Today, we learned about the Roaring 20s and the advance of air travel as a technology. I LOVE flying, and used to work at the airport in Portland! Photo taken at St. Maarten in the Caribbean in 2009.
Dear class,
Hello again! It was great to be with you all today as we wrapped up our last unit and moved on to the next one. Here's what happened in class today:
Hello again! It was great to be with you all today as we wrapped up our last unit and moved on to the next one. Here's what happened in class today:
Learning Targets Addressed:
KNOWLEDGE ALT 8: I can identify how technological knowledge and innovation shapes a society, place, or region.
AGENDA 2/8/19:
News Brief - Emma H.
Debrief
Roaring 20s
Air Travel
News Brief: Emma H. had the news brief today and selected an article about this story to talk about: CBSNews.com - Customs officer shoots, kills driver at port of entry on U.S.-Mexico border. After discussing the story, we also checked in to see if anyone was up to anything interesting or fun outside of class.
Norri was assigned to do the next news brief.
Today's Black History Month fact is that Oprah Winfrey became the first African American woman to host a nationally syndicated talk show on February 8, 1986.
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):
Norri was assigned to do the next news brief.
Today's Black History Month fact is that Oprah Winfrey became the first African American woman to host a nationally syndicated talk show on February 8, 1986.
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):
Debrief: This week, we had a Socratic Seminar discussion on the American Dream and also watched a documentary on the poverty line in America. I wanted to get some feedback on both from students, so I asked for some thoughts from the class about how things went. I thought that the discussions were very interesting! I hope that students found the documentary interesting, as well. I collected the film notes from last class, which will be scored for self-directed learning.
Roaring 20s: For our next unit, we are going to learn a bit more about what happened 100 years ago in the United States, right after World War I. To begin, I went through this PowerPoint with the class as students took Cornell notes (we will review these notes next class to add a summary and questions):
This was a time in America of a lot of changes, and also a lot of growth of the United States in many ways (which is why it's called the "Roaring" 1920s). We will continue to learn about this era in the classes to come!
Air Travel: We did not get to this in class, but I'm eager to talk about it next time, whenever that happens to be! Have a great weekend, however long it may be! :-)
