Tuesday March 5, 2024
Vocabulary Words: opportunity cost, esthetics, taboos, values, demographics
Free Reading Book
Do you have the account? The Humex Bank
Circle: If you were given to choice to loose a little of your intelligence but become more likeable or gain intelligence but become less likable which would you choose? If you don't make a choice you are dumb and unlikeable:)
Elements of deep culture: Year books... At your table you will try and make a determination of whether or not the yearbook is from a poor or wealthy community. You will need to provide evidence to back up you claim and explain(warrant) why you believe its correct.
Finish: The Last Samurai
What do Katsumoto and the other samurai value? Using the values sheet come to an agreement about which are the most important values to the samurai. How do you think it made their lives better. Remember to not be ethnocentric.
Learning Target: I can use figurative language to make my writing more interesting
Fun with Metaphors! Get a feel for metaphors by looking at some classic poems withy our group. Then you will make a list of abstract concepts and another list of objects. Randomly pair a concept with an object and create fun metaphors in 3-5 sentences. The Mighty Metaphor and Fun with Metaphors
Unit: Rumford or Cape -- Time to Decide
Learning Target: I can use research to make a decision and back up my decision with information.
The Scenario: You have the opportunity to raise your child in either Cape Elizabeth or Rumford. Your family will earn $140,000. One parent is a chemical engineer and the other a nurse. This amount of yearly income would allow you to buy a house in either town up to but not over 350,000. That will mean very different things in each community -- you will very comfortable in Rumford, and house poor and struggling in Cape. Your child will have very different experiences in each.
1) Your child. Make and determine the values you want your child to have in order for them to have a happy, successful life. Write three on the back.
2) Quick research on each town. Cape Elizabeth High School Mountain Valley High School
3) Turn and talk -- what did you find?
4) Make your choice: Cold call. Your pick and why.
5) Place your child.
The Scenario: You have the opportunity to raise your child in either Cape Elizabeth or Rumford. Your family will earn $140,000. One parent is a chemical engineer and the other a nurse. This amount of yearly income would allow you to buy a house in either town up to but not over 350,000. That will mean very different things in each community -- you will very comfortable in Rumford, and house poor and struggling in Cape. Your child will have very different experiences in each.
1) Your child. Make and determine the values you want your child to have in order for them to have a happy, successful life. Write three on the back.
2) Quick research on each town. Cape Elizabeth High School Mountain Valley High School
3) Turn and talk -- what did you find?
4) Make your choice: Cold call. Your pick and why.
5) Place your child.
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