Thursday October 6, 2016
Take this "Quiz."
Vocabulary Activity
Period 5&6
Period 7&8
Check your stocks
Circle: What cool things did you see during the college fair or non-profit fair?
Circle Announcement: The careers unit updates
Silent Reading
1) Read & identify passages to support claims that explain theme -- the point of the book.
2) Write
Fall of Rome Unit
1) Debrief: What did we do last class and why are we doing it.
2) Independent Research: What was so great about Rome?
3) Become an Expert: Pick one of the reasons Rome fell and research it so you can give examples/evidence and explain how that reason made Rome fall.
Examples: Corruption, Over-expansion, Bad leaders, Over-reliance on slave labor, growing gap between rich and poor, Christianity, Invasion, Weakened military, Natural disasters.
4) Making Connections: Work together to find modern equivalents to Rome's problems.
Reading: Trump has a point about American decline
Stock Market Game:
Check your stocks
What's so wrong with insider trading?
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