Gary Coyle’s Grade 8 Humanities

Major Items Covered

• Human Rights
  • Mini-UDHR
  • Human Rights in the News Activity
  • Video-UN and How it Functions
• Grammar – Sentence Problems, Semi-colons
• Intro Short Stories
• Read Aloud – Harrison Bergeronand Plot Pyramid
• Read Aloud– The Euphio Question and Plot Pyramid
• BLOG Journal – Evaluating Vonnegut quote
• Share Non-Conflict Poems
• View – Epicac

Reflection:

Please respond to the following with a thoughtful entry to your blog.

1. What is technology?
2. What are the 5 most and 5 least important technologies used today?
3. How do you feel about the amount of and use of technology at AES?

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Please post your response to the following on your BLOG.

Using examples from “Harrison Bergeron”, “The Euphio Question” and current events evaluate the statement:

“Do you know what a Luddite is? That’s a person who doesn’t like newfangled contraptions. Contraptions like nuclear submarines armed with Poseidon missiles that have H-bombs in their warheads, and like computers that cheat you out of becoming. Bill Gates says, “Wait till you can see what your computer can become.” But it’s you who should be doing the becoming. What you can become is the miracle you were born to work—not the damn fool computer.”

- Kurt Vonnegut

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Major Points From Last Week:

• Flashpoint Digital Story Wrap-Up
• Genocide Fishbowl discussion
• Video Clips – Hotel Rwanda / Killing Fields
• The Question of Israel
• Human Rights
• UDHR

Reflection

Please post your response to the following in your BLOG.

Go back and review your goals for quarter three in humanities. These can be found in the January Archive of your BLOG in a posting titled,” End of Quarter 2 Feedback”. Evaluate how well you have achieved those goals. Include specific evidence from the quarter to validate your evaluation.

In addition to your evaluation please create three specific goals that you have for quarter four in humanities. Remember that a good goal is realistic, measurable and specific. List them at the end of this BLOG entry. Please title this entry: End of Quarter 3 Feedback

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Major Points From Last Week:

• Feedback
• Digital Stories
  • Treatment outline
  • Script
  • Storyboard
  • Production
  • Editing
  • Publishing
• Cold War Quiz

Reflection

Please post your response to the following on your BLOG.

An oxymoron is two words that don’t belong being used together. Why is the phrase “Holy War” an oxymoron? Why is it that so many conflicts in the world today are based upon religious differences yet all major world religions condemn killing?

Believe it or not the end of third quarter is almost here. Your blogs will be evaluated starting on March 9. At this point you should have the following posts in your blog:

1. World War III?
2. Anne Frank Discussion Reflection
3. WWII Letter from the Battlefield
4. Recipe for WWII Poem
5. Critique of Animal Farm the movie
6. Which character in Animal Farm are you?
7. Tyranny, Injustice and Self-determination in Animal Farm
8. WWI Illustrated Poem
9. Would you join the military?
10. Political cartoon evaluation
11. Great Powers Game Debrief
12. Quarter 3 Goals

Also remember that you will select the comment you feel you have done the best job on, copy the text, paste it into the body of an e-mail and send it to me by March 9. Thanks and keep up the terrific work!