Gary Coyle’s Grade 8 Humanities

Significant Items Covered:

• 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

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.

Major Points From Last Week

• 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

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