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.

Humanities: Project Spider. Friday, February 21st.

1. Taking the time to Review Last Week.

2. Kahoot! Raif Badwi

•  go over answers together.
• Graphic Novel....what did you think about the story of Raif and his family?

• How Saudi Arabia propaganda is bashing Canada

3. Mapping:

Activity:
a)Ask students to describe the Middle East- make a list.  Looking at their map they should decide where there listed features apply.  Then students should speculate the types of geographical features that might be present in this region.

b)Look at the images above to evaluate the accuracy of their speculations. (images of Hiafa, The Red Sea, Kackar Mountains and more....

c) As a whole class, students will imagine how such diverse geography might affect the climate, people and way of life in this region.  Then, students discuss the nature of stereotypes and the narrowness that preconceived notions impose on understanding of the region.


Images of the Geography of the Middle East: National Geographic.
                                                                         Kackar Mountains in Black Sea region of Turkey
                                                                          Around the Nile 

• Not a continent. Is considered part of the Asian continent. Sits in the middle of the the African Asian and European continents.
• Geographical Region- got its name in the 20th century from the British replacing the term Far East.
• Muslim majority (Sunni majority and Shia minority) Israel is the only Jewish state
• Euphrates and Tigris River form the fertile crescent were many believe humankind began. 
• Strait of Hormuz  

Kahoot! Mapping the Middle East

4. Sketch noting:  Various forms of doodling have all kinds of benefits for our brains. Doodling is actually a form of mnemonics, connecting images with information and significantly increasing our ability to remember what we’ve learned.

5. Sketch note your week of school.

Humanities: Friday, February 7, 2018

1. Game: What do you remember about me? Break into groups of 4 and write down as many things you can remember that I told you.

2. The story of how I clean up and explain to how I teach.

3. Ted talk : "Africa, not a single story.". What single stories might you have held (about a classmate, friend, neighbor, someone in your community? bigger someone in the world.


Current Events:  What in the World! Canadian Tweet Stings Saudis

• Read Article together 

• Discuss these questions :  
• a)What is your understanding of the possible reasons for Saudi Arabia’s anger at Canada’s tweet? Explain.  
• b) For what reasons do you agree with the federal government’s handling of the controversy with Saudi Arabia? For what reasons do you disagree? Explain.  
• c) If you were Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, how would you have handled this controversy? Explain.

• Watch these clips:
  

  How Saudi Arabia propaganda is bashing Canada

  What women can and can’t do under Saudi Arabia's male guardianship system

  What single story could we have about Saudi Arabia....is it fair?

  Raif Badawi: his story

  Now think of some generalizations that you might think are true now that we have done this article. 

  2. Map in the The Middle East 

  Your map: Go over instructions

  1. Test to see what you know

For next week:  Answer the questions

Humanities, Friday, February 1, 2019

1. Current Events: What are smart phones made of?  

Quick Quiz in teams! Answers filled out and can confer with each other (but silently)

Deeper discussion: Secret Life of a smartphone?

How does this topic connect to the previous unit on the environment? How does this impact you

2. Expectations: Who remembers 3 facts that I told you about myself last class. Sitting as a group. Everyone has a chance to speak / Be listened to?

You tell me: Rules around breaks, electronics


3. Lesson Hook: Game

1. Break class up into groups of three or four. At each group, one student is designated to be the “scribe;” he or she will write down the answer that the group as a whole comes up with.

2. Then hold up some common everyday household item. (A favorite item to use is a rotary cheese grater, but you can also use things like an eyeglasses case, a blackboard eraser, a pencil sharpener, and even a shoe.)

3. The groups are then given 3 minutes to think up and write down everything they can imagine using the item for—besides its originally intended function. Encourage them to imagine themselves in different settings: for instance, what could they use the item for if they were out in the wood? If they were 3 feet tall? If they were an ant? If they lived in prehistoric times? If they were with their siblings?

At the conclusion of the three minutes, go around the room and have the students discuss a selection of their favorite answers. If appropriate, ask them to demonstrate how they would use the item in the way they have indicated.

 Break


Today we discussed some of the "big ideas" in Socials  namely that history is made up of multiple stories and multiple perspectives. We also noted the importance of thinking critically when we study history and view things from all sides. We read the " blind men And the elephant parable" and listened to a Ted talk called, "Africa, not a single story."


1. Big Ideas of Socials 

 I want you to give these some thought, and come back with some examples of these from your learning in Social Studies this year. Choose just one and tell me which of the Big Ideas it is an example of.  For example:  for second Big Idea (Physical environment influences the nature of  political, social and economic change)  Yours studies about the yellow spruce...what did it influence (first nations, loggers, environmental movement.....

2. History is Made up multiple Stories and Perspectives:

• Blind Man parable:

• Ted talk : "Africa, not a single story."
•  Map of Nigeria:

3. Historical Ideas and Your Story:

There are several historical concepts and perspective is just one of these.  The following assignment is going to help you to understand these concepts, while giving me a chance to know you better. We will go over the assignment and if there is enough time you can get started on it here.  I want you to treat this like any formal assignment so,  hand in a neatly typed or  handwritten work, check your spelling, capitals and grammar (full sentences).

Friday, January 11, 2019

Here are some great short films on the environment: I will add a few more later

1.  China will no longer take our Plastic!! 

2. Some photos to keep you thinking 
-These photos will only open if you have a facebook account. They take a moment at it is through the Architecture & Design  I  did try going to the cite directly and finding them but I couldn't. They are worth it!
3.  A Very Brave Greta speaks at UNClimate Conference. 
A German cite - behaves like an English one

4. I want your to stop recycling!


5. Going Green Shouldn't be that hard ( American : so important to say we have carbon tax!)


6. Could you go a week without producing Trash

7. Canadian Grocery Chains are slow to tackle the mounting plastic waste 

8.The Clean Bin Project Trailer








For You:  


Why human's are so bad about thinking about climate change

January 10, 2019

As I was writing the date I almost wrote 2018 and I could image all of you going," Ha! A mistake Ms Wagner - we get a point."  As I am now able to be at my computer for short periods  (I have herniated my disc), I just wanted to wish you all good-bye and good-luck. So, without further ado:

To all my classes I wish you luck for the rest of the school year and a very wonderful 2019!

I will leave up this blog until the end of the semester for your reference; however, Mr Topping will not be updating it with new class info.