Gary Coyle's Grade 8 Humanities http://mrcoyle.edublogs.org American Embassy School - New Delhi, India Sun, 24 May 2009 10:12:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 End of the Feedback SY 2008-09 http://mrcoyle.edublogs.org/2009/05/24/end-of-the-feedback-sy-2008-09/ http://mrcoyle.edublogs.org/2009/05/24/end-of-the-feedback-sy-2008-09/#comments Sun, 24 May 2009 10:12:56 +0000 Gary Coyle http://mrcoyle.edublogs.org/?p=532 Significant Items Covered:

  • Final Exam – What is Power?
  • Population Project Part II

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. Please complete only ONE survey.

Thanks!

Take the survey HERE.

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This year in humanities the essential question we have been grappling with is,” What is power?” Using specific evidence, in the form of quotes and paraphrases, from the personal blog you created in Humanities, your notes and any other class materials from this year provide an answer to this challenging question.

Please write in paragraphs and remember to include a thesis statement for your piece. In order to answer this question thoroughly you should devote 300-500 words to your response and then post it to your BLOG. Thanks for your excellent thinking this year!

image from http://www.poster.net/

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Please post your response to the following in your Blog.

How do you see either the theme of power or control in your novel?

Be sure to use specific evidence from the text to support your thinking. Don’t forget proper in-text citations.

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Significant Items Covered:

  • Feedback- What are the three most valuable things you have learned during the population project process?
  • Technology and The Future Literature Circles (1, 2 and 3)
  • School and the Future Discussion
  • Jigsaw –How Internet Based Technology Works
  • Where Do I Stand on Technology?

Reflection –

BLOG clean-up and catch-up and comment.

At this point you should have the following posts on your BLOG . As part of your Quarter 4 grade I will begin evaluating BLOGs on May 15 so please make sure you are up to date at that point. You will also need to select what you think is your best comment and e-mail it to me to evaluate by that date.

  1. End of Q3 Feedback
  2. Evaluating Vonnegut Quote
  3. What is Technology (Most and least useful)
  4. Blogging cartoon analysis
  5. Population Project Work Plan
  6. The Net Effect of Globalization
  7. Most valuable things learned from Population Project

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

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Thanks

Click Here to Take the Survey

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  • Visiting Author – Donna Jo Napoli
  • Intro books for Lit Circles and choose
  • Jigsaw – The 10 Flatteners (1-5)
  • Jigsaw – The 10 Flatteners (6-10)
  • Globalization – finish impacts chart
  • Video- The Risks of Globalization (337 GLO)
  • SQ3R Read – Globalization
  • E-Journal – Net Effect of globalization

Reflection – Post your response to www.blogger.com

What are the three most valuable things you have learned during the Population Project process? How will they help you in the future?

image from:www.northrup.org

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In a minimum of two “good” paragraphs explain the net effect of globalization. Use information from class lectures and discussions, videos, websites and “The World is Flat” as evidence to support your opinion. Please post this to your blog also add an appropriate image and citation to the post.

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  • Population Project Worktime
    • Writing and evaluating intros and conclusions
    • Conferencing regarding outlines

Reflection

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

  1. What are the main visual elements?
  2. What issue is this cartoon about?
  3. What is the cartoonist’s opinion on this issue?
  4. What evidence in the cartoon supports your opinion on how the cartoonist feels?
  5. Why is this cartoon ironic?
  6. How does this cartoon relate to our study of technology and the future?
  7. What other techniques could the cartoonist have used to make this cartoon more persuasive?

Image from: www.sandiegohomeblog.com

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Major Points From Last Week:

Spring Break

Reflection

Please post your response to the following in your BLOG.

This week is your week to work on your Population Project  in Humanities Class. What I would like you to do for this week’s feedback is to create a work plan for using your classtime most effectively. Take a few minutes to figure out what you have left to do and then lay out your plan day by day for this week.

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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?
image from www.frc.ri.cmu.edu
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