The sun has set on Semester 1 of the 2018-19 school year! Photo taken in Hawaii in 2011.
Today was immigrant group presentation day for almost everyone in class, so I hope that you feel as if they went well and were worth the time! Here's what we did today in class:
Learning Targets Addressed:
Behavior LT 3: I can work effectively within a team or group.
Communication LT 1: I can communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing.
Knowledge LT 16: I can explain the process of change and continuity in a society, place, or region.
Communication LT 1: I can communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing.
Knowledge LT 16: I can explain the process of change and continuity in a society, place, or region.
Soundtrack: "The Final Countdown" by Europe. Selected for today because of it being finals for our class! Lyrics here.
AGENDA 1/23/19:
News Brief – Valeria
Presentations
Citizen USA
Class Feedback
News Brief: Valeria had the news brief today and selected an article about this story to talk about: CNN.com - How the video confrontation between Catholic students and a Native American elder blew up. After discussing the story, we also checked in to see if anyone was up to anything interesting or fun outside of class.
Emma H. was assigned to do the next news brief.
As part of the news brief, we also watched the one minute BBC World News update. Here's the link to see the latest one minute update, at any time of day (it will probably be different from what we watched in class):
Presentations: During this part of class, students presented on the immigrant groups they selected. I first asked for volunteers, then drew randomly. Here's the assignment again:
Here is the list of groups that presented:
Finally, here is the sheet for notes that I passed out to the class:
Citizen USA: This was a short documentary (available streaming on HBO GO - if you do not have it, do not worry, as I will not ask students who missed this to make it up). Here are the questions I had students answer as we watched the documentary (which we might have already finished last class):
Here is a list of dates for citizenship/naturalization ceremonies in Portland, if you are interested in attending one, after having seen them in the documentary! I attended one in August 2018 to see what it was like, which must have been the first one I have attended since
USCourts.gov - Oregon Naturalization Ceremonies
At the end of the documentary, we talked about the questions and anyone's experience with the citizenship process as an immigrant. Thank you for this conversation! We have such an interesting group of people in our class and school!
Class Feedback: If we had time, the last part of class was given to answering questions about how class is going for everyone so far. The questions are:
1) What do you like about this class? What is this class good at?
2) What does the class need to get better at/improve at doing?
3) What do you like about Mr. Fritz as a teacher?
4) What can Mr. Fritz improve at doing as a teacher?
Hopefully, students had substantive feedback to give for each part! This was anonymous, to allow for students to write freely. I will analyze these results and get back to everyone at the start of next semester! Have a great rest of the week!
Class Feedback: If we had time, the last part of class was given to answering questions about how class is going for everyone so far. The questions are:
1) What do you like about this class? What is this class good at?
2) What does the class need to get better at/improve at doing?
3) What do you like about Mr. Fritz as a teacher?
4) What can Mr. Fritz improve at doing as a teacher?
Hopefully, students had substantive feedback to give for each part! This was anonymous, to allow for students to write freely. I will analyze these results and get back to everyone at the start of next semester! Have a great rest of the week!
Dahson HW done!
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