(4/8-4/12) Week 3 Agenda-4

Monday April 8

• Objective: To check back into our community, catch up about break, and ease back into our school brains.
• Entry:
  • How was your break overall?
  • Describe one or more highlights.
• Activity: Memes!!!
  • Your job is to create at least one meme that expresses your thoughts on at least one of the following topics:
    • How your break was.
    • How you are feeling about being back in school.
    • How the school year has gone for you so far.
    • Biggest struggles of the year.
    • Biggest successes of the year.
    • Any other random topics you feel inspired to express your thoughts on.
  • Rules:
    • Have fun.
    • Be creative.
    • Be appropriate... enough.
    • Be honest... but don't be a jerk :)
    • You must add your name to your meme slide
  • Submit Your Memes here:
    • First Period Meme Bank Links to an external site.
    • Third Period Meme Bank Links to an external site.
    • Fourth Period Meme Bank Links to an external site.
    • Sixth Period Meme Bank Links to an external site.
  • We will present our memes to the whole class at the end of the day today or the start of the day tomorrow.

Tuesday April 9

• Objective: To begin to describe how early European Colonies in the Americas functioned and established control over their new subjects/citizens. 
• Entry
  • • What are some of the main ways the Columbian Exchange impacted human demographics around the world?
    • What role did cash crops like sugar, tobacco, and eventually cotton play in shifting global demographics?
• Activity
  • European Colonies in the Americas

Wednesday April 10/ Thursday April 11

• Objective : To begin to understand and explain why certain areas of the world were more likely to allow for the growth of empires, and the development of key technology.
• Entry:
  • How are you feeling about school overall going into the final quarter of your freshman year?
  • What is the most important new skill or habit you've learned so far this year?
  • If you could go back and give your first day of school self advice for the year, what would you say?
• Activity: Guns, Germs and Steel.
  • Note Taking Prompts:
    • What are Dr. Diamond's main arguments in the video?
    • What evidence does he use to back those arguments?
    • How did geography influence societal development in different regions?
    • What impacts did crops and livestock have on this development?
    • Do you have any criticisms of Dr. Diamond's work?
    • Do you have any lingering questions?

*Guns, Germs, and Steel Video Link Links to an external site.

Friday April 12

• Objective: To develop our understanding and be able to explain how new advancements in economic systems enabled Europeans to profit so greatly off of their American colonies.
• Entry:
  
  • Why do you think we are revisiting concepts that we covered in Unit 2 now, as part of our colonialism and imperialism unit?
• Activity:
  • Finish video
  • Video formative assessment discussion.