The Statue of Liberty in New York, which is a symbol of immigration to the United States. Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! Photo taken in 2011.
Dear class,
Welcome to your Thanksgiving break! Thanks for doing your homework and checking in on the blog to see what we are up to. Today was the last day of our unit on government. After the break, we will move on to what is probably my favorite unit of the year - I'm excited! Here's what happened in class today:
Learning Targets:
Knowledge LT 18: I can explain how and why world societies organize themselves and how power is established and maintained.
Soundtrack: "Kings and Queens" by 30 Seconds to Mars. Selected for today because of the connection to monarchy, and this song gets me fired up because it reminds me of watching ESPN tennis tournaments. Lyrics here.
AGENDA 11/24/14:
News Brief – Mary
Finish "Who Rules?"
Government Test
Shibboleth
Homework: Read the blog. Have a great Thanksgiving! Next news brief: Brenden.
News Brief: Mary had the news brief today and selected an article about this story: CNN.com - Suicide bomber kills 45 at Afghanistan volleyball game. We found Afghanistan on the world map (in the Middle East) and talked about the upcoming extra long weekend.
Brenden was selected to do the next news brief.
Who Rules?: Before the government test, I wanted to give the class time to review the reading and answers in the packet:
I gave about five minutes before the test for study of the Cornell Notes, as well.
Government Test: I do not think this was especially difficult, if you have been in class and following along with what has been going on the last few days! I will grade these over the weekend and have them entered into the gradebook by next Tuesday (which is a progress reports date).
Shibboleth: After the test, we watched most most of an episode of the TV series "The West Wing," which had to do with Thanksgiving, illegal immigration, school prayer, direct democracy, and representative democracy. There were no notes or any other requirement - it was just a relaxing way to end the class after the test and go out to Thanksgiving Break. Here's the funniest scene of the episode, in my opinion:
I remain quite thankful for all of you! Have a wonderful break - see you next week. ;-)
Finish off the day strong Luke, and stay positive! Our class is so thankful to have you as our teacher:)
ReplyDeleteThanks, Maddy! I appreciate your kind words. I'm going out to dinner with my family in a bit, so that will be nice. See you tomorrow!
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