Gary Coyle’s Grade 8 Humanities

Significant Items Covered:

• Feedback
• The Giver Vocab “Quiz”
• Face the Future (FTF) – worktime
• Test – The Giver
• The Giver Final Socratic Seminars

 Reflection –

Please follow the link below to a survey and take a few minutes to give me some honest feedback about both my teaching and Humanities 8. Your comments are especially valuable.

Mr. Coyle’s Humanities 8 Survey

Significant Items Covered:

•  The Giver Socratic Seminar
• Touchstones Discussion – The Life of Lycurgus (Utopia)
• Partner Jigsaw – How Technology Stuff Works
• Giver Vocab “Quiz”
• Introduce Face The Future

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 18 so please make sure you are up to date at that point. You will also need to select what you think is your best posting and e-mail it to me to evaluate by that date.

• Language and The Giver (Feedback April 30- May 4)
• Schools and the Future
• Value of the UbD process? (Feedback April 23-27)
• Euphio and Technology
• Thinking About Technology
• Describe the general process for creating a video using Visual Communicator. (Feedback April 16-20)
• Create a work plan for using your UbD classtime most effectively. (Feedback April 2-6)
• Outsourcing cartoon analysis
• Net Effect of Globalization*
• Refer back to the UDHR. What should be the limits and responsibilities of a government in guaranteeing their citizens certain rights? (Feedback March 5-9)
• What were the main causes of the US Civil War? (Feedback Feb 26 – March 2)
• End of Q3 Feedback

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

Significant Items Covered:

• Feedback- What are the three most valuable things you have learned during the UbD process?
• Read Aloud – Unready to Wear
• Touchstones Discussion – The Future of Schools
• Read – Time Fix
• Read Aloud – The Sound of Thunder
• Sci-Fi Read –a -Round – Students read 2 Science Fiction Short Stories
• SFSS Quiz – plot pyramid for 1 story read

Reflection – Post your response to your BLOG.

Precise use of language is an important theme in The Giver. Why does Lois Lowry purposefully use the word ‘sameness’ instead of ‘equality’? Explain what the difference is in the meaning of the words. Then using the Giver and Animal Farm cite examples of how we have seen each word used. Which author uses language more precisely?

Please post your response to the following in your BLOG.

Evaluate the use of technology at AES.  Next, speculate, what you think school will be like for your children? Finally, find an appropriate image on the web and add it to your post. Be sure to include the URL. If you finish early please comment to your classmates on a posting of your choice.

Now that UbD Part I is behind you. Your Grade 8 teachers would like you to take a few minutes of your time to reflect on your UbD Part I experience and provide us with feedback to help improve future versions of UbD. Your participation is required for this activity, however your responses are anonymous . So that we get good data,  please answer honestly and  fill out the survey only once. Thanks a bunch for helping your teachers out!

CLICK HERE to take the survey.