Thursday, March 27th, 2014

1) Take the poll.

Circle Question: What is your earliest memory?


Overall Curricular Goal:
Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence.

Connections -- Writing
Your challenge is to write for an hour to produce an essay in which you explain how the many things we have done this year are connected to economy.
Possible thesis statements:
"Although it seems like we've been doing things that are disconnected, nearly everything we've done explains something about capitalism."
-OR-
"Although it seems like we've been doing things that are disconnected, nearly everything we've done explains something about economy."

Topics this Year: Merchants of Cool, The Rivals, Mock Economy, Beans of Egypt, Maine; Roger and Me; Ernie's Ark; The Things They Carried; fall of the Roman Empire; Sophomore Careers Project; Syria (what should we do); Sir Maps-alot; business advertisements in the old yearbooks; philosophies; Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs.

Important Things to Remember: Make sure that each paragraph has a claim that supports your thesis, an example that supports the claim, and a warrant that explains EXACTLY how the evidence supports the claim.
[Curricular Goal: Analyze texts to determine how connections are made in development of complex ideas or events or in development of topics, themes, or rhetorical features.]

Funny in Farsi -- Assessment
You are being assessed on your ability to draw evidence from literary texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
1) Download this document (Click on the link, then in Google Drive click the download icon to get a copy on your computer)
2) On the grid, you are expected to lift specific quotes from the chapter "It's all Relatives," place them in the grid and follow the directions on the sheet.

Crimea Unit
Explanation : To understand any world event you must understand the history behind it and its connections to the greater world.  We do not exist in a vacuum.  Why should we care about the events in Crimea?  On the surface it would seem to be a insignificant piece of geography in a remote part of the world yet world leaders are up in arms and it is a serious topic of conversation throughout the world.  We want to figure out why nations and governments(including the USA) are so upset and talking about imposing severe financial sanctions as well as mobilizing armed forces in the region in response to Russia's annexation of Crimea.
[Students can engage in research/inquiry to investigate topics, and to analyze, integrate, and present information.]
Crimea Honors and Optional Credit Assignment
Open this document, make a copy on your Google account, and share it with brewsterjburns@gmail.com.  Follow the directions in class.

Current History: Crimea
We'll be spending a portion of class for the next month looking at the issue of Russia's annexation of
Videos:
Putin does give a sh...
Crash Course on Cold War
[Analyze texts to determine how connections are made in development of complex ideas or events or in development of topics, themes, or rhetorical features.]