Over the last weekend in September (some trees are turning color; gonna be full-out Fall soon!) you should take some time to prepare for the quiz on Monday.
The contents of the quiz will be drawn from Chapters 8 and 9, China and India respectively. The format of the quiz will be short answer, which means you will be asked a question and have to provide an answer in 1 or 2 sentences. There will be a total of 5 questions, and you must answer 4 (so you can choose to skip one, and no, there is no extra credit for answering all 5. If you do, I will read and grade the first four and skip the last question regardless of which answers are best.) You will need a pen.
We are moving on, and for the next week, Greece is the word! So start reading Chapter 10, pages 231-237. I'll not be checking notes.
And as an extra to today's discussion about blogs and followers, specifically blocking unwanted followers:
WordPress doesn't allow you to block specific followers, but you can make your blog private and invite your classmates to view it. You can see instructions by clicking here.
Blogger allows you to remove followers from your "Following" list, by blocking them from being shown on your page. You can see instructions here. But you can't stop that person from viewing your blog as long as it is still public. As with WordPress, you can make your blog private and invite your classmates to follow you, and instructions are posted here.
Inviting your classmates will involve sending them an email with a link (likely you can do this directly from your blog) however, bpsk121.org won't accept invites from emails outside the system. So, you either need to invite people through their personal emails, or copy and paste the invite link into a school email and send it to them that way. (That may or may not work, I'm not sure yet...) Either way, you will face some data entry time in order to do this.
Please be sure to invite me to view your blog if you make it private, and let me know if you make your settings private, as that may change the way Protopage.com's links work...
Friday, September 28, 2012
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Homework for Wednesday
For tonight, read the selection about Ashoka on page 223. Answer the italicized question on your blog.
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Homework for Tuesday
For tonight, read pages 217-224. You don't have to take notes as you read, but you can if you want to.
For tomorrow, you will need to have a Twitter account that is active...You may want to add the app Hootsuite to better track hashtags as well...
For tomorrow, you will need to have a Twitter account that is active...You may want to add the app Hootsuite to better track hashtags as well...
Monday, September 24, 2012
Homework for September 24
Happy Monday-
Your homework is to read pages 213-217 and take written notes on the material if you have not done do already. You should finish your maps and put them on the blog if you did not do so in class. On the map you should have the Qin and Han Dynasties, the Great Wall, the Xiong Nu area, and the two major rivers. Take a picture of the map and post it on your blog.
Your homework is to read pages 213-217 and take written notes on the material if you have not done do already. You should finish your maps and put them on the blog if you did not do so in class. On the map you should have the Qin and Han Dynasties, the Great Wall, the Xiong Nu area, and the two major rivers. Take a picture of the map and post it on your blog.
Sunday, September 23, 2012
Friday, September 21, 2012
Happy weekend!
Over the weekend, we are leaving China and heading into Classical India. You are to read pages 207-217, which will cover the political systems created in India.
After you read, compose a post for your blog in which you describe any differences that exist between the Chinese Dynasties and the Indian Dynasties; how do these political systems differ from each other?
After you read, compose a post for your blog in which you describe any differences that exist between the Chinese Dynasties and the Indian Dynasties; how do these political systems differ from each other?
Thursday, September 20, 2012
late homework post
For tonight, you are to finish up the chapter. But if you didn't get this until late, don't worry about it--we'll be going over the reading in class.
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Homework for Wednesday night
For tonight, read the selection about Legalism linked up here. (If we didn't get to it during class today) and pages 189-193 in the textbook about the Qin dynasty. They enacted a Legalist government. Nice people. Really...
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
And now for something completely different...
Tonight, read a little Daoism!
Some selections from the Dao De Jing, the principle text for Daoism are linked up here. Read them, think about them, then read them again. Then think some more...
Then probably read them again...
Some selections from the Dao De Jing, the principle text for Daoism are linked up here. Read them, think about them, then read them again. Then think some more...
Then probably read them again...
Monday, September 17, 2012
Happy Monday!
Your homework for tonight is as follows:
Read the selections from Mencius linked up here.
Read the selections from Xun Zi linked up here.
Post on your blog: What does Mencius believe about human nature? What does Xun Zi believe about human nature? Who do you line up with? Why?
Read the selections from Mencius linked up here.
Read the selections from Xun Zi linked up here.
Post on your blog: What does Mencius believe about human nature? What does Xun Zi believe about human nature? Who do you line up with? Why?
Friday, September 14, 2012
Confucianism over the weekend
Over the weekend, do the following:
Learn that the name is spelled: C-O-N-F-U-C-I-U-S.
A person who follows this philosophy is a: Confucian. Many of them are Confucians
The name for the philosophy is: Confucianism.
Then, you will need to have the iBooks app on your iPad.
Go to the iBooks store (also a part of iTunes)
Search for the iBook: The Chinese Classics--Volume 1: Confucian Analects by James Legge and download it. (It is free, but you will need to have an iTunes account, which is also free to get.)
Read Books 1 and 2. Skim another book of your choice. On your blog, post the following:
1) Is this a religion or not? Why do you think so?
2) Does this reading support the idea that people are born good/bad/neutral? Cite three examples that support your point of view.
Learn that the name is spelled: C-O-N-F-U-C-I-U-S.
A person who follows this philosophy is a: Confucian. Many of them are Confucians
The name for the philosophy is: Confucianism.
Then, you will need to have the iBooks app on your iPad.
Go to the iBooks store (also a part of iTunes)
Search for the iBook: The Chinese Classics--Volume 1: Confucian Analects by James Legge and download it. (It is free, but you will need to have an iTunes account, which is also free to get.)
Read Books 1 and 2. Skim another book of your choice. On your blog, post the following:
1) Is this a religion or not? Why do you think so?
2) Does this reading support the idea that people are born good/bad/neutral? Cite three examples that support your point of view.
Thursday, September 13, 2012
Homework to do for Friday
Tonight you should finish up your map (if you didn't do so in class) Be sure to make a key for the map and include: a compass rose, the Tigris, Euphrates, and Indus Rivers, the cities of Sardis, Susa, Pasargadae, and Persepolis; the regions of Anatolia and Greece; and the Mediterranean, Black, Red and Caspian Seas, and the Persian Gulf. Post a picture of your map on your blog for your future reference. (I'll not be collecting the physical maps from you, so you can put them on your refrigerator if you like...)
We start with China tomorrow, so read pages 181-189 tonight. That will take you through the Chinese philosophies of Legalism, Confucianism and Daoism, which get a bit confusing...
We start with China tomorrow, so read pages 181-189 tonight. That will take you through the Chinese philosophies of Legalism, Confucianism and Daoism, which get a bit confusing...
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Homework for Wednesday
For tonight's assignment, you are to read the primary source document (a selection from the Gathas) on page 176. At the bottom of the source, there is a question in italicized font. Please write an answer to the question and post the answer to your blog.
And remember, if your parents come to Back to School night tonight and bring either your ipad or a smartphone that can scan QR codes, you get an extra three points on the next test!
If you are interested, the keynote on the Persians is below and stored on slideshare.net.
And remember, if your parents come to Back to School night tonight and bring either your ipad or a smartphone that can scan QR codes, you get an extra three points on the next test!
If you are interested, the keynote on the Persians is below and stored on slideshare.net.
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Homework for Tuesday
For tonight, finish reading the chapter on Persia (chapter 7), pages 168-178.
Think about how you are organizing your notes and remember not to be slaves to the way the textbook organizes the material!
Think about how you are organizing your notes and remember not to be slaves to the way the textbook organizes the material!
Monday, September 10, 2012
History Head Part Deux and reading
For tonight, you are to proceed to Part Two of the History Head assignment.
Go to the class Protopage, linked up here. (You will want to bookmark this page; you'll be going back here a lot...) There you will find "containers" (for lack of a better word) for the blog addresses of your classmates' blogs in the form of links embedded within their names. Click on the name to open the link to the person's blog.
In class today you should have taken note of your peers' work from other societies. Tonight, you are to go to two (2) of your peers' blogs where they have posted pictures of their History Heads, and post a comment about their work. (You may not visit a blog about your society; go to a new society. So, if you did China, you can't comment on another China project.) Post comments on the blogs for your peers to read AND post a copy of your comments to your own blog as a new post. In your comment you should do the following:
1. Start with a greeting!
2. Complement the work: point out something that was done well;
3. Constructively critique the work: point out something that could have been better and suggest how it could be done better;
4. Describe one way in which the two societies were similar--something that overlapped;
5. Describe one way in which the two societies were different--something that was divergent;
6. Ask at least one question of the author--what do you want to know more about? this could be about a choice the author made, it could be seeking clarity about a confusing image, or the arrangement of material...
7. Sign your post
Then go to the textbook and read pages 159-168. We are off to Persia. I strongly recommend you take written notes, but I am not checking them. Yet...
Go to the class Protopage, linked up here. (You will want to bookmark this page; you'll be going back here a lot...) There you will find "containers" (for lack of a better word) for the blog addresses of your classmates' blogs in the form of links embedded within their names. Click on the name to open the link to the person's blog.
In class today you should have taken note of your peers' work from other societies. Tonight, you are to go to two (2) of your peers' blogs where they have posted pictures of their History Heads, and post a comment about their work. (You may not visit a blog about your society; go to a new society. So, if you did China, you can't comment on another China project.) Post comments on the blogs for your peers to read AND post a copy of your comments to your own blog as a new post. In your comment you should do the following:
1. Start with a greeting!
2. Complement the work: point out something that was done well;
3. Constructively critique the work: point out something that could have been better and suggest how it could be done better;
4. Describe one way in which the two societies were similar--something that overlapped;
5. Describe one way in which the two societies were different--something that was divergent;
6. Ask at least one question of the author--what do you want to know more about? this could be about a choice the author made, it could be seeking clarity about a confusing image, or the arrangement of material...
7. Sign your post
Then go to the textbook and read pages 159-168. We are off to Persia. I strongly recommend you take written notes, but I am not checking them. Yet...
Friday, September 7, 2012
For the weekend: History Head
Over the weekend, your task is to create a History Head for a region of the world you read about in Chapters 1-6.
Goal: To show how the average person “lived” the five themes of the course during the first period of time the course covers.
Materials: You will be provided with a printout of a human head in profile, a large sheet of construction paper. You will also need markers, glue/staples/tape, your iPad and your blog.
Task I: Your task is to create a history head that presents how the five themes of this course would have been present in the daily lives of the average person in one region you have been assigned. You are to incorporate images, not words, into the head, number them in accordance with the themes and provide a key on the construction paper. This must be done physically, not digitally. You may draw, clip or print images for incorporation.
You must have at least five (5) images inside the head to represent a personal connection (this is something the average person would do/think/feel) and five (5) images outside the head (this is something that would be done to or experienced by the person by external forces). You must also include on the sheet the name of your society, a timeline indicating the era, and your name. What you create will then be posted on the wall of the classroom when you come to school on Monday. Be sure that before you do that you get a clear/visible picture (or pictures if you need) of the final product. You'll need to post them to your blog as part of Monday's activity.
Goal: To show how the average person “lived” the five themes of the course during the first period of time the course covers.
Materials: You will be provided with a printout of a human head in profile, a large sheet of construction paper. You will also need markers, glue/staples/tape, your iPad and your blog.
Task I: Your task is to create a history head that presents how the five themes of this course would have been present in the daily lives of the average person in one region you have been assigned. You are to incorporate images, not words, into the head, number them in accordance with the themes and provide a key on the construction paper. This must be done physically, not digitally. You may draw, clip or print images for incorporation.
You must have at least five (5) images inside the head to represent a personal connection (this is something the average person would do/think/feel) and five (5) images outside the head (this is something that would be done to or experienced by the person by external forces). You must also include on the sheet the name of your society, a timeline indicating the era, and your name. What you create will then be posted on the wall of the classroom when you come to school on Monday. Be sure that before you do that you get a clear/visible picture (or pictures if you need) of the final product. You'll need to post them to your blog as part of Monday's activity.
Thursday, September 6, 2012
Homework for Friday
Congratulations, you've now made it through the two major types of assessments we deal with in this class. Believe it or not, they don't get harder than what you just did--they just get regular.
Part one of your homework: compose a blog post reflecting on the test and the essay. You can use these questions as a guide: How do you think they went? What was your reaction to them? Were you prepared? What would you do differently going into the next test or essay?
Part two of the assignment is to review the themes of the course listed below. The College Board has identified five themes around which this course is structured. Since virtually all of the essays and nearly all of the test questions connect to these themes, you really should know them frontwards and backwards. We will be starting a project tomorrow that will introduce you to these themes, so you can get a jump on it by becoming familiar with them. They are:
You'll notice that a lot is fit into each heading. This is good, because it gives lots of leeway. This is bad because it gives lots of leeway. You'll see...
Part one of your homework: compose a blog post reflecting on the test and the essay. You can use these questions as a guide: How do you think they went? What was your reaction to them? Were you prepared? What would you do differently going into the next test or essay?
Part two of the assignment is to review the themes of the course listed below. The College Board has identified five themes around which this course is structured. Since virtually all of the essays and nearly all of the test questions connect to these themes, you really should know them frontwards and backwards. We will be starting a project tomorrow that will introduce you to these themes, so you can get a jump on it by becoming familiar with them. They are:
- Patterns and impacts of interaction between humans and the environment (demography and disease, migration, patterns of settlement, technology).
- Development and interaction of cultures (religions, belief systems, philosophies and ideologies, science and technology, the arts and architecture).
- State-building, expansion, and conflict (political structures and forms of governance, empires, nations and nationalism, revolts and revolutions, regional, trans-regional and global structures and organizations).
- Creation, expansion, and interaction of economic systems (agricultural and pastoral production, trade and commerce, labor systems, industrialization, capitalism and socialism).
- Development and transformation of social structures (gender roles and relations, family and kinship, racial and ethnic constructions, social and economic classes).
You'll notice that a lot is fit into each heading. This is good, because it gives lots of leeway. This is bad because it gives lots of leeway. You'll see...
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
And now for the Essay
Tomorrow, Thursday, you will write an essay during class. The style will be Compare and Contrast and the topic will be drawn from Chapters 1-6.
You should look over the scoring guide that the College Board uses for this style of essay. It is linked up here.
You will need to write the essay in either blue or black ink. Lined paper will be provided for you. You may not use any notes, oulines or materials existing outside of the contents of your brain to compose the essay.
And for those of you who haven't done so, I need your blog addresses emailed to me ASAP.
You should look over the scoring guide that the College Board uses for this style of essay. It is linked up here.
You will need to write the essay in either blue or black ink. Lined paper will be provided for you. You may not use any notes, oulines or materials existing outside of the contents of your brain to compose the essay.
And for those of you who haven't done so, I need your blog addresses emailed to me ASAP.
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Welcome back! Now take a test...
Welcome back to school!
Tomorrow (Wednesday) you will be taking a test. It will consist of 70 multiple choice questions. The questions will be drawn from Chapters 1-6 of the textbook. You will have 45 minutes to complete the test, and you will need to have a #2 pencil. I will not be providing pencils. That's up to you.
On Thursday you will be writing an in-class essay in the Compare and Contrast format. It will also be drawn from chapters 1-6. The scoring guide was linked in the last post and will be linked again tomorrow night for your review.
Both of these serve to tell me more about you and what help you will need as we go forward in the class; they are not happening because I'm mean. Mostly...
Tomorrow (Wednesday) you will be taking a test. It will consist of 70 multiple choice questions. The questions will be drawn from Chapters 1-6 of the textbook. You will have 45 minutes to complete the test, and you will need to have a #2 pencil. I will not be providing pencils. That's up to you.
On Thursday you will be writing an in-class essay in the Compare and Contrast format. It will also be drawn from chapters 1-6. The scoring guide was linked in the last post and will be linked again tomorrow night for your review.
Both of these serve to tell me more about you and what help you will need as we go forward in the class; they are not happening because I'm mean. Mostly...
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