Monday December 9th 2013

 Students do this: 
1) If you haven't already, create a folder in Google drive called "lastname firstname" (no quotes) and share it with brewsterjburns@gmail.com.
2) Return your Ernie's Ark Books
4) Take the poll
5) Look at the calendar tab above and check out what's due in the future.
6) HONORS Show Mr. Burns your biography.
7) Beans Poll
8) Download this

Circle: If you could choose to live in a world where everyone was equal, meaning everyone makes the exact same amount of money, neither rich nor poor, would you want to?  Why?

Vocabulary:  Assign Words -- Pick two and for homework find a simple definition and find a visual.
Ethnocentrism
Discrimination
Poverty Line
capitalism
socialism
communism
myth
supply and demand
bourgeois
proletariat

PERIODS 5+6 Finish: Should We Teach the Fall of Rome?
Challenge Narrative: Mr. Springer, a former history teacher, believes that teaching the fall of Rome is a waste of time.  Your challenge is to prove him incorrect, unless the evidence proves otherwise.
Challenge: Using the data from your surveys and the Keynote you have created, put together a presentation that explains why Rome should be taught.
Requirements: 
1)  A written and memorized introduction;
2)  Three Keynote slides for each reason (you need 3 reasons):
      a) Slide 1: A reason Rome fell
      b) Slide 2: The question you asked staff
      c) Slide 3: A chart showing the responses for each question ( you may focus on your responses on community and nation)
3) A written conclusion stating why you think the fall of Rome should be taught.
You will be going out as a group and presenting your slideshow to staff members

PERIOD 7+8 Go to Library

Test Preparation
Wednesday, at the beginning we'll be taking a test on the fall of Rome.  You will asked to name and explain 10 reasons Rome fell.  Make sure you have this document on the fall of Rome. Today, you will have 10 minutes to translate the 13 reasons onto a fresh Pages document named 13reasons.

Philosophy Challenge
Purpose: Philosophy and religion exist for the sole purpose of giving purpose and explaining how life works. They can be very useful when things aren't going so well and can make one's life significantly better.  Personal philosophies can be by-products of where you live, "inherited" from your family or chosen by you.
Challenge Narrative: Pretend you are have just been zapped by the Men In Black stun device. The device has been set to remove all philosophical beliefs from your normally driven, purposeful brain. You no have no idea what the purpose of life is and are shopping around for a philosophy that make sense.
Challenge: You're going to be given one quotation at at time. All the quotes come from different philosophies.  For each quote, you must 1) Find out who said the quote; 2) name the philosophy it came from; 3)  explain exactly what the quote means, as simply as possible, and; 4) explain a time in your life the quote and it's underlying belief would have been useful.  If your group finishes with a quotation, you will get another.  You will be quizzed next class on the quotes' meanings.
The Quotes:

• You cannot step in the same river twice.
• God is dead.
• Death need not concern us because when we exist death does not, and when death exists we do not.
• An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
• The struggle itself...is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy
• The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, we did it ourselves.
• Man is the measure of all things.
• Nothing in the world—indeed nothing even beyond the world—can possibly be conceived which could be called good without qualification except a good will.
• Man is born free and is everywhere in chains.
• The unexamined life is not worth living.
• I think therefore I am.
• Entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily.
• Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
• To lead the people, walk behind them.

Next Book: Bean of Egypt, Maine

Split Activities: Careers Work and Surveying Norway
Careers Work
Work
Surveying Norway
Challenge: Find out everything you can about Downtown Norway.
Possible Tasks:
Survey questions on Rome
List of businesses and categories
List of things that are missing in Norway (through surveying people)
Brainstorming things that are missing (students)
From a busy location, do a visual survey of number of people and gender
Cars per hour

In the Future:

Maslow Self-Assessment