Unit 3 = World Myths, Religions & Philosophy
Unit 2 = Foundation Lessons
Unit 1 = Geography (Retake Exams still offered)
Greetings and welcome Mr P's Website for the 2019-2020 school year.
GENERAL INFO ABOUT CLASS
AUTOCRACY vs DEMOCRACY ASSIGNMENTS
1) Table of Contents (TOC)
2) Nader's Deserted Island (Omit) - This transformed into your BBQs questions for unit.
3) Scenarios / Spectrum
4) Vocabulary Worksheet
.....a) Milie's 2008 Power Pt Vocab Game Email Milie and tell her thanks for helping you out
.....b) Vocab List and Vocab Game Point System
.....c) Watch Vocab Game Instructional Video - So you will know how to play in class
5) Timeline
6) Historical Figures - Front Page includes John Locke & Back Page includes King Louis XIV Other
.....a) Historical Figure Group Prep & Instructions
.....b) Biographical Briefing of Historical Figures - Forgot some info, want to read them again, absent, etc?
7) NO QuickWrite: Which historical figure's ideas do you like the most? Why are those ideas better than others? - Be prepared to speak on such matter.
7a) Discussion Notes (Worksheet) & Discussion Questions (Power Point)
BBQ #3 - DEMOCRACY & AUTOCRACY
Some BBQs for the Unit. These are the grand questions that are a sort of glue that sticks to all the various parts to the unit. Hence, it brings all the parts of the unit together and hopefully makes sense of it all.
1) What makes a good society?
2) What is the good life?
3) What is the ideal form of government?
MONDAY October 28, 2019
1) Auto v Demo Discussion Day (Assign 7) - Do well in the discussion and avoid having to do an essay. More details to follow in class. Pay Attention!
HW
A) Auto v Demo Assignments 1-7 are DUE TUESDAY
B) Watch Alex & Mel's 2016 Legacy Essay Basics Video - for how to write your Auto & Demo BBQ - DUE FRIDAY
C) Prepare for the Discussion Day with PBS Legacy Video
D) Extra viewing: How Nepal's youth discuss if democracy is the best form of government
EXTRA CLASSIC ESSAY VIDEOs
A) Essay Video Notes while watching Essay Bunch and to guide your essay writing.
B) Watch the Essay Bunch video for tips for how to write an essay in Mr P's Class.
C) Essay Intro and body paragraph samples
OTHER ONLINE INSTRUCTIONAL ESSAY VIDEOS
This videos below are extra support for writing an essay. Be sure to watch the Essay Bunch above before watching these videos below. Also, if there is any contradictions between the Essay Bunch and the videos posted below it is best to follow the Essay Notes for the Essay Bunch.
1) How to write a good essay?
2) Walking Through the 5 Paragraph Essay
3) 5 Paragraph Essay - Essay Basics
4) Short Video with Nice Mapping of Essay for Visual Learners
TUESDAY October 29, 2019
1) What shall we do with all that was learned from Auto & Demo / DOD selection
3) Nomination Process
4) Begin Most Radical Nerds Unit
HW:
A) Auto Demo 2 Paragraphs Essay DUE FRIDAY (ADVICE - Power Pt & Video)
P-VILLE BLOG
For everything that is P-Ville, check out this blog to get informed.
BASIC INSTRUCTIONAL VIDEOS FOR P-VILLE
1) Instructional Video for Supreme Council / Committees / Debates
2) Daily Announcements Instructional Video
3) P Stock Market Tutorial Video
4) La Rue's DOD Advisory Video
WEDNESDAY October 30, 2019
1) College Day - Minimum Day
THURSDAY October 31, 2019
TBA
FRIDAY November 1, 2019
1) Collect Auto & Demo 2 paragraph essay
2) P-Ville 2019 Fall Election Info
3) Most Radical Nerds Unit Overview
HW
TBA
Unit 5 = 2019 Middle Ages - American Revolution
GENERAL INFO ABOUT CLASS (P VILLE INFO HERE) Again, get involved and make P-Ville that glorious place that it is!
Unit 5 = Middle Ages - American Revolution 2019
It is time for the Most Radical Nerds... Unit. (Graham's Most Radical Video Intro)Unit 5: Middle Ages - American Revolution (P Music Channel)
Below are Alissa Todd's Basics of Middle Ages - Scientific Revolution. Alissa was a cool student in P's class years ago. Her legacy was taking each of the themes for the unit and summarizing in a page or two for future students. Read about each theme below:
1) Middle Ages 2) Renaissance 3) Northern Renaissance 4) Exploration
5) Reformation 6) Scientific Revolution 7) Enlightenment 8) American Revolution
LEGENDARY CHUCK'S LEGACY PROJECT: A MOST RADICAL TIME TRAVEL STORY
Chuck took Alissa's Legacy Project to the next level. He creatively wrote an adventure time travel tale. In the story, students read and learn the essential meaning of the unit and each theme.
Most Radical Time Travel FILM - Film by Ethan, Nam and Jack based on Script by Chuck Driesler. Not perfect but good basic review of the unit in 15 minutes.
MOST RADICAL DOCS COLLECTION
Loads of primary and secondary source documents on the various themes
MOST RADICAL DIGITAL LIBRARY
Dive into interesting Themes. Get interested & prep to do some fun research on that topic.
King
P is always looking to expand the digital library. Be a model P-Villian
& share links with P if you stumble on any quality videos so he
can expand the library
1) Middle Ages - Crash Course / Disease / 1 Hour - BBC - Children of the Middle Ages / 90 Minutes - History Channel / 22 Hours - Yale Lecture /
2) Renaissance - Crash Course / Rebuttal to Crash Course / 17 Minutes - Renaissance: School of Life / 18 Minutes Part 1 - Humanism / 16 Minutes Part 2 - Art /43 Minutes - History of the Renaissance / 43 Minutes - Florence: Power of the Past PBS / 7 Minutes - Machiavelli - School of Life / 5 Minutes - Machiavelli's Advice For Nice Guys - School of Life / 12 Minutes - Machiavelli / 49 Minutes - Machiavelli - The Politics -- the Common Sense of Politics / 53 Minutes - How Machiavellian was Machiavelli? / 1 Hour - Machiavelli - BBC Documentary / 3 Hours - The Prince by Machiavelli / The Other Machiavelli - 1 Hour / 3 Minutes - Brunnelleschi's Dome & Amazing Engineering / 52 Minutes - Great Cathedral Mystery - PBS / 45 Minutes - Architecture / 1 Hour - BBC Medici Makers of Modern Art / 50 Minutes - Medici - Beware: Overly Dramatic Doc on the Medici / 90 Minutes - Leonardo Da Vinci / 50 Minutes - Leonardo's Ideas Explained / 90 Minutes - Princeton University Lectures: Race in the Renaissance / 7 Minutes - Michelangelo Bio - PBS / 7 Minutes - Science of Fresco Painting - PBS
3) North Renaissance - 6 Minutes - Italian Renaissance vs North Renaissance - Richey / 12 Minute Review / 55 Minutes - BBC British Renaissance /
4) Exploration - Crash Course / Vikings / Silk Road / 15th Century Mariners / Columbian Exchange / Spanish Empire / Atlantic Slave Trade / 90 Minutes - National Geo. Doc. - The Americas Before Columbus /1 Minute about Longitude / 11 Minutes - How to calculate Longitude / 53 minutes - Historic Figuring Out of Longitude
5) Reformation - Crash Course / 10 Minutes - Protestant Reformation Pt 1 / 10 Minutes - Protestant Reformation Pt 2 / 2 Hours - PBS Martin Luther Doc /
6) Scientific Revolution - 1 Minute Review / 4 Minute Review / 10 Minute Review / 2 Hours - PBS Nova - Galileo Documentary / 50 minutes Author Dava Sobel's Talk about her book Galileo: Famous Scientist & His Illegitimate Daughter
8 Minutes - Comparing Scientific Revolution & Enlightenment
Misc Playlist PBS Scientific Revolution & Enlightenment Topics
7) Enlightenment - / 12 Minute Review / 15 Minute Review / 2 Hours - Heroes of the Enlightenment /6 Minutes - Hobbes - School of Life/ 8 Minutes - Rousseau - School of Life / 9 Minutes - John Locke - School of Life / 12 Minutes - Voltaire - School of Life / 25 Minutes - Voltaire & Enlightenment / 6 hours of Classical Music = Good HW Music
SAMPLE CLASSICAL MUSIC --- If you are bored, interested and have time
a) Mozart (2 Hours of the Best)
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
3) Ode to Joy - Probably the most recognized section of Beethoven's 9th Symphony
4) Ode to Joy - European Flash Mob
5) Beethoven's 9th Symphony - His last before his death at age 57. Today this is the anthem for the European Union. This is also played at P's House in the morning of every Thanksgiving. Start your own tradition with cool classical music.
6) Following the 9th - Great Documentary about the power and meaning of this piece of music around the world. Powerful!
7) Beethoven's 9th Symphony - Comments by great Conductor Leonard Bernstein
C) 3 Great TED Talks on Classical Music
1) Let the great Benjamin Zander explain why Classical Music is for everyone. If by the end of this talk you don't have shining eyes, check your pulse. You might be dead.
2) Who are those strange people waving that wand around in front of the orchestra? Israeli Conductor Itay Talgam gives a splendid talk. Mr P is totally inspired by Mr Talgam and the Great Conductors he presents. How any teacher... any student... or any human not be inspired?
3) Music & Magical Trust. Imagine teachers and students having such a working environment. Watch, listen and enjoy Scottish Conductor Charles Hazlewood talk. Trippy to what he says about South Africans and those of the "West" and how they engage or do NOT engage in music.
8) American Revolution- Crash Course / Check & Balances / American Constitution / Federalism / 25 Hours - Yale Lectures /
MOST RADICAL MINI-UNIT SCHEDULE
THURSDAY November 15, 2018
1) P-Ville Announcements - Candidate Pages & 30 Second Speeches = Election Monday
2) Most Radical Nerds... Overview
HW:
a) Dive into the themes of the Most Radical Nerds Unit but checking out the digital library of videos. b) Perhaps start w/ a John Green Video & then go deep into other documentaries, lectures and info
c) The point is to become interested in a theme or thematic topic of which you'd like to research more. Is it what life was like for kids during the Middle Ages? Is it Renaissance Art? What life was life for women during the Scientific Revolution? How Exploration changed the world for better and worse? What are the interesting details to the Foundation of American Government that are NOT in your textbook but taught at Yale University? Good luck and get interested!
Why is contemporary music so boring? Listen to sounds from 1975
Spanish Storm...
