Unit 5 = Middle Ages - American Revolution 2010
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A) Mr P's Class Syllabus - Still need to get signed or just want to read it again?
B) Check out Technical Thompson's Website (P-Alumni Student Class Website)
C) Study for Geo Retake (Read Front Chalkboard for info regarding next Retake Date)
GEO RELATED LINKS
a) Go to Legendary Sketch's Geo Page for location practice
b) Use ULTIMATE GEO POWERPOINT
c) Use Colorful Map Packet Study Guide
Middle Ages - American Revolution is the next unit. Students will spend about 2 weeks on this unit. At the conclusion of the unit, students will turn in their unit packet for points. Each assignment should be completed as they are assigned during the unit. Below is the order of the assignments so that students can keep their unit work organized.
It is time for the Most Radical Nerds... Unit. (Graham's Most Radical Video Intro)
Rachel Chon's Jeopardy Review
Still in need of the Auto vs Demo Unit? Scroll down for power points and such stuff.
Unit 3: Middle Ages - American Revolution
1) Middle Ages
2) Renaissance
3) Northern Renaissance
4) Exploration
5) Reformation
6) Scientific Revolution
7) Enlightenment
8) American Revolution
Table of Contents for Unit Assignments
1) Table of Contents (TOC) --- This is your cover page to your packet listing assignments 1-14
2) Spectrum of Time (Power Point) / One Thing Leads to Another (Power Point) (Pre Test)
3a) Alissa Todd's Basics of Middle Ages - Scientific Revolution (Power Point) & (Word Docs)
3) Vocab List (Students will not have to write out but are expected to know vocab)
4) Middle Ages a) Daily Life & 8 Questions b) Cloze Passage (Omit)
5) Renaissance Basics (Power Point) & (Worksheet)
6) Renaissance People (Power Point) & (Worksheet) (Modern Renaissance Man?)
6 & 7) Renaissance Art & North Renaissance Art (Power Point) & (Worksheet) (Omit)
7) North Renaissance Notes - (Power Point) & (Worksheet)
8) Exploration Notes (Power Point) & (Worksheet)
9) Reformation Notes (Power Point) & (Worksheet)
10) Scientific Revolution (Power Point) & (Worksheet) (Omit)
11) Enlightenment Questions (Powerpoint) & (Worksheet)
12) Enlightenment Thinkers (Power point) & (Worksheet)
13) American Revolution & Constitution Notes (Power Point) & (Worksheet)
14) Democracy in Action (Word Doc) (Omit)
SEMESTER FINAL EXAM OR PROJECT?
Soon Mr P will start class off by asking each student: Semester Final: What are you going to do?
- The Final Exam or Final Project?
- Deadline to decide is the Wednesday after Thanksgiving
- Finals will be the last week of the semester (End of January)
The Final Exam
a) It will be a 100 Multiple Choice Question Cumulative Exam.
b) Cumulative exams cover content studied throughout the semester (Sept – January)
Final Projects (Legacy Projects)
a) All must be approved by Mr P prior to the Wednesday after Thanksgiving 2010
b) All students NOT approved to do Legacy Projects will take the Final Exam
SCROLL DOWN below this week’s agenda to read the details about the Semester Project.
P-VILLE INFORMATION
A) Become enlightened about P-ville from Elders of the Past. Use the path the elders have drawn out for you or pave your own route for P-ville. Whatever the case, be sure to do something! Be sure to make P-ville a better place by the time you leave in June than what it was when you first arrived in September to P-ville.
1) P-ville Intro
2) Daily Announcements by Mac & Nina
3) Director of Integrity (DoI)
4) Director of MVP (DoMVP)
5) Director of Economy (DoE)
6) Director of Technology (DoTECH)
7) Director of Maintenance (DoM)
8) Director of Chief of Police (DoP)
9) Director of Stocks (DoS)
10) Director of Beautification (DoB)
11) What other Director of... videos are needed?
a) Director of Directors (DoD)
b) Supreme Council (including a video viewing
c) Director of Quotes (DoQ)
d) Director of Randomness (DoR)
e) Director of SWEN (DoSWEN)
f) Director of Foreign Affairs (DoFA)
g) Director of Special Events (DoSE)
h) Director of Treasury (DoT)
MONDAY November 8, 2010 (Big D’s Birthday)
1) Pretest
2) Review US Constitution
3) Bill of Rights
MR P SUGGESTS...
Take Notes in advance to avoid the madness of fast note taking during class. This way you can listen more carefully, ask questions and check over your notes instead of writing frantically like an academic zombie.
13) American Revolution & Constitution Notes (Power Point) & (Worksheets)
Check out Rachel Chon's Jeopardy Review - especially the American Revolution section.
NEWS CONCERNING UP COMING EXAM
1) Mr P will most likely be available after school on Monday to answer questions about the unit or to review for Tuesday's Vocab Game & Wednesday's Exam.
2) Students should know who were the Enlightenment Figures (Assign 11)
3) Students should know Classical Music started during the Enlightenment and some of the famous musicians from this time was Mozart & Beethoven.
SAMPLE CLASSICAL MUSIC --- If you are bored, interested and have time
a) Mozart
1) Uchida conducts Mozart's Piano Concerto #20 - Allegro I This Japanese lady is insanely cool. Even more amazing then her performance is that Mozart had the brilliant mind to create such intense music over 250 years ago. Thanks Mozart for being creative... thanks for being an inspiration... thanks for ENLIGHTENING US... thanks for being you!
2) Mozart's 4oth Symphony conducted by the great American Leonard Bernstein
3) Listen to the great American Conductor play and talk about Mozart's 40th Symphony Even if you don't know anything about music, it is still interesting to listen Bernstein talk about Mozart's music because it will give you an appreciation of the complexity and creative intensity of Mozart's music.
b) Beethoven
1) The classic Fur Elise
2) Beethoven's 5th Symphony - The great America Conductor Leonard Bernstein leads a German Orchestra
4) Enlightenment Questions (Assign #11)- Be sure you know the answer to such questions as:
a) What idea did the Enlightenment use from the Scientific Revolution? Why? (p.54-55)
b) Name and explain 2 ways the Enlightenment ideas were spread? (p.57 & 61)
c) What was a Salon? (p.57 & 61)
d) How did the relationship change between the ruler and the people? (p.63-65)
e) Who were some of the Enlightened Monarchs? How exactly were they 'enlightened'? (p.63-65)
f) Name and Explain 3 long-term effects the Enlightenment thinking had on Western Civilization? (p.58, 60-61)
g) What new styles of writing and forms of literature were developed? (p.63)
h) Who was that Voltaire guy? What did he contribute to the Enlightenment? (p.56)
5) American Revolution in a nutshell - School House Rock Review
a) Causes of US Revolution - No More Kings
b) Declaration of Independence - Fireworks
c) Basics of the Revolutionary War - Shot Heard Around the World
d) US Separation of Powers - 3 Ring Government
e) How Presidents are Elected? - Send Your Vote to College
f) How a Bill become a Law? - I'm Just a Bill
g) Where the Money Goes? - Where the Money Goes?
h) Taxes should be spent on? - Tax Man Max
i) Basics on the Stock Market - Walking on Wall St.
j) Debt Problems - Tyrannosaurus Debt
k) The Preamble - The Preamble -- Extra Credit for Exam if you can write the Preamble
SUGGESTED READING
a) Textbook Reading - Perhaps during SSR or read at home to prep for Exam
Enlightenment
1) Philosophy in the Age of Reason (p.54-59)
2) Enlightenment Ideas Spread (p.60-65)
American Revolution & Constitution
1) Birth of the American Republic (p.67-76)
b) Do you know your rights? Check out the Charts on p.73 & 76. Mr P really likes Amendments 1, 4, 5 & 10. Know your basic rights! Hint! Hint! Hint!
c) For the more intellectually hungry student, read:
1) The Declaration of Independence written by Thomas Jefferson on p.80-83.
2) The US Constitution written by James Madison on p.84-105.
Yes, be different from most of your fellow Americans and actually read over and get to know the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Mr P estimates that around 10% of Americans have actually read the US Constitution. That means in a nation of 300 million, only 30 million have read the document. Of that 30 million, how many have read the Constitution more than once? Half? 15 million? Mr P usually reads over these documents 2 to 3 times each year. Hey, join an elite club of Americanos that have read the Constitution more than once.
TUESDAY November 9, 2010
1) Mr P’s Challenge - Vocab Game – Take Group Photo of Champs
HW:
a) Organize, staple and study your packet (focus on Enlightenment #11 and American Revolution #13)
b) Check out what you know using Rachel Chon's Jeopardy Review
c) Remember a good chunk of Exam questions will come from the Notes on the US Constitution (Article 1,2 & 3) and Bill of Rights (Amendments 1, 4, 5 & 10) from Assignment 13.
WEDNESDAY November 10, 2010 (Quarter Ends)
1) Middle Ages – American Revolution Packet Due Before Tardy Bell
2) Middle Ages – American Revolution Exam
3) Post Test Survey / Week in Review
THURSDAY November 11, 2010
Holiday: Armistice Day = Veteran's Day
FRIDAY November 12, 2010
Holiday
LEGACY PROJECT INFORMATION
A) Legacy Project approval deadline is the Wednesday after Thanksgiving.
B) Semester Final is either the Final Exam or a Legacy Project. All students wishing to do a Legacy Project must get approval from Mr. P prior to Halloween.
C) All students not doing a Legacy Project will take a semester Final Exam. The Final Exam is multiple choice. Questions for the multiple choice exam will be cumulative. Thus, any content covered during the first semester can appear on the Semester Final Exam.
D) The Semester Final will be at the end of semester. Students taking the Final Exam will take it at the end of the school year. Students doing a legacy project will turn it in the day the students (not doing a legacy project) take the Semester Final Exam.
LEGACY PROJECT FORMS
1) Blank Proposal Application & Sample of filled out Application
2) Contract
3) Update Form & Calendar
4) Legacy Project Ideas - if you can't come up with ideas of your own
5) Sample WWI Vocab - Gives ideas on how to do Legacy Vocab.
6) Sample - WWI Play - Gives ideas on how to do Legacy Play.
SEMESTER FINAL
LEGACY PROJECT OR FINAL EXAM
Each semester students will have a choice of taking either the Final Exam or doing a Legacy Project as their ‘semester’ final. The semester final (exam or project) will equate to 20% - 25 % of the student’s semester grade. There is an application and qualification process that involves doing a legacy project. All students who do not apply or qualify to do a Legacy Project will partake in Final Exam process as a means of fulfilling their semester final obligation for the course. Written below are the specifics for both the Legacy Project and Final Exam.
LEGACY PROJECT
There are several purposes for students to apply to do a legacy project.
1) Students want to create a project to assist & inspire future students’ learning.
2) Students actually want to make a difference and contribute to the betterment of Mr. P’s class.
3) Students prefer to create a project versus taking an Exam for a final.
All student interested in doing a Legacy Project for their semester final must apply and qualify to do a legacy project. To apply and qualify for the Legacy Project, students must submit at least 3 typed proposals to Mr. P. In addition, students are required to schedule a brief meeting with Mr P after school to explain their legacy project proposals. Basically, students are to ‘sell’ their legacy project idea to Mr. P. Students will “qualify” to do a legacy project, if students convince Mr. P of the usefulness of their Legacy Proposal(s). Students should bring their 3 typed legacy proposals and explain them to Mr. P. At the after school meeting, students MUST do the following:
A) Be prepared, articulate and brief (Mr. P is a busy guy and doesn’t like to waste time)
B) Quickly & clearly explain to Mr. P your Legacy ideas (Mr. P has to be able to understand what it is)
C) Explain how it will be beneficial to future students, Mr. P, etc.
D) A typed working schedule that explains how you will be completing the project
E) Samples that demonstrate your ability to do certain kinds of work (i.e. your artwork, video equipment, computer skills or previous projects your done).
The deadline to apply and qualify for doing a Legacy Project as a student’s “Final” for the Fall semester will be October 31st (Halloween) and for the Spring semester March 21st (Equinox). If a student does not apply and qualify by this date, the student will then, by way of default, partake in the Final Exam process at the end of the semester. If a student qualifies and agrees to do a Legacy Project, then he/she is committed to doing a Legacy Project. They will not be allowed to change from doing a Legacy Project to taking the “Final Exam.”
GROUP or SOLO WORK: Mr. P highly recommends that students work solo on their legacy project. Once again, he advises students do NOT work with other students. However, students might be allowed to work with others if they can justify the need to have more than one person do the project. Yet, the group work limit is 3 students. Students may also work with students in Mr. P’s other World History classes. Most importantly, if students qualify to work in a group it is entirely their choice and responsibility to do so. Mr. P will NOT, once again, will NOT hear any grievances or feel any sympathy pertaining to group work problems. Group work is a choice of the students. Again, Mr. P suggests students do NOT work in groups. Yet, students are old enough to make their own decision on such matter.
WORLD HISTORY UNITS
1st SEMESTER
1) Geography / World Religions & Philosophy
2) Autocracy & Democracy
3) Middle Ages - American Revolution
4) French Revolution / Napoleon
5) Industrial Revolution
6) Nationalism / Imperialism
2nd SEMESTER
1) Geography & Geo Stats
2) WWI
3) 20th Century Revolutions & Independence Movements (Russian, China, India, etc)
3) Global Depression
4) WWII
5) Cold War
6) Contemporary Issues
LEGACY GRADING SYSTEM:
A Grade:
Most likely any legacy project that will be or is actually used in Mr. P’s class achieves an “A” grade. If Mr. P will not use it in the future, it probably is NOT going to get an “A” grade. Legacy projects rarely take 1 day or 1 weekend to complete. Students with a desire to achieve an “A” should put in a fair amount of time and effort to complete their legacy project. However, time and effort does NOT necessarily equate to an “A” grade. Students can work very hard and still not achieve an “A” grade. The project should be of the utmost quality. It should also be ready for classroom use. Usually any needed adjustments that Mr. P has to do will deduct from the grade of the Legacy Project. All students witness how Mr. P runs the class on a daily basis. Students should become aware of what is “needed” and what “works” with regards to legacy projects. Also, “A” legacy projects are well labeled, packaged, easily stored or accessed. Presentation of the Legacy Project is memorable. It is NOT just another boring final presentation. Fellow students believe the project is useful and of quality.
B Grade:
Usually a good legacy project but does not do all the requirements listed for an “A” grade. Most likely, a “B” grade results because Mr. P will have to “adjust” the project so that it can be used in class. “B” rate Legacy Projects lack the originality, usefulness and quality in comparison to “A” rate Legacy Projects. Presentation of the project is above average and is somewhat memorable.
C Grade:
Results when the Legacy Project will NOT be used in the classroom. It does NOT fulfill the general standards of a “B” grade. Presentation of the project is average and is NOT memorable.
D Grade:
“D” stands for Disappointment. This project is obviously substandard to what is expected of Legacy Projects. It appears to be done quickly and with substandard care. It will NOT be used in the classroom. Presentation is unprepared, robotic and/or boring.
F Grade:
Produces an overall gross Legacy Project. There is a sense of making a mockery out of doing the Legacy Project. Unorganized and poor presentation. If anything, this project serves as a sample of what NOT to do for a Legacy Project.
FINAL EXAM
The Final Exam will take place the day of the scheduled final in late January for the fall semester and in June for the spring semester. The Final Exam will consist of approximately 100 multiple choice questions. The questions will be related to the unit topics covered during the semester. Students are welcome to pick the Final Exam as their semester final.
180 – 200 correct; 90% - 100% = A
160 – 179 correct; 80% - 89% = B
140 – 159 correct; 70% - 79% = C
120 – 139 correct; 60% - 69% = D
0 – 119 correct; 0 - 59% = F
Go to Technical Thompson's Website for more info and if links do not work here.
Still in need of information from last unit?
AUTOCRACY vs DEMOCRACY
1) Table of Contents (TOC)
2) Nader's Deserted Island (Omit)
3) Scenarios / Spectrum (Spectrum & Vocab Power Pt)
4) Vocabulary Worksheet
.....a) Sketch's 2002 Online Vocab Email Sketch and tell her thanks for helping you out. oliviasketch@yahoo.com
.....b) Milie's 2008 Power Pt Vocab Game Email Milie and tell her thanks for helping you out
.....c) Vocab List and Vocab Game Point System
5) Timeline
6) Historical Figures - Front Page includes John Locke & Back Page includes King Louis XIV
.....a) Historical Figure Group Prep & Instructions
7a) Discussion Notes (Worksheet) & Discussion Questions (Power Point)
For those fans of P's Hidden Videos, King P gives a collection of short videos trying to connect the themes of Most Radical Nerds... to today as a means of getting P-villians to think about the time they are living in.
Middle Ages (Dark Ages)
1) The Secret Powers of Time
Renaissance Man
1) Theo Jansen's Art of Creating Creatures
2) The True Face of Leonardo Da Vinci
North Renaissance
1) Sir Thomas More gave us Utopia long ago and Jeremy Rifkin gives us Empathic Civilization
Exploration
Reformation
1) Reforming Business
2) "Time" to look at differences between Catholics and Protestants
Scientific Revolution
1) Celebrating Scientific Experimenting -- Mr P wants a neighbor like this
2) Surprising Science of Motivation
Enlightenment
1) Where good ideas come from?
2) 21st Century Enlightenment
3) Do Schools Kill Creativity?
4) Changing Education Paradigms
5) Neil Postman's Talk on Technopoly
American Revolution
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