Gary Coyle’s Grade 8 Humanities

Major Points From Last Week:

• PowerPoint Lecture – Communism
• Video Clips – The Progressives
• IR Museum
• ISA Testing – reading and writing samples
• IR Test

Reflection

Please post your response to the following on your BLOG.

Go back and review your goals for first quarter in humanities. Evaluate how well you have achieved those goals. Include specific evidence from the quarter to validate your evaluation.

What are three goals that you have for quarter two in humanities? List them at the end of this BLOG entry. Remember a good goal is specific, measurable, and realistic. Please title this entry: End of Quarter 1 Feedback

Please take some time to clean-up your BLOG. Please delete multiple posts and edit any errors you discover. Also make sure that you have the following postings.

1. First Impressions of Humanities Q1 Goals
2. Your Gang
3. How You Learn Best
4. Mother Necessity
5. Fruit Roll – Up Quick Write
6. Roller Coaster Showing Paragraph
7. Factory Game Day 1 Reflection
8. Factory Game Day 2 Reflection
9. IR Net Effect (Pros and Cons)
10. Q1 Goals Update
11. 1870’s Stock Market Game Reflection
12. IR Interview
13. IR Descriptive Piece
14. IR News Article
15. IR Expository Piece

Remember BLOG completion is worth a test grade in the writing portion of your 1st Quarter Humanities Grade. Make sure to check out the Q1 Blog Rubric

Major Points From Last Week

• Graph Reading – Supply and Demand
• Lecture- Capitalism
• How to Write a Descriptive Piece
• Peer Edit – Descriptive Piece
• Intro to the Stock Market – how businesses raise $
• Simulation – 1870’s Stock Market
• Intro to Stocksquest – So you want to be a millionaire?
• StocksQuest – Vocab and Introduction

Reflection

Answer the following in your BLOG in complete sentences:

Last week you took part in the 1870’s Stock Market Simulation, based on your experience during the simulation were you a successful entrepreneur? Why or why not? What strategies did you use?

Pick one of the following phrases and explain how it relates to your experience with the 1870’s stock market:

1. “ Buy low sell high”
2. “You have to spend money to make money”
3. “Don’t put all of your eggs in one basket”
4. “Don’t let your emotions get the best of you.”

1. Go to http://www.stocksquest.com

2. Register with Stocksquest

• Your login name will be YOUR NOVELL LOGIN
• Your password will be YOUR NOVELL PASSWORD
• Enter your real first and last names and your year of birth
• Enter your AES e-mail address. Ask Mr. Coyle if you are unsure.
• For city enter New Delhi for state select none and for country enter India
• Click Submit

3. Join Mr. Coyle’s class

• Click: Join a Class
• Class Name: Humanities15 or Humanities28 (These are case sensitive
• Password: millionaire
• Type in the information and click on the sign-up button.
• Then go back to the MYSTOCKS page.

· You must click “AES-Humanities” on the left-hand column to start trading stocks. Otherwise the stocks you buy will not show up in your class rankings. If you don’t click on any group name, you will be in the StocksQuest default group.

4. When you get to this point, search for stocks on Yahoo Finance while you wait for everyone else.

Major Points From Last Week

• Intro to Diigo
• Video – The Rise of Cities and Towns- Notes
• History Cause/Effect – English workers seek factory jobs
• Writing an interview
• SQ3R practice – IR Comes to America
• Video – Working Lives
• Interview – peer edit
• Capitalism – lecture
• Supply and Demand – graphs

Reflection

Answer number 1  in your BLOG in complete sentences:

1) This week marks the mid-point of the first quarter. Please review your humanities goals for the quarter (posted on your BLOG) and evaluate how well you are meeting them at this point. Revise your goals if you need to.

2) Additionally take some time to add to or revise your list of pros and cons of the Industrial Revolution (last week’s feedback)

3) Finally, send a few minutes and browse for a photo to serve as the backbone for your descriptive writing piece for the IR Museum. There are four collections linked on the right to get you started. For example what kind of a story would the subject of the below image have to tell?

Image from: http://www.usda.gov/oc/photo/transp5.htm