Grade 11 Honors - November

  IP Assignment 3 Rubric    

11-01

 

11-17 Monday Laptop Cart: Working Wikis: hyperlinking; creating a new page; importing html code in widgets; deleting pages; history and manage spaces functions; return Chapter 1 Advance Organizer for discussion

11-02

  11-18 Tuesday Laptop Cart: taking notes from discussion & lecture; finish discussion of Chapter 1 Advance Organizer; collect for evaluation

11-03 Monday

Reading Apprenticeship: Diamond and the Metacognitive Conversation; GGS: Discuss Preface and Prologue; Laptop Cart: Introduction to Wikispaces 11-19 Wed. Laptop Cart: return Chapter 1 Advance Organizer; Reading Apprenticehsip: understanding implications of Great Leap Forward: understanding the difference between cause/trigger and  effect/implications; assign Chapter 2: A Natural Experiment in History; Reading Apprenticeship: understanding a paradigm; distribute notes for Chapter 1 including vocabulary/textual language and definitions; Homework: read Chapter 2 and create a list of vocabulary, verbal analogies, and relevant definitions in text sequence; distribute Advance Organizer for Chapter 3
11-04  Tuesday

IP Class (substitute)

11-20 Thurs.

Laptop Cart: GGS: begin Chapter 2; begin Chapter 3: understanding a paradigm:  geography + ethnic and cultural Maori v. Moriori or the luck of geography in determining the fates of human societies; review Chapter 2 vocabulary and Advance Organizer

11-05  Wed.

IP Class (substitute)

11-21 Friday Laptop Cart: Chapter 3: Collision at Cajamarca; Reading Apprenticeship: understanding scaffolding in the proximate chain of causation
11-06 Thurs.

IP Class (substitute)

11-22  
11-07 Friday IP Class (substitute) 11-23  
11-08   11-24 Monday  
11-09

 

11-25 Tuesday  
11-10 Monday

iIP Class (substitute)

11-26 Wed. Early Dismissal: 12:15; Holiday Happenings
11-11 Tuesday

Return evaluated work; distribute grade sheets; verify/emend grades; discuss IP work days and field IP questions for Assignment 3

 

11-27 Thurs.

School Closed: Thanksgiving Day

11-12 Wed.

Blood Drive; Reading Apprenticeship: Metacognitive Scaffolding and Reading Non-Traditional Texts: GGS: Chapter 1 Up to the Starting Line; work on Chapter 1 Advance Organizer

 

 

 

11-28 Friday

School Closed

11-13 Thurs. GGS: continue and complete Chapter 1 Advance Organizer

 

11-29

 

 

GGS Essay Test / Background: In prehistory, the acquisition of guns, germs, and steel affected the successful fates of human societies.  GGS Prompt: If you were re-titling Diamond's book to reflect what you need in today's society, the title would read: _____, _____, and _____: The Fates of Postmodern Societies.  Your Task:  Fill in the blanks; what would it take today to be a successful world power?  You will need to write a five-paragraph essay, no notes, no book/text. 

Academic Literacy: understanding paradigm shifts; GGS: Part II: The Rise and Spread of Food Production  Chapter 4: Farmer Power

Reading Apprenticeship: Deconstructing Myth to Reformulation; understanding how to read non-traditional texts [charts]; scaffolding; paradigm shift [from linguistics in pre-literate societies to farmers v. non-farmers

GGS: Chapter 5: History's Haves and Have Nots      Review Paradigm Shift; Independent Food Production v. Founder Package [tie chart back to headstart and protohuman/humanoid EQ: When did protohumans become human and in single v. multiple sites?  Discuss range extension culture + material culture 

11-14 Friday Schools Closed: Professional Development Day 11-30  
11-15  

 

 
11-16