Hi folks-
I'm out at a conference today. So in class, you have two things to do. First, go to the spreadsheet and continue to watch promotional videos. Then get back together into the groups that divided the questions about Ukraine. Go to the questions you labeled "closed" and find and post answers to them in the google doc. You can do them together as a group or break them up, whatever floats your boat. I'll have the voting page up on the blog later this afternoon. Tonight, for homework, cast your votes. Voting will be open until the start of class Thursday.
Wednesday, May 28, 2014
Tuesday, May 27, 2014
Tuesday, May 20, 2014
Off and running with May Madness
For tonight, you should be looking into your leaders. Do some research, figure out who this person is and what he or she did to get into this competition.
Your promotional material/presentation is due on Tuesday, May 27, as is your short biographical sketch. Don't forget that you'll need a bibliography to accompany the biography! You should format it using Chicago/Turabian style. A quick reference for the style can be found here.
Your promotional material/presentation is due on Tuesday, May 27, as is your short biographical sketch. Don't forget that you'll need a bibliography to accompany the biography! You should format it using Chicago/Turabian style. A quick reference for the style can be found here.
Friday, May 16, 2014
Where do we go from here?
Now that the AP exam is over, the class will be shifting to two simultaneous activities.
The first is the traditional May Madness game, where each of you will take on the rolls of "great" leaders from world history and have a tournament to determine which was the "greatest." The description of the project is linked up here, and details about the rounds are linked up here. Much of the work for the tournament will be your homework and will be completed outside of class time. We will draw names for the tournament on Monday.
In class we will be working on a current events project. The class will select an area of the world and an issue in that area. The regions are aligned with those we've been looking at all year long, and the issues reflect the themes of AP World's curriculum. After the region is identified, the class will generate a list of questions that need to be answered in order to be informed about the current issue the region is facing. The class will then find answers to those questions.
Students will then be tasked with finding where the conversations about this issue are taking place. Is it being discussed on Twitter? Facebook? Instagram? Newspaper comment boards? UN security council minutes? Students will then analyze the conversation to determine who the responsible players are; join the conversation, become a credible participant in the dialog, seek to present solutions/ways forward, and get feedback on their ideas. We will flesh this out more as we go along.
For homework this weekend, visit each of the following links for each of the topics below, read the short articles about the issues, and come into class with a set of priorities about what you want to get involved with!
1) Boko Haram and the kidnapping of girls in Nigeria
2) Chinese aggression in the South China Sea
3) Russian aggression in Ukraine
4) Israeli/Palestinian peace prospects
5) Protest/unrest in Venezuela
The first is the traditional May Madness game, where each of you will take on the rolls of "great" leaders from world history and have a tournament to determine which was the "greatest." The description of the project is linked up here, and details about the rounds are linked up here. Much of the work for the tournament will be your homework and will be completed outside of class time. We will draw names for the tournament on Monday.
In class we will be working on a current events project. The class will select an area of the world and an issue in that area. The regions are aligned with those we've been looking at all year long, and the issues reflect the themes of AP World's curriculum. After the region is identified, the class will generate a list of questions that need to be answered in order to be informed about the current issue the region is facing. The class will then find answers to those questions.
Students will then be tasked with finding where the conversations about this issue are taking place. Is it being discussed on Twitter? Facebook? Instagram? Newspaper comment boards? UN security council minutes? Students will then analyze the conversation to determine who the responsible players are; join the conversation, become a credible participant in the dialog, seek to present solutions/ways forward, and get feedback on their ideas. We will flesh this out more as we go along.
For homework this weekend, visit each of the following links for each of the topics below, read the short articles about the issues, and come into class with a set of priorities about what you want to get involved with!
1) Boko Haram and the kidnapping of girls in Nigeria
2) Chinese aggression in the South China Sea
3) Russian aggression in Ukraine
4) Israeli/Palestinian peace prospects
5) Protest/unrest in Venezuela
Tuesday, May 13, 2014
Infographics
8000-600BCE
600BCE-600CE
600CE-1450
https://magic.piktochart.com/
https://infogr.am/post-
https://infogr.am/post-
https://infogr.am/post-
https://infogr.am/post-
1450-1750
https://magic.piktochart.com/
https://magic.piktochart.com/output/1952802-europe-and-russia-global-interac
https://magic.piktochart.com/output/1952802-europe-and-russia-global-interac
1750-1900
https://magic.piktochart.com/output/1956058-mother-russia- during-the-age-of-
https://magic.piktochart.com/output/1957935-great-britain- 1750s-1900s
1900-Present
https://magic.piktochart.com/
https://magic.piktochart.com/output/1946952-north-america-1900s-now
https://magic.piktochart.com/output/1945629-south-america
http://visual.ly/europe-1900s-
http://visual.ly/europe-1900-
http://visual.ly/europe-1900s-
https://magic.piktochart.com/output/1941072-africa-conflict-copy
https://magic.piktochart.com/output/1946952-north-america-1900s-now
https://magic.piktochart.com/output/1945629-south-america
http://visual.ly/europe-1900s-
http://visual.ly/europe-1900-
http://visual.ly/europe-1900s-
https://magic.piktochart.com/output/1941072-africa-conflict-copy
Friday, May 9, 2014
Sharing is caring!
link to AP essay chart: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aqg37NuvmmJgdDEweU5jU2JiQnRuOXhGRFJoYUtfTmc&usp=sharing
link to AP past essay topics: https://docs.google.com/document/d/18Gnd7wbjIjuK9y7KqaQAuBhtnlItyFMjYAZ7m7obFoc/edit?usp=sharing
link to end of the year powerpoint: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1hrpDoEoSv6M0v-8Zu5ueN70jgLpO6avzZvmiQypxwqw/edit?usp=sharing
link to the map of the world, AP Style: http://img.docstoccdn.com/thumb/orig/121813705.png
You have been placed into groups based on time periods. Your task is to make an infographic to sum up what the world is like/what's going on in that time period. Can you boil that down to one or two words? can you encapsulate the changes and continuities by region? What happens in multiple places? What is unique and distinctive about each region? What is a good visual way to represent what's going on? Examples of infographics can be found at dailyinfographic.com. You can create infographics using a number of tools: visual.ly, infogr.am, piktochart.com, prezi (to a lesser extent) or you can just make up one yourself using a presentation app. I'd like to have these done by the end of class on Tuesday so people have a chance to use them to review.
link to AP past essay topics: https://docs.google.com/document/d/18Gnd7wbjIjuK9y7KqaQAuBhtnlItyFMjYAZ7m7obFoc/edit?usp=sharing
link to end of the year powerpoint: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1hrpDoEoSv6M0v-8Zu5ueN70jgLpO6avzZvmiQypxwqw/edit?usp=sharing
link to the map of the world, AP Style: http://img.docstoccdn.com/thumb/orig/121813705.png
You have been placed into groups based on time periods. Your task is to make an infographic to sum up what the world is like/what's going on in that time period. Can you boil that down to one or two words? can you encapsulate the changes and continuities by region? What happens in multiple places? What is unique and distinctive about each region? What is a good visual way to represent what's going on? Examples of infographics can be found at dailyinfographic.com. You can create infographics using a number of tools: visual.ly, infogr.am, piktochart.com, prezi (to a lesser extent) or you can just make up one yourself using a presentation app. I'd like to have these done by the end of class on Tuesday so people have a chance to use them to review.
Thursday, May 8, 2014
May 8th
For tonight, go to www.getafive.com. The class code is FLFF6LG. Register for the site and take the diagnostic test. It is 39 questions and is not at all graded; it will just give me a look at what we can/should target in our review.
The site also has other review options for you, though as Twinkle said, some of it doesn't work as well as others--I don't recommend making it your only source of review materials! Think of it as a supplement to what we do in class.
Tomorrow we will wrap up the end of the cold war and start looking at the review process!
The site also has other review options for you, though as Twinkle said, some of it doesn't work as well as others--I don't recommend making it your only source of review materials! Think of it as a supplement to what we do in class.
Tomorrow we will wrap up the end of the cold war and start looking at the review process!
Homework for May7 redux
Hi folks-
sorry this didn't post the first time around. The homework for tonight is to read pages 1097-1106.
sorry this didn't post the first time around. The homework for tonight is to read pages 1097-1106.
Tuesday, May 6, 2014
Homework for May 6
For tonight, read pages 1063-1067. I'm assuming that you remember the Korean War and Cuban Missile crisis from US history, and that you are aware of the space race, McCarthyism and the Civil Rights movement as well. If you don't know about any of the above mentioned, (and by that I mean, you don't recognize the main topics--you don't need more than that) then feel free to read what the textbook has to say on the subjects. Otherwise, read pages 1077-1081.
Monday, May 5, 2014
homework for May 5
For tonight, read pages 1037-1047. This is about the fighting in WWII and we won't be talking about it in class!
Thursday, May 1, 2014
Homework for May 1
Welcome to May!
For tonight, please read pages 1031-1037 about the start of World War II. This will NOT be part of the test on Monday!
For tonight, please read pages 1031-1037 about the start of World War II. This will NOT be part of the test on Monday!
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