Gary Coyle’s Grade 8 Humanities

This year in humanities the essential question we have been grappling with is,” What is power?” Using specific evidence, in the form of quotes and paraphrases, from the personal blog you created in Humanities this year provide an answer to this challenging question.

Please write in paragraphs and remember to include a thesis statement for your piece. In order to answer this question thoroughly you should devote 300-500 words to your response. This posting is due at 4PM on Tuesday.  Thanks for your excellent thinking this year!

image from http://www.poster.net/

Significant Items Covered:

• Feedback-  Clean-up, catch-up, comment
• Prep for  class vs class debates –
• View – Excerpts of Roger and Me
• Class vs class debates
• View – Thomas Friedman on Globalization

 
Reflection –

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Significant Items Covered:

• Feedback-  What are the three most valuable things you have learned during the population project process?
• Intro to Globalization – Use NGS lesson – begin creating impact chart
• Impact of Globalization Chart and discussion
• Jigsaw -The World is Flat (10 Flatteners)
• Video- The Risks of Globalization (337 GLO)
• Finish Jigsaw -The World is Flat (10 Flatteners)

Reflection –

BLOG clean-up and catch-up and comment.

At this point you should have the following posts on your BLOG or on the class BLOG*.  As part of your Quarter 4 grade I will begin evaluating BLOGs on May 16 so please make sure you are up to date at that point. You will also need to select what you think is your best comment and e-mail it to me to evaluate by that date.

1. End of Q3 Feedback
2. What is Technology (Most and least useful)
3. Evaluating Vonnegut Quote
4. Blogging cartoon analysis
5. Population Project Work Plan
6. The Giver becoming an adult
7. The Giver precise language
8. Most valuable things learned from Population Project
9. Homework outsourcing cartoon analysis

Please take some time today to catch-up, clean-up and comment to others.

Please analyze the above cartoon and post your ideas to your BLOG. As part of your analysis please address the following questions:

1. What are the main visual elements?
2. What issue is this cartoon about?
3. What is the cartoonist’s opinion on this issue?
4. What evidence in the cartoon supports your opinion on how the cartoonist feels?
5.  How does this cartoon relate to our study of globalization?
6. What other techniques could the cartoonist have used to make this cartoon more persuasive?

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