WEEK OF NOVEMBER 28 - DECEMBER 2

Monday will find us going over the political spectum of lefts and rights, liberal and conservative, reactionary and radical. We will be in groups and teaching each other signals that represent the 9 types of goverment.

Tuesday and Wednesday will find us making a pamphlet on the 9 types of government.

Which types of government do you see?
  
  

Thursday will have us taking a quiz on the 9 types of goverment hand signals.  We will show the relationship between political spectrum and governments are related.

Friday will have us taking a quiz on the 9 types of government and polictical spectrum. We will have an introduction to the Enlightenment.

Answers: communism, dictatorship, monarchy, theocracy, republic, anarchy.

WEEK OF NOVEMBER 21 - 23

Slight change of plans:
Monday will find us starting Government. We will take a self test to find out if we are liberal or conservative.

Tuesday will find us going over results of selft test and understanding the political spectrum. They will know what the left and right side of politics are along with reactionaries and revolutionaries.

Wednesday we meet for 7 minutes and will work on a fun activity.

Happy Turkey Day!

Next week will start us with.....

Monday will find us creating symbols for the 9 types of government. The students will come up with hand gestures that represent the type of government they are in charge of. The class will learn these signals and have a quiz on them.

Tuesday will find us practicing the 9 types of government signals. Students will be creating a pamphlet on the nine types of government.

WEEK OF NOVEMBER 14 - 18

Monday will find the students working on a Scientist Yearbook. This is a yearbook page of 5 of the early game changes for science such as Galileo, Harvey, Bacon, Newton.

Tuesday will find us going over why the students choose the 5 they did and defending their choices. We will also be going over how to write a dbq or document based question.


Do you know who these Scientists are? Answers are at bottom.

 

          

Albert Einstein, William Harvey (circulartory system),  Edward Jenner (vaccinations), Isaac Newton (gravity and calculus),  Galileo Galilei (movement of planets are orbits), Francis Bacon (scientific method)

Wednesday is a half day. We will review for a test on Thursday.

Thursday will find us taking a test on Revolutions in Art, Religion and Science.

Friday will be a discussion of government. We will be starting a unit on Revolutions in Government. This will entail learning different types of government and major changes of thinking in government.

We will be deciding who will make the best president. What values we place on being a leader.