Wednesday, December 14, 2022

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:

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

Monday, December 12, 2022

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

Tuesday, December 06, 2022

Inca Island in the Sky

Inca Island in the Sky - YouTube

  EQ: 

  • How did the Inca culture develop in Peru?

Engage:

  • None

Explore:

  • Vocabulary CeremonialTerracePlazaMasonryLidarAnomaly
  • 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:

 

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:
Explore:
Explain:
  • Were the Articles successful?
  • What were the weaknesses of the Articles?
  • How did Shay's Rebellion doom the Articles?
Evaluate:
  •  Assessment
Extend:

Thursday, December 01, 2022

The Revolution Chapter 2 Forging an Army

The History Channel Presents: The Revolution [DVD] : Peter Schnall, Gregory  Henry: Movies & TV - Amazon.com

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:

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!’


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.