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Global Perspectives Friday September 29, 2017

9/29/2017

Ms. Victor:
6th Grade: The First Civilizations - review Mesopotamian Civilization
7th Grade: North American Indians - Narrative Writing pp. 21 # 5

Mr. Dayan:
8th Grade: Nat Turner Worksheet

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Cambridge/Duke:
Independent Research: Complete your portion of the Indigenous Cultures Research Template. (Three Bullets)

Resources:
Textbook

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/archaeology-and-history/archaeology/

http://www.carnegiemnh.org/online/indians/iroquois/index.html

https://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/history/united-states-canada-and-greenland/north-american-indigenous-peoples/navajo/way-of-life

You will also find additional resources at the bottom of your project guidelines handout.

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Global Perspectives Thursday September 28, 2017

9/28/2017

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Mr. Dayan:
Cambridge/Duke: Designate responsibilities within your group to determine who will be researching which topic on the "Indigenous Cultures of North America Research Template."

Cal Tech/Johns Hopkins/Brandeis: Complete 'King Cotton' and answer questions 6-9

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Global Perspectives Wednesday September 27, 2017

9/27/2017

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Ms. Victor:
6th Grade:
MIT & UChi - worksheet on Early Humans
UCLA - How did the development of spoken language help Paleolithic people?
UVA - worksheet on Mesopotamia
7th Grade: All questions under XIV on the Earliest Americans - Outline

Mr. Dayan:
Cambridge/Duke: Complete Magazine Articles, Cover, and Task worksheet for the "Migration of the first Americans"
Johns Hopkins/Brandeis/Cal Tech: Finish reading In The Beginning. Answer questions 1-5.

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Global Perspectives Tuesday September 26, 2017

9/26/2017

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Ms. Victor:
6th Grade: Continue working on project that is due Wednesday, September 27, 2017

Mr. Dayan:
Brandeis/Johns Hopkins/Caltech:

Read the quotations from the enslaved people
Complete the graphic organizer

Cambridge/Duke:

Complete the last page of the "Early People's Migration Task Sheet"
Design a Magazine cover for your article

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Global Perspectives Monday September 25, 2017

9/25/2017

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Ms. Victor:
Grade 6: Continue working on project that is due Wednesday, September 27, 2017
In addition, MIT will work on their quotes for assembly - WISDOM.
Grade 7: Native Americans: Worksheet on the Mound Builders and Pueblos.

Mr. Dayan:
Cambridge/Duke:Complete your portion of the Early People's Migration Task Sheet.
Jigsaw: If your last name begins with a letter;
A through L, COMPLETE THE MAP AND IMAGE PORTION OF THE EARLY PEOPLE'S MIGRATION TASK SHEET
M through Z, COMPLETE THE TEXT AND TIMELINE PORTION OF THE EARLY PEOPLES MIGRATION TASK SHEET
We will go over the specifics of the magazine article in class. You do not have to worry about that tonight.
Caltech/Brandeis/Johns Hopkins:
Define both overt and covert resistance.
Provide three examples of how enslaved people's resisted slavery for each definition.

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Global Perspectives Wednesday September 20, 2017

9/20/2017

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Ms. Victor:
6th Grade: E. Hemisphere Project. Rubric also attached
7th Grade: Lesson Review # 1 - 4 pp. 13 (Discovering Our Past: A History of the US)

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Mr. Dayan:
Caltech/Johns Hopkins/Cambridge/Duke: Construct a T-Chart reflecting both the positive and negative effects of gentrification

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Global Perspectives Tuesday September 19, 2017

9/19/2017

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Ms. Victor:
6th Grade: Choose a country in the Eastern Hemisphere that you would like to visit. Explain why you chose that country in a paragraph. (Begin research)
Mr. Dayan:
Caltech/Johns Hopkins/Cambridge/Duke: Compete American Ideals Graphic Organizer

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Global Perspectives Monday September 18, 2017

9/18/2017

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Ms. Victor:
Grade 6: Take-home quiz - Matching and identifying geographic features.
Grade 7 (Emory): Lesson 1 Review - # 1 and 2 pp. 7 Discovering our Past: A History of the United States

Mr. Dayan:
Cambridge/Duke/Caltech/Johns Hopkins:
Image Immersion:
Scholars are to print or cut out, two images relating to the ideal they were assigned in class.
Scholars are expected to produce one image that lives up to their ideal, and one that does not live up to their ideal.
Scholars are expected to be prepared to explain how each image shows these contrasting viewpoints

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Global Perspectives Thursday September 14, 2017

9/14/2017

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Mr. Dayan:
Cal Tech/Brandeis: Complete lunchroom fight graphic organizer. Include two sources for each context portion of the graphic organizer. Tell if the source is reliable or unreliable.

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