Gary Coyle’s Grade 8 Humanities

Major Points From Last Week:

• WWI
  • Web Quest – Scavenger Hunt – Review Answers
  • Life in the Trenches
  • Propaganda
  • Poetry Project – Peer edit
  • Timeline
  • America Enters the war and the end of the war
  • Poetry Project worktime
  • Quiz
• Fables and Allegories – View and discuss ”The Birds” and “The Cave”

Reflection

Please post your response to the following on your BLOG.

In your own words define, tyranny, injustice and self-determination and then using examples from Animal Farm explain how they all relate to the overthrow of Farmer Jones.

Task

• Check out the following examples:
  • Down in the Trenches
  • In Flanders Fields
  • Last years Grade 8 students
• Write a poem related to our study of WWI using information shared in class over the last several days (Including Life in the Trenches, All Quiet on the Western Front, WWI Scavenger Hunt, and the Great Powers Game).
• Publish your poem on your blog.
• Find at least five photographs, paintings, or posters that reflect the content, tone, or theme of your poem or specific sections of your poem. Try experimenting with a table to give you more artist control over the lay-out.
• Appropriately place your images in your poem.
• Create proper citations for the works you borrow and include them at the end of the poem.
• Check you product against the rubric.

Major Points From Last Week:

• Chanda’s Secrets
  • Lit Circles- Discussions Part II, III, IV
• Lecture – Economic and Political causes of conflict
• Intro to WWI – advanced organizer, lecture, and group maps
• Video -WWI
• Web Quest – WWI Scavenger Hunt

Reflection

Please post your response to the following on your BLOG.

In some countries, joining the military is mandatory, in other countries, optional. For example, in Israel and Singapore both men and women are required to perform two years compulsory military service right after high school. Does your country require military service? If so, how do you feel about this? If not, under what conditions would you ever join the military to defend your country?

Major Items Covered:

• Goal Setting for Quarter 3
• Quarter 2 Review – Play Jeopardy
• Great Powers Game – play and debrief
• Literature Circle 1 Chanda’s Secrets

Reflection:

Below is a famous cartoon from World War I which also relates well to the Great Powers Game.

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

• 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 supports your opinion on how the cartoonist feels?
• What other techniques could the cartoonist have used to make this cartoon more persuasive?
• How does this cartoon relate to the Great Powers Game?

1. Which country were you? How did it feel to build your empire? Which countries had the advantage at the start of the game? Why? How did you empire compare to other empires?

2. In the long run was it more important to buy armies, navies, industries or colonies? Why?

3. What did you do well? What would you have done differently?

4. How successful were your alliances? Did they help or hurt you? Could they be trusted?

5. What are three specific things you learned about conflict from this simulation?