Monday April 14, 2014

1) Take the poll. Results here.

Shakespeare Quiz

Circle Question: One piece of advice you would give to incoming sophomores about this class.

Goal: Integrate and evaluate multiple sources of information presented in diverse formats and media (e.g., visually, quantitatively, as well as in words) in order to address a question or solve a problem.
Organize Crimea News Homework
At your table share the news you have found on Crimea.
1. Using the questions generated last class organize the news articles by the questions they answer.
2. Share your news articles with the others in your group.
3. Explain where you are going to catagorize the Crimea article.
4. Attach a brief explanation why that particular article helps answer the question.
5. Be prepared to share with the class the article you believe best answers one of your questions.
Organize your Crimea news using the questions generated last class.  This will be done on your "Pages" document.

Vocabulary Words
Autonomy
Puppet Regime
Militia
"White Paper"
Globalization
Nationalism



White Paper on Crimea
Goal: Integrate and evaluate multiple sources of information presented in diverse formats and media (e.g., visually, quantitatively, as well as in words) in order to address a question or solve a problem.
You will be writing a position paper on Crimea in which you will both explain what's going on in Crimea and , based on that information, explain what you think the United States should do.  In order to write the paper, there's a lot you need to understand.
-Review questions generated last class.
-What questions do we not know the answers to?
-When can we write this paper?

Writing Activity
Goal:Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas, concepts, and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content.
Revise the "Its-all connected" essay.
1) We will display student paragraphs on the board.
2) You will determine whether or not the paragraphs display correct claim, evidence and warrant.
3) Revise your own essay.

Julius Caesar
Goal: Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in detail its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text.
Reading, watching, acting
Act out Act 3 scene 1 with movement.
Theme Identification with Plot
We will identify the themes we have seen in the play so far and connect them to specific scenes.

Possible Activities In The Future
Democracy-Dictatorship Exercise

What do we know so far -- a game of fives
Your challenge is to create a group of 5 and put together a five slide presentation that explains the 5 most important things we need to understand about Crimea.  In addition to having 5 people in your group, the following conditions must be met in your group:
-at least 2 of each gender
-three towns
-at least two different Morrell periods
Requirements for the slides and presentation:
-The Keynote presentation is independently assembled on all computers.
-Each slide only has one sentence (one thing you need to know about the situation in Crimea)
-Each person explains one slide and includes the source for the information and a quote from that source.
-For information use your Crimea notes (on your computer) or the Crimea News sheet (on your Google Drive)

Crimea Connections
We'll be doing an exercise where we'll list important themes at the top of a paper in columns and below each place articles and other things we've looked at and explain how they connect.
Overall Goal: Students can engage in research/inquiry to investigate topics, and to analyze, integrate, and present information.

Protest Songs of the Cold War