Rick Steves' Christmas

 

Today we will look at some of the Christmas traditions as celebrated in different countries in Europe. It is very interesting to compare how we in the US or even in our own house celebrate Christmas with how it is celebrated in other cultures. 

EQ: What are some Christmas traditions in Europe?

Engage:

• What traditions do your family have this time of year?
• If you don't celebrate Christmas, are there other holidays you celebrate during this time?
• Do any of you not celebrate during this time of year?

Explore:

• European Christmas Rick Steves (55:31)

Explain:

• Do these traditions look like your traditions?
• Which traditions would you like to do?
• Which traditions are you glad you don't do?

Evaluate: 

• Class discussion

December Vocabulary

 Define and Draw the following:

1. barriers
2. climate
3. famine
4. geography
5. irrigation
6. landforms
7. latitude
8. longitude
9. location
10. movement
11. migration
12. rural
13. settle
14. urban
15. suburban
16. barter
17. business
18. competition
19. consumer
20. economy

Spotlight on Peru

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/eb/Machu_Picchu%2C_Peru.jpg

EQ:

• Which videos should I use to teach about Peru?

Engage:

• Call back to the Peru segment from Walt and El Groupo
• Students will be given a short intro to each video and will choose which to watch.

Explore:

• Peru's Sacred Valley (47:00) Gordon Ramsay Uncharted National Geographic Disney+
• The Lost City of Machu Picchu (44:00) National Geographic Disney+
• Lost Temple of the Inca (44:00) National Geographic Disney+

Explain:

•  Questions will depend on video students choose. 

Evaluate:

•  Class discussion

Inca Island in the Sky

  EQ: 

• How did the Inca culture develop in Peru?

Engage:

• None

Explore:

• Vocabulary Ceremonial, Terrace, Plaza, Masonry, Lidar, Anomaly
• Inca Island in the Sky 45:00) Lost Cities with Albert Lin National Geographic Disney+

Explain:

•  When was Machu Picchu built?
• What is the name of the language the Incas used?
• What evidence are they looking for on top of the hill?
• What are chullpas?
• What shape of chullpas made the archaeologists believe they were Incan?
• What was at the heart of Incan life?
• What is the name of the volcano Albert Lin investigates?

Evaluate:

• Worksheet with vocabulary 

 

Articles of Confederation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Articles_of_Confederation#/media/File:Articles_page1.jpg

EQ:

• How well did the Articles of Confederation meet the needs of the new nation?

Engage:

•  Log in to Clever.com and then click on Discovery Education
• A Government Built From Scratch

Explore:

• Note Taking Strategies
• Vocabulary note taking as we go through text.
• Governing a New Nation
• Accepting a Central Government
• A Blueprint for Expansion
• Problems with the Articles of Confederation at Home
• Problems Competing with British Commerce
• Problems with Spanish Land Claims
• Rebellion in a New Nation
• Shay's Rebellion Video

Explain:

• Were the Articles successful?
• What were the weaknesses of the Articles?
• How did Shay's Rebellion doom the Articles?

Evaluate:

•  Assessment

Extend:

The Revolution Chapter 2 Forging an Army

EQ: What was the outcome of some of the earliest battles in the American Revolution?

 Engage: Vocabulary

• Ambivalent

  Ardent

  Cambridge, MA

  Compulsory

  Crusade

  Hostility

  Immaculate

  Serendipity

  Striate

  Wreaking

Explore:

• The Revolution Chapter 2 Forming an Army (DVD)

Explain:

1. Why was Fort Ticonderoga so important to both the British and the Continental Armies? Who won the battle to control it in May 1775?

2. What information would you use to make predictions about the

   outcome?

3. Who is Ethan Allen? What role did he have in the battles of 1775?

4. What was the conflict between Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold?
5. What happened at the Battle of Lexington and Concord? Why is it so famous?
6. Why was Benedict Arnold so well-respected? Where did he come from?

Evaluate:

• Worksheet

Search for El Dorado

 

Eldorado

By Edgar Allan Poe

Gaily bedight,

   A gallant knight,

In sunshine and in shadow,   

   Had journeyed long,   

   Singing a song,

In search of Eldorado.

   But he grew old—

   This knight so bold—   

And o’er his heart a shadow—   

   Fell as he found

   No spot of ground

That looked like Eldorado.

   And, as his strength   

   Failed him at length,

He met a pilgrim shadow—   

   ‘Shadow,’ said he,   

   ‘Where can it be—

This land of Eldorado?’

   ‘Over the Mountains

   Of the Moon,

Down the Valley of the Shadow,   

   Ride, boldly ride,’

   The shade replied,—

‘If you seek for Eldorado!’

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48634/eldorado-56d22a0920778

EQ:

• Is El Dorado a real place?

Engage:

• None

Explore:

• Vocabulary: gaily, bedight, gallant, pilgrim
• Digging for the Truth: The Search for El Dorado
• Eldorado poem by Edgar Allen Poe

Explain:

• How is the El Dorado that Josh Bernstein searches for like Poe's Eldorado?
• How are they different?

Evaluate:

• Draw and color a picture inspired by the poem. Try to include at least one detail from the poem.
• Write a short story about you, the narrator, searching for El Dorado. 
• This story should be at least 350 words long.