Gary Coyle’s Grade 8 Humanities

Major Items Covered

• Video Clips– The Progressives
• Jigsaw Day 1– How the Other Half Lives – Individuals will read sections of the book and report back to the large group.
  • Sweaters of Jew Town P. 97-102
  • Cigar Making P. 109-113
  • Street Arab P. 158-158
  • Reign of Rum P. 165-169
  • Harvest of Tares P. 171-174
  • Working Girls of NYC P. 183-189
• Stocksquest Day – 2 – Using a Stockscreener
• Jigsaw Day 2– How the Other Half Lives – Individuals will read sections of the book and report back to the large group. And Mumbai slum’s today.
• Lecture – Lewis Hine and child labor
• Museum Work Time
• Stocksquest Day – 3 – First purchases
• Lecture – IWW
• Video- Socialism

Reflection

In your Blog please analyze the above cartoon which was originally published in the New York Times on June 10, 1911.

As part of your analysis please address the following:

What are the main visual elements?

What issue is this political cartoon about?

What is the cartoonist’s opinion on this issue?

What evidence in the cartoon leads you to believe that the author feels this way?

What other techniques could the cartoonist have used to make this cartoon more persuasive?

Feel free to snatch the image for your post and don’t forget to cite it.

image from:http://depts.washington.edu/labhist/laborpress/images/Socialist Voice

Major Points From Last Week

• Feedback
• How to Write a Descriptive Piece
• Push/Pull Factors – simulation
• Video- Immigrant Experience
• StocksQuest – Vocab and Introduction
• Muckrakers and The Jungle – Introduce and read excepts
• Video – Communism
• Venn Diagram – Communism and Capitalism
• Descriptive Piece Peer Edit
• Museum Work Time

Reflection

Blog Catch-Up, Clean-up and Comment. Today please use feedback time to accomplish as many of the following as you need.

Catch- Up – At this point you should have the following posted to your blog. If you are missing posts please create them now. Additionally take some time to add to or revise your list of pros and cons of the Industrial Revolution (don’t forget about The Jungle).

1. My Gang
2. Quarter 1 Goals
3. How I Learn Best
4. Necessity is the Mother of Invention
5. Roller Coaster or Messy Room Paragraph
6. Factory Game Day 1 Reflection
7. Factory Game Day 2 Reflection
8. Pros and Cons of the IR (Net Effect)
9. 1870’s Stock Market Reflection
10. Quarter 1 Goals Update

Clean-Up – Remove any double posts, scour your blog for typos or convention issues and if you like give your blog a facelift (See the below post as to how to)

Comment – Take some time to review your classmates writings and leave a comment. Remember a comment usually does one of these things:

A) Agrees and adds supporting information
B) Moves the topic in a new direction with new evidence or a new interpretation of evidence
C) Disagrees respectfully by adding contradictory evidence

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

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Major Points From Last Week

• Intro to Diigo
• Writing an interview
• Simulation – 1870’s Stock Market
• Quiz – 1870 Stock Market Debriefing / Capitalism Vocab
• Intro to Stocksquest – So you want to be a millionaire?
• Intro to the Stock Market – how businesses raise $
• 4 NETS Research
• Museum Research Time

Reflection

Answer the following in your BLOG in complete sentences:

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.

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

In a “good” paragraph choose one of Mr. Coyle’s Investment Tips below and explain how it relates to your experience in yesterdays 1870’s Stock Market simulation. Please post this piece to your BLOG.

Mr. Coyle’s Investment Tips

1.    Buy Low…Sell High

2.    You must spend money to make money

3.    Don’t let your emotions get the best of you.

4.    Don’t put all your eggs in one basket

5.    Be fearful when others are greedy…be greedy when others are fearful

6.    The rich get richer

7.    A fool and his money are soon parted

image from:http://inmannews.typepad.com