We talked today about Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, who died yesterday. This is a picture of a sunset on the island of Aruba - right next to Venezuela. I remember seeing Chavez on TV there, when I visited in 2011!
Dear class,
Another good day, in my estimation! I have not looked at the majority of the quizzes yet - I hope that you did well! I should be able to get them back to you next class. Here's what we did today:
Essential Questions: What brings people together? What tears people apart?
AGENDA 3/6/13:
News Brief
Cleaning it Up
Finish Land, Peace, and Bread
Pop Quiz, Hotshot
OPVL
Homework: Read the blog! Cameron has the next news brief.
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News Brief: Maddy brought in the news article for today, about the amount of refugees trying to get out of Syria going over 1 million. Here is an article about this: WashingtonPost.com - There are now 1 million Syrian refugees. We talked about how the "Arab Spring" is impacting the world. This really relates to what we are learning about in class! Thanks, Maddy!
We also talked about Hugo Chavez dying and the story of a Portland man being arrested in connection to a 2009 suicide bomber in Pakistan: KGW.com - FBI: Portland man connected to '09 Pakistan suicide attack.
Plenty going on in the world!
Cleaning it Up: I am not going to recap this, other than to say that I really appreciated the maturity it took for the two ladies to own their mistake in breaking the ground rules and apologize for it. You can expect to see this come up in later classes, if there are obvious (or really frequent) breaks with your own ground rules.
Finish Land, Bread, and Peace: Because the end of last class was so rushed, I did not think it was fair to quiz you on the material on the last three slides without going over it again. Apparently, many students were not listening or comprehending what I was saying, as I had no questions to answer. There were a few questions on the quiz that were EXACTLY what I was teaching both with spoken words and visually on the board. I also gave everyone a list of words and terms you might be tested on. How much easier could I possibly make it?
We also talked about Hugo Chavez dying and the story of a Portland man being arrested in connection to a 2009 suicide bomber in Pakistan: KGW.com - FBI: Portland man connected to '09 Pakistan suicide attack.
Plenty going on in the world!
Cleaning it Up: I am not going to recap this, other than to say that I really appreciated the maturity it took for the two ladies to own their mistake in breaking the ground rules and apologize for it. You can expect to see this come up in later classes, if there are obvious (or really frequent) breaks with your own ground rules.
Finish Land, Bread, and Peace: Because the end of last class was so rushed, I did not think it was fair to quiz you on the material on the last three slides without going over it again. Apparently, many students were not listening or comprehending what I was saying, as I had no questions to answer. There were a few questions on the quiz that were EXACTLY what I was teaching both with spoken words and visually on the board. I also gave everyone a list of words and terms you might be tested on. How much easier could I possibly make it?
Pop Quiz, Hotshot: I gave the class a few minutes to study up for the Russian Revolution vocab quiz, as I passed back your forced choice reflections. Your updated grades are posted by student ID number on the board. No excuses for you to not know exactly what you need to do by Friday to get your grade up for progress reports!
I'm not going to recap the quiz itself, other than to say that I hope everyone did well. If you were following along during the presentation and did your homework to review, I'm sure you were fine. Apparently many of you did not do one or both of these, judging by the reaction to the quiz in class. We will see how you ended up!
OPVL: After the quiz, I introduced a new way to think about various different documents in history. I used the textbook as an example, along with three articles about the death of Hugo Chavez that I saw last night. OPVL stands for Origin, Purpose, Value, and Limitation. Your assignment was to take the paper I handed out in class and go through the four documents on each side of the room to assess them. If you missed class, or needed to complete this outside of class, here are the links to both the OPVL sheet and the documents I posted:
Let me know if this assignment is at all unclear. You will be turning this in as part of the Russian Revolution packet later, so please keep it with you or in your folder in class!
See you on Friday!
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