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 4/24/17:
News Brief - Caleb
Failing Religion
Breathing
Judaism
Breathing
Judaism
Homework: Read the blog! Know your grade and how to improve it. Finish Historical Investigation if you have not and submit ASAP (if you do not want an F on the upcoming progress report). Next news brief: Samuel Ro.
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News Brief: Caleb had the news brief today and selected an article about this story to talk about: BBC.com - India Maoist rebels kill 24 CRPF policemen in Chhattisgarh. We found India in our world maps and talked about this story, which involved knowing about communism and democracy.
The next news brief was assigned to Samuel Ro.
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):
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:
As part of this section, I showed this clip of a bar owner in Myanmar being accused of insulting Buddhism by having an online advertisement with headphones on a Buddha, connected to a dance party with alcoholic drinks:
The next news brief was assigned to Samuel Ro.
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):
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:
As part of this section, I showed this clip of a bar owner in Myanmar being accused of insulting Buddhism by having an online advertisement with headphones on a Buddha, connected to a dance party with alcoholic drinks:
This is another relationship of religion to society, which is our learning target for this unit. I showed this article about the man being sentenced to two years in prison, as well: NYTimes.com - Myanmar Sentences 3 to Prison for Depicting Buddha Wearing Headphones.
Breathing: I was really excited to try this today! Thank you for being willing to participate in doing some breathing and meditation type exercises! Usually, I go outside for this, but the weather unfortunately did not cooperate today. 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: At the end of class, we came back to the room and continued with the religion notes, using the Cornell Notes format. Here is the PowerPoint again:
Today, we finished the third religion in the PowerPoint - Judaism. This was somewhat lengthy, so I appreciate your focus to it! :-)
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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