Spider Humantities, Friday, March 15, 2019

 Please hand in your paragraphs for Book One of our Novel

 Review:
1. There are seven rules of capitalization that we learned last class.  What are they? 
2. What kinds of supports are available to you when you are writing/editing your work?
3. What are the 5 pillars  of Islam?
4. Who remembers what I said about Muhammad last class?
5. Describe some aspects of Islam you already know?
6. Why do we learn about religion?

Current Events: Today students of the world are stepping out to protest the environment because of Greta!

Who is Greta? A Very Brave Greta speaks at UNClimate Conference. 
                      Greta Thunberg

The issue:  China will no longer take our Plastic!! 

What you can do:  Could you go a week without producing Trash 

Discussion  
 
Islam Sketchnotes:  Our Sketch-note Project. We worked on these a little more, but will need more time after the break.

Finally:   Welcome to Nowhere - Hand in your paragraphs and read over the break the rest of the book.

Enjoy your break!!!!

Spider Humanities Course Friday, March 8, 2019

Review:  What did we talk about last week? Points today 11 + 40 + 1

• What are the qualities of a civilization? What do you remember from your skits?
• Who can remember the chorus from  "History Teachers" parody of Gwen Stefani's"Harajuku Girls" called "Civilization?" What does it tell us?
• Why sketch-note?
• What is culture? What are some of its attributes?
• What is the Canadian culture like? 

Grammar:

Tools to use when we write and how editing our work is an important step when writing. You do not have to hand me in handwritten work. It can be done using a word processor.

English Capitalization Rules:

1. Capitalize the first word of a sentence 
2 . Capitalize names and other proper nouns
3 Don’t capitalize after a colon (usually)

In most cases, you don’t need to capitalize after a colon.

                                 I have one true passion: wombat racing.

There are a couple of common exceptions. One is when the word following the colon is a proper noun.

                               There is only one place I want to visit: New York City.

4. Capitalize days, months, and holidays, but not seasons
5. Capitalize most words in titles
6. Capitalize cities, countries, nationalities, and languages

7. Capitalize time periods and events (sometimes)

***** And everyone said, "Give us grammar worksheets Ms. Wagner!"   And naturally, I  granted their wish and gave them a grammar worksheet on capitalization.

Supports are important and there are many supports available to you.

• dictionary
• spellcheck
• Siri or google: Okay Siri, how do you spell, remember?
• Grammarly and other tools  

Why study Religion? Walking, thinking, writing

Islam:  The Five Pillars and Introduction.

The Lesson Focus:

Islam in the Medieval Times
1. We read the introduction to the "The Origins and Spread of Islam" (from our History Alive textbook, The Medieval World & Beyond, pp. 74-85) together and I demonstrated  how to sketchnote it.
2. History:  How did Islam originate and spread? These different topics will be divided into teams of my choosing.  You will read the passage together (find the strongest reader or take turns) and then divide the passages up.  Decide who will do what.  You may use other video's and supports to help you create your sketchnote mosaics.

• Arabia in the 6th Century Alex
• Muhammad's Early Life Erin Isaac
• The Call to Prophethood Shavir and Kylie
• Muhammad's Teachings Meet with Rejection Hayliegh and Willow
• From the Migration to Madinah to the End of His Life Evan and Caleb
• The Four Caliphs Kayla and Zeppy
• The Umayyad Dynasty Freya, Quinn
• The Five Pillars: Grace, Keanna, Heather

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3. Team Challenge #1: 
a. Teams decided upon which sections they would be responsible for sketchnoting. 
b. They were each given four cue cards. 
c. Key words are to be documented on one side and the sketchnote on the blank side. 
d. Next Thursday, the team will assemble the cue cards to create a mosaic of the origins of Islam.
e. You will be marked on the following: your ability to work in a team and take a responsible role to the best of your learning ability, completion of your sketchnote and the quality (neatness, spelling check, capitalization, doodles, sketchnotes, textboxes), your assembly of your mosaic and finally, your presentation.  
f . Some examples.

We will continue this work next week. What you can do to prepare? Read your section and know what it is about.


Our Novel:  "Welcome to Nowhere" by Elizabeth Laird.

Homework: Read part one of the novel and no more! (Shahvir, I mean you!)😉 In some ways the Hamid family is not that much different from families in the West and the city that Omar calls home has many likenesses to any city in the West.  Write a paragraph explaining what you found out about Omar's family and how it might be similar to families living in Canada and explain how Bosra is also similar to one of our Canadian cities.

Tip:  Please remember, a paragraph starts with a topic sentence and ends with a conclusion. Please support your statements with evidence and /or an explanation.   

To think about: What incites individuals to leave their home? What is the nature of their journey?

Humanities: Project Spider Friday, March 1st 2019

1. Review/ homework hand back. 18+11
Who is Raif Badawi?
Why Sketchnote?
Globe - latitude, longitude

2. Kahoot! Mapping the Middle East!

3.Sketch-notes: Each student presents theirs and tells why they chose to highlight the information they did

Civilization:

Ask students what they think a civilization is. Write down their responses on a sheet of newsprint. Help students arrive at the following conclusions:

• A civilization is a group of people living and working together for the purpose of creating an organized society.
• People living in civilizations have the ability to use tools, work together cooperatively, and communicate with each other.
• People living in civilizations have the ability to advance culturally and technologically.

The attributes of civilization: stable food supply, water, a system of government, specialized labour and finally, a highly developed culture.

We listened to the "history teachers" parody of Gwen Stefani's"Harajuku Girls" called "civilization." Link here:

We noted that the song reinforced attributes of civilizations including: architecture, super cities,money, art and religions.

Tableau of a wedding.  Tableau's of civilization.

Now You! Menitimeter

1. Describe what Canadian culture is to you.
2. How does your heritage/ culture influence or define you?
3. What aspect of Canadian culture do most admire and why?

So now we have an idea about culture and about civilizations: Now lets us look at the culture and civilization of the Middle East.

Walking Charts: 

What  we know!
What we want to know?

Islam in the Medieval Times
1. We read "The Origins and Spread of Islam" (from our History Alive textbook, The Medieval World & Beyond, pp. 74-85).
How did Islam originate and spread?

• Arabia in the 6th Century
• Muhammad's Early Life
• The Call to Prophethood
• Muhammad's Teachings Meet with Rejection
• From the Migration to Madinah to the End of His Life
• The Four Caliphs
• The Umayyad Dynasty

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2. Challenge # 4: 
a. Teams decided upon which sections they would be responsible for sketchnoting. 
b. They were each given four cue cards. 
c. Key words are to be documented on one side and the sketchnote on the blank side. 
d. On Thursday, the team will assemble the cue cards to create a mosaic of the origins of Islam.