Monday, September 26th, Types of Government

Today we looked at many different Types of Government, and at what a Utopia is. Students worked in groups to create a culture and government that would be their ideal, according to the following criteria:

Utopia: Create an Island Culture and Government

Include:

Aspects of Culture:

Language

Food

Clothing

Art

Music

Dwellings

Customs (Greeting, saying goodbye, rituals, rites of passage, etc.)

Religion

World View

Family Relationships

Attitude towards: Children, Elderly people, Disabled/Mentally Ill, Education, race, Health, etc.

Cooperative or Competitive

Type of Government-- Look at list.

Write up a brief constitution of your Culture’s Government

*Who is in charge? 

*Who makes the rules? How?

*Who enforces the rules? How?

*What happens to people who break the rules? 

*How is government supported/financially viable? 

After presenting their created culture, we discussed the homework, which is:

1. For Everyone: Culture Brochure due on Monday! 

2. By grade level:   9th graders -The Study of History, Geography, and Culture, Packet #2

                               10th graders - Age of Absolutism, Packet #2 (Unit 14)

                               11th graders- Road to Revolution, Packet #2(Unit 2)

                               12th graders- Federalism Project- Follow the directions carefully, create a poster that identifies the players in our Government.

Monday, September 19th, Day 2

Today we looked at culture intensely, with two different slide shows and some notes on culture.  The homework is a Culture Brochure, due on Monday, October 3rd.  The handout is yellow and explains it all, if you have questions, email me at: klewis@slvusd.org.  Yay for culture!

Websites that will help you: (except the 11th graders--these websites don't have much about native americans.)
For the Travel Info section: lonelyplanet.com
For the Demographics section: ciaworldfactbook.com

Monday, September 12, Day 1

The first day of Humanities, History class:
1.  We discussed culture,and then talked about the Humanities class culture, guidelines, expectations, and grading. 
2. Students were asked to explore their own curiosity and see what they were interested in learning about their specific history topic (by grade level: 9th grade: Geography, 10th grade: World History, 11th grade, US history, 12th grade, Government. )
3. We looked at a power point about how the brain works and spent time drawing what our brains are like, with words, pictures, colors, strengths, and areas we'd like to help our brains grow.



Homework:  Each student got a packet of work due next Monday, Packet #1.

9th graders: Geography fact sheet activities
10th graders: World History Packet #1
11th graders: US History Packet #1
12th graders: a copy of the Constitution and a Constitutional Scavenger Hunt to complete.

Welcome to Humanities!

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