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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,
What a relief for me to be able to pass back your graded Historical Investigations today! Whew! They definitely take a ton of time to grade. 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:
What a relief for me to be able to pass back your graded Historical Investigations today! Whew! They definitely take a ton of time to grade. 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 21: 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 21: 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. Also, Malini noted that Chopin was the composer of this work, which was a good note. No lyrics, but listen to the song here.
AGENDA 4/22/16:
News Brief – Alaina
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 in this post) and finishing Historical Investigation if you have not - revisions needed, as well. Next news brief: Samson.
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News Brief: Alaina had the news brief today and selected an article about this story to talk about: TheGuardian.com - Colombia's highest court paves way for marriage equality in surprise ruling. We found Colombia in our world maps and talked about this development, as it seems many Colombians are resisting the change towards marriage equality.
The next news brief was assigned to Samson.
As usual, we has a spirited conversation about the weekend and what people were up to. I always enjoy hearing about life outside the classroom!
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):
Historical Investigation Grades: So, I spent about 6-7 hours the last few days, just grading your historical investigations. The result was getting your class graded. I went through an overview of what I was seeing on the papers, with a few areas of concern.
I cannot promise that your revisions on this will be graded by progress reports, if you give them to me by Thursday, because I still have the first editions of my last class to go through. But turning in revisions would wipe out the current N grades on the project, which would be massively helpful in improving your grade.
Please see my extensive comments in the text of your paper, along with the grading sheet comments, to determine what you need to do. If you have not turned anything in to me yet, that needs to happen ASAP to avoid a bad grade on your progress report.
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 video, which is about the Holocaust Memorial Day in Israel, and stopping everything for a minute to reflect:
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. Thank you for your participation here!
Grade Check: So, because it was Friday and I was feeling nice, instead of having the rest of class be devoted to grade checks, we played the country naming game on Sporcle! You were able to beat my personal record for the school year (having played it once, last September, haha), with a score of 188/197, to the great delight of the class! It was a really fun end to the day - thanks everyone! All of that said, it is still very important to stay on top of your grades, especially now that the historical investigation grades have been handed back! Have a great weekend, everyone!
The next news brief was assigned to Samson.
As usual, we has a spirited conversation about the weekend and what people were up to. I always enjoy hearing about life outside the classroom!
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):
Historical Investigation Grades: So, I spent about 6-7 hours the last few days, just grading your historical investigations. The result was getting your class graded. I went through an overview of what I was seeing on the papers, with a few areas of concern.
I cannot promise that your revisions on this will be graded by progress reports, if you give them to me by Thursday, because I still have the first editions of my last class to go through. But turning in revisions would wipe out the current N grades on the project, which would be massively helpful in improving your grade.
Please see my extensive comments in the text of your paper, along with the grading sheet comments, to determine what you need to do. If you have not turned anything in to me yet, that needs to happen ASAP to avoid a bad grade on your progress report.
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 video, which is about the Holocaust Memorial Day in Israel, and stopping everything for a minute to reflect:
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. Thank you for your participation here!
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: So, because it was Friday and I was feeling nice, instead of having the rest of class be devoted to grade checks, we played the country naming game on Sporcle! You were able to beat my personal record for the school year (having played it once, last September, haha), with a score of 188/197, to the great delight of the class! It was a really fun end to the day - thanks everyone! All of that said, it is still very important to stay on top of your grades, especially now that the historical investigation grades have been handed back! Have a great weekend, everyone!
was gandhi hinduist?
ReplyDeleteHere's some information that might be helpful in answering that question! http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/hinduism/people/gandhi_1.shtml
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