Friday, 31 May 2019

Spider Humanties, Friday, May 31, 2019

TODAY, YOUR LEARNING GUIDES ARE DUE!!!!!

1. Housekeeping

2. Current Events:
  1. First 3 minutes: Wildfires in Alberta
  2.  Smoke Season Comes Early to BC 
  3. Do you know the number to call?  *_ _ _ _  
  4. Activity on Paper: Fire Succession and Should forest fires be put out?
  5. Activity:  BC Wildfire Prevention Guide
  6. Mentimeter: Burning Issues 
  7.  Isaac's link: World Protest Day September 20th

3. English Focus:

Starting off: 

1. What does consequence mean? Can you explain and give an example?
2.  Have you experienced an instance in your life when you needed to pay more attention but didn't? What consequences, did you face as a result?
3. Have you experienced an argument with a friend and/sibling? How did you reconcile?
4. Have you ever had to own something that you have done that was uncomfortable to do?
5. Have you had a moment of courage that you have overcome a huge challenge.

This is a captivating story of betrayal and forgiveness written in free verse.


Ebb & Flow by Heather Smith: Discussion Questions

Friday, 24 May 2019

Spider Humanities, Friday May 24, 2019

IT'S "FREE-FRIDAY"

This means that as a class you have accumulated enough points to have a fun Humanities Day.  You have chosen a Pizza Party and a trip to Hackett Park for a game of capture the flag.

Congratulations on all your hard work!!

1.  Housekeeping:  

My goodness there is a lot of outstanding work!  What this tells me is that you are not able to manage your workload on your own and you are requiring me and your parents to step in a make sure it gets done.  I will be contacting parents today.  First by email.  If I have not heard back from parents by the beginning of next week I will phone.

*Important*I want to you to remember, if I have not received work from you, I am unable to assess your work and you won't have met the learning outcomes for this course.

2. REFUGEE PROJECTS are due today!  Please be sure to hand them in.

3. The New Novel:  Will be handed out today at 12ish.  Your job is to read it and be ready for next week.  By next Friday, May 31 please be at least halfway and ready to talk with your classmates about what you have read so far.

Friday, 17 May 2019

Spider Humantities, Friday, May 17, 2018

Review and Housekeeping:

1. Plan for next week: Pizzas (3) Who will help pick them up?
2. Novel: next week
3. Where are you in the course? Should be in the have completed 2.1 and 2.2 and be moving on to 2.3 this week.

Taking Action: How does change happen? Partner with a younger student come brainstorm ideas.    Think of all the ways that people can change policies, economy, and social norms?











1. Standing Rock: A student speaks.
In April 2016, Standing Rock Sioux elder LaDonna Brave Bull Allard established a camp as a center for cultural preservation and spiritual resistance to the Dakota pipeline; over the summer the camp grew to thousands of people. The protests drew considerable national and international attention and have been said to be "reshaping the national conversation for any environmental project that would cross the Native American land."

๐Ÿ˜€๐Ÿ’ช๐Ÿ˜€Two years ago in North Dakota, after months of protest by thousands of indigenous and environmental activists, pipeline opponents celebrated when the Obama administration denied a key permit for the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL).

๐Ÿ˜•๐Ÿ˜ž๐Ÿ˜žA few months later, the Trump administration reversed that decision and approved construction.  Pipeline opponents worried that a spill from the Dakota Access Pipeline would pollute drinking water for the nearby Standing Rock Sioux reservation.


2. Emma Gonzรกlez on Why This Generation Needs Gun Control


2. Coast Reporter: Mayor Siegers speaks to students at SD46

How can you demonstrate to Mayor Siegers what you are doing for the environment.  What changes have you made in your life.  What about your ongoing socials projects for change.

3. How to write a letter to your mayor, Darnelda Siegers(siegers@sechelt.ca),  MLA and your MP

Step one: What are my concerns

Step Two: What would I like my government to do?

Step Three: How do I address the mayor"
1. Formal letter style - no slang or kid speak
2. Be polite.
3.  Tell them of your concerns and why
4. Tell them of your expectations.

Please hand your letters into the Environment Drop Box on Moodle under Humanities. Also send them to the above government officials.

Homework:  Finish off your art projects for to hand in on next Fridays class and your letters  I would also like you to work further in your course.  You should be finished 2.1, 2.2 and be starting 2.3.




Friday, 10 May 2019

Spider Humanities May 9th 2019

Friday, May 9th 2019

Finishing up loose ends

Housekeeping:
  •  Paragraphs marked: Take some time to read my comments and ask questions.  I always allow rewrites.
  •  Be sure that you have now completed the first section of your learning guide and are part way finished the second - I may give time at the end of today for you to work on the course
  • Points:  93 plus 1 from Isaac. What would you like? A movie? With a environmental or Islamic plot.  Pizza?  A beach clean up or forest walk  and a picnic?  Your ideas
  •  Let's take a vote: Mentimeter
Current Events:

1. Reader week in the Netherlands March 9th (passed but still important)

Our next book: Ebb and Flow (will read a little from it today) 

Review the last lesson 
Explain Cultural Diffusion to your partner and give an example
Explain what is meant by Mechanism of Transfer and give an example
 
Focus Question: How did Islam Spread so Quickly?
What were its mechanisms of transfer.
Let's look at the Who,What,Where,When of Islam and then especially focus on the why?
1. Trade
2. Conquest
3. It was appealing because it treated people fairly


Focus on Syria:  History and Georgraphy of Syria

Break
English Focus:  The novel

Focus Question: What is it like to be a Refugee?What kinds of prejudice do Refugees Face? 

IKEA:   IKEA installs replica of Syrian home inside flagship store

Short film: Girl Brave Rising :

  1. important vocabulary to understand: xenophobia, racism, migrant, refugee, persecution, purgatory, Arab Spring
Consider the following quotation from Somali-British poet Warsan Shire

"you have to understand,
no one puts their children in a boat
unless the water is safer than the land." 
That line from the poem "Home"

By Somali-British poet Warsan Shire, brings home the stark reality of the horrifying decisions refugee parents must make.






 Project:   We see how art has been created to express the struggle of millions of people:  What kind of art would you use to express your understanding of the plight of a refugee: Drawing? Sketchnoting? Poem? Story? Painting? Stop Motion? Film?

GET STARTED AND PLAN IT OUT TODAY!  Due the morning of our "FREEFRIDAY" MAY 24th

Friday, 3 May 2019

Spider Humantities: May 3, 2019

Spider Humanities  Friday May 3,       Points 88

PLEASE REMEMBER TO BRING YOUR COPY OF  
WELCOME TO NOWHERE

1. Check in about homework: 2 paragraphs due. 
2. Moodle:  What am I suppose to do and where do I find it?
3.  Weekly updates: 
4. Today's Plan: Socials focus: 1. current events.  2. Sketch notes
 
1. Current Events:

Today, we will begin again with the climate in order to have a frame of reference for  today's demonstration:

1. Trailer for a Plastic Ocean.

Pair share: Did you learn something new?  How do you feel when you see this trailer? What changes does it make you want to do?

2. Life of a Water Bottle.

What do you think is even better than recycling that plastic bottle?

3. What can we do? 
Make a pledge to your partner. What change can you live with and are willing to make?

Ready for a quick quiz?  Kahoot

Scenerio:  You are standing at the protest with your sign and reporter from Global comes up to you and says, "You are going to be on the six o'clock news - Why are here today?"
 What will you say? 

11:15 Break: 10 minutes.  Please be sure you are packed up and ready to go for12:15

Focus Question:     Why was Islam able to spread so easily?

Hook: Cultural diffusion: is the process by which an object donor idea from on culture spreads to a different culture. 

Examples: Spanish horses to the Americas - Pizza from Italy

Now you:  Think of something that might be an example of culture diffusion today: food, song, religion, anything........ talk to your partner

Something that is culturally diffused is transported by some kind of mechanism that causes it move from one place to another the mechanism might be migration, war, technology, conquest

Let's do the first one together and the rest is you:

Let's share our sketch-notes with the group and try to figure out what was the mechanism for ISLAM. Once we figure out the mechanisms. Then we might be able to answer WHY ISLAM SPREAD SO QUICKLY AND EASILY?
  • Each group will present as best they can their Sketch notes and Islam
Homework:  Please continue in the Moodle course.  I will open up more in section 2.  Fill out your learning guide (due at the end of MAY)

PLEASE REMEMBER TO BRING YOUR COPY OF  
WELCOME TO NOWHERE