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Plan 2013

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The Middle Ages in Europe

Teacher Lectures onMedieval Europe 

Were the Dark Ages really Dark? Establish criteria for dark. and take notes

 

Journal: Add questions you would like to investigate

 

Crash Course in Medieval Europe

Fall of the Roman Empire

The Dark Ages

The Crusades

 

Resources for Researching Medieval Europe

 

 

Guest Speaker: Craig Shackleton Ottawa Swordplayon interpreting medieval texts

 

Research Day for Medieval Annotated Bibliography

 

Set up New Project on  NoodleTools

and share with my dropbox

 

 

 

 

 

 

Feb. 18

 

Family day - no school 

 

 

Feb. 19

 

High Middle Ages

What made them a "high point" of European culture?

 

 

 

Feb. 20

 

Work on Medieval Annotated Bibliography 

 

on NoodleTools 

Feb. 21

 

Work on Medieval Annotated Bibliography 

 

on NoodleTools

Feb. 22 

Work on

Medieval Annotated Bibliography

 

Submit on NoodleTools

 

For Monday: All 6 sources in works cited

At least 3 notecards complete

Feb. 21

 

Option Sheet Assembly (1/2 class)

 

Review my feedback on yourmedieval annotated bibliography

Finish notecards for Friday 

 

 

Feb. 22 

 

The Stone Age

Living Graph - change and continuity

 

Otzi : Is he significant? Why?

 

 

 

Feb. 23 

 

 

The Stone Age - Discuss The Stone Age text questions.doc

 

 

 

 

Feb. 24 

Finish Stonehenge video:

What do we know about the people who built it?

How do we know it?

 

Mesopotamia

Lecture - Mesopotamia

 

Why is it the first civilization?

 

Homework:

Watch Epic of Gilgamesh

Feb. 25 

 

Finish Mesopotamia Lecture

 

Timeline activity - most significant events of Medieval Europe, Stone Age and Mesopotamia

 

 

 

March 4

 

Medieval Annotated Bibliography

DUE TODAY on Noodletools. 

 

Timeline - what is significant?

 

5

 Rome

Watch Gladiator

6

Timeline - finish voting on significance for Stone Age, Mesopotamia, Medieval

7

Continue Watching Gladiator

8

Finish watching Gladiator

March 11

March Break

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March Break

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March Break

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March Break

15

March Break

March 18

Generate questions about Rome - Criteria for a good research question

 

Rome - Geography and Etruscans

19

Introduction to Republic

 

Cenabis Bene - Roman Dinner Assignment 

Homework: Set up noodletools account, begin research using netbooks

Consult the Research Sources for the Dinner  to start

20

Netbooks in class

Watch:

City of Conquest and Punic Wars

and

Crash Course - Empire or Republic

Terms/viewing guide for video

Which of our class generated questions does this presentation answer? What are the answers? Choose 3

 

Continue to research for your dinner character.

Research Sources for the Dinner

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Lectures: 

 

1) Republic in Crisis

 
2) Augustus and the Empire 

 

Which questions? What are the answers?

 

Parent-Teacher interviews 

22

Roman Dinner Learning Stations

 

Website for Station One

Roman Dress: 

Website for Station Three

Roman Objects

 

 

 

Ms. Collishaw's birthday

March 25

Roman Dinner Research day

 

Netbooks

Research Sources for the Dinner

26

Lecture: Christianity and the Fall of Rome 

 

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Lab 215 

Research notes due on Noodletools - minimum 3 sources and notecards

 

Print out handout - 1 page with picture

 

 

 

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ROMAN DINNER today

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Good Friday, No School

April 1

 

Easter Monday No School

2

Finish Roman Dinner presentations

 

Most Significant Events of Rome - Defend Significance and put on timeline

 

3

The Rise of Islam

Islam: Crash Course

Question: Why So Popular?

 Develop Questions

 

Read: When Spain was Islamic - article

4

Groups Research Topics - Develop a question and a thesis - gather evidence

5

Groups present and defend theses.

 

Crash Course: The Mongols - Why so successful?

 

It's all Greek to Me - language activity

April 8

Ancient Greece

It's all Greek to Me - competition!

 

Lecture:

Geography and Beginnings of Greece

 

HW: The Trojan War Read a summary of the legend 

9

Was ancient Greece really all that great?

Greece Pods Assignment

 

Google researcher demo

 

Begin project proposal

10

Submit project proposal on googledocs

 

Begin individual research

Need a variety of reliable and relevant sources

- text

- general eg. Wikipedia

- primary sources

- Museum or other reputable source 

11

Crash Course: Persians and Greeks

T-chart: Great vs. Not So Great

 

Lecture:

Persian Wars 

Art and Architecture

 

Read Textbook sections relevant to your Pod Assignment

12

Explore an ancient Athenian Picture

 

Lecture:

Pelopponnesian Wars

 

Crash Course: Alexander the Great?

 

Read Textbook and/or Cultural Atlas sections relevant to your Pod Assignment

April 15

Work Period 

Mobile Lab

 

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Work Period 

Mobile Lab

 

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Work period  Greece Pods Assignment

Use googledocs to take notes - use google researcher and cite sources

18

Work Period  Greece Pods Assignment

19

Present

Greece Pods Assignment

April 22

African Kingdoms

Crash Course: Mansa Musa

 

Read your section of jigsaw for Wednesday

 

23

Present

Greece Pods Assignment

24

Journal reflection: Was Greece really all that great?

 

Finish African Kingdoms jigsaw

 

Journal: 2 things I learned about African Kingdoms, 1 research question

25

Ancient Egypt

Crash Course:Ancient Egypt

- mystery archaeological dig site

 

Choose teams - research your topic area and decide

26

 

Begin researching your dig site

 

Homework: Begin making your artifacts

April 29

 

Continue researching your dig site

 

Homework: Continue/complete making your artifacts

30

Watch Video:

Lebreton Flats Dig

 

Finalize and prepare for the dig

 

Bring in your artifacts

May 1

 

Lab 107

Finish and print out 1 page handout for your artifact

May 2

 

Egypt Archaeological Dig

 

Submit observations and conclusions.

 

May 3

Share hypotheses and reveal sites

 

 

Journal: What I learned about Egypt and archaeology. 1-2 further research questions

 

Update Timeline

May 6

American Civilizations: Maya, Inca, Aztecs

 

Olmecs and Incas Slides

 

Intro Meso-American Newspaper Assignment

7

Codice/Quipu activity     

 

Comparison chart 

 

Video: Cracking the Mayan Code

8

Codice/Quipu Activity conclusion

 

 Video: Aztecs & Worksheet

                       Comparison chart

 

 

 

9

Mobile Lab

 

 

Newspaper jigsaw learning stations

 

Use online resources and  textbook to   research

10

Lab 107

 

Continue with Newspaper Jigsaw, should finish research,

 

Start drafting rough copies 

ay 13

Lab 107

Begin Publishing Newspaper

 

14

Begin Summative

 

World History Speed Dating!

 

Brainstorm research questions for the each civilization

15

Ancient China

Watch Crash Course

Key Points and Questions

Groups find answers to their questions

16

Mobile Lab

World Legacies Summative 

Research Question and subtopics due today on Noodle

 

Finish work on the Meso-American Newspaper

 

Begin Summative Research

17

Mobile Lab

 

Research for Summative

 

Mesoamerican

Newspaper Due

 

May 20

 

Victoria Day

No School

21

Mobile Lab

Research forSummative Essay

 

22

China

 

Video: 

Take notes

23

Mobile Lab

Research for Summative Essay

 

24

Ancient Japan

Japan Questions and Timeline

 

May 27

Japan 

Groups share answers to

Japan Questions and Timeline

 

Compare China and Japan:

3 similarities and 3 differences

 

28

Mobile Lab

 

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Mobile Lab

Outline for Summative Essay due today

30

Comparative Civilizations:

 

Compare China and Japan on any of the following:

Religion, Government, Women, Warfare, Trade, Beginnings and Endings, Technology

31

Giant World Timeline

Bring colourful markers!

 

 

June 3

Mobile lab

Writing Summative Essay - Peer feedback

 

4

Mobile Lab

 

Print your good copy to submit with

- title page

- works cited

- rubric

5

Everything Else

 

Finish Timeline

Draw conclusions - major turning points in history?

Crash Courses: India (#2 Indus Valley, #6 Buddha and Ashoka, #9 Silk Road, #11 Christianity to Constantine, #18 Indian Ocean Commerce,  #19-22 Renaissance)

 

Vote on a Movie (eg. Troy)

6

Watch a movie

7

Summative 1: Research Essay Due

 

Watch a movie

 

June 10

History's Leaders on Trial - begin

Goals:

  • Decide witnesses
  • General Research Textbook or Wikipedia (5Ws, timeline, facts of the case) 

11

Prepare

Summative 2: History's Leaders on Trial

 

Prepare arguments for your side - select visual evidence

 

Select students to portray your witnesss

12

Prepare

Summative 2: History's Leaders on Trial

 

Conference with your witness to prepare them

(defense also responsible for prepping the leader)

13

Prepare

Summative 2: History's Leaders on Trial

 

Prepare cross-examination and finish evidence slides

14

Summative 2: History's Leaders on Trial

Richard Lionheart

William Wallace

Henry VIII

 

June 17

Summative 2: History's Leaders on Trial

Alexander the Great

Ghengis Khan

Pythagoras

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Summative 2: History's Leaders on Trial

Emperor Justinian

19

Period 1 Exams

20

Period 2 Exams

21

Period 3 Exams

June 24

Period 4 Exams

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Commencement

 

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