Today, I wanted students to envision themselves at a beach. This is one of my favorite beaches in the world: Maho Beach, St. Martin, in the Caribbean. Home to one of the greatest places to photograph planes on Earth! Photo taken in 2009.
Hi everyone,
It was a fun class today! Thanks for participating in our class activities! Here's what we did today in class:
It was a fun class today! Thanks for participating in our class activities! 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: "Beach Chair" by Jay Z and Chris Martin. Selected for today because of the breathing exercises we did, envisioning ourselves at the beach! Lyrics here.
AGENDA 4/26/18:
News Brief - Haddie
Buddhism in Myanmar
Breathing
Judaism
Failing Religion
Breathing
Judaism
Failing Religion
Homework: Read the blog! Know your grade and how to improve it. Finish Country Profile Project if you have not and submit ASAP.
If you would like to attend Ryenn's Period 8 class on Peace during your Study Hall (apologies, this only is for students with Period 8 as a Study Hall), please fill out her survey, here:
Next news brief: Ella.
If you would like to attend Ryenn's Period 8 class on Peace during your Study Hall (apologies, this only is for students with Period 8 as a Study Hall), please fill out her survey, here:
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News Brief: Haddie had the news brief today and selected an article about this story to talk about: BBC.com - Swaziland has a new name - eSwatini - but will anything else change?. We found Swaziland/eSwatini in our world maps and talked about this very interesting story!
The next news brief was assigned to Ella.
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):
Buddhism in Myanmar: As part of this section, I showed this clip of a Daily Show episode about the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar being pushed out by Buddhists (including the president, who is a Nobel Peace Prize winner):
The next news brief was assigned to Ella.
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):
Buddhism in Myanmar: As part of this section, I showed this clip of a Daily Show episode about the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar being pushed out by Buddhists (including the president, who is a Nobel Peace Prize winner):
This is another relationship of religion to society, which is our learning target for this unit. I showed this article explaining the Rohingya crisis: AlJazeera.com - Rohingya crisis explained in maps. We have been seeing this crisis play out all year on BBC World News, so I thought it would be important to highlight in class.
Here is another video that goes into some more specifics about exactly what is happening:
Here is another video that goes into some more specifics about exactly what is happening:
Breathing: I was really excited to try this today! Thank you for being willing to participate in doing some breathing and meditation type exercises! The whole point of this was to just relax. Hopefully, it did the trick! We did the guided breathing exercise on the third page of this document (which I altered slightly for context):
Judaism: With the shortened Community schedule, we continued with the religion notes before the end of class, using the Cornell Notes format. Here is the PowerPoint again:
Failing Religion: This section was looking at an article on American's knowledge of religion. We numbered off the paragraphs together, then students were in small groups to read through the article together and answer the questions at the end:
Please make sure you are working hard to review your notes, and improve your grade if at all possible! Let me know if there is anything that I can do to help! Thank you!
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