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We took notes about Christianity today in class. This is a photo from the top of a mountain overlook Cabo San Lucas, at the tip of Baja California in Mexico. Taken over Winter Break, 2014.
Dear class,
I am looking forward to the long weekend and being able to get your Historical Investigations graded! It was also nice to be able to continue looking at how religion impacts society, and with taking notes on a new religion. Here's what we did today in class:
I am looking forward to the long weekend and being able to get your Historical Investigations graded! It was also nice to be able to continue looking at how religion impacts society, and with taking notes on a new religion. Here's what we did today in class:
Learning Targets:
Knowledge LT 22: I can explain how religious ideas impact the shaping of societies.
Critical Thinking LT 2: I can explain connections between events, issues, problems and concepts.
Knowledge LT 22: I can explain how religious ideas impact the shaping of societies.
Critical Thinking LT 2: I can explain connections between events, issues, problems and concepts.
Soundtrack: "Nocturne in C-Sharp Minor" from The Pianist (Wladek Szpilman). Selected for today because of the story of Szpilman, who was a Jewish pianist that survived the Holocaust. No lyrics, but listen to the song here.
AGENDA 4/22/15:
News Brief – Rachel
Historical Investigation Grades
Israel and Religion
Christianity
Grade Check
Historical Investigation Grades
Israel and Religion
Christianity
Grade Check
Homework: Read the blog! Know your grade and how to improve it - Russian Revolution (found on this post), World War I work (found on this post) and finishing Historical Investigation if you have not - revisions needed, as well. Next news brief: Anakin.
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News Brief: Rachel had the news brief today and selected an article about this story to talk about: CNN.com - Saudi Arabia launching political solution campaign in Yemen. This is related to the ongoing conflict in Yemen and battle for control of the country. Thanks, Rachel!
I also talked about this New York Times article from yesterday: NYTimes.com - White House Acknowledges Armenian Genocide, but Avoids the Term. The 100 year anniversary of the start of the genocide is on Friday, so we will see if anything happens with this!
We also watched VICE News for the day, before moving on.
The next news brief was assigned to Anakin.
Historical Investigation Grades: My update for your class was that, since your class was the last to turn your research papers in, it is also the last to be graded, which means I have not been able to start yet. I do have the other two classes graded and done, so your class is next - they do take about 8 hours or so of just grading, which is a ton of time. I will get these back to you next week. My message today was that if you turned in something, I will remove the N in the grade book for this progress reports, because I know you are at least getting close to an acceptable finished product. Thank you for your patience with this - and thank you for working all on of your other work that needs to be turned in if it is missing!
Israel and Religion: To focus on how the Jewish religion impacts and shapes society, it is easy to point to the only country in the world where Judaism is the main religion: Israel. To start this section, I played this CNN video of a 93 year old guard from Auschwitz being put on trial. Next, I played this video that my Period 3 student Orel sent me, which is about the Holocaust Memorial Day in Israel, and stopping everything for a minute to reflect:
What an incredibly powerful video! Thank you for sharing it with us, Orel!
The next document I showed the class was this recent survey of Americans about their attitudes towards Israel: Gallup.com - Seven in 10 Americans Continue to View Israel Favorably. I showed this to demonstrate that there is still huge support for Israel here in the United States, and I talked about the reasons why this might be - again, how religion impacts society.
Finally, I showed this video from the New York Times: NYTimes.com - Israelis Split Over Service. This was to show the conflict within Israel between Ultra-Orthodox Jews and the military, who mandates that people of the country serve when they turn 18.
After the video, I asked the question of whether or not students thought the Jewish people in the video should be forced to serve in the military, and we had an interesting discussion about it.
All of this is in the hopes of relating to the learning target for the unit - how religion (today, we focused on Judaism) impacts society.
Grade Check: The rest of class was devoted to working on improving your grade if at all possible! I talked students that I had specific concerns about for grades on this upcoming progress report, and my message was largely that you can still save yourself by getting credit for the year, even if you have an F. There is lots of work to do, but it is not too late! I have updated your grades online to reflect the Historical Investigation, as well. Let me know if there is anything that I can do to help!
I also talked about this New York Times article from yesterday: NYTimes.com - White House Acknowledges Armenian Genocide, but Avoids the Term. The 100 year anniversary of the start of the genocide is on Friday, so we will see if anything happens with this!
We also watched VICE News for the day, before moving on.
The next news brief was assigned to Anakin.
Historical Investigation Grades: My update for your class was that, since your class was the last to turn your research papers in, it is also the last to be graded, which means I have not been able to start yet. I do have the other two classes graded and done, so your class is next - they do take about 8 hours or so of just grading, which is a ton of time. I will get these back to you next week. My message today was that if you turned in something, I will remove the N in the grade book for this progress reports, because I know you are at least getting close to an acceptable finished product. Thank you for your patience with this - and thank you for working all on of your other work that needs to be turned in if it is missing!
Israel and Religion: To focus on how the Jewish religion impacts and shapes society, it is easy to point to the only country in the world where Judaism is the main religion: Israel. To start this section, I played this CNN video of a 93 year old guard from Auschwitz being put on trial. Next, I played this video that my Period 3 student Orel sent me, which is about the Holocaust Memorial Day in Israel, and stopping everything for a minute to reflect:
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Holocaust Memorial Day - יום השואה
Posted by ערבות on Thursday, April 16, 2015
What an incredibly powerful video! Thank you for sharing it with us, Orel!
The next document I showed the class was this recent survey of Americans about their attitudes towards Israel: Gallup.com - Seven in 10 Americans Continue to View Israel Favorably. I showed this to demonstrate that there is still huge support for Israel here in the United States, and I talked about the reasons why this might be - again, how religion impacts society.
Finally, I showed this video from the New York Times: NYTimes.com - Israelis Split Over Service. This was to show the conflict within Israel between Ultra-Orthodox Jews and the military, who mandates that people of the country serve when they turn 18.
After the video, I asked the question of whether or not students thought the Jewish people in the video should be forced to serve in the military, and we had an interesting discussion about it.
All of this is in the hopes of relating to the learning target for the unit - how religion (today, we focused on Judaism) impacts society.
Christianity: Next, we continued with the religion notes, using the Cornell Notes format. Here is the PowerPoint again:
Today, we finished the fourth religion in the PowerPoint - Christianity. I appreciated your focus on it! I enjoyed, as always, explaining and trying to answer questions from the class. :-)
Grade Check: The rest of class was devoted to working on improving your grade if at all possible! I talked students that I had specific concerns about for grades on this upcoming progress report, and my message was largely that you can still save yourself by getting credit for the year, even if you have an F. There is lots of work to do, but it is not too late! I have updated your grades online to reflect the Historical Investigation, as well. Let me know if there is anything that I can do to help!
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