The World War I memorial (a Stonehenge replica) in Maryhill, Washington, overlooking the Columbia River Gorge. Photo taken in 2015.
Hi everyone,
Today marks exactly one month to go until the last day of finals for the year. Plenty to do with that time left. Here's what happened in class today:
Today marks exactly one month to go until the last day of finals for the year. Plenty to do with that time left. Here's what happened in class today:
Learning Targets Addressed:
Knowledge LT 8: I can identify how technological knowledge and innovation shapes a society, place, or region.
Knowledge LT 22: I can describe the influences, impacts and resolutions of historical conflicts.
Critical Thinking LT 4: I can evaluate information and explanations within a given context and develop a relevant conclusion.
Critical Thinking LT 5: I can justify and support arguments or interpretation with appropriate evidence.
Communication LT 1: I can communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing.
Research LT 1: I can effectively conduct and apply research.
AGENDA 5/14/19:
News Brief - Jakob
Group Scenario
World War I
Document Analysis
Work Time
Homework: Read the blog! Complete and submit the United States Imperialism assignment if you did not in class. Continue working on your conflict presentation! Next news brief: Idi.World War I
Document Analysis
Work Time
News Brief: Jakob had the news brief today and selected an article about this story to talk about: BBC.com - North Korea demands return of ship seized by US. After discussing the story, we also checked in to see if anyone was up to anything interesting or fun outside of class.
Idi was assigned to do the next news brief.
I also talked about the new education funding that passed the Oregon legislature yesterday and will likely be signed into law soon, here: OregonLive.com - Oregon Senate sends multibillion-dollar tax, education funding bill to Kate Brown. This *could* mean some really good things for next year, depending on how the Beaverton budget is made.
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):
Idi was assigned to do the next news brief.
I also talked about the new education funding that passed the Oregon legislature yesterday and will likely be signed into law soon, here: OregonLive.com - Oregon Senate sends multibillion-dollar tax, education funding bill to Kate Brown. This *could* mean some really good things for next year, depending on how the Beaverton budget is made.
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):
Group Scenario/World War I: To start this section of the class, I had students form four groups based on a scenario from World War I, and to try and have everyone determine their course of action from an assigned country. Here's the presentation we went through with this:
After the group scenario, we debriefed and then went into the overview (also in the PowerPoint above), which was mostly review for students in my Global Studies classes last year. Here's the note sheet I passed out:
Document Analysis: Part of the presentation had to do with the Zimmerman Note, sent by Germany to Mexico to propose an alliance during World War I. We did a short analysis (with OPVL) in class on this document, here:
After students completed this, we talked in class about what we thought for the analysis and had a conversation about the role of the United States in World War I.
After the group scenario, we debriefed and then went into the overview (also in the PowerPoint above), which was mostly review for students in my Global Studies classes last year. Here's the note sheet I passed out:
Document Analysis: Part of the presentation had to do with the Zimmerman Note, sent by Germany to Mexico to propose an alliance during World War I. We did a short analysis (with OPVL) in class on this document, here:
After students completed this, we talked in class about what we thought for the analysis and had a conversation about the role of the United States in World War I.
Work Time: The rest of class was devoted to work time on the conflict presentation - assigning roles for what to do, starting to create the presentation, etc. Here is the assignment for the United States conflict presentations, which is the final major project of the year (hopefully not too stressful, though):
Here is the PowerPoint that shows who is in what conflict presentation group:
Here is the calendar of what I think we will be doing for the rest of the year in American Studies, to help students plan. That calendar is linked here (and may be updated, so use the link over the paper copy you were given):
Here is the PowerPoint that shows who is in what conflict presentation group:
Here is the calendar of what I think we will be doing for the rest of the year in American Studies, to help students plan. That calendar is linked here (and may be updated, so use the link over the paper copy you were given):
Google Drive - American Studies 10 Foreign Policy Calendar 2019
See everyone next class, when we will have another work day on the conflict presentations!
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