?”
10.Defenders of socialist healthcare systems could be described as “altruistic” – what does it mean if a person is altruistic?
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Describe the job of the Secretary of the Treasury, name the current office-holder and list some of his accomplishments in office
Identify techniques one-sided (“propaganda”) films and documentaries use to influence and manipulate your thinking
Compare and contrast the US approach to healthcare to Canada, Britain and France
Announcements:
•Days to End of First Semester: 9 (40% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 1/7
•Retake Quiz 8 by Friday, 1/10
•Quiz 9 moved to Thursday, 1/16
•1st & 2nd 6 Week Current Event Project scores now final BUT if you have less than 70 pts on them, you can turn in more than 100 pts during the final 6 week project and raise them to a max score to a 70 – you are still limited to 1 log and 1 journal a week though – your 3rd 6 week score will begin to be calculated into your overall grade starting 1/10/2020 and will become final on 1/24
•Final Exams Schedule: 1/22, 1st & 6th Period exams, 1/23, 2nd & 5th, 1/24: 3rd & 4th – finals begin at 10:20 AM, if you ride bus or arrive early, you will need to pick a study hall (students will not be allowed in the common areas prior to exams beginning) – expect an exam review guide by 1/17 and an in-class review day on 1/21
Activities:
1.Brainfood/Learning Targets
2.CHS Counselor’s SEL Lesson – slideshow: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1oMKTmXW6FscVVqtTjg8sVW3-jPyfVLPHGxYAQ_B_1xM/edit?usp=sharing – for daily participation grade take 1 page of notes on the presentation and complete the survey on the last slide
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
none
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Understand stress in the body
Identify you own stressors
Practice a meditation technique
Identify copying skills that you will try
Announcements:
•Days to End of First Semester: 10 (40% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 1/6
•Retake Quiz 8 by Friday, 1/10
•Quiz 9 moved to Thursday, 1/16
•1st & 2nd 6 Week Current Event Project scores now final BUT if you have less than 70 pts on them, you can turn in more than 100 pts during the final 6 week project and raise them to a max score to a 70 – you are still limited to 1 log and 1 journal a week though – your 3rd 6 week score will begin to be calculated into your overall grade starting 1/10/2020 and will become final on 1/24
•This Friday (1/10) we’ll have special guest teachers in for an SEL lesson – you will take 1 page of notes for your class participation points – their slideshow is here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1oMKTmXW6FscVVqtTjg8sVW3-jPyfVLPHGxYAQ_B_1xM/edit?usp=sharing
•Final Exams Schedule: 1/22, 1st & 6th Period exams, 1/23, 2nd & 5th, 1/24: 3rd & 4th – finals begin at 10:20 AM, if you ride bus or arrive early, you will need to pick a study hall (students will not be allowed in the common areas prior to exams beginning) – expect an exam review guide by 1/17 and an in-class review day on 1/21
Activities:
1.Brainfood/Learning Targets
2.Review Last Class
3.The Protestant Revolution: “Luther” and questions: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jzoFJGjRmzrKiUQBBt3aZF4a1sUDh1oZ/view?usp=sharing and notes: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-Az2w20YagPpEDiExQ7emjziHRkQ62AT/view?usp=sharing
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
1.Upon his return from Rome, and perhaps because of his damaged faith, Luther was sent away to do something that very few priests did at that time, which was what? What major innovation would he later devise to make that study easier?
2.15th Century European colleges were centered around the “scriptorium,” where the job of a student essentially was to do just what?
3.According to the 16th Century popes, what did you have to be part if you didn’t wish to go to Hell upon death? What sin was considered “unforgivable,” and was considered so awful that an offender couldn’t be buried in a church’s graveyard?
4.Luther wrote and taught with great anger against a belief in relics – what were they? Why was teaching against them dangerous in Wittenberg, where he lived at the time?
5.“Mystery plays” were very popular in Luther’s time – what was their purpose?
6.What is a very practical reason that explains why late medieval/early renaissance Europeans were perhaps more concerned with questions of heaven and hell than modern people?
7.What did Pope Leo X wish to do early in his papacy that required a great deal of money to accomplish? How did John Tetzel help him? Why did Luther object?
8.Angered by Leo and Tetzel’s actions, Luther wrote a famous letter, called the ________________, and posted it in what public place?
9.In the past, the Catholic church had found it easy to suppress such letters – what significant new invention prevented Luther’s from suffering the same fate?
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Explain the significance of Martin Luther and his 95 Theses in creating/spreading the Reformation
Name and explain the significance of several contemporaries of Luther’s that were critical in promoting or trying to stop the Reformation
Explain the multiple steps the Church attempted to halt the Reformation, and why they didn’t work
Announcements:
•Days to End of First Semester: 10 (40% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 1/6
•Retake Quiz 8 by Friday, 1/10
•Quiz 9 moved to Thursday, 1/16
•1st & 2nd 6 Week Current Event Project scores now final BUT if you have less than 70 pts on them, you can turn in more than 100 pts during the final 6 week project and raise them to a max score to a 70 – you are still limited to 1 log and 1 journal a week though – your 3rd 6 week score will begin to be calculated into your overall grade starting 1/10/2020 and will become final on 1/24
•Final Exams Schedule: 1/22, 1st & 6th Period exams, 1/23, 2nd & 5th, 1/24: 3rd & 4th – finals begin at 10:20 AM, if you ride bus or arrive early, you will need to pick a study hall (students will not be allowed in the common areas prior to exams beginning) – expect an exam review guide by 1/17 and an in-class review day on 1/21
Activities:
1.Brainfood/Learning Targets
2.Review Last Class
3.Big Wig #5 - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OOpYaFln0cL-v3-xl9oETaOdZTH3xNa6/view?usp=sharing
4. Obamacare Debate Prep: “Sicko” and accompanying questions: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-SAwXa67qaQdGlhWTVacDE5V3M/view?usp=sharing – low quality version of movie here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkYCf4h5XgE
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
1.Supporters of a government-run healthcare system claim it will be cheaper/better because government doesn’t have the same objective as privately-run ones, which is usually what? Why though might government-run healthcare systems still not be able to provide all the healthcare services everyone wants?
2.What president encouraged the development of HMOs in the early 1970s? What did he like about HMOs?
3.Bill Clinton tried and failed to reform healthcare in 1993, partly because of who he choose to lead the effort. Who was it? Why was his choice controversial?
4.What did opponents of the reform label it as?
5.What is the special interest group called the AMA? What’d they think of the ‘93 reform plan? What did they think of the ACA in 2008-9?
6.How can large American companies/industries (like the healthcare industry in ‘93) that dislike a bill in the US Congress try to defeat it and prevent it from being passed?
7.A difficult problem to solve in American politics is the “revolving door phenomenon,” whereby a politician creates laws friendly to an industry (but not necessarily to the rest of the country), then soon thereafter does what? Though usually portrayed as negative, “revolving door politics” are understandable and/or defendable – how/why?
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Explain what a bureaucracy is and the role the President’s Cabinet plays in the federal bureaucracy
Describe the job of the Secretary of State, name the current office-holder and list some of his accomplishments in office
Identify techniques one-sided (“propaganda”) films and documentaries use to influence and manipulate your thinking
Compare and contrast the US approach to healthcare to Canada, Britain and France
Announcements:
•Days to End of First Semester: 11 (40% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 1/6
•Retake Quiz 8 by Friday, 1/10
•Quiz 9 on Friday, 1/17
•1st & 2nd 6 Week Current Event Project scores now final BUT if you have less than 70 pts on them, you can turn in more than 100 pts during the final 6 week project and raise them to a max score to a 70 – you are still limited to 1 log and 1 journal a week though – your 3rd 6 week score will begin to be calculated into your overall grade starting 1/10/2020 and will become final on 1/24
•This Friday (1/10) we’ll have special guest teachers in for an SEL lesson – you will take 1 page of notes for your class participation points – their slideshow is here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1oMKTmXW6FscVVqtTjg8sVW3-jPyfVLPHGxYAQ_B_1xM/edit?usp=sharing
•Final Exams Schedule: 1/22, 1st & 6th Period exams, 1/23, 2nd & 5th, 1/24: 3rd & 4th – finals begin at 10:20 AM, if you ride bus or arrive early, you will need to pick a study hall (students will not be allowed in the common areas prior to exams beginning)
Activities:
1.Brainfood/Learning Targets
2.Review Last Class
3.The Protestant Revolution: “Luther” and questions: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jzoFJGjRmzrKiUQBBt3aZF4a1sUDh1oZ/view?usp=sharing and notes: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-Az2w20YagPpEDiExQ7emjziHRkQ62AT/view?usp=sharing
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
1.All of the Protestant Christian religions that exist today are the result of a movement, known as the ______________, that began in the 16th century, that resulted in the breakup of the __________ church.
2.The man who began that movement was named ___, and he was born in an area that today we call _____.
3.What did he do that destroyed his relationship with his father as a young man? Why had he decided to do that?
4.His early life was indeed troubled, in part because of his view on the “nature of god” – what did he think that God was like?
5.His life was transformed when he was sent on a errand to the city of ___. What are 2 things he saw there that troubled him?
6.He was also critical of the actual church ceremony (called the mass) – what did he think was a major problem with the way it was conducted?
7.Christians at this time believed in a concept called “purgatory” – what was that? They also believed that you could buy something called “indulgences” to do what?
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Name 4 major causes of the Reformation
Explain the significance of Martin Luther and his 95 Theses in creating/spreading the Reformation
Name and explain the significance of several contemporaries of Luther’s that were critical in promoting or trying to stop the Reformation
Announcements:
•Days to End of First Semester: 11 (40% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 1/6
•Retake Quiz 8 by Friday, 1/10
•Quiz 9 on Friday, 1/17
•1st & 2nd 6 Week Current Event Project scores now final BUT if you have less than 70 pts on them, you can turn in more than 100 pts during the final 6 week project and raise them to a max score to a 70 – you are still limited to 1 log and 1 journal a week though – your 3rd 6 week score will begin to be calculated into your overall grade starting 1/10/2020 and will become final on 1/24
•Final Exams Schedule: 1/22, 1st & 6th Period exams, 1/23, 2nd & 5th, 1/24: 3rd & 4th – finals begin at 10:20 AM, if you ride bus or arrive early, you will need to pick a study hall (students will not be allowed in the common areas prior to exams beginning)
Activities:
1.Brainfood/Learning Targets
2.Review Last Class
3.Obamacare Debate Prep: “Sicko” and accompanying questions: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-SAwXa67qaQdGlhWTVacDE5V3M/view?usp=sharing – low quality version of movie here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkYCf4h5XgE
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
1.One way Americans get health coverage is through Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs), like Kaiser. What annoying requirement do they impose on their members (and charge them greatly for if they ignore it)?
2.The debate over healthcare funding is complex because typically we pay health insurers 3 different ways. One way is through the annual or monthly payment we make just to have coverage. That amount is called the _______.
3.The 2nd way we pay is when we walk into a doctor’s office– they charge us say $35 before we get to see a doctor – what’s that charge called? The 3rd way: say they eventually give us 2000$ worth of treatment, but we have to pay 500$ of it first – what‘s that amount known as in insurance speak?
4.Insurance therefore involves a degree of gambling – say you choose that annual amount to be quite low, what effect does that have on the other 2 forms of payment? What’s the potential problem if you make this gamble?
5.Prior to the ACA, what right did health insurers have if they deemed you too unhealthy? As a result of this (as well as making a bad insurance gamble), prior to the ACA, what was the leading cause of bankruptcy in the USA?
6.Michael Moore’s 2007 film about healthcare in America (“Sicko”) is a classic example of propaganda. What are 2 common features of propaganda that are present in his film?
7.“Sicko” shows the “dirty tricks” health insurance companies played prior to the ACA in order to be profitable. What were 2 of them? How does the ACA address each of these problems?
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Identify techniques one-sided (“propaganda”) films and documentaries use to influence and manipulate your thinking
Discuss problems with the American healthcare system prior to 2009 that the ACA was intended to address
Compare and contrast the US approach to healthcare to Canada, Britain and France
Announcements:
•Days to End of First Semester: 12 (40% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 1/6
•Retake Quiz 8 by Friday, 1/10
•Quiz 9 on Friday, 1/17
•1st & 2nd 6 Week Current Event Project scores now final BUT if you have less than 70 pts on them, you can turn in more than 100 pts during the final 6 week project and raise them to a max score to a 70 – you are still limited to 1 log and 1 journal a week though – your 3rd 6 week score will begin to be calculated into your overall grade starting 1/10/2020 and will become final on 1/24
•Turn in any current event work you might have done over break
Activities:
1.Brainfood/Learning Targets
2.Review Last Class
3.Obamacare Debate Prep: “Sicko” and accompanying questions: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-SAwXa67qaQdGlhWTVacDE5V3M/view?usp=sharing – low quality version of movie here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkYCf4h5XgE
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
1.The most recent dramatic change in healthcare in America came in 2009, with the passage of a law known colloquially as “Obamacare” – it also, goes by the initials of it’s formal name, the ACA, which stands for what? Interestingly, President Obama resisted calling the law “Obamacare” for a long time, insisting on using “ACA” – why did he eventually begin using the term “Obamacare?”
2.What is “universal healthcare?” Did the USA have it before the ACA? Does the USA have universal healthcare now as a result of the ACA?
3.Prior to the ACA, how did we compare to the rest of the world in health care spending – top 1/3, middle 1/3, bottom 1/3? In healthcare outcomes?
4.Prior to the ACA, were most Americans on private or government healthcare? Afterwards?
5.Name 2 US government operated healthcare providers.
6.In 2003, 6 years before Obamacare became law, about what % of our spending on healthcare went to “administrative costs?” What’s an example of an “administrative cost?”
7. Prior to the “Obamacare” law, about what percent of Americans had no health coverage?
8.Can someone without health insurance, say a homeless person, get medical treatment for an emergency problem in a hospital? What effect does that have on those of us who have insurance?
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Identify techniques one-sided (“propaganda”) films and documentaries use to influence and manipulate your thinking
Compare and contrast the US approach to healthcare to Canada, Britain and France
Announcements:
•Days to End of First Semester: 12 (40% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 1/6
•Retake Quiz 8 by Friday, 1/10
•Quiz 9 on Friday, 1/17
•1st & 2nd 6 Week Current Event Project scores now final BUT if you have less than 70 pts on them, you can turn in more than 100 pts during the final 6 week project and raise them to a max score to a 70 – you are still limited to 1 log and 1 journal a week though – your 3rd 6 week score will begin to be calculated into your overall grade starting 1/10/2020 and will become final on 1/24
•Turn in any current event work you might have done over break
•This Friday (1/10) we’ll have special guest teachers in for an SEL lesson – you will take 1 page of notes for your class participation points – their slideshow is here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1oMKTmXW6FscVVqtTjg8sVW3-jPyfVLPHGxYAQ_B_1xM/edit?usp=sharing
Activities:
1.Brainfood/Learning Targets
2.Review/collect Hot Spots of Geography #8: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1j01SM0DV2gX-CPtKlUQPFmdpLhVcu6H3Y0R8VA6cTkQ/edit?usp=sharing
3.The Protestant Revolution: “Luther” and questions: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jzoFJGjRmzrKiUQBBt3aZF4a1sUDh1oZ/view?usp=sharing and notes: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-Az2w20YagPpEDiExQ7emjziHRkQ62AT/view?usp=sharing
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
none
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Locate important places on the Earth’s surface and describe where they are relative to other important places
Name 4 major causes of the Reformation
Explain the significance of Martin Luther and his 95 Theses in creating/spreading the Reformation
Name and explain the significance of several contemporaries of Luther’s that were critical in promoting or trying to stop the Reformation
Announcements:
•Days to End of First Semester: 13 (40% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 1/5
•Retake Quiz 8 by Friday, 1/10
•Quiz 9 on Friday, 1/17
•1st & 2nd 6 Week Current Event Project scores now final BUT if you have less than 70 pts on them, you can turn in more than 100 pts during the final 6 week project and raise them to a max score to a 70 – you are still limited to 1 log and 1 journal a week though – your 3rd 6 week score will begin to be calculated into your overall grade starting 1/10/2020 and will become final on 1/24
•Turn in any current event work you might have done over break
•This Friday (1/10) we’ll have special guest teachers in for an SEL lesson – you will take 1 page of notes for your class participation points – their slideshow is here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1oMKTmXW6FscVVqtTjg8sVW3-jPyfVLPHGxYAQ_B_1xM/edit?usp=sharing
Activities:
1.Brainfood/Learning Targets
2.Grade Quiz 8
3.Hot Spots of Geography #8: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1j01SM0DV2gX-CPtKlUQPFmdpLhVcu6H3Y0R8VA6cTkQ/edit?usp=sharing
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
none
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Locate important places on the Earth’s surface and describe where they are relative to other important places
Announcements:
•Days to End of First Semester: 13 (40% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 1/5
•Retake Quiz 8 by Friday, 1/10
•Quiz 9 on Friday, 1/17
•1st & 2nd 6 Week Current Event Project scores now final BUT if you have less than 70 pts on them, you can turn in more than 100 pts during the final 6 week project and raise them to a max score to a 70 – you are still limited to 1 log and 1 journal a week though – your 3rd 6 week score will begin to be calculated into your overall grade starting 1/10/2020 and will become final on 1/24
•Turn in any current event work you might have done over break
Activities:
1.Brainfood/Learning Targets
2.Grade Quiz 8
3. Obamacare Debate Prep: selective facts/history of US healthcare prior to 2009: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HXZkLYTujVUUmCJRlFYNCCt32OAMfud9FWwAnhwJgQo/edit?usp=sharing and questions for film “Sicko”: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-SAwXa67qaQdGlhWTVacDE5V3M/view?usp=sharing
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
none
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Identify techniques one-sided (“propaganda”) films and documentaries use to influence and manipulate your thinking
Compare and contrast the US approach to healthcare to Canada, Britain and France
Announcements:
•Days to Winter Break: 1 (40% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 12/17
•Retake Quiz 7 by Friday, 12/20
•Quiz 8 on Friday, 12/20 (since this covers only a single week, expect questions from Thursday’s class)
•1st & 2nd 6 Week Current Event Project scores now final BUT if you have less than 70 pts on them, you can turn in more than 100 pts during the final 6 week project and raise them to a max score to a 70 – you are still limited to 1 log and 1 journal a week though – your 3rd 6 week score will begin to be calculated into your overall grade starting 1/10/2020 and will become final on 1/24
•You are welcome to do up to 80 pts of current events work over the winter break, turn in any logs and journals on 1/6
Activities:
1.Brainfood/Learning Targets (turn-in brainfood)
2.Review Last Class
3.Finish “The Mission” and turn in questions and notes: https://drive.google.com/file/d/156r5sf70vKrzQ7TP9DWpQLer2GxcYaUL/view?usp=sharing
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
1.Though he was likely trying to make a joke, there is an element of truth to Jumo Kenyatta’s quote “when the missionaries came…” in that, after the English and other colonists arrived, most of the people of his country did in fact do what? Equally true in that quote, they lost what in the exchange?
2.Today, Jumo Kenyatta is remembered as the father of what African nation? Other than that, what does history give him great credit for? What are the stains on his legacy though?
3.While Jesuit missions began to be created in the 16th Century they were comparable in some ways to the ideal workers’ communes later envisioned by some economic philosophers in the mid-19th Century – what was that 19th Century philosophy called? How was it similar to what the Jesuits created? Today, as in the past, why is it threatening to wealthy people?
4.Other than the fact that they offered sanctuary to natives, what did the Portuguese government really dislike about the Jesuit missions in its South American colonies that made it want to take them over?
5.While “The Mission” portrays Jesuit missions as all-around good guys, it does gloss over potential criticisms of their activities in South America – what’s one of them?
Questions You Will Be Asked on Tomorrow’s Quiz From Today’s Class
1.Throughout the Age of Exploration and the colonization that followed it, Europeans adeptly used the tactic of “divide and conquer” against native peoples – how does this tactic work?
2.How are the 18th Century events depicted in “The Mission” still relevant in the 21st Century?
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Use the story of the Guarani Indians of Brazil to illustrate the pros and cons of the overall European colonization of the New World that began in the Age of Exploration
Announcements:
•Days to Winter Break: 1 (40% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 12/17
•Retake Quiz 7 by Friday, 12/20
•Quiz 8 on Friday, 12/20 (since this covers only a single week, expect questions from Thursday’s class)
•1st & 2nd 6 Week Current Event Project scores now final BUT if you have less than 70 pts on them, you can turn in more than 100 pts during the final 6 week project and raise them to a max score to a 70 – you are still limited to 1 log and 1 journal a week though – your 3rd 6 week score will begin to be calculated into your overall grade starting 1/10/2020 and will become final on 1/24
•You are welcome to do up to 80 pts of current events work over the winter break, turn in any logs and journals on 1/6
Activities:
1.Brainfood/Learning Targets (turn in Brainfood)
2.Review Last Class
3.Finish/turn-in West Wing #10 – “In Excelsis Deo” - take 1 ½ pg notes/reactions/comments – my notes: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-SAwXa67qaQUzJXNzhCTXEwRk0/view?usp=sharing
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
1.According to FBI statistics, the majority of hate crimes in America (using 2017 as an example year) are motivated by hatred based on __________. What’s the 2nd most common motivation?
2.What has been the general trend in the total number of hate crimes in the US over the past 20 years (going up/staying the same/going down)? What’s one of the notable exceptions?
3.How can the White House put up Christmas decorations without violating the “Establishment Clause” of the 1st Amendment?
4.What is President Trump’s Secret Service code name? What do the codenames for all members of a president’s family have in common?
5.The White House often tries to capitalize on the goodwill of the Christmas season to get major things done – for example, Obama convinced the Senate to finally approve the START treaty just before the holiday – what’s that treaty do? Trump managed to harmonize his party just before Christmas in 2017 to do what?
6.Just off the National Mall is a long, low black granite wall memorializing what war, nicknamed the “Forgotten War” by historians? It was a deeply unpopular war in part because, unlike WW2, it was a “limited war,” which means what?
7.What Federal agency is responsible for taking care of soldiers/sailors/marines who’ve honorably exited the military? What problem has historically bedeviled this agency?
8.“Hate-Crime” laws were passed after a high-profile murder of a man named Matthew Shepard in 1998– why was he killed? James Byrd was murdered the same year – why?
These Are Questions You Should Be Able to Answer on Tomorrow’s Quiz from Today’s Class:
1.Nervous at losing public support for the military after the tragedies of the USS Arizona and Juneau in WW2, the military introduced a policy to discourage family members from doing what?
2.Part of modern Americans’ distrust of government stems from the discovery in the 1970s that Presidents had routinely used the FBI for what nefarious purpose (Nixon went so far as to keep an infamous list to facilitate it)?
3.Our nation’s capital has often had troubles confronting the large number of homeless who live there – during the Great Depression the government actually attacked and burned out an encampment of homeless veterans who’d come to D.C. for what reason?
4.Sadly, mal-treated veterans are hardly a new phenomenon in US history – what so angered Daniel Shays and many other vets to launch a 2nd Revolution shortly after the 1st ended? What did Shays’ Rebellion lead to the creation of?
5.Debates about government ultimately stem from debates about philosophy. One early thinker on both subjects was Epicurus. He taught there was no such thing as “Good and Evil” or “Right and Wrong” and substituted what 2 things in their place? He said, therefore, the purpose of life and of government was what? Furthermore, he taught that humans had no need to fear death – why?
6.What does the US government award “Purple Hearts” for?
7.Though many liberals support “hate crime” laws, some vehemently object, saying such laws threaten what other cherished right? For this reason, the Supreme Court in it’s 2003 Virginia v Black decision struck down a law that made illegal what action?
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Use the story of the Guarani Indians of Brazil to illustrate the pros and cons of the overall European colonization of the New World that began in the Age of Exploration
Announcements:
•Days to Winter Break: 2 (35% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 12/16
•Retake Quiz 7 by Friday, 12/20
•Quiz 8 on Friday, 12/20 (since this covers only a single week, expect questions from Thursday’s class)
•1st & 2nd 6 Week Current Event Project scores now final BUT if you have less than 70 pts on them, you can turn in more than 100 pts during the final 6 week project and raise them to a max score to a 70 – you are still limited to 1 log and 1 journal a week though – your 3rd 6 week score will begin to be calculated into your overall grade starting 1/10/2020 and will become final on 1/24
•You are welcome to do up to 80 pts of current events work over the winter break, turn in any logs and journals on 1/6
Activities:
1.Brainfood/Learning Targets
2.Review Last Class
3.“The Mission” with questions and notes: https://drive.google.com/file/d/156r5sf70vKrzQ7TP9DWpQLer2GxcYaUL/view?usp=sharing
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
1.By the middle of the 18th Century the Jesuit order had come to deeply frustrate many Spanish and Portuguese colonists in the New World – why?
2.In 1750 the Spanish and Portuguese agreed to the Treaty of Madrid, which importantly did what in South America? Why was this a huge problem for the Guarani and other native peoples there?
3.What did all European colonies in the New World, starting with English colonists in North America, begin to do in the late 18th Century and ultimately conclude by the middle of the 19th Century? Why did they do this? What was the consequence for native peoples as a result?
4.Second only to the Pope in terms of power in the Catholic Church are officers called _________ and wear the color __________. What is the significance of this color?
5.Since antiquity, Catholics (and many other kinds of modern day Christians) have been expected to “tithe,” which means doing what? What is the tithe for in theory?
6.Spanish colonists in the tropical regions of the New World developed the tradition of the “siesta,” which is what? Why?
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Use the story of the Guarani Indians of Brazil to illustrate the pros and cons of the overall European colonization of the New World that began in the Age of Exploration
Announcements:
•Days to Winter Break: 2 (35% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 12/16
•Retake Quiz 7 by Friday, 12/20
•Quiz 8 on Friday, 12/20 (since this covers only a single week, expect questions from Thursday’s class)
•1st & 2nd 6 Week Current Event Project scores now final BUT if you have less than 70 pts on them, you can turn in more than 100 pts during the final 6 week project and raise them to a max score to a 70 – you are still limited to 1 log and 1 journal a week though – your 3rd 6 week score will begin to be calculated into your overall grade starting 1/10/2020 and will become final on 1/24
•You are welcome to do up to 80 pts of current events work over the winter break, turn in any logs and journals on 1/6
Activities:
1.Brainfood/Learning Targets
2.Review Last Class
3.West Wing #10 – “In Excelsis Deo” - take 1 ½ pg notes/reactions/comments – my notes: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-SAwXa67qaQUzJXNzhCTXEwRk0/view?usp=sharing
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
1.What is the most obvious reason for why concerns about the right to privacy have become more important since the Constitution was written? Two recent cases involving the subject are Kyllo v USA and Riley v California – what did either say?
2.Modern medical professionals still take a version of Hippocrates’ (“The Father of Medicine’s”) Oath – what are 2 things he made doctors promise?
3. The 2006 arrest of conservative radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh and a recent study documenting a 350% increase in abuse by well-to-do American teens highlights the unique problem of ____________ drugs. The explosion of this form of drug abuse is an example of the “whack-a-mole problem” that is a standard feature of the War on Drugs –explain this problem in your own words.
4.What did John Locke say governments should do with the “natural laws” that existed since the beginning of time? What do “activist” judges sometimes do when the government fails to do what Locke urged? What did Locke identify as the 3 most important of our “natural rights?”
5.In theory, why are “activist” judges bad? How have they occasionally been good?
6.Federal trials begin in __________ courts, then proceed to ____________ court. About __% of the time they make it to the __________ court.
7.What’s a basic stat we can use to evaluate how “good” a lower-court judge is?
8.Current Associate Justice Ginsburg set an interesting precedent that all nominees since her have followed whereby the nominee, when being interviewed by the Senate, does what?
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Describe what a “hate crime” is, why laws banning them are potentially controversial, and the general trends of hate crimes in the USA today
Explain several historic problems confronting the Veterans Administration
Announcements:
•Days to Winter Break: 3 (35% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 12/16
•Retake Quiz 7 by Friday, 12/20
•Quiz 8 on Friday, 12/20 (since this covers only a single week, expect questions from Thursday’s class)
•1st & 2nd 6 Week Current Event Project scores now final BUT if you have less than 70 pts on them, you can turn in more than 100 pts during the final 6 week project and raise them to a max score to a 70 – you are still limited to 1 log and 1 journal a week though – your 3rd 6 week score will begin to be calculated into your overall grade starting 1/10/2020 and will become final on 1/24
•You are welcome to do up to 80 pts of current events work over the winter break, turn in any logs and journals on 1/6
Activities:
1.Brainfood/Learning Targets
2.Review Last Class
3.Review/turnin Hot Spots #7 - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DyFeHB1sMEJUTORpXVxtBHM0KaDFFzlj0fUtFM4K2vc/edit?usp=sharing
4.“The Mission” with questions: https://drive.google.com/file/d/156r5sf70vKrzQ7TP9DWpQLer2GxcYaUL/view?usp=sharing
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
1.For Catholics (and people in general as well), what does it mean to “do penance?”
2.European settlements in the New World up until the 18th Century often had problems with “dueling” – what usually caused dueling? Why was it a problem?
3.Jesuit missions usually had a good number of “neophytes” running around – what were they? What distinctive garment did they wear to identify themselves with?
4.Jesuits used a different approach to converting natives than the Franciscans that preceded them – how was their approach different?
5.Even today, missionaries working in the Amazon are exposed to numerous dangers – what are 2 of them?
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Locate important places on the Earth’s surface and describe where they are relative to other important places
Use the story of the Guarani Indians of Brazil to illustrate the pros and cons of the overall European colonization of the New World that began in the Age of Exploration
Announcements:
•Days to Winter Break: 3 (35% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 12/16
•Retake Quiz 7 by Friday, 12/20
•Quiz 8 on Friday, 12/20 (since this covers only a single week, expect questions from Thursday’s class)
•1st & 2nd 6 Week Current Event Project scores now final BUT if you have less than 70 pts on them, you can turn in more than 100 pts during the final 6 week project and raise them to a max score to a 70 – you are still limited to 1 log and 1 journal a week though – your 3rd 6 week score will begin to be calculated into your overall grade starting 1/10/2020 and will become final on 1/24
•You are welcome to do up to 80 pts of current events work over the winter break, turn in any logs and journals on 1/6
Activities:
1.Brainfood/Learning Targets
2.Review Last Class
3.Finish/turn-in West Wing #9 – “The Short List” - take 1 ½ pg notes/reactions/comments – my notes: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-SAwXa67qaQSlkxRHlzQ2U2NXc/view?usp=sharing
4.West Wing #10 – “In Excelsis Deo” - take 1 ½ pg notes/reactions/comments – my notes: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-SAwXa67qaQUzJXNzhCTXEwRk0/view?usp=sharing
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
1.What political direction do most presidents usually move towards soon after taking their office? What effect does this tend to have on their core supporters?
2.The most important Supreme Court decision regarding the constitutionality of abortion is called _________ and assets that women have a specific right to make decisions about abortions because they have a general right to what?
3.Do drug tests violate our right to privacy? The question is complex, but the Supreme Court has ruled that the President can require drug tests of many federal employees for what reason?
4.For most of US history, Supreme Court confirmations were fairly simple and straight-forward affairs that ended in near unanimous approval of the nominee – why? In modern times though, a “nuclear option” had to be invoked in the Senate because the minority party was routinely doing what? In the wake of the nuclear option, there is a real danger now that the court will be further politicized through a tactic called “court packing,” whereby a party that controls both the Congress and the White House would do what?
5.Many Supreme Court judges have “clerked” for judges before getting the appointment – what does a legal clerk do?
6.What is an “amicus brief?” Why do people/organizations write them?
7.A __________ can issue a “subpoena,” which requires people to do what? Congress can also issue subpoenas, but they’re easier to ignore – why?
8.What power or control can a president have over a judge once they’ve been approved by the Senate and taking their position on the federal bench?
9.The Constitution does not specifically say we have a right to privacy, instead it’s inferred from rights stated in the 3rd, 4th, and 5th Amendments. What are 2 of the rights stated in those amendments? The right to privacy could also be covered by the 9th Amendment’s enumeration clause, which makes what very interesting point?
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Explain the constitutional sources of the “right to privacy” and why that right has become much more of hot-button topic since the days of the nation’s founding
Describe the “whack-a-mole” problem in fighting the war on drugs
Name the 3 levels of the federal judicial system
Explain John Locke’s concept of natural law and natural rights
Announcements:
•Days to Winter Break: 4 (35% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 12/15
•Retake Quiz 7 by Friday, 12/20
•Quiz 8 on Friday, 12/20 (since this covers only a single week, expect questions from Thursday’s class)
•1st & 2nd 6 Week Current Event Project scores now final BUT if you have less than 70 pts on them, you can turn in more than 100 pts during the final 6 week project and raise them to a max score to a 70 – you are still limited to 1 log and 1 journal a week though – your 3rd 6 week score will begin to be calculated into your overall grade starting 1/10/2020 and will become final on 1/24
•You are welcome to do up to 80 pts of current events work over the winter break, turn in any logs and journals on 1/6
Activities:
1.Brainfood/Learning Targets
2.Grade Quiz 7
3.Hot Spots #7 - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DyFeHB1sMEJUTORpXVxtBHM0KaDFFzlj0fUtFM4K2vc/edit?usp=sharing
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Locate important places on the Earth’s surface and describe where they are relative to other important places
Announcements:
•Days to Winter Break: 5 (35% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 12/15
•Retake Quiz 7 by Friday, 12/20
•Quiz 8 on Friday, 12/20 (since this covers only a single week, expect questions from Thursday’s class)
•1st & 2nd 6 Week Current Event Project scores now final BUT if you have less than 70 pts on them, you can turn in more than 100 pts during the final 6 week project and raise them to a max score to a 70 – you are still limited to 1 log and 1 journal a week though – your 3rd 6 week score will begin to be calculated into your overall grade starting 1/10/2020 and will become final on 1/24
•You are welcome to do up to 80 pts of current events work over the winter break - turn in any logs and journals from the break on 1/6
Activities:
1.Brainfood/Learning Targets
2.Grade Quiz 7
3.West Wing #9 – “The Short List” - take 1 ½ pg notes/reactions/comments – my notes: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-SAwXa67qaQSlkxRHlzQ2U2NXc/view?usp=sharing
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Explain the constitutional sources of the “right to privacy” and why that right has become much more of hot-button topic since the days of the nation’s founding
Describe the “whack-a-mole” problem in fighting the war on drugs
Name the 3 levels of the federal judicial system
Explain John Locke’s concept of natural law and natural rights
Announcements:
•Days to Winter Break: 6 (35% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 12/8
•Quiz 7 on Friday, 12/13 (note, there was no Quiz 6 – we did the midterm instead)
•1st & 2nd 6 Week Current Event Project scores now final BUT if you have less than 70 pts on them, you can turn in more than 100 pts during the final 6 week project and raise them to a max score to a 70 – you are still limited to 1 log and 1 journal a week though – your 3rd 6 week score will begin to be calculated into your overall grade starting 1/10/2020 and will become final on 1/24
•Turn in Zheng He notes after submitting your essay to turnitin.com – if submitting late essay to turnitin, please email me after so I can grade it
Activities:
1.Brainfood/Learning Targets
2.Review Last Class
3.“The Mission” with questions: https://drive.google.com/file/d/156r5sf70vKrzQ7TP9DWpQLer2GxcYaUL/view?usp=sharing
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
1.One of the most famous missionary groups in history has been the Jesuits – what inspired their founder, Ignatius, to create the order? What did he insist could be the only reward for Jesuit’s service?
2.As the opening scene of “The Mission” depicts, what historically has been a danger all missionaries have exposed themselves to?
3.Throughout New World colonies in the 18th Century, especially in South America, one’s social status was almost entirely based on one’s _______.
4.In Spanish colonies, what was the difference between a peninsulare and a creole? What did a mestizo and a mulatto have in common? What were zomboes (also known as maroons?) Why should these words be used with caution in the 21st Century?
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Use the story of the Guarani Indians of Brazil to illustrate the pros and cons of the overall European colonization of the New World that began in the Age of Exploration
Announcements:
•Days to Winter Break: 6 (35% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 12/8
•Quiz 7 on Friday, 12/13
•1st & 2nd 6 Week Current Event Project scores now final BUT if you have less than 70 pts on them, you can turn in more than 100 pts during the final 6 week project and raise them to a max score to a 70 – you are still limited to 1 log and 1 journal a week though – your 3rd 6 week score will begin to be calculated into your overall grade starting 1/10/2020 and will become final on 1/24
Activities:
1.Brainfood/Learning Targets
2.Review Last Class
3.West Wing #9 – “The Short List” - take 1 ½ pg notes/reactions/comments – my notes: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-SAwXa67qaQSlkxRHlzQ2U2NXc/view?usp=sharing
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
1.The Vice President is the President of the Senate, but normally the Senate is presided over by a senator called the _____________________; today this unglamorous job is held by a man named _________.
2.How do you get this essentially meaningless job? The current holder of this office broke with his party when he defended what person? What’s something else interesting about this senator?
3.The equivalent of the Speaker of the House in the Senate is a senator called the ___________ - who has this job at the moment? This senator is hated by Democrats because he so successfully blocked Obama in his last two years in office that Trump, in his first year in office, set a record for doing what? What’s something else interesting about this senator?
4.Which leader can assert more power/control over it’s members, the Senate or the House? Why?
5.What American national park is often mentioned in global warming debates? Why?
6.American federal politics follows a fairly predictable cycle whereby one party gets control of both the Presidency and the Congress every ____ years, slowly losing that control until the other party gets total control and the cycle repeats.
7.There are __ people on the US Supreme Court, and they all serve for how long?
8.Supreme Court Justices are nominated by the President but have to be approved by the ____________, which before making up it’s mind listens to a report by its own _______________ Committee.
9.Historically, what has the typical Supreme Court Justice physically looked like? How is the Supreme Court more diverse today?
10.After (and sometimes even before) a president announces a pick to fill a vacancy that often will reveal their “short list” for that office – why?
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Explain the constitutional sources of the “right to privacy” and why that right has become much more of hot-button topic since the days of the nation’s founding
Explain what an “amicus brief” is and what role they play in the judicial process
Announcements:
•Days to Winter Break: 7 (35% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 12/8
•Quiz 7 on Friday, 12/13 (note, there was no Quiz 6 – we did the midterm instead)
•1st & 2nd 6 Week Current Event Project scores now final BUT if you have less than 70 pts on them, you can turn in more than 100 pts during the final 6 week project and raise them to a max score to a 70 – you are still limited to 1 log and 1 journal a week though – your 3rd 6 week score will begin to be calculated into your overall grade starting 1/10/2020 and will become final on 1/24
•Final deadline for any late work due the 2nd 6 weeks is Wednesday, 12/11 - If turning in a late Guns, Germs & Steel paper to turnitin.com, I need an email from you alerting me to go and grade it there
•Turn in Zheng He notes after submitting your essay to turnitin.com
Activities:
1.Brainfood/Learning Targets
2.Review Last Class
3.Review/collect question for “The Mission” pre-reading on the Guarani Indians: questions: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oO9iLnl5LlW-dQCKSSrIXF9BzsPBONDF/view?usp=sharing reading: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1iKFk0W6vZX4n0KLm5AOdZhRuMtBGYEKD
4.“The Mission” with questions: https://drive.google.com/file/d/156r5sf70vKrzQ7TP9DWpQLer2GxcYaUL/view?usp=sharing
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
1.As previously seen, Europeans managed little colonization of Africa during the Age of Exploration, but they nonetheless had a profound impact on the continent – how/why?
2.During the Age of Exploration a motley collection of European nations came to dominate what giant island chain in the eastern Indian Ocean?
3.What are two reasons Europeans didn’t manage to do much colonizing at this time of mainland south/southeast Asia?
Questions from the Guarani Indian Reading:
1. Where did the Cuarani people historically live?
2.Describe the Cuarani physically.
3. Who were the Jesuits? What was their mission in the land of the Cuarani?
4.What did the Jesuits feel it was necessary to protect the Cuarani from?
5.Why did the Cuarani have a hard time resisting the Brazilians? How badly were they hurt?
6.What fate met the early missions to the Cuarani?
7. What event finally brought the government in to assist the Cuarani?
8. How did the Cuarani finally come to be protected?
9. How were the Jesuit missions run? Who were the “neophytes?”
10.How did the Jesuits transform the lifestyle of the Cuarani?
11. The movie we are about to watch (“The Mission”) covers the events of 1750. What happened to the Cuarani in that year?
12. What eventually happened to all Jesuits living in Spanish controlled areas? What was the consequence for the Cuarani?
13. Where are the Cuarani today?
14. I obtained this selection from a Catholic website. How might this fact have prejudiced and flavored the section you just read? Provide a concrete example.
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Use the story of the Guarani Indians of Brazil to illustrate the pros and cons of the overall European colonization of the New World that began in the Age of Exploration
Announcements:
•Days to Winter Break: 7 (35% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 12/8
•Quiz 7 on Friday, 12/13
•1st & 2nd 6 Week Current Event Project scores now final BUT if you have less than 70 pts on them, you can turn in more than 100 pts during the final 6 week project and raise them to a max score to a 70 – you are still limited to 1 log and 1 journal a week though – your 3rd 6 week score will begin to be calculated into your overall grade starting 1/10/2020 and will become final on 1/24
•Final deadline for any late work due the 2nd 6 weeks is Wednesday, 12/11 – warning: if you have a C- or worse at the grade conference, expect a Senior Deficiency Letter to be sent home in the next week alerting your parents to the dangers you might not graduate on time
Activities:
1.Brainfood/Learning Targets
2.Review Last Class
3.Finish/turn-in West Wing #8 – “Enemies” – take 1 ½ pg notes/reactions/comments – my notes: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-SAwXa67qaQMllOOU5oaHU4REk/view?usp=sharing
4.Big Wig #4 – my notes: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-fVU12FUPoU5Ke8FZiCuPCGvnUiEx0Cy/view?usp=sharing
5.West Wing #9 – “The Short List” - take 1 ½ pg notes/reactions/comments – my notes: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-SAwXa67qaQSlkxRHlzQ2U2NXc/view?usp=sharing
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
1.The 2010 Dodd-Frank Act brought many reforms to the ______ industry. One of its key provisions is the Volcker Rule, which in theory is supposed to prevent the industry from doing what? It also created an agency Republicans vehemently dislike, the FCPB, whose purpose is to do what?
2.What is the slang-term for the basic campaign speech candidates deliver hundreds of times while running for office?
3.The Constitution only describes 3 branches of government, but we often hear about “The Fourth Branch,” which is critical to making sure the other 3 work – what is it? Why is it important?
4.What does it mean to describe a politician as “Machiavellian?” What do Machiavellian politicians tend to accumulate over time, often leading to their downfall?
5.Post-9/11 investigators deduced that one of the contributing factors to the disaster was that government computer systems were antiquated and thus it was difficult for the many different government agencies that had a piece of the 9/11 puzzle to do what? Why does government often tend to rely on antiquated equipment?
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Describe the jobs of the President Pro Tempore and Majority Leader of the Senate, name the current office-holders and list some of their accomplishments in office
Explain why Glacier National Park often is invoked in arguments about global climate change
Explain the process whereby federal judges get their jobs compared to members of the legislative and executive branches, as well as the different powers judges hold
Explain the constitutional sources of the “right to privacy” and why that right has become much more of hot-button topic since the days of the nation’s founding
Explain what an “amicus brief” is and what role they play in the judicial process
Announcements:
•Days to Winter Break: 8 (35% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 12/8
•Quiz 7 on Friday, 12/13 (note, there was no Quiz 6 – we did the midterm instead)
•1st & 2nd 6 Week Current Event Project scores now final BUT if you have less than 70 pts on them, you can turn in more than 100 pts during the final 6 week project and raise them to a max score to a 70 – you are still limited to 1 log and 1 journal a week though – your 3rd 6 week score will begin to be calculated into your overall grade starting 1/10/2020 and will become final on 1/24
•Final deadline for any late work due the 2nd 6 weeks is Wednesday, 12/11 - If turning in a late Guns, Germs & Steel paper to turnitin.com, I need an email from you alerting me to go and grade it there
•Turn in Zheng He notes after submitting your essay to turnitin.com
Activities:
1.Brainfood/Learning Targets
2.Review Last Class
3.Finish Exploration notes, pt 2- https://drive.google.com/file/d/128Bpql6QKlT1q8xGp91tbxro46zlfCSV/view?usp=sharing
4.“The Mission” pre-reading on the Guarani Indians: questions: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oO9iLnl5LlW-dQCKSSrIXF9BzsPBONDF/view?usp=sharing reading: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1iKFk0W6vZX4n0KLm5AOdZhRuMtBGYEKD
5.“The Mission” with questions: https://drive.google.com/file/d/156r5sf70vKrzQ7TP9DWpQLer2GxcYaUL/view?usp=sharing
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
1.Columbus had a difficult time getting along socially with many of his fellow explorers –why? What did he end up doing to many of them as a result? What ultimately happened to Columbus as a result of that?
2.What was the purpose of Columbus’s second trip to the New World?
3.What was the purpose of Columbus’s “encomienda system?” What effect did it have on the natives?
4.Columbus began what came to be called the “Triangular Trade System”–as part of that, what did Europeans send to Africa? What was sent from Africa to the Americas? From the Americas to Europe?
5.Who was the first conquistador to enter the lands of modern Mexico? What happened as a result of his exploration of that area?
6.What conquistador first explored the Andes Mountains? What empire did he eventually destroy?
7.Spanish explorer Ferdinand Magellan was the first to pull off what incredible accomplishment? Along the way he claimed for Spain what lucrative set of islands off the coast of China?
8.English explorers happened upon a much better system for funding their voyages than the Spanish – how did they do it?
9.Explorer Henry Hudson died on his final voyage while looking for what? His death illustrates a danger all explorers were exposed to – how did he die?
10.For native Americans, what was the overall consequence of 200 years of European exploration and colonization of the New World
11.With the assistance of the pope, what did Spain and Portugal agree to do in the Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494?
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Identify notable explorers of the European Age of Exploration and compare/contrast their voyages
Use the story of the Guarani Indians of Brazil to illustrate the pros and cons of the overall European colonization of the New World that began in the Age of Exploration
Announcements:
•Days to Winter Break: 8 (35% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 12/8
•Quiz 7 on Friday, 12/13 (note, there was no Quiz 6 – we did the midterm instead)
•1st & 2nd 6 Week Current Event Project scores now final BUT if you have less than 70 pts on them, you can turn in more than 100 pts during the final 6 week project and raise them to a max score to a 70 – you are still limited to 1 log and 1 journal a week though – your 3rd 6 week score will begin to be calculated into your overall grade starting 1/10/2020 and will become final on 1/24
•Final deadline for any late work due the 2nd 6 weeks is Wednesday, 12/11 - If turning in a late Guns, Germs & Steel paper to turnitin.com, I need an email from you alerting me to go and grade it there
•Turn in Zheng He notes after submitting your essay to turnitin.com
Activities:
1.Brainfood/Learning Targets
2.Review Last Class
3.Finish Exploration notes, pt 2- https://drive.google.com/file/d/128Bpql6QKlT1q8xGp91tbxro46zlfCSV/view?usp=sharing
4.“The Mission” pre-reading on the Guarani Indians: questions: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oO9iLnl5LlW-dQCKSSrIXF9BzsPBONDF/view?usp=sharing reading: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1iKFk0W6vZX4n0KLm5AOdZhRuMtBGYEKD
5.“The Mission” with questions: https://drive.google.com/file/d/156r5sf70vKrzQ7TP9DWpQLer2GxcYaUL/view?usp=sharing
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
1.Columbus had a difficult time getting along socially with many of his fellow explorers –why? What did he end up doing to many of them as a result? What ultimately happened to Columbus as a result of that?
2.What was the purpose of Columbus’s second trip to the New World?
3.What was the purpose of Columbus’s “encomienda system?” What effect did it have on the natives?
4.Columbus began what came to be called the “Triangular Trade System”–as part of that, what did Europeans send to Africa? What was sent from Africa to the Americas? From the Americas to Europe?
5.Who was the first conquistador to enter the lands of modern Mexico? What happened as a result of his exploration of that area?
6.What conquistador first explored the Andes Mountains? What empire did he eventually destroy?
7.Spanish explorer Ferdinand Magellan was the first to pull off what incredible accomplishment? Along the way he claimed for Spain what lucrative set of islands off the coast of China?
8.English explorers happened upon a much better system for funding their voyages than the Spanish – how did they do it?
9.Explorer Henry Hudson died on his final voyage while looking for what? His death illustrates a danger all explorers were exposed to – how did he die?
10.For native Americans, what was the overall consequence of 200 years of European exploration and colonization of the New World
11.With the assistance of the pope, what did Spain and Portugal agree to do in the Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494?
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Identify notable explorers of the European Age of Exploration and compare/contrast their voyages
Use the story of the Guarani Indians of Brazil to illustrate the pros and cons of the overall European colonization of the New World that began in the Age of Exploration
Announcements:
•Days to Winter Break: 8 (35% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 12/8
•Quiz 7 on Friday, 12/13
•1st & 2nd 6 Week Current Event Project scores now final BUT if you have less than 70 pts on them, you can turn in more than 100 pts during the final 6 week project and raise them to a max score to a 70 – you are still limited to 1 log and 1 journal a week though – your 3rd 6 week score will begin to be calculated into your overall grade starting 1/10/2020 and will become final on 1/24
•Final deadline for any late work due the 2nd 6 weeks is Wednesday, 12/11 – warning: if you have a C- or worse at the grade conference, expect a Senior Deficiency Letter to be sent home in the next week alerting your parents to the dangers you might not graduate on time
Activities:
1.Brainfood/Learning Targets
2.Review Last Class
3.West Wing #8 – “Enemies” – take 1 ½ pg notes/reactions/comments – my notes: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-SAwXa67qaQMllOOU5oaHU4REk/view?usp=sharing
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
1.__________ is the first national park ever created in world history – what was the reason for it’s creation?
2.Washington State has 3 amazing national parks – name 2 of them.
3.Only Congress can create a national park, but the Antiquities Act allows the president to create _____________, like Mt. St Helens. Interestingly, Trump recently became the first president to use the Antiquities Act to do what?
4.Businesses, special interest groups and citizens often hire “lobbyists” – what is the job of a lobbyist? Why do lobbyists often wield tremendous power?
5.One of the very first things presidents do once in office is select people for their “cabinet” – what is the cabinet? Why is it rare for presidents to convene meetings of their entire cabinet?
6.The West Wing shows a reporter trying to have a romantic relationship with a press secretary. Such a relationship would be unprofessional though, because it could result in a reporter not doing what? The ___________ profession also forbids its members from dating __________.
7.What is the grand goal of Washington D.C.’s Kennedy Center?
8.In the 1990s, Democrats lost control of the Congress, in part because they were perceived as caring more for the environment then the economy –here in the Northwest, what was the animal that fueled that perception? What industry was hurt by rules designed to protect the creature?
9.Press Secretaries frequently struggle to control “leaks” – what the heck is a leak? Why do they happen?
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Identify the basic purpose and mechanisms of the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act, which attempts to reform the banking industry
Identify what a “stump speech” is, what it’s purpose is, and what they usually contain
Explain what it means to call the media the “4th branch of government”
Describe what a “Machiavellian” politician looks like
Announcements:
•Days to Winter Break: 9 (35% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 12/4
•Quiz 7 on Friday, 12/13 (note, there was no Quiz 6 – we did the midterm instead)
•1st & 2nd 6 Week Current Event Project scores now final BUT if you have less than 70 pts on them, you can turn in more than 100 pts during the final 6 week project and raise them to a max score to a 70 – you are still limited to 1 log and 1 journal a week though – your 3rd 6 week score will begin to be calculated into your overall grade starting 1/10/2020 and will become final on 1/24
•Final deadline for any late work due the 2nd 6 weeks is Wednesday, 12/11 - If turning in a late Guns, Germs & Steel paper to turnitin.com, I need an email from you alerting me to go and grade it there
Activities:
1.Brainfood/Learning Targets
2.Review Last Class
3.Finish scenes from “1492” and Exploration notes, pt 2- https://drive.google.com/file/d/128Bpql6QKlT1q8xGp91tbxro46zlfCSV/view?usp=sharing
4.“The Mission” pre-reading on the Guarani Indians: questions: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oO9iLnl5LlW-dQCKSSrIXF9BzsPBONDF/view?usp=sharing reading: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1iKFk0W6vZX4n0KLm5AOdZhRuMtBGYEKD
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
1.Explorers during the Age of Exploration learned to fear “the doldrums” (also called the “horse latitudes”) – what were they? Why did they fear them?
2.Explorers came to adore the star Polaris – what’s really neat about it? What did explorers use it for?
3.Europeans in the 15th century were very superstitious (sailors in particular) – what did they believe about people born with cleft lips?
4.What was the purpose of sailors “sounding” or measuring “fathoms?”
5.What was Columbus promised by the Spanish Crown if he was to discover new lands on his 1492 voyage?
6.Why did he end up leaving 1/3 of his men behind on his first voyage? What became of their fort, La Navidad?
7.What were 2 things Europeans brought back with them from the New World? What were 2 things they took to the New World?
8.What tribe frequented the islands that Columbus visited on his first voyage, and is remembered today in the name given to the sea around those islands? The other tribe in the region was the Arawak – how were they different from the other tribe?
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Identify notable explorers of the European Age of Exploration and compare/contrast their voyages
Use the story of the Guarani Indians of Brazil to illustrate the pros and cons of the overall European colonization of the New World that began in the Age of Exploration
Announcements:
•Days to Winter Break: 9 (35% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 12/8
•Quiz 7 on Friday, 12/13
•1st & 2nd 6 Week Current Event Project scores now final BUT if you have less than 70 pts on them, you can turn in more than 100 pts during the final 6 week project and raise them to a max score to a 70 – you are still limited to 1 log and 1 journal a week though – your 3rd 6 week score will begin to be calculated into your overall grade starting 1/10/2020 and will become final on 1/24
•Final deadline for any late work due the 2nd 6 weeks is Wednesday, 12/11 – warning: if you have a C- or worse at the grade conference, expect a Senior Deficiency Letter to be sent home in the next week alerting your parents to the dangers you might not graduate on time
Activities:
1.Brainfood/Learning Targets
2.Review and turn-in Where In the World handout: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lKakGkMhtl0qvo97nQXfa0VoCx0Q8sX5/view?usp=sharing
3.West Wing #8 – “Enemies” – take 1 ½ pg notes/reactions/comments – my notes: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-SAwXa67qaQMllOOU5oaHU4REk/view?usp=sharing
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Locate on a map countries that are important to the USA and be able to briefly explain their significance to us
Explain the origin and purpose of the NPS, as well as name the parks it operates in Washington State
Explain what “lobbyists” are and what part they play in the American political system
Explain the concept of a “conflict of interest” and create some hypothetical examples
Announcements:
•Days to Winter Break: 11 (35% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 12/4
•Quiz 7 on Friday, 12/13 (note, there was no Quiz 6 – we did the midterm instead)
•Retake midterm exam by Friday, 12/6
•1st & 2nd 6 Week Current Event Project scores now final BUT if you have less than 70 pts on them, you can turn in more than 100 pts during the final 6 week project and raise them to a max score to a 70 – you are still limited to 1 log and 1 journal a week though – your 3rd 6 week score will begin to be calculated into your overall grade starting 1/10/2020 and will become final on 1/24
•Final deadline for any late work due the 2nd 6 weeks is Wednesday, 12/11 - If turning in a late Guns, Germs & Steel paper to turnitin.com, I need an email from you alerting me to go and grade it there
Activities:
1.Brainfood/Learning Targets
2.Review Last Class
3.Finish scenes from “1492” and Exploration notes, pt 2- https://drive.google.com/file/d/128Bpql6QKlT1q8xGp91tbxro46zlfCSV/view?usp=sharing
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
1.Prior to the Era of Exploration, why did European sailing vessels need to keep within sight of land?
2.What revolutionary ship erased that need? What 2 devices?
3.How did the Ottoman Turks pressure Europeans into exploring the oceans?
4.Historically, European explorers and their royal patrons were motivated by the “3 G’s” – what were those motivations? In hindsight, which appeared to be the most important priority?
5.What was the first European nation to establish a sea route to Asia?
6.What route did that country establish? What 2 sailors were most famous for creating it?
7.What did the prince known as “Henry the Navigator” do to make his country the best exploration power of the time?
8.What was Spain pre-occupied with doing prior to 1492 that made it slower to get involved in exploring?
9.What’s a “moor?”
10.What Spanish monarchs famously funded Christopher Columbus’ historic voyage? Why was it difficult for Columbus to get their support at first?
11.What 13th Century Venetian merchant wandered east on the Silk Road and wrote a long book which many dismissed as fiction, but others saw as a prime reason to find an alternative sailing route to China?
12.What common observation about sailing ships had sailors made for centuries before Columbus that demonstrated the Earth was round? What belief did Columbus have about the Earth that was totally wrong?
13.Columbus was not the first European to cross the Atlantic – who beat him by several centuries? Why didn’t they get the same amount of fame for the accomplishment?
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Identify notable explorers of the European Age of Exploration and compare/contrast their voyages
Announcements:
•Days to Winter Break: 10 (35% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 12/4
•Retake Quiz 6 by 12/6
•Quiz 7 on Friday, 12/13
•1st & 2nd 6 Week Current Event Project scores now final BUT if you have less than 70 pts on them, you can turn in more than 100 pts during the final 6 week project and raise them to a max score to a 70 – you are still limited to 1 log and 1 journal a week though – your 3rd 6 week score will begin to be calculated into your overall grade starting 1/10/2020 and will become final on 1/24
•Final deadline for any late work due the 2nd 6 weeks is Wednesday, 12/11 – warning: if you have a C- or worse at the grade conference, expect a Senior Deficiency Letter to be sent home in the next week alerting your parents to the dangers you might not graduate on time
Activities:
1.Brainfood/Learning Targets
2.Finish grade conferences and Where In the World presentations - project handout: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lKakGkMhtl0qvo97nQXfa0VoCx0Q8sX5/view?usp=sharing instructions: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JcrYMWv9rlXCDoY4GRAzEf-0zYItauQP/view?usp=sharing - assignments for 4th: https://drive.google.com/file/d/17UKH02GBI3b294zB--hR6ya8R-gfBrYh/view?usp=sharing 5Th https://drive.google.com/file/d/18ylvFbcOeqzO2opmTVjkHtvQhRDtdNUQ/view?usp=sharing 6th: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ctAdWWaXJrAK1PxJ6anvbkzPU5yHLpno/view?usp=sharing
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Locate on a map countries that are important to the USA and be able to briefly explain their significance to us
Announcements:
•Days to Winter Break: 11 (30% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 12/3
•Quiz 7 on Friday, 12/13 (note, there was no Quiz 6 – we did the midterm instead)
•Retake midterm exam by Friday, 12/6 (I am not available on 12/3 and 12/5 though)
•1st & 2nd 6 Week Current Event Project scores now final BUT if you have less than 70 pts on them, you can turn in more than 100 pts during the final 6 week project and raise them to a max score to a 70 – you are still limited to 1 log and 1 journal a week though – your 3rd 6 week score will begin to be calculated into your overall grade starting 1/10/2020 and will become final on 1/24
•Final deadline for any late work due the 2nd 6 weeks is Wednesday, 12/11 - If turning in a late Guns, Germs & Steel paper to turnitin.com, I need an email from you alerting me to go and grade it there
Activities:
1.Brainfood/Learning Targets
2.Review Last Class
3.Exploration Notes, pt 1 and scenes from “1492” - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GiZ0cmj-ZXg92ygnGsAoMq6h-B-_bJGR/view?usp=sharing
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
1.A good tool for evaluating a pair of conflicting explanations for an observable fact is known as “Occam’s razor” – it says that, all things being equal, the best explanation for a phenomenon is likely the _____________.
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Explain the “3 G’s” to explain the 3 main reasons Europeans launched voyages of discovery at the end of their “Dark Ages”
Identify notable explorers and compare/contrast their voyages
Announcements:
•Days to Winter Break: 11 (30% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 12/3
•Retake Quiz 6 by 12/6 (I won’t be available for conference period on 12/3 or 12/5)
•Quiz 7 on Friday, 12/13
•1st & 2nd 6 Week Current Event Project scores now final BUT if you have less than 70 pts on them, you can turn in more than 100 pts during the final 6 week project and raise them to a max score to a 70 – you are still limited to 1 log and 1 journal a week though – your 3rd 6 week score will begin to be calculated into your overall grade starting 1/10/2020 and will become final on 1/24
•Final deadline for any late work due the 2nd 6 weeks is Wednesday, 12/11 – warning: if you have a C- or worse at the grade conference, expect a Senior Deficiency Letter to be sent home in the next week alerting your parents to the dangers you might not graduate on time
Activities:
1.Work Time for Where In the World project
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Locate on a map countries that are important to the USA and be able to briefly explain their significance to us
Announcements:
•Days to Winter Break: 12 (30% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 12/1
•Quiz 7 on Friday, 12/13 (note, there was no Quiz 6 – we did the midterm instead)
•Retake midterm exam by Friday, 12/6 (I am not available on 12/3 and 12/5 though)
•1st & 2nd 6 Week Current Event Project scores now final BUT if you have less than 70 pts on them, you can turn in more than 100 pts during the final 6 week project and raise them to a max score to a 70 – you are still limited to 1 log and 1 journal a week though – your 3rd 6 week score will begin to be calculated into your overall grade starting 1/10/2020 and will become final on 1/24
•In-class grade conferences today – final deadline for any late work due the 2nd 6 weeks is Wednesday, 12/11 - If turning in a late Guns, Germs & Steel paper to turnitin.com, I need an email from you alerting me to go and grade it there
Activities:
1.Brainfood/Learning Targets
2.Grade conferences and research project and essay on Zheng He and Gavin Menzies – instructions here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rXrM87b8sxVL7jPFo0YXODcn8JBTOFLQVaDZ4rRaoUs/edit?usp=sharing – notes and essay due on 12/6, essay due to turnitin.com – you will have the next 2 classes to work on this
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
1.Other than his accomplishments on the oceans, what are 2 things interesting about the legendary Chinese Admiral Zheng He?
2.What was remarkable about the ships (“junks”) in Zheng He’s fleet?
3.What were 2 of Zheng He’s naval accomplishments that are universally celebrated by historians?
4.Despite his accomplishments, why did China apparently turn its back away from more naval exploring after Zheng He?
5.Author Gavin Menzies has made many sensational claims about Zheng He – what are 2 things he contends the admiral did that few other historians agree with?
6.Menzies work is dismissed as “pseudo-history” – what are 2 serious problems with his books?
7.What should Menzies claims about Zheng He remind us about the study of history?
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Explain the accomplishments of the Chinese explorer Zheng He and the controversy surrounding claims about him made by the modern author Gavin Menzies
Describe the role of science in creating history
Announcements:
•Days to Winter Break: 12 (30% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 12/1
•Retake Quiz 6 by 12/6 (I won’t be available for conference period on 12/3 or 12/5)
•Quiz 7 on Friday, 12/13
•1st & 2nd 6 Week Current Event Project scores now final BUT if you have less than 70 pts on them, you can turn in more than 100 pts during the final 6 week project and raise them to a max score to a 70 – you are still limited to 1 log and 1 journal a week though – your 3rd 6 week score will begin to be calculated into your overall grade starting 1/10/2020 and will become final on 1/24
•In-class grade conferences Wednesday, 12/4 – final deadline for any late work due the 2nd 6 weeks is Wednesday, 12/11 – warning: if you have a C- or worse at the grade conference, expect a Senior Deficiency Letter to be sent home in the next week alerting your parents to the dangers you might not graduate on time
Activities:
1.Brainfood/Learning Targets
2.Grade Conferences and Where In the World project – handout: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lKakGkMhtl0qvo97nQXfa0VoCx0Q8sX5/view?usp=sharing instructions: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JcrYMWv9rlXCDoY4GRAzEf-0zYItauQP/view?usp=sharing
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Locate on a map countries that are important to the USA and be able to briefly explain their significance to us
Announcements:
•Days to Winter Break: 13 (30% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 12/1
•Quiz 7 on Friday, 12/13 (note, there was no Quiz 6 – we did the midterm instead)
•Retake midterm exam by Friday, 12/6 (I am not available on 12/3 or 12/5 though)
•1st & 2nd 6 Week Current Event Project scores now final BUT if you have less than 70 pts on them, you can turn in more than 100 pts during the final 6 week project and raise them to a max score to a 70 – you are still limited to 1 log and 1 journal a week though – your 3rd 6 week score will begin to be calculated into your overall grade starting 1/10/2020 and will become final on 1/24
•In-class grade conferences today – final deadline for any late work due the 2nd 6 weeks is Wednesday, 12/11 - If turning in a late Guns, Germs & Steel paper to turnitin.com, I need an email from you alerting me to go and grade it there
Activities:
1.Sub Day: Work time for:
-research project and essay on Zheng He and Gavin Menzies – instructions here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rXrM87b8sxVL7jPFo0YXODcn8JBTOFLQVaDZ4rRaoUs/edit?usp=sharing – notes and essay due on 12/6, essay due to turnitin.com – you will have the next 2 classes to work on this
-Current event project for 3rd 6 weeks
-Any late work from the 2nd 6 weeks (final deadline next Wednesday)
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Explain the accomplishments of the Chinese explorer Zheng He and the controversy surrounding claims about him made by the modern author Gavin Menzies
Describe the role of science in creating history
Announcements:
•Days to Winter Break: 13 (30% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 12/1
•Retake Quiz 6 by 12/6 (I won’t be available for conference period on 12/3 or 12/5)
•Quiz 7 on Friday, 12/13
•1st & 2nd 6 Week Current Event Project scores now final BUT if you have less than 70 pts on them, you can turn in more than 100 pts during the final 6 week project and raise them to a max score to a 70 – you are still limited to 1 log and 1 journal a week though – your 3rd 6 week score will begin to be calculated into your overall grade starting 1/10/2020 and will become final on 1/24
•Political Identity Project essay due to turnitin.com by Tuesday, 12/3 – project notes here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B-SAwXa67qaQR0JaaXBkM3dkVG8 – project instructions here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-SAwXa67qaQdzJCVkp1QzJTLU0/view?usp=sharing – you will have work time on Friday, 11/22, Monday, 11/25 and Tuesday, 12/3 – turnitin.com info is here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/118X8XUelLnWasEXWwPNV-QEs94EZ4srLVfa78mSBK7A/edit?usp=sharing
•In-class grade conferences Wednesday, 12/4 – final deadline for any late work due the 2nd 6 weeks is Wednesday, 12/11 – warning: if you have a C- or worse at the grade conference, expect a Senior Deficiency Letter to be sent home in the next week alerting your parents to the dangers you might not graduate on time
Activities:
1.Work Day for:
- Political Identity Paper: project notes here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B-SAwXa67qaQR0JaaXBkM3dkVG8 – project instructions here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-SAwXa67qaQdzJCVkp1QzJTLU0/view?usp=sharing – turnitin.com info is here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/118X8XUelLnWasEXWwPNV-QEs94EZ4srLVfa78mSBK7A/edit?usp=sharing
- Current event project for 3rd 6 weeks
- Any late work from 2nd 6 weeks (final deadline 12/11)
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Analyze your political values and label your political identity
Announcements:
•Days to Winter Break: 14 (30% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 12/1
•Quiz 7 on Friday, 12/13 (note, there was no Quiz 6 – we did the midterm instead)
•Retake midterm exam by Friday, 12/6 (I am not available on 12/3 though)
•1st & 2nd 6 Week Current Event Project scores now final BUT if you have less than 70 pts on them, you can turn in more than 100 pts during the final 6 week project and raise them to a max score to a 70 – you are still limited to 1 log and 1 journal a week though – your 3rd 6 week score will begin to be calculated into your overall grade starting 1/10/2020 and will become final on 1/24
•In-class grade conferences today – final deadline for any late work due the 2nd 6 weeks is Wednesday, 12/11 - If turning in a late Guns, Germs & Steel paper to turnitin.com, I need an email from you alerting me to go and grade it there
Activities:
1.Brainfood/Learning Targets
2.Grade conferences and research project and essay on Zheng He and Gavin Menzies – instructions here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rXrM87b8sxVL7jPFo0YXODcn8JBTOFLQVaDZ4rRaoUs/edit?usp=sharing – notes and essay due on 12/6, essay due to turnitin.com – you will have the next 2 classes to work on this
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Explain the accomplishments of the Chinese explorer Zheng He and the controversy surrounding claims about him made by the modern author Gavin Menzies
Describe the role of science in creating history
Announcements:
•Days to Winter Break: 14 (30% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 12/1
•Retake Quiz 6 by 12/6 (I won’t be available for conference period on 12/3)
•Quiz 7 on Friday, 12/13
•1st & 2nd 6 Week Current Event Project scores now final BUT if you have less than 70 pts on them, you can turn in more than 100 pts during the final 6 week project and raise them to a max score to a 70 – you are still limited to 1 log and 1 journal a week though – your 3rd 6 week score will begin to be calculated into your overall grade starting 1/10/2020 and will become final on 1/24
•Political Identity Project essay due to turnitin.com by Tuesday, 12/3 – project notes here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B-SAwXa67qaQR0JaaXBkM3dkVG8 – project instructions here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-SAwXa67qaQdzJCVkp1QzJTLU0/view?usp=sharing – you will have work time on Friday, 11/22, Monday, 11/25 and Tuesday, 12/3 – turnitin.com info is here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/118X8XUelLnWasEXWwPNV-QEs94EZ4srLVfa78mSBK7A/edit?usp=sharing
•In-class grade conferences Wednesday, 12/4 – final deadline for any late work due the 2nd 6 weeks is Wednesday, 12/11 – warning: if you have a C- or worse at the grade conference, expect a Senior Deficiency Letter to be sent home in the next week alerting your parents to the dangers you might not graduate on time
Activities:
1.Brainfood/Learning Targets
2.Grade Quiz 6
3.Work on Political Identity Paper: project notes here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B-SAwXa67qaQR0JaaXBkM3dkVG8 – project instructions here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-SAwXa67qaQdzJCVkp1QzJTLU0/view?usp=sharing – turnitin.com info is here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/118X8XUelLnWasEXWwPNV-QEs94EZ4srLVfa78mSBK7A/edit?usp=sharing
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Analyze your political values and label your political identity
Announcements:
•Days to Winter Break: 15 (30% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 11/24
•Retake midterm exam by 12/6
•1st 6 Week Current Event Project score now final BUT if you have less than 70 pts on it, you can turn in more than 100 pts during the 2nd 6 week project and raise the 1st 6 week score to a 70 – you are still limited to 1 log and 1 journal a week though – your 2nd 6 week score will begin to be calculated into your overall grade starting 11/8 - any current event work for the Thanksgiving week is due Tuesday, 11/26
•If turning in a late Guns, Germs & Steel paper to turnitin.com, I need an email from you alerting me to go and grade it there
Activities:
1.Grade mid-term exam
2.Work time: current events, grade conferences, late work
Announcements:
•Days to Thanksgiving: 1 (30% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 11/18
•Quiz 6 on Tuesday, 11/26 (may include news stories from Friday, 11/22)
•1st 6 Week Current Event Project score now final BUT if you have less than 70 pts on it, you can turn in more than 100 pts during the 2nd 6 week project and raise the 1st 6 week score to a 70 – you are still limited to 1 log and 1 journal a week though – your 2nd 6 week score will begin to be calculated into your overall grade starting 11/8 - any current event work for the Thanksgiving week is due Tuesday, 11/26
•Political Identity Project essay due to turnitin.com by Tuesday, 12/3 – project notes here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B-SAwXa67qaQR0JaaXBkM3dkVG8 – project instructions here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-SAwXa67qaQdzJCVkp1QzJTLU0/view?usp=sharing – you will have work time on Friday, 11/22, Monday, 11/25 and Tuesday, 12/3 – turnitin.com info is here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/118X8XUelLnWasEXWwPNV-QEs94EZ4srLVfa78mSBK7A/edit?usp=sharing
Activities:
1.Review Last Class
2.Work on Political Identity Paper: project notes here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B-SAwXa67qaQR0JaaXBkM3dkVG8 – project instructions here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-SAwXa67qaQdzJCVkp1QzJTLU0/view?usp=sharing – turnitin.com info is here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/118X8XUelLnWasEXWwPNV-QEs94EZ4srLVfa78mSBK7A/edit?usp=sharing
Brain Food:
none
Review Questions:
1.There are 2 basic and potentially conflicting philosophies/purposes for news journalists and the media – one is that reporters/media exist simply to tell us what ________________, the other that reporters/media should tell us what _________________.
2.What do governments tend to use as justification for restricting people’s liberty? Example: what incident did Hitler use to justify the passing of the Nuremberg Laws?
3.What is the purpose of FEMA?
4.Beginning with Martha Washington, the traditional job of the First Lady has been what?
5.Who was the 1st “modern” First Lady, who added something new to the old tradition? What tradition did she establish for all First Ladies since? What’s an example of a 1st Lady doing this since her?
6.Historically, in a crisis, in order to prevent the spread of panic among citizens, presidents (and leaders in general) have been expected to do what?
7.What is the President’s “theme song” that is used to announce his entrance to formal events?
8.Though the Navy banned women from serving aboard warships until the 1960s, today women make up about _____% of all sailors. Why has the Navy, and the US military in general, become much more reliant on women than it was before the 1970s?
9.What does it mean to “extradite” a prisoner? What’s a country the US has no extradition treaty with?
10.What does it mean when a business/industry is “nationalized?” What kind of governments tend to nationalize many/most industries?
11.It’s odd to think that hurricanes have politics, but they do. For example, under political pressure in the 1970s, the World Meteorological Organization made what change to the naming of hurricanes?
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Analyze your political values and label your political identity
Announcements:
•Days to Thanksgiving: 1 (30% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 11/20
•1st 6 Week Current Event Project score now final BUT if you have less than 70 pts on it, you can turn in more than 100 pts during the 2nd 6 week project and raise the 1st 6 week score to a 70 – you are still limited to 1 log and 1 journal a week though – your 2nd 6 week score will begin to be calculated into your overall grade starting 11/8 - any current event work for the Thanksgiving week is due Tuesday, 11/26
•If turning in a late Guns, Germs & Steel paper to turnitin.com, I need an email from you alerting me to go and grade it there
Activities:
1.Mid-term exam
Announcements:
•Days to Thanksgiving: 2 (30% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 11/20
•Retake Quiz 5 by Friday, 11/22
•Mid-term Exam on Monday, 11/25 – in-class exam review on Friday, 11/22 – review guide: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HzT9fL3RPt7_4E0Wq4mesuLYnlN44opo/view?usp=sharing
•1st 6 Week Current Event Project score now final BUT if you have less than 70 pts on it, you can turn in more than 100 pts during the 2nd 6 week project and raise the 1st 6 week score to a 70 – you are still limited to 1 log and 1 journal a week though – your 2nd 6 week score will begin to be calculated into your overall grade starting 11/8
•If turning in a late Guns, Germs & Steel paper to turnitin.com, I need an email from you alerting me to go and grade it there
Activities:
1.Brain-food/Learning Targets
2.Review Last Class
3.Mid-term exam review and game: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HzT9fL3RPt7_4E0Wq4mesuLYnlN44opo/view?usp=sharing
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
1.Cervantes is widely acknowledged as The Father of the Novel for his story called ___________. What idea was he poking fun at?
2.Many of the Northern European painter like van Eyck and Durer were capable of a level of technical detail so great as to make modern historians think they might have cheated – how?
3.During the Renaissance, Chaucer, Dante and Cervantes all pioneered the use of the “vernacular,” which means what?
4.Chaucer wrote a famous set of tales about English pilgrims called _____________. Though he depicted “the Clerk” as a bona fide renaissance man, the work was generally critical of what English institution?
5.During the Renaissance, English writers of Middle English had curiously not yet agreed on what most basic thing about writing?
6.The most famed of late Renaissance English artists wrote both plays and sonnets and was named ___________. Most well known for his dramas, he also wrote 2 other kinds of plays – what were they? Interestingly, he wasn’t thought of much while he lived and didn’t become world-famous until long after his death – why wasn’t he revered during his lifetime?
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Be prepared for Monday’s mid-term exam
Announcements:
•Days to Thanksgiving: 2 (30% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 11/18
•Retake Quiz 5 by Friday, 11/22
•Quiz 6 on Tuesday, 11/26 (may include news stories from Friday, 11/22)
•1st 6 Week Current Event Project score now final BUT if you have less than 70 pts on it, you can turn in more than 100 pts during the 2nd 6 week project and raise the 1st 6 week score to a 70 – you are still limited to 1 log and 1 journal a week though – your 2nd 6 week score will begin to be calculated into your overall grade starting 11/8
•Political Identity Project essay due to turnitin.com by Tuesday, 12/3 – project notes here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B-SAwXa67qaQR0JaaXBkM3dkVG8 – project instructions here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-SAwXa67qaQdzJCVkp1QzJTLU0/view?usp=sharing – you will have work time on Friday, 11/22, Monday, 11/25 and Tuesday, 12/3 – turnitin.com info is here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/118X8XUelLnWasEXWwPNV-QEs94EZ4srLVfa78mSBK7A/edit?usp=sharing
Activities:
1.Brain-food/Learning Targets
2.Review Last Class
3.Finish/turn-in West Wing #7 – “The State Dinner” – take 1 ½ pg notes/reactions – my notes: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-SAwXa67qaQazgzRWdhN3NSTnc/view?usp=sharing
4.Work on Political Identity Paper: project notes here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B-SAwXa67qaQR0JaaXBkM3dkVG8 – project instructions here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-SAwXa67qaQdzJCVkp1QzJTLU0/view?usp=sharing – turnitin.com info is here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/118X8XUelLnWasEXWwPNV-QEs94EZ4srLVfa78mSBK7A/edit?usp=sharing
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
1.What single factor is the most important in predicting a person’s political involvement, be it voting, donating money, trying to influence other voters or attending political rallies?
2.According to a Gallup study conducted regularly over the past 25 years, the relative percentages of Americans proclaimed political identities have changed _______(greatly/a good bit/barely/not at all) over time.
3.The study shows Americans are consistently least likely to claim they are _________ (Liberal/ Moderate/Conservative). Another conclusion would be that, over the past 2 decades, our country could be accurately described as _______ (far-left/left-leaning/moderate/right-leaning/far-right).
4.According to political scientists, the least common type of voter is the “ideologue“ – these are people that vote solely by looking at what? By contrast, the most common type of voter (“group benefits voters”) base their decision entirely on what?
5. 1 out of 4 Americans are “swing voters,” who make their pick based on what? About a 1/5 of us are “no issue content” voters. We base our decision on the __________ of the candidate.
6.Political scientists who study “political socialization” conclude that the environment DOES have an impact on us. What do they say is the single biggest influence on the formation of our political identity? What’s another major influence after that?
7.The Taft-Hartley Act of 1947 was designed to break/reduce the power of ___________ in the US – what are 2 things it did to do this?
8.Washington’s NFL football team has recently been under political pressure to do what? The Supreme Court though, in a case involving an Asian-American band called “The Slants,” gave the team some good-news though when it said the government couldn’t deny the band a _____________.
9.What is the legal term for a situation where a law enforcement officer asks you to break the law, then arrests you for doing what they asked? According to the Supreme Court, is this permitted by the Constitution?
10.The most populous Muslim country on Earth is ______________, and until quite recently we supported a nasty dictatorship there - why?
11.Since the creation of the “Monroe Doctrine” in the early 19th century, what has the USA frequently done in many countries like Cuba, Columbia, Indonesia and Iran that has had troubling implications? What have been the long-term consequences of those actions?
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Explain the role the White House can play in fights between unions and employers
Explain how, historically, governments have justified cracking down on unpopular groups and use the 1933 Nuremberg Laws as an example
Define the terms “nationalize” and “extradition”
Announcements:
•Days to Thanksgiving: 3 (30% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 11/18
•Retake Quiz 5 by Friday, 11/22
•Quiz 6 on Tuesday, 11/26 (may include news stories from Friday, 11/22)
•1st 6 Week Current Event Project score now final BUT if you have less than 70 pts on it, you can turn in more than 100 pts during the 2nd 6 week project and raise the 1st 6 week score to a 70 – you are still limited to 1 log and 1 journal a week though – your 2nd 6 week score will begin to be calculated into your overall grade starting 11/8
•Political Identity Project essay due to turnitin.com by Monday, 12/2 – project notes here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B-SAwXa67qaQR0JaaXBkM3dkVG8 – project instructions here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-SAwXa67qaQdzJCVkp1QzJTLU0/view?usp=sharing – you will have workdays on Friday, 11/22 and Monday, 11/25
Activities:
1.Brain-food/Learning Targets
2.Review Last Class
3.The Political Identity Project – project explanation: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-SAwXa67qaQdzJCVkp1QzJTLU0/view?usp=sharing - final notes: political socialization and the 4 types of voters - https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B-SAwXa67qaQR0JaaXBkM3dkVG8
4.West Wing #7 – “The State Dinner” – take 1 ½ pg notes/reactions – my notes: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-SAwXa67qaQazgzRWdhN3NSTnc/view?usp=sharing
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
1.Liberals and conservatives can agree there are great things about the internet – what are 2 of those things? They also acknowledge there can be bad things – what are 2 of those?
2.When it comes to the internet, do conservatives generally support policies like Facebook’s “Real Name Policy?” Why?
3.Net neutrality has become a hot-button political issue – in countries where net neutrality is the law, what is required of internet providers? Which of the two political ideologies in the US is the bigger believer in net neutrality?
4.Liberals and conservatives in the USA are struggling to establish positions on the “right to be forgotten,” already firmly established in Europe, which in theory would give you the right to do what?
5.What is an expected benefit of “stem cell research?” Why are some conservatives strongly critical of it?
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Identify the 4 types of voters and which type you most likely will be
Describe the various ways citizens are politically socialized
Explain the role the White House can play in fights between unions and employers
Announcements:
•Days to Thanksgiving: 3 (30% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 11/20
•Retake Quiz 5 by Friday, 11/22
•Mid-term Exam on Monday, 11/25 – in-class exam review on Friday, 11/22 – review guide: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HzT9fL3RPt7_4E0Wq4mesuLYnlN44opo/view?usp=sharing
•1st 6 Week Current Event Project score now final BUT if you have less than 70 pts on it, you can turn in more than 100 pts during the 2nd 6 week project and raise the 1st 6 week score to a 70 – you are still limited to 1 log and 1 journal a week though – your 2nd 6 week score will begin to be calculated into your overall grade starting 11/8
•If turning in a late Guns, Germs & Steel paper to turnitin.com, I need an email from you alerting me to go and grade it there
Activities:
1.Brain-food/Learning Targets
2.Review Last Class
3.Notes: The Renaissance Outside Italy: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WUYtWt4FeJ0jkqKG1WgmnAQkExEzNHXa/view?usp=sharing and https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Fahu5s7aQAgfA9a5b6M5DKrOveWlvY2z/view?usp=sharing – Don Quixote scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5etZWua2UQk
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
1.Of the most famed Renaissance authors, Dante stands out for his huge poem, “ The ____________” which follows a man as he takes an epic trip through ________.
2.In writing his popular poem, Dante became known as the father of the language he wrote it in, _________.
3.Petrarch rivals Dante for his fame – first for his scholarship, which he used to save what dying thing? Second for his unique new form of poetry, sonnets. What made sonnets unique from other poems?
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Describe the contributions the Renaissance made to the art of literature
Identify and explain the significance of Renaissance figures from outside Italy
Announcements:
•Days to Thanksgiving: 4 (30% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 11/18
•Retake Quiz 5 by Friday, 11/22
•Quiz 6 on Tuesday, 11/26 (may include news stories from Friday, 11/22)
•1st 6 Week Current Event Project score now final BUT if you have less than 70 pts on it, you can turn in more than 100 pts during the 2nd 6 week project and raise the 1st 6 week score to a 70 – you are still limited to 1 log and 1 journal a week though – your 2nd 6 week score will begin to be calculated into your overall grade starting 11/8
•Political Identity Project essay due to turnitin.com by Monday, 12/2 – project notes here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B-SAwXa67qaQR0JaaXBkM3dkVG8 – project instructions here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-SAwXa67qaQdzJCVkp1QzJTLU0/view?usp=sharing – you will have workdays on Friday, 11/22 and Monday, 11/25
Activities:
1.Brain-food/Learning Targets
2.Review Last Class
3.The Political Identity Project – project explanation: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-SAwXa67qaQdzJCVkp1QzJTLU0/view?usp=sharing - issue for today: the internet and stem cell research- https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B-SAwXa67qaQR0JaaXBkM3dkVG8
4.West Wing #7 – “The State Dinner” – take 1 ½ pg notes/reactions – my notes: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-SAwXa67qaQazgzRWdhN3NSTnc/view?usp=sharing
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
1.Liberals and conservatives both say Social Security needs reform – what do they agree is a problem? What is one of the proposed solutions that is deeply controversial?
2.What are 2 things most every American can agree on in terms of our national policy on immigration? What are 2 issues that sharply divide us though?
3.What do we call the grandiose parties the White House throws for visits from foreign dignitaries?
4.Many of us think the purpose of news organizations should be to educate people so we can have a stronger republic, but the reality of the media is that it tends to serve what other purpose first?
5.“Survivalists” have been a feature of the American landscape for a long time – what do survivalists generally feel extremely paranoid about and believe is out to destroy them and their way of life? Where in the US do most survivalist groups tend to live?
6.What is the danger when dealing with survivalist groups that are breaking the law? What’s an example of a survivalist group/person/incident that illustrates this danger?
7.What is the nation’s largest union of truck drivers?
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Explain how conservatives and liberals generally agree/disagree on the topics of the internet and stem cell research
Analyze your political values and label your political identity
Explain the concept of “survivalists” in American history and typical struggles the US government has found in dealing with them
Explain the role the White House can play in fights between unions and employers
Announcements:
•Days to Thanksgiving: 4 (30% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 11/18
•Retake Quiz 5 by Friday, 11/22
•Mid-term Exam on Monday, 11/25 – in-class exam review on Friday, 11/22 – review guide: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HzT9fL3RPt7_4E0Wq4mesuLYnlN44opo/view?usp=sharing
•1st 6 Week Current Event Project score now final BUT if you have less than 70 pts on it, you can turn in more than 100 pts during the 2nd 6 week project and raise the 1st 6 week score to a 70 – you are still limited to 1 log and 1 journal a week though – your 2nd 6 week score will begin to be calculated into your overall grade starting 11/8
•If turning in a late Guns, Germs & Steel paper to turnitin.com, I need an email from you alerting me to go and grade it there
Activities:
1.Brain-food/Learning Targets
2.Review Last Class
3.Finish Machiavelli Simulations: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JIeH4nofDTOX4uKmS7zHDGvKPBcDSd3u/view?usp=sharing
4.Notes: The Renaissance Outside Italy: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WUYtWt4FeJ0jkqKG1WgmnAQkExEzNHXa/view?usp=sharing and https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Fahu5s7aQAgfA9a5b6M5DKrOveWlvY2z/view?usp=sharing – Don Quixote scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5etZWua2UQk
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
1.According to Machiavelli, the first and best way to figure out how intelligent a ruler is requires you only to look at what?
2.What did Machiavelli mean when he said, “politics have no relation to morals?”
3.While moralists have long condemned Machiavelli, what can be said in his defense?
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Describe the contributions the Renaissance made to the art of literature
Identify and explain the significance of Renaissance figures from outside Italy
Announcements:
•Days to Thanksgiving: 5 (25% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 11/18
•Retake Quiz 5 by Friday, 11/22
•Quiz 6 on Tuesday, 11/26 (may include news stories from Friday, 11/22)
•1st 6 Week Current Event Project score now final BUT if you have less than 70 pts on it, you can turn in more than 100 pts during the 2nd 6 week project and raise the 1st 6 week score to a 70 – you are still limited to 1 log and 1 journal a week though – your 2nd 6 week score will begin to be calculated into your overall grade starting 11/8
•Political Identity Project essay due to turnitin.com by Monday, 12/2 – project notes here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B-SAwXa67qaQR0JaaXBkM3dkVG8 – project instructions here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-SAwXa67qaQdzJCVkp1QzJTLU0/view?usp=sharing – you will have workdays on Friday, 11/22 and Monday, 11/25
Activities:
1.Brain-food/Learning Targets
2.Review Last Class
3.The Political Identity Project – project explanation: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-SAwXa67qaQdzJCVkp1QzJTLU0/view?usp=sharing - issue for today: immigration and social security - https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B-SAwXa67qaQR0JaaXBkM3dkVG8
4.West Wing #7 – “The State Dinner” – take 1 ½ pg notes/reactions – my notes: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-SAwXa67qaQazgzRWdhN3NSTnc/view?usp=sharing
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
1.What do conservatives think is the best way to win the “war on drugs?” What do liberals think is the better way?
2.What do liberals think about the legalization of marijuana?
3.How is the process of voting in the House of Reps different from the Senate?
4.While we often despair at government’s ability to solve problems, the public health issues of teen drinking and smoking have shown marked improvement over the past 30 years – what are 2 things state/federal governments have done to reduce the rate of teen (as well as adult) smoking/drinking? What new development has threatened to undue that progress in the past few years?
5.About how many people live in the US as of 2018? The 2010 census predicted that the 2020 census would show that we’ve become a “majority-minority” nation, which means what?
6.What power does the 25th Amendment give to the President’s Cabinet? What is a potential problem with the 25th Amendment?
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Explain how conservatives and liberals generally agree/disagree on the topics of immigration and social security
Analyze your political values and label your political identity
Explain the concept of “survivalists” in American history and typical struggles the US government has found in dealing with them
Explain the role the White House can play in fights between unions and employers
Announcements:
•Grades Updated on: 11/18
•Retake Quiz 5 by Friday, 11/22
•Mid-term Exam on Monday, 11/25 – in-class exam review on Friday, 11/22 – review guide: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HzT9fL3RPt7_4E0Wq4mesuLYnlN44opo/view?usp=sharing
•1st 6 Week Current Event Project score now final BUT if you have less than 70 pts on it, you can turn in more than 100 pts during the 2nd 6 week project and raise the 1st 6 week score to a 70 – you are still limited to 1 log and 1 journal a week though – your 2nd 6 week score will begin to be calculated into your overall grade starting 11/8
•If turning in a late Guns, Germs & Steel paper to turnitin.com, I need an email from you alerting me to go and grade it there
Activities:
1.Brain-food/Learning Targets
2.Review Last Class
3.Review/turn-in Hot Spots of Geography #6: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1D1ZpRRj6zLN7YJTp5SxTqboytn1WRX0k_evj8dbRfHQ/edit?usp=sharing
4.Machiavelli simulations: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JIeH4nofDTOX4uKmS7zHDGvKPBcDSd3u/view?usp=sharing
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
1.What man did Nicolai Machiavelli use as the “perfect example” of the theories he laid out in “The Prince?”
2.What was Machiavelli's primary purpose in writing “The Prince?”
3.What did Machiavelli say political leaders must study if they were to be successful and avoid making serious mistakes in running their state?
4.What did Machiavelli think about the basic nature of mankind? Why has he been disliked by moralists and the religion for the past 500 years?
5.Complete the following Machiavellian concepts:
a.________ must be kept at all costs.
b.It is better to be _______ than loved.
c.A leader should be ________ when possible, but______ when necessary
d.No matter their true nature, a leader must ________ to be good.
e.In running a state, the ________ justify the means.
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Locate important places on the Earth’s surface and describe where they are relative to other important places
Explain 3 key lessons Machiavelli wanted every good ruler to know
Compare and contrast the behavior of modern politicians to Machiavelli’s ideal prince
Announcements:
•Days to End Spring Break: 19 (60% of year complete!)
•Grades Updated on: 2/23
•Obamacare Debate moved to Monday, 3/2 – preparation instructions: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1T8QSa0tmcsjgAWNr08g2sVxvF59ysv-H - roll assignments: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DdGBWFwNwp-VGIyYOjk6KS_-cvBaKjT1qcG-oLamSJk/edit?usp=sharing – in-class preparation day: 2/26
•Current Event Project the same in the 2nd semester as in the 1st – turn in a max of 1 log, 1 journal a week for 40 pts/week – project totals will appear in Skyward but won’t actually impact class grade until 2/21 – project score becomes final on 3/13
•Part 1 of Write Your Rep due by 2/28, Pt 2 due to turnitin.com by 3/13 – Pt 1 &2 instructions: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HzG8XeGTFd71ejtymQENr-Aei6pVoIwy/view?usp=sharing
•Retake Quiz 2 by Tuesday, 3/3
•Quiz 3 => Friday, 3/6
Activities:
1.Brainfood/Learning Targets
2.Review Last Class
3.West Wing #12 “He Shall From Time to Time” – take 1 ½ pg notes/reactions – my notes: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-SAwXa67qaQc0hCdFM2X2RneVU/view?usp=sharing
4.Work on Debate prep/current events
Brain Food:
here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jflzyxq7i_HYAYyfkmYa6z5hl2DCLP4UnY8OtpdHoWY/edit?usp=sharing
Review Questions:
1.A 2017 study of the Affordable Care Act showed that overall, the law has had what effect on the number of Americans without health insurance? (gone up/down/stayed the same) The same study showed that not having insurance was most common with what ethnic group? What educational group was the least likely to be insured?
2.A 2018 study also looking at the ACA deduced that the most common reason for nonelderly adult to not have insurance was what?
3.The Departments of Labor and Commerce were established in 1903 and recognized what very significant change had occurred in the American economy since the 1860s?
4.What are two specific job responsibilities/programs managed by the Secretary of Commerce?
5.The Commerce Secretary is __________. He’s a billionaire – how’d he make his money?
6.The Commerce Secretary was recently embarrassed by the publication of the “Paradise Papers,” which revealed that he, as well as many other government officials throughout the world, has done what with his considerable wealth? He was also annoyed perhaps when the Supreme Court insisted that he drop what from the 2020 census?
7.What is the purpose of the federal program, created in 1965, called the NEA? Why have conservatives generally disliked the NEA ever since it’s creation?
8.When running for office, presidential candidates usually release their private medical records – why?
9.Multiple Sclerosis is an “auto-immune” disease, which means what? What does MS attack and damage?
10.What are 2 symptoms of MS?
Learning Targets (What You Ought to be able to Do by the End of Class):
Explain the concept of the “stick and carrot” approach to foreign policy