Crater Lake, which is Oregon's only National Park. Maybe a symbol of your new nation? Photo taken in August 2014.
Hi wonderful students,
I apologize for being gone today - the Westview Global Studies team had a meeting in Salem! It was a quiz and work day in class. Here's what happened today:
Learning Targets:
Knowledge LT 2: I can demonstrate an understanding of the role of governments in current issues.
Knowledge LT 4: I can explain how different ideological movements and philosophies shape politics.
Soundtrack: "If I Ruled the World" by Nas and Lauryn Hill. Selected for today because you were creating your own countries today in class!
AGENDA 2/23/18:
News Brief – Patrick
Philosophy Quiz
Creation of a Nation
Homework: Read the blog. Be ready to finish the Creation of a Nation activity next class. Next news brief: Faith.
News Brief: Patrick had the news brief today and selected this story to share with the class: CNN.com - Step inside the Texas school district that already arms its teachers. I would definitely like to have a conversation about this with everyone, so we will come back to this when I return next week.
Faith was selected for the next news brief.
Philosophy Quiz: Because I'm a nice guy, I gave the class about five minutes to study for this (even though it was homework to do so). I haven't read the responses yet, but basically, if you knew the four philosophers from the first reading, and knew the basics of the European influences reading, you should have been fine. If you need to take this, please come find me before or after school. I will grade these and get them back to you as soon as I can.
Creation of a Nation: The last activity we did today in class was to start thinking about creating your own nation, which is a break away of some of the western states from the United States. In groups of 2, this is the assignment, which we will finish working on next class and present. Again, I want every group to make a flag for their new country, because flags are awesome. Please see the document for specifics as to what each group member should do.
Next class, we will continue with this and then move on to studying the Constitution. Thanks! See you next class!
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