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."

😀💪😀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).

😕😞😞A 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 González 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.

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 :

3. 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

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

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

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?