First+weeks

9/3-9/13

day 1- KWL, NAMES, PUZZLE Day 2- Rules, Warm-ups, World Map test (blank paper) Day 3 - Rules / Warm-up / Magazine Cover about you Day 4- Finish Magazine Cover/ share/ Weekly Reflection :

Mon. - Cornell Notes and Basic Geography Tues- Poster GRAPES / THEMES (due Friday)

Weds- 9/11 ( How will you remember 9/11? Thurs-Review / Why study history? Friday - Basic Geography test and Weekly reflection

**Social Interaction** (Human Behavior: Why do people do the things they do?) **Ideas** (Why are new Ideas so Powerful?) **Individuals** (What makes a single person great in the eyes of History?) **Politics** (Governance: Why do people need to have rules, Who gets to be in “Charge”?) **Economics** (How do we as humans distribute the limited resources available?) **Religion** (How have different Belief systems shaped our lives for the better/worse?) **Culture** (What are the common ideas, beliefs and patterns of life that we share? Is your way any better than another’s?) **Science & Technology** (How have new discoveries and inventions changed our lives for the better/worse?) **Time** (How are our lives shaped by the “Time” we live in? Is our time any better/Worse than another?)
 * Geography ** (How is your life and culture shaped by the Physical World in which you live?)

9/20


 * Work on your Continent Project DUE 9/24
 * Students will have class time to work on them this week
 * NOTE: students can skip the latitude and longitude parts
 * [[file:Designing a Continent.docx]]

9/19
 * Continue drafting the GRAPES of your civilization

9/18
 * Work on your Continent Project DUE 9/24
 * Students will have class time to work on them this week
 * NOTE: students can skip the latitude and longitude parts
 * [[file:Designing a Continent.docx]]

9/17
 * No Homework

9/12
 * No homework.

9/11


 * Review world geography pg. r6-r7 (continents, oceans, equator, latitude, longitude, tropics, equator, prime meridian, compass rose)
 * ** Due 9/12 ** How will you remember 9/11? (poem, poster, or paragraph).

9/10 >
 * Review world geography
 * Finish Magazine Cover
 * Ask adults: Where were you on 9/11?
 * [[file:ushistorylocker/Basic world geography.flipchart|Basic world geography.flipchart]]

9/7

> ü Titled Your first and last name > ü Should look like a magazine cover > ü All the content should help us learn about you > ü Images/pictures/drawings > ü 8 1/2 x 11 > ü Previews of articles in the magazine > ü A higher level question about you
 * Basic World Geography (quiz next week)
 * ** DUE 9/11... ** **Magazine cover** about you (title Your Name, images/pictures/ previews about what's inside, 1 higher-level question about you)
 * Magazine cover

9/6
 * Practicing our Cornell Notes (not homework)

9/5
 * Get syllabus signed

9/4
 * Get syllabus signed
 * Read and initial planners pages 1-10