A tree with prayer flags on the Great Wall of China at Mutianyu. It was quite an experience to climb up to this point! There are multiple students studying an aspect of a Chinese revolution for their historical investigation. Photo taken in 2014.
Dear class,
Today was our last day working with the historical investigation in class (hooray!) which means there is a lot of work ahead this weekend, especially for students that did not have completed rough drafts today! Here's what we did today in class:
Today was our last day working with the historical investigation in class (hooray!) which means there is a lot of work ahead this weekend, especially for students that did not have completed rough drafts today! Here's what we did today in class:
Learning Targets:
Knowledge LT 19: I can explain the impacts of nationalism and revolutionary movements.
Communication LT 1: I can communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing.
Research LT 1: I can effectively conduct and apply research.
Critical Thinking LT 2: I can explain connections between events, issues, problems and concepts.
Behavior LT 1: I can manage my responsibilities as a student.
Knowledge LT 19: I can explain the impacts of nationalism and revolutionary movements.
Communication LT 1: I can communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing.
Research LT 1: I can effectively conduct and apply research.
Critical Thinking LT 2: I can explain connections between events, issues, problems and concepts.
Behavior LT 1: I can manage my responsibilities as a student.
Soundtrack: "You've Got A Friend" by Carole King and James Taylor. Selected for today because a good friend doing a peer review helps a lot, and I wanted everyone to know I was going to try to help as much as possible to get you in a position to be successful on this project. Lyrics here.
AGENDA 4/7/16:
News Brief - Hitesh (Mr. Fritz)
Peer Review
Work Time
Conferences
Work Time
Conferences
Homework: Read the blog! Final draft (printed copy) of Historical Investigation is due at the start of next class. Next news brief: Britney.
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News Brief: Hitesh had the news brief today but was not in class, so I had it and selected an article about this story to talk about: BBC.com - Panama Papers: Putin rejects corruption allegations. We found Russia in our world maps and talked about this ongoing story, including the update that Iceland's Prime Minister (temporarily?) resigned from his job because of this.
The next news brief was assigned to Britney.
We also watched the one minute BBC World News update. Here's the link to see the latest one minute update, at any time of day (it will probably be different from what we watched in class):
Peer Review: Today's class was supposed to be focused on getting as many good peer reviews on your historical investigation as possible. Here was the sheet I passed out in class for people to use.
Work Time: The rest of class was devoted to working on review or doing whatever possible on the historical investigation. Here is the final assignment, again, if you need to look at it:
The next news brief was assigned to Britney.
We also watched the one minute BBC World News update. Here's the link to see the latest one minute update, at any time of day (it will probably be different from what we watched in class):
Peer Review: Today's class was supposed to be focused on getting as many good peer reviews on your historical investigation as possible. Here was the sheet I passed out in class for people to use.
Make sure that you look to correct spelling and grammar, as well as the format issues!
Work Time: The rest of class was devoted to working on review or doing whatever possible on the historical investigation. Here is the final assignment, again, if you need to look at it:
Conferences: As students were working on review, I called each student in the class up to talk about where they were at, what support was needed, what changes I saw needed to be done, or in some cases, just asking what in the world has been going on for the last month, since there was so little productivity to be seen. For many students, there is a LOT of work over this weekend to be done.
As always, if you are confused about what to do, please email me or comment and I would be happy to help. I suspect at this point most students know what to do - they just wanted to put it off until the very last moment to get it done. Well, that moment has arrived. Work hard this weekend, please. Thank you!
As always, if you are confused about what to do, please email me or comment and I would be happy to help. I suspect at this point most students know what to do - they just wanted to put it off until the very last moment to get it done. Well, that moment has arrived. Work hard this weekend, please. Thank you!
How was your tennis today after school today Coach Fritz!?
ReplyDeleteIt was great, thank you! Got some good hitting in. Nice and sunny, too!
DeleteIs it ok if we have more than 4 concrete details per paragraph? for example have the paragraph formatted like TS,CD,CD,CD,CD,CM,TR,CD,CD,CD,CM,CS? or should I stick to 4 concrete details?
ReplyDeleteThat sounds like too many concrete details. Try and limit them, please!
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