Thursday, 6 June 2019
Spider Humanities, Friday June 6th
All assignments need to be handed in (you have until June 14th to have all your assignments done for this semester)
1. Housekeeping: What is due. Endings and New Beginnings
2. Current Events: How to turn a protest into powerful Change What it is to be an active citizen.
a) What is happening in Germany: Rezo the YouTube Influencer.
b)Green Party makes big gaines in the EU
c) New polls released in Germany shows that Green Party would win if there were and election:
3. Major Themes of this semester. I want you to think critically here and do not mix up theme with topic and search for the deeper meaning of what we have been learning: Form small groups and work together come up with at least three themes. Use my blog to spur your memories.
For example: Not: We learned about Christianity Rather: Learning about religions brings a sense of tolerance rather than fear and misunderstanding.
Not: we learned about the environment Rather: Learning that change happens
through a variety of ways such as
4 Wild Fires Continued
The steps to making a safe campfire.
What is the number *_ _ _ _ _
BREAK
4, Talking about the Novel - asking some of the important questions
5. Whose Phone is This
Time to work on this project. Will be due next week.
1. Wallpaper: Sketch the character's cell phone Wallpaper choice with coloured pencils/ or a magazine collage of images. Then explain why this image choice would appeal to this character.
2. Email or Text - this character just received two messages. Thinking back over the reading, explain which other characters just sent message to this character and what is the content of each message.
3. Playlist/ Movie/ Series list - Write three song titles with artists names that would likely be on this character's playlist. Be sure to explain your reasoning as to why these three songs would appeal to this character.
ie. "Waiting on the world to change" by John Mayer - Jett has gone through so much in the last few months that he is kind of wishing that the world would stop so he could get off. So, he would want change to happen - he just doesn't realize that he is integral in making change happen.
Homework: Finishing off the phone sheets. Next week we meet with Kaia to celebrate our last day of Spider Classes.
Message from Kara: I am going to miss you all and hope that I will have the lucky opportunity to teach you again.
Friday, 31 May 2019
Spider Humanties, Friday, May 31, 2019
TODAY, YOUR LEARNING GUIDES ARE DUE!!!!!
1. Housekeeping
2. Current Events:
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
1. Housekeeping
2. Current Events:
- First 3 minutes: Wildfires in Alberta
- Smoke Season Comes Early to BC
- Do you know the number to call? *_ _ _ _
- Activity on Paper: Fire Succession and Should forest fires be put out?
- Activity: BC Wildfire Prevention Guide
- Mentimeter: Burning Issues
- 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."
😀💪😀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.
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.
Friday, 10 May 2019
Spider Humanities May 9th 2019
Friday, May 9th 2019
Finishing up loose ends
Housekeeping:
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
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 :
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
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 novelFocus 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 :
- 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
"you have to understand,
no one puts their children in a boat
unless the water is safer than the land."
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
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?
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
PLEASE REMEMBER TO BRING YOUR COPY OF
WELCOME TO NOWHERE
Friday, 26 April 2019
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:
- Tedex: Refugees.
- Important vocabulary to understand: xenophobia, racism, migrant, refugee, persecution purgatory, Arab Spring
- 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.
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