Wednesday, December 9, 2015

Thursday, December 10th, 2015

Announcements:
-Check your portal: grades have been put in for your Rumford vs. Cape Essay Self-Assessment.
-If you are failing (or have a failing standard), please plan on staying after this Thursday so we can help you get caught up.

Circle:

Reading Quiz: TBA

Carrer Project Presentations
Present your job shadow and what you have learned.
All presentation should have some talking piece/visual

Unit: Should we go to war with ISIS?

Geography
Collect these sources:
-Watch this Daily Show video on the mess with Syria, and this Daily Show video making fun of the British Empire and how it is the root of all the problems.
-This map of middle eastern languages

The Things They Carried (15 Minutes)
Learning target: After this exercise, you'll be able to find text from that book that exemplifies one of the categories of notice.

What word is most important in understanding the situation in the Middle East?
imperialism
interdependence
perspective
ethnocentrism
globalization
colonization
macro view
micro view






Writing Activity
Learning target: After this exercise, you'll be better at determining other's writing meets the criteria of a good essay.
We will look at this document to evaluate paragraphs and whether they meet certain criteria.

Silent Reading: TBA




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