The 60 minutes Broadcast will be done on Friday 9/25

60 Minutes..........Edition #3

Students will listen to Audio Tunes version of the most recent 60 minutes broadcast. Students will respond to the broadcast by identifying bites they "connected to" and "new information they learned" about each current event presentd.

9-24-09 (BE LIKE PLATO....MAKE YOUR OWN GOVERNMENT!)

Students will become familar with Plato's Republic. Plato was one of the Big Three Greek Philosophers who designed a "perfect government". After engaging some of the premise of Plato's Republic students will design their own government based upon their values.

Students must answer five questions with thought.

1) What is your governments main purpose?
2) Who gets the power?
3) Who enforces the power?
4) Who pays for it?
5) How long do you think it could last?

A dynamic class discussion will follow!

9-23-09 (Inter-comparison of Major Religions)

At this point in the course several of the worlds major religions have been briefly introduced. Hindusim, Buddhism, and Judaism (Confucianism, a life philosophy, is also included in this exercise) are already becoming a significant part of the human experiece. I would like to spend today inter-comparing the three that have introduced with two that wil soon come into the students studies, those of Islam and Christianity.

Students will work in partners,divide the six religions and engage the text, their own background knowlege, and the instructor, in attaining a "C-town Lowdown" on each of the six areas. The students will then make a graphic organizer that will be utilized on a later assessment. That assessment will be part of their first exam.

(9-22-09) Earliest Civilizations using World Map Exercise

As an application exercise students will participate in a mapping exercise in which they use a blank world map that only has the land and water forms as "markers". Students will then trace in the major rivers that played a key role in all of the earliest civilizations. After tracing the key rivers students will then attatch the early civilization. At this point student will be familiar with the role that rivers played in allowing for modern civilization to explode. Using their text and a Discovery Education streaming video students will the provide the key characteristics that make each civilization unique. This is called "The C-Town Lowdown". The civilizations that the students will be accountable for are the Kingdoms of the Nile, The Kingdoms of the Fertile Crescent, The Kingdoms of Ancient India, and those of early China.