Spider Humanities Course, April 25, 2019

 Spider Humanities: WELCOME BACK April 25, 2019

Quick back track: the play (theme: transformation of character from selfish to whole), homework, and sketch-notes.


Current Events:  CBC KIDS NEWS - CLIMATE CHANGE 

• There are a great many different short videos for you to watch and learn about Climate change and other interesting topics. 
• In groups: what are you worries or concerns about climate change? 
• TIME TO GET MOVING: Quick skit! What do you think is one of the most important issues? Make it a skit. Humour, news interview, pop star interview.....
• Topics: Seas rising, Climate hotter and colder, migrating people, farming despair, changing animals/birds,  garbage patch.....

First Half Lesson Focus:

1. Tedex: Refugees. 
2. Important vocabulary to understand: xenophobia, racism, migrant, refugee, persecution purgatory, Arab Spring
3.  What would you take?  Think of things of value, things of comfort and things of connection/community.

Group Discussions:

Homework:

1.Write a well formatted paragraph on answering ONE of the discussion questions on the novel WELCOME TO NOWHERE.  When you are finished summit it to the Humanities drop-box on Moodle.  Check post from April 5th for paragraph format.

2. Continue to read the online course and watch the videos.  Remember to fill out your learning guide as it will be part of your humanities mark. Completed Learning guides will be turned in at the end of May.

Spider Humanities, Friday, April 5, 2019

REMINDER: Paragraphs from the week of March 8th are overdue. Please be sure to get them into me to be marked. 

Points today: 62+ 11

Introduction and Review: Welcome back after the break.

1. Who is Greta and why did I bring her up last class?

2. What have you done over the break to reduce your impact on the planet?

3. I have gone plastic free and started a new public Instagram page @needlessandplasticfree
4. 5 pillars of Islam

• Shahada: Faith.
• Salah: Prayer.
• Zakāt: Charity.
• Sawm: Fasting.
• Hajj: pilgrimage to Mecca.

5. Tell me some of the history you have learned about Islam and Muhammad's life.
6. Next weeks play.

Writing Lesson: How to write a Paragraph
1. Organization: Title, name, date
2. Refer to the name of the book (italicized) and the author.
3.

 


First Activity:
 Islam today: The faith project: Focus and Distraction

Quick review of our articles and sketchnotes:
The first half before the break each group will finish their sketchnotes. Today is last in class day and students will be expected to meet each other outside class time to finish up if class time not enough.

Homework: Students should be sure to complete their paragraphs. I have only received a handful. They finished up the sketch-notes today and a few students are taking theirs home to finish

Please continue to work on the Humanities site at home. I have opened up a little more.

Next week:  The Young King By Oscar Wilde  Audio version: Link:  Young King Synopsis