Sunday, May 6, 2012

May 7 - 11, 2012

Geography
Mon. 5/7 -- Global Issues paper due. (Parents this is the CBA paper and worth 100 points in total).
Graphic organizer on the religions on India.  -- Get directions if absent.
Tue. 5/8- Read pages 578-579 Disasters Cyclones.  Notes on Isses in South Asia.  Read p. 593-595. On page 595 answer questions 3 a,b,c and 4. Turn in notes and questions.
Wed. 5/9 -- Read pages 606-607 Map of East Asia (DUE). Reading about Disasters: p. 640-641 -- Flooding on the Yangtse.
Thur. 5/10 -- Reading Three Gorges Dam, 628-630, China worksheet.  Video clip on Tianammen Square protest.
Fri. 5/11 -- DVD: Discovery Atlas: China with worksheet.

Ancient Medieval
Mon. 5/7 -- Making a diagram of a medieval castle -- Discussion of castle defences. 
Tue. 5/8 -- QZ: Feudalism vocabulary (see noted from 5/3 and 5/4.  Mini-lecture on lay investiture and letters from Henry IV and Gregory VII.  We will divide into pairs.  Each pair will translate one letter from medieval language into something more modern.  One year someone did a rap! The final draft will be between 12 and 15 sentences long.
IF ABSENT: Read pages 370-373.  Define lay investiture and canon law. Page 373, do questions 3 and 5.  From page 372 write a 5-6 step sequence describing the conflict between Henry and Pope Gregory.  End with the Concordat of Worms.
Wed. 5/9 -- Intro notes on Japan, comparision between Japanese and European feudalism. 
Thur. 5/10 -- Video -- Japan Empires special.  Notebook Due at the end of class.
Fri. 5/11 -- Library -- Mini-research assignment on Japanese history or culture.  Students will do a quick bit of research into something about Japan that interests them and then write me a letter telling me what they discovered and why they found it interesting.  Directions available.

Anthropology
Mon. 5/7 -- Mbuti field notes III.  Stories that teach: readin Njobo the Elephant Hunter and two short stories.  How are cultural values taught to children?
Tue.  5/8 -- Video notes: Baka: People of the Forrest
Wed. 5/9 -- QZ: Mbuti and cultural facts.  Group assignments on Culture and Personalty.  Each group will prepare a presentation on different topics from Chapter 16.  Presentations on Thursday.
Thur. 5/10 -- Presentations and notes on Culture and Personality.
Fri.  5/11 -- Worksheet, Chapter 15 Language and Communication. 

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