Gary Coyle’s Grade 8 Humanities

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On this page you will find the best of the best postings and comments from our exploration of Grade 8 Humanities.

Postings

Scott’s SQ3R Summary of South Africa’s physical geography.

This is a terrific summative post. Scott has taken the essence of the material and crafted it into an easy to read and informative post. Notice he has a strong topic sentence, solid supporting details, and a good concluding statement.

Southern Africa is a mineral rich region of intense physical contrast. If you were to walk across South Africa, you would see plateaus, mountains, rivers, and vast deserts. It is on these elevated plateaus deserts that the African people have adapted to survive. Most of the region is located on these grassy plains, with mountains like the Drankensburg and Inyaga separating them into different countries. Other inhabitants of these plains are a variety of animals such as lions, tigers, elephants, gazelle, and antelope. Crisscrossing down from the mountains of Central Africa are many rivers vying for control over the main plateau. They almost all empty into the Indian Ocean. It’s believed that once rivers like these flowed through the arid deserts like the Namib, resulting in heavy mineral deposits from times past. This wealth is shown in coal, platinum, copper, uranium and iron ore. So overall, the region of South Africa houses rich minerals, diverse cultures, and a variety of geographic features.

Harriet’s Summary of the Declaration of Independence

This is an excellent posting. I really liked how Harriet identified all of the important ideas and put them into language that anyone can understand. That is exactly what a good summary does.

When people feel they are being badly treated by the government, and want to brake away from the government, they must tell the government why they fell they are being badly treated. Everyone is equal and everyone has rights that cannot be taken away, these rights are life, liberty and happiness, when the government is taking away these rights that is when you should brake away. The king of England was bad to America and that is why you must now change work to change the government, but you my not change the government for small unimportant things, but only things that take away all of your rights.

King George the third, has done some terrible things to the people who he ruled over such as, cutting off trade with parts of the world, putting taxes on us without asking us first, thirdly took away our rights to be us judge by the trial by jury, he sent soldiers to the villages when we were peaceful without asking our permission first, finally he has transported us over seas for crimes we did not commit, as you can see these are terrible things, so we change our government.

King George the third is a king who’s character is only thought about when you think of the word tyrant, he is therefore not suitable to rule the people of America. We have tried to talk to the soldiers about how we felt we were being treated, however the refused to listen to what we were saying. We therefore declare that America is a free country however when in war with Britain we are enemies but when we are not we are peaceful and harmonious together. So from now on we the representatives of America declare that America now is a free country and not under the laws of King George the Third.

Comments

Nafeesa’s comment to Ju’s post on the location of the 43rd War .

Below is an excellent example that Nafeesa wrote to Ju. It accomplishes several things. First, it gives a compliment, second it disagrees respectfully, and finally it gives evidence to support the reason she disagrees. Well done!

Ju
Good job on using the atlas to pinpoint where the River Santa Maria is, but I disagree with you on that point. Ignacio mentions that he would have to cross into Mexico, therefore I think that the war was taking place outside of Mexico. On the whole good job! – Nafeesa