Classroom Update (10/31/24)

 

Thursday, October 31, 2024

Sociology 

Essential Questions (EQ)-

- Other than physical attractiveness, what factors influence how long a relationship will last?

Topic: Formation of Pairs

• Daily Jumble (DJ) Question - How can attraction be scientifically predicted?
• Nonverbal Communication, Interpersonal Attraction, and the Formation of Pairs Notes
• Work Time - Project Presentations - Next Week!
Assignments: 
• Textbook Reading: pp.132 - 140 (What Holds Society Together?) 
• Sociology Enrichment:
• Supplemental Video:
• Social Interaction & Performance: Crash Course Sociology #15
• Émile Durkheim on Suicide & Society: Crash Course Sociology #5
• Interesting Article: 
• What Your Vacation Says About Your Social Class

Recent U.S. History

Essential Question (EQ)-

- How did global competition help fuel the desire for the United States to expand in the late 19th and early 20th centuries?

Topic: Imperialism and America

• Daily Jumble (DJ) Question - How did Manifest Destiny set the stage for American imperialism at the end of the 19th century?
• Whiteboard Notes: Roots of U.S. Imperialism
• Current Events
• View and discuss the Haunted History of Halloween
• Assignments: 
• Textbook Reading: Module 6 Lesson 1 (Imperialism and America) - if not completed
• Africa Map Test - 12/5
• http://www.ilike2learn.com/ (Online Map Quizzes)
• RUSHY Enrichment:
• Google Arts and Culture: 
• Kapi‘olani and Lili‘uokalani, Visionary Queens of Hawai'i
• Supplemental Video(s): 
• The Amazing Life and Strange Death of Captain Cook: Crash Course World History #27
• Interesting Article: 
• Five Things To Know About Liliʻuokalani, the Last Queen of Hawaiʻi

World History

Essential Question (EQ)-

- What led to European exploration in the 1400s?

- How did Portugal gain a sea route to Asia?

- How did a rivalry develop between Spain and Portugal?

Topic: Europeans Explore the East

• Daily Jumble (DJ) Question - How did the arrival of the Europeans affect the peoples of the East in general?
• Whiteboard Notes: The 3 G's
• Go over Module 16 Lesson 2 on Europeans Explore the East
• Map of the Treaty of Tordesillas
• Current Events
• View and discuss the Haunted History of Halloween
• Assignments: 
• Textbook Reading: Read Module 16 Lesson 3 (China and Japan Reject the West) 
• WH Enrichment:
• Google Arts and Culture: 
• Christopher Columbus and the Exploration of America
• Supplemental Video: 
• Int'l Commerce, Snorkeling Camels, and The Indian Ocean Trade: Crash Course World History #18
• Columbus, Vasco da Gama, and Zheng He - 15th Century Mariners: Crash Course World History #21
• Interesting Article: 
• The Man Who Sailed the World

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