Tuesday, April 29th, 2014

1) Take the Poll
2) Take the survey

Debrief Crimea Unit
1) Explain purpose of debrief: to figure out what worked and what we need to get better at.
2) Split into two groups.
Questions:
1) What was good about the unit? What could have been improved?
2) What did you do well? What do you need to get better at?
3) If we did a unit like this again, what would you like to study?

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.

LATER
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 [insert your world crisis here].  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)
Ways to talk about current events
-Explain what the sides are and what each side believes is true.
-Explain the history behind the crisis.
-Explain the demographics behind the crisis: gender, political, ethnic, racial, etc.
-Explain the geography of the crisis: are their ports involved? Crop land? Water? Mountains? Border disputes?
-Explain the side that the United States is taking and why.
-Explain what you think is the right thing and why.