Day 12: Thursday, July 25, 2013

Post date: Jul 25, 2013 4:24:59 PM

Essential (Seminar) Questions:

1) How have astronomical, geological, and biological factors impacted the evolution of species from Australopithicus to homo sapiens? To what extent has one of these categories been more important than the others?

2) “Altruism and kindness run counter to Darwin’s theory of evolution.” To what extent do you believe this statement to be true?

Today, we discussed the beginning and evolution of life on Earth.

For HW:

1. Your Little Big History annotated bibliographies are due on Wednesday, July 31st.
2. We will have a closed book exam on Monday. The prompt will be "In what ways did biological, astronomical, and geological factors allow Homo sapiens to emerge and survive?"
3. Read and annotate "Collective Learning: Using Language to Share and Build Knowledge".
4. Read and annotate Stokes-Brown, Big History, Chapter 4 (p. 57-71)
5. Read and annotate Christian, Maps of Time, Chapter 7 (p. 185-190)

Lastly, here are Little Big History documents:

• The assignment document, detailing steps and due dates
• The initial topic graphic organizer
• The narrowing topic graphic organizer
• Little Big History Thresholds Graphic Organizer
• Here is an anchor for the annotated bibliography.
• Here is the graphic organizer for the annotated bibliography (due Wed, July 31)
• This is a guide to different kinds of sources and how to cite them for your bibliography.
• Here is a guide to footnotes (what they are and how to use them)
• A guide to JSTOR and how to log in and search for articles
• An initial list of possible text sources you can use for the project if you're feeling stuck
• A graphic organizer to help you write your conclusion to the LBH project.
• Here is the Little Big History rubric for 2013, off of which you will be assessed.