Thursday, August 21, 2014

World History

Remaining permission slips?  The handout "History's Habits of Mind" was distributed and discussed.  We began the official Introduction unit by setting up an Essential Questions page (write that heading) with our EQ for the unit written at the top:  "What does it mean to be human?"  We also set up our Curiosity Questions page for the unit, giving it that title.  Set both aside for now, we'll use them soon.  We did a close read of the "Crubaugh Letter" in collaborative groups with dictionaries/phones while completing the Claim/Thesis page with evidence.  (Note: for this reading, you may have only 2 pieces of evidence and not contradictory information, because it is only 2 paragraphs.  You may skip the end section in brackets on the article.)  We discussed our answers and how to edit our papers for more accurate answers.  We'll do another read and page tomorrow that will be collected for a score.