Day 5 - Monday - Week 2 is underway!

U.S. History I - Periods 1, 5, and 6: 
Essential Questions:

-What is historical thinking?
-How will you succeed in my class?

 Themes: Individualism, Diversity, PEGS (Political, Economic, Geographic, Social)

1. A few more students need to finish their Quote Activity and to have 3 things from your culture/family life/your life that you brought from home.

2. What is History? What are documents?

3. Lunchroom Fight Activity I

Homework:
1. Your list of the 25 most influential events, people, milestones that took place from Early Colonial Life to 1899 in American History MUST BE SUBMITTED via GOOGLE CLASSROOM.  You may only use your textbook and not any online sources. Then circle the "game-changer" that is king of all events.

2. This is a two-day Homework - Reading/Highlight/brief Notes are due tomorrow and part II due on Wednesday.
Part I - Please read, highlight and take some brief notes in The Birth of America: The Story of Jamestown
Part II - After you read please answer the Read-Think-Write Essay Response.
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U.S. HISTORY II - Period 4:
Essential Questions:

-What is historical thinking?
-How will you succeed in my class?

Themes: Individualism, Diversity, PEGS (Political, Economic, Geographic, Social)

1.  What is History recap.

2. Lunchroom Fight Activity

3. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie author of Americanah, one of the New York Times 10 best sellers of 2013.


Homework:
1. Please submit your list to GOOGLE CLASSROOM - specifically Chapters 18 - 34. As you review come up with a list of the 25 most influential events, people, milestones that took place from 1900 to 2014 in American History.  You may only use your textbook and not any online sources. Then circle the "game-changer" that is king of all events.

2. Quick recap Activity - What do you remember from what your History Teacher taught you last year from 1850-1900? Please be honest, candid, and think really hard about this. You can generate a think bubble, a list, a comic strip, a political cartoon, but I want you to create something that symbolizes what you remember. Pssssss....you can use your list from the weekend to give you helpful hints.
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International Studies - Period 2
Essential Questions:
1. What does international studies mean?
2. How will you succeed in my class?

Themes: PEGS (Political, Economic, Geographic, Social)

1. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie author of Americanah, one of the New York Times 10 best sellers of 2013. 

Essential Question: How is your perception influenced by the world around you? As you watch the video below please create ideas that address the essential question and be prepared to write a strong thesis statement and short essay. 


Great Quotes: 

• “The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.” – Chimamanda Adichie

• “Stories matter. Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign, but stories can also be used to empower and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity.” – Chimamanda Adichie

• “It is impossible to talk about the single story without talking about power. There is a word, an Igbo word, that I think about whenever I think about the power structures of the world, and it is “nkali.” It’s a noun that loosely translates to “to be greater than another.” Like our economic and political worlds, stories too are defined by the principle of nkali: How they are told, who tells them, when they’re told, how many stories are told, are really dependent on power.” – Chimamanda Adichie

2. What does International Studies mean? What do you want to study?

3. This will be completed on Tuesday -What is Peace Day? We will begin watching Jeremy Gilley's journey, but please complete this Day After Peace Test while you watch the video.



Homework:
1. Tomorrow we will begin Jeremy Gilley's Film and you will need to finish the take-home test. However, please be sure you have some basic background knowledge of the United Nations and Peace Day: (I had asked you to complete this this weekend, but have this written or typed out in front of you before we start The Day After Peace.

A. What is the United Nations?
B. What is the mission of the United Nations?
C. What is Peace Day? When is Peace Day? What typically happens on Peace Day?
D. Is global peace, even for just one day, possible? Your opinion/argument is valid, but make sure you can justify it.

2. Here are great International Studies links we will begin to explore and utilize for the class.
    * Please make sure you copy and paste into your electronic notebook or bookmark on your IPAD/google docs/Evernote so that you can preserve these for later research and projects.

http://csis.org/
http://www.isanet.org/
http://www.internationalrelations.house.gov/
http://www.fpif.org/
http://www.drudgereport.com/
http://www.cbsnews.com/
http://www.foxnews.com/
http://www.nytimes.com/
http://newsweek.com/

http://www.cnn.world.com/