Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Everyone:

Sometimes the newest, coolest thing isn't the best. For example, Blogger's new, "Dynamic Views," although it's been out for some time, still looks really new and awesome, compared to the layout I'm currently using. But, there are so many problems associated with Dynamic Views, that I've 1) joined a support group for help and 2) decided to revert to an old layout until the current list of problems are solved. That is, until they can make words look like words, and my blog actually readable. Despite what you think, I don't write this for me.

On a more awesome, and totally unrelated, note I have a new coffee cup. It just proves that my students, even those that don't have my class, know how I roll. I roll one way, all the time. HARD. This coffee mug proves it.

When my other cup was broken, on accident, by a student who was being sweet, holding the hand of his girlfriend, so consumed by her beauty that he didn't see my innocent coffee cup, full of hot, sweet, life-giving liquid, I was a bit upset. I wasn't upset that the coffee was gone (I can, and did, make more) but because the cup came from students. It was a gift, it meant something to me, even though it was just a cup. Well, now I have another, and it means just as much, thanks to you.

Modern World History

Quick-write #10

1. Complete the following with a partner.

• Look at the picture and/or text of your handout. 
• Answer the following questions:
• What’s going on in this picture?
• How can you tell?
• What else can you see?

2. Once that is complete, decide which of the following motives are represented on your handout (hint, there can be more than one).

• Political
• Economic
• Religious
• Exploratory
• Ideological- (thinking that one way of life is better than another)
• You have 10 minutes to complete this activity. 

Objectives:

• Identify and analyze the causes of Imperialism. 
• Analyze the responses to British Imperialism in Nigeria.

AP World History

Quick-write #21:

• Is it possible to benefit from a bad situation?
• Describe a time when you learned a lesson (or benefited) from what seemed like a bad situation.

Objectives:

• Analyze the effects of the Crusades on Western Europe and the Near East.