Wednesday February 27th

Update!

This week we began a new project! The Story of Worldviews in Conflict is a chance for you to creatively demonstrate your knowledge of Spanish and Aztec worldviews and your understanding of how those worldviews came into conflict, as well as respond to our main inquiry question: Why should we care about the impact of cultural contact between the Spanish and Aztec civilizations?

All project details can be found through Evernote, including the assignment sheet, rubric, assigned groups, and approved resources.

After launching the project on Monday, we watched the documentary Conquistadors: The Fall of the Aztecs on Tuesday to give us some additional insight into the Spanish experience of the conquest, and more information about the conflict between these two groups. Today (Wednesday) we delved into our main source for information regarding the Spanish worldview - the textbook. Sections covered can be found through Evernote.

On Tuesday we also began a new feature in our journals in order to better utilize the feedback received on assignments. The aim of this task is to have each student create a customized bank of strategies for success to use on future assignments and projects. Again, details can be found through Evernote.

Tomorrow (Thursday) we will be having a class discussion exploring the Spanish worldview according to the seven elements that have been guiding our inquiry throughout the year, and recording the notes in Evernote.

Lastly, our week will conclude with our trip to the Reel Fun Film Festival on Friday morning. We will be back around lunch in time to eat and attend afternoon classes.

Wednesday, February 20

Welcome back from the loooooong weekend! I hope everyone found some time to relax!

Today we worked on digging even more deeply into worldview by exploring our society, and the Aztec society. We worked on completing a table to help us organize our thoughts as well. We will continue this throughout the week.
*Remember, the notes from our class discussion are available through the "Class Discussions" note in Evernote, as always!

Important upcoming due dates:

February 22 (Friday) - Quiz on Aztec notes
February 22 (Friday) - permission forms for the Reel Fun Movie Festival field trip on March 1
February 25 (Monday) - Journal Entry 31 (second round of comments on litspiration blogs)
February 25 (Monday) - corrections on the Guns, Germs, and Steel/Lecture test (those that have under 9)

Wednesday February 13th

Happy Long Weekend Everyone!!!

This week we took some time to look back at our alternate text video blog assignment in order to ensure that everyone is meeting expectations. Revised videos must be posted to your litspiration blog by first thing in the morning, Thursday February 14.

We also began to explore the textbook as another narrative on the history of the conflict between the Spanish and Aztec, on our journey to answer our main inquiry question: Why should we care about the impact of cultural contact between the Spanish and Aztec civilizations? The details of this note-taking assignment can be found here through Evernote, as always.

Your notes on the Aztec (Journal Entry #30) are DUE on Wednesday, February 20th.

Please note that there will be a QUIZ on this material (journal entry #30) on Thursday, February 21st.

The second round of blog comments (Journal Entry #31) are due February 25.

Friday, February 8

After watching the documentary "Engineering an Empire: The Aztecs" yesterday, we worked on connecting the knowledge gained to larger concepts by filling in the "Source 2" column of the "inquiry organizer." At this point, you should have the first 3 columns filled in.

If you have completed all journal entries up to 29, and have everything uploaded on your blog for the litspiration challenge, you are 100% caught up in Humanities! Yay! (*Note: Journal entry 30 IS NOT for homework at all! We will give you time in class to finish it up next week!*)

Wednesday, February 6

Today, we finished journal entry 28. Please ensure that this journal entry is finished by Friday if you missed class today for whatever reason. It is also important that your journals are up to date at all times!

Also, check out the class discussion notes for what we discussed today in class regarding our guiding inquiry question.

We will be continuing our study of the Aztec and Spanish contact tomorrow by delving into a more detailed study of the Aztecs.

Please remember also that this Friday, February 8th, is the deadline for term 2 Litspiration blogs/free reading challenges. Contact Mrs. Waite or Miss Groeller with any concerns ASAP!