Daily+Schedule+SS9+Fall+2015

=Tuesday, Sept 8, 2015=

Homework - Find out any information about Mr Sitar that you can. Record it and bring it to class tomorrow.

=Wed, Sept 9, 2015=

1.) Mr - Mind map from students' research

2.) Students' personal mind map - Share with others - Class share

3.) Course Outline

- Go over Course info - Return parent info sheet by Friday

=**Thurs, Sept 10, 2015**=

1.) Intro Question - What do you think the video Guns, Germs and Steel will be about?

2.) Watch the video and divide your piece of paper down the middle on one side, a.) take notes to answer the following question: - Why does the White Man have so much cargo while us New Guineans have so little?

b.) on the other side, take notes on the progress of civilization starting with the end of the last ice age 13,000 years ago

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=Fri, Sept 11th, 2015=

1.) Library - log on to a computer

2.) request membership to this website - create a username that I can recognize you with. No nicknames please. Ex, JohnM

3.) Click the link & play the Traveller's IQ Challenge

- Play the World Challenge - If you have a partner take turns - Record your score and level in your notebook (Create a title: Traveler IQ Challenge) - Keep playing and try to beat your score

4.) Try the Canadian Challenge

5.) Homework -

Watch this video called The Falling Man about the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center:

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= Mon, Sept 16th, 2015 =

1.) Homework check:

- notebooks - Personal Mindmap - Parent Info Forms

2.) Mindmap

- Find a group of 4 students - on p. xii divide the 4 questions among the 4 people in your group - create a rough mindmap to answer your question - Be ready to share your answer with your group tomorrow - Big Mindmap

3.) Canadian Geography Pop Quiz

- Work on the 2 maps when finished - label

=Tues, Sept 17th, 2015=

1.) Mindmap Good Copy

- Make a Big Mindmap of the 4 questions from each group member - The middle bubble will be called - Wheels of Change in the Modern Age - Each group member must make their own mindmap

2. When finished: - Work on the 2 Canada Maps from yesterday

=Wedn, Sept 18th=

1.) Worktime:

- Finish Wheels of Change Mindmap - Maps of Canada

2.) Chapter 1 Vocab list

- handed out and introduced - To be worked on for the next 2 weeks - Follow the instructions on the sheet - Answer in your notebooks

3.) When the World Began - Video

- Episode 1 from Canada: A Peoples History - First 20 minutes

=Tues, Sept 22=

1.) Worktime:

- Chapter 1 Vocab - Due on Thursday - Why Did Europeans First Travel to North America Chart - Vikings/John Cabot/Jacques Cartier

2.) Canada: A People's History videos

- New Lands - The Land God Gave to Cain

3.) Notes:

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=Monday, November 23=

- Start of Chapter 5
1.) Finish The Canadas (1791) Map - due today

2.) Start the France Map - see the criteria sheet - due Wednesday

3.) Chapter 6 Vocab - Due next Friday

4.) French City Tourist Guide - See Criteria sheet - start tomorrow in the Library - Due on Monday