A clock in a park in Hanoi, Vietnam. Next class will used for your DBQ essay final! Today, students took a look at the documents and began to think of possible responses for the essay. Photo taken in 2011.
Hi everyone,
Today was dedicated to Culture Project presentations! Next class, you will be writing an essay on the prompt "How does culture both reflect and shape society?" Here's what happened in class:
Learning Targets:
Communication LT 1: I can communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing.
Critical Thinking LT 1: I can explain multiple perspectives and viewpoints.
Knowledge LT 15: I can explain how culture both reflects and shapes society.
Behavior LT 1: I can manage my responsibilities as a student.
Soundtrack: "Born in the U.S.A." by Bruce Springsteen. Selected for today because the song is typically seen as representing patriotic themes, but a closer look at the lyrics (as we did in class) show that the song is really about a deep dissatisfaction with American culture.
AGENDA 10/31/17:
News Brief – Emma
Culture Project Presentations
DBQ Prep
Work/Prep Time
Homework: Read the blog. Bring ALL of your culture unit work to be used during the first part of the DBQ!
1) Surface culture worksheet (National Geographic photos PowerPoint)
2) Cornell Notes on Culture definitions/iceberg PowerPoint
3) Nacirema writing (neatly written or typed, 200 words minimum)
4) Time for School Notes/Answers
Next news brief: Varsha.
News Brief: Emma had the news brief today and chose an article about this story to talk about: BBC.com - Pakistan bride charged over 'poisoned milk' killings. We found Pakistan in the world map packet and talked about this story, and also shared some stories from the Halloween weekend and other current events.
Varsha was selected to do the next news brief.
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):
Culture Project Presentations: This was most the rest of the class, as students who did PowerPoint presentations or visual representations for their Culture Project talked about their own culture. I really loved this, and it is always so cool to learn more about different cultures around the world and in our classroom! Way to go, everyone that went today! If you did not turn in your project yet, please submit it on Google Classroom, or turn in a paper copy to the box in the classroom. I will grade these later this week - the grades will be on the progress report, so please turn it in ASAP if you have not already.
DBQ Prep: The last part of class was for getting ready for an upcoming Documents Based Question (DBQ), which is a type of essay that you will likely see many more times in your high school career. In order to help understand what to do with the writing portion, I had the class take notes on this PowerPoint presentation:
Your notes from this will help next class as we start the DBQ together! Thank you for your hard work! See you next class!
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