Researching a Potential Topic

Your purpose here today is to explore some topics for your project.
The answers to the following questions should be pasted on to your blog. It should be your second entry.

1. What is a social justice issue?
After reading the definitions, write a ten line poem telling me what your idea of 'social justice' is.

http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en-us&q=what+is+social+justice&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

2. Ideas for topics:
http://www.globalissues.org/issue

Browse this website of topics you might be able to use. Pick two that interest you for this question (they don't have to be the topic you eventually end up with). Read about them, click on the links, browse around. Congratulations, you have started the research process. Then write down:
Topic 1:
A. Which topic did you choose to research? Why is this the one that interests you?

B. What are ten interesting facts or ideas that you learned? You MUST put them into your own words.

C. Can you see this becoming your exit project topic? Why/why not?

D. What is a question you have after doing your reading?

Topic 2:
A. Which topic did you choose to research? Why is this the one that interests you?

B. What are ten interesting facts or ideas that you learned? You MUST put them into your own words.

C. Can you see this becoming your exit project topic? Why/why not?

D. What is a question you have after doing your reading?


3. Other ways to get ideas for topics is to BROWSE headlines.
http://www.globalissues.org/news
http://www.oneworld.net/
http://www.ipsnews.net/
http://www.democracynow.org/#atPick two of the news websites below.
Find three interesting topics. Why would they be interesting to do as an exit project? Explain what you learned.

1. Article 1
Title:


Could this be an interesting exit project topic? Why/why not?


What did you learn about this topic that you didn't know before, after reading the article?


What questions do you still have?



2. Article 2:
Title:


Could this be an interesting exit project topic? Why/why not?


What did you learn about this topic that you didn't know before, after reading the article?


What questions do you still have?

8th Grade Ancient Civilizations Game Maker!

Yesterday we learned about the third oldest civilization called the Indus River Valley. Today you are reading about Mesopotamia - the first civilization! What is so cool about it? It's the FIRST civilization ever - they invented writing! They invented most of the tools our farms use to get us food! And because of all this excitement and development, this area prospered thousands of years later into Iraq and surrounding areas. These countries have a very complicated history that you can't understand unless you go way back to the very beginning of civilization. Today, you're going to make a game (a puzzle) based on what you read and learn about Mesopotamia. You can create one of the following: crossword puzzle or match maker.

Work in pairs.

Include BOTH of your names in the puzzle's TITLE.

Work fast writing down notes for what you want to include in your puzzle game.

Each puzzle must have at least ten questions.

Your puzzle questions should include information about all of the following:
Geography (rivers!)
City States (Babylonia or Assyria or Sumer - artifacts, how they lived)
Writing
Religion
Government

While one of you is typing up the game, someone should be hand-writing the answer key.

When you are done, print your assignment to the teacher center printer. I'll pick it up later and grade it.

Links to Readings
http://www.mesopotamia.co.uk/menu.html
http://socyberty.com/history/10-facts-you-didnt-know-about-mesopotamia/

Links To Game Maker
If you want to create a crossword puzzle:
http://puzzlemaker.discoveryeducation.com/CrissCrossSetupForm.asp

If you want to create a match-making puzzle:
Username: MsAlbu
Password: Teacher
http://www.wordlearner.com/page/printmatchmaker_landing


Have Fun!

8th Grade HW

#1 Don't do the chart you got in class today. we'll do it tomorrow.

#2 Read the article below, draw three images to represent what you read, and then quote which part you are drawing:

http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~thompsoc/Body.html

6/7 Colony Life

Go to:

Write the following chart in your Historian's Journal:

Slaves
(Field Slaves/Household Slaves)
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Lower Class
(Free Blacks/Farmers)
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Middle Class

_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Gentry/Upper Class

_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________


Go to the following website and then fill out your chart. How would the people in each of the social classes dress? Give at least four details about each one. Then copy down your homework.

http://www.colonialwilliamsburg.com/History/teaching/Dayseries/webactivities/dress/dress.htm

HW:
1. In HJ: Draw two people from two different classes from the colonial era. Label their clothes to show which class they are from.
2. Answer: How do you think class structure influenced everyday life in colonial America?