Midmarking Grades

Midway through the quarter, this is what our grade distribution looks like:

A: XXXXXXX

B: XXXXX

C: XXXXXXXXXXXX

D: X

F:

Questions:

1. How are you doing in relation to the other students in class?
2. Where are you making most of your points?
3. Where are you losing most of your points?
4. What could you do to improve your grade?
5. What questions do you have for me?

Groupwork Day

Please Do Now:

1. Explain the following cartoon in your own words.  What story inspired the cartoon?
2. Create a funny political cartoon that relates to the story you are working on for your group presentation.  Explain why the cartoon is funny to you.

Today, students will:

1. Upload their individual work onto group flashdrives to bring to the library.
2. Peer assess the work that has been completed so far according to the agreed upon standards.
3. Compile individual slides into group presentations with a common theme.

Tonight’s homework is:

1. Finalize group work for presentations due Monday.
2. Organize notebooks for notebook check Monday.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Please Do Now:

1. Read the following story about King Arthur and answer the questions at the end in your notebook.
2. Explain the significance of the following cartoon:

 

Today, students will:

1. Divide into Second Quarter Groups by assigned story.
2. Read the following stories individually and answer questions individually: Anglo Saxons, Charlemagne, Vikings, Norman Conquest, Islam.
3. Storyboard in groups what written and visual elements (maps, artwork, etc) you will need to create a PowerPoint presentation with a minimum of 15 slides.
4. Decide what additional information you will need to supplement what is in your group’s story.
5. Go to the library to gather information and visual elements for group presentations.
6. Assign individual slides to individual group members.

Tonight’s homework is:

1. Prepare your individual slides for group assembly on Tuesday.  Make sure everything is uploaded on your blog by midnight!  If there is a disaster and you can’t upload, email me and bring in all of your work on a flash drive.
2. Eat turkey.

Class Presentations

Here are the presentations that today’s groups made:

1. Attila the Hun
2. Fall of Rome
3. Emperor Trajan
4. Constantine the Great

Make sure you know all of the information in these presentations, and feel free to go back into my blog and read the original stories for clarification.  If you have any additional questions, feel free to ask me.  Don’t be surprised to see some questions on these presentations sometime very soon.

Best Regards,

Mr. Weiss 

Presentation Day

Please Do Now:

1. Write down three quiz-style questions based on the material in your presentation.  Come up with two easy questions and one hard question. 

Today, students will:

1. Present their group PowerPoint projects to the class.

Tonight’s homework is:

1. Read pages 165-187 of Sophie’s World
2. On your blogs, answer the following question in one paragraph: According to the author, how did St. Augustine Christianize Plato, and how did Thomas Aquinas Christianize Aristotle?  What is meant by this? 

Test 2 Results

Here are the results of the second test: 

A: XXXXXX

B: XX

C: X

D: XXXX

F: XXXXXXXXXXXX 

Compare them against the results of the first test: 

A: X

B: XXXXXXXX

C: XXXXX

D: XXXXX

F: XXXXXX

1. How have you personally moved up or down relative to the rest of the class? 
2. What does this tell you about the differences between the two tests, study habits, etc?

Library Day / PowerPoint Tutorial

Today we will be in the library finishing up our PowerPoint presentations in groups.

Don’t forget – I need one FINALIZED copy per group by Monday night!

Back to Business

If you still have to take the test, please notify me right away.

Please Do Now:

1. Explain the following cartoons to the best of your ability:
2. 
3. 
4.  

Today, students will:

1. Review, “The Emperors,” “The Rise of Christianity,” and “The Fall of Rome.”
2. Divide into Second Quarter Groups
3. Each group will be assigned a story about the Late Roman Empire (The Breakup of the Roman Empire, Constantine the Great and Christianity, Attila the Hun, Barbarians Invade Rome).
4. Individually, answer the reading comprehension questions at the end of the story.
5. As a group, make a 1-2 sentence summary of each section of the story.  Do not try to impress me with your massive vocabulary.  I want you to use simple language that anyone can understand.  Also, underline any names and dates that you think the whole class might need to know (I want to see this final copy before you leave class today). 
6. Divide up the story sections so that each group member is responsible for 2-3 sections.

Tonight’s homework is:

1. Create a minimum of ONE PowerPoint slide for EACH of the story sections you are assigned, and upload them all to your blogs (Due Thursday before you get to class). 
2. Don’t focus on Text-Art and flashy backgrounds – spend your time looking for historically accurate maps, sculptures, paintings, and the possible relevant historical cartoon.
3. On Thursday we will go to the library and join the different group members’ work into one project per group.  On next Tuesday, each group will present.
4. You will be graded on both your individual work (what you post on your blog for homework), your group’s final product (what you load onto my flash drive on the end of class Thursday) and your role in the final presentation.

TEST DAY!

Good Luck Everyone!

Don’t forget to work on your Late Roman Empire packet for homework.

Happy Friday!