Tuesday, November 1st, 2022

 If you are home:

--Create a Loom video of your presentation and attach the link to the Google Classroom assignment.

Vocabulary Words

Period 5&6: Goths, Huns & Mongols, hubris, genocide

Period 7&8: Goths, Huns & Mongols, hubris, genocide

Circle: If you could improve one of these three things about you what would you change: risk-taking, assertiveness, thoughtfulness?

Target Practice

Upcoming: NWEA testing

Intro to the Day

College Search

Learning Target: I can use internet resources to discover career possibilities and a explore specific college options.

Next Tuesday, you will the attending a college fair.  Today we will explore how to search for colleges and understand what you are looking for.

1) Go to Big Futures

2) We will show you how the site works

3) On your own, find a school that might work for you

4) Take notes on that school

5) Report out at your table

6) Cold call report out.

Career Unit: Career Exploration

Learning Target: I can use internet resources to discover career possibilities and a explore specific career option.
1) Got to Truity.com find your MB type, then search career possibilities.
2) Log the Occupational Handbook or Ferguson's Career Center
3) Spend 5 minutes free clicking to see the types of information there is.
4) Explore your career, taking notes. (15 minutes)
5) Report out

College/Career Loom Presentation (Due Friday, November 4th)

Learning Target: I can use presentation technology to organize and present information.

1) Create a new Google slide show with the slides necessary to present your college and career choices.

2) The content of the slides is up to you and what you found interesting about the college/career

3) Create a Loom 1-2 minute Loom video to present the slideshow.

     Loom steps: a) log into Loom using google account; b) install Chrome extension (Chromebook) OR download app (Mac); c) record!

2nd Circle: Thinking back to elementary school, a fashion, activity, etc that was super popular that has faded away.

Unit: Fall of Rome

Learning Target: I can explain the connections between historical events and the present.

1. Why do we study history? Think, turn and talk and be prepared to report out.  Adolph Eichman

2. What do you already know about the Fall of Rome?

3. Weird facts about Rome-At your table make a brief list of the strangest things you found to report out

4. Is there a connection between what America is going through and what Rome experienced? 

You will be taking notes figuring out what the 8 reasons.

Video: Eight reasons Rome fell 

5. Create list of the 8 reasons

6. At your table, think, share and be ready to report out any connections between what happened to Rome and what might be happening to the USA.

7. Read this

8. Writing-What do you think?  Are there similarities between what happened in Rome and what is going on the in USA