What we did:

Hello, Today in class we went to the library. In the library we got into our blog groups and went back and looked at our goals for January. After we searched through all of our goals we wrote if we completed them or didn't and if we didn't we wrote why. Also we gave a number out of 5 on someone in your groups blog. For example me and Jaden P were partners so we looked at our blog post's for january and gave a mark out of 5 (5 being the best 1 as the worst)

Homework:

Today we all we had to do is finish up marking our group goal sheet and put a number out of 5 on our partners blog post in January and say why we gave it that.

Connections Beyond english:

This is a good goal in life because you learn how to give constructive criticism without anyone getting offended and to be able to follow goals you set.

Thank you everyone for your time. BYE!!

Lees Humanities Wednesday Jan,26,2011.

Today in Humanities class we got together with our blog groups. We are going to present our posters soon. When we got together we were deciding on who would say what. Some groups were fighting over topics they would present, for example: I was fighting with someone in my group over presenting the weapons from our story. I decided to present food instead. When I present my poster tpic I will talk about rice and how it was considered cheap food for the poor people. I think I am nearly ready to present. Presenting topics to groups of people is a good life skill. It will be very useful for jobs when we are adults, especially with big companies. Today was definitely a productful day in class.

Hum 8 Homework

        Today, Ms. Lees instructed the class to get in our novel groups and finish our posters. Most groups were finished most of it, but some groups were far behind, so they had to come during flex. We also filled out a self assesment for how much we worked on and what were they. At the end of class, Ms. Lees told us to think of how to present the poster, so we all decided to present on the parts we worked on. our group might have exagerated some of the things that we self-evaluated on.

        The learning intention was to be true on what you did and judging how other people worked. Working on the poster tought us how to stay on task with people you might not be very familier with.

        When class was over and we were beginning to pack up, Ms. Lees told us to do the Chapter one questions for "There Will Be Wolves".

Today in Humanities class we had a double block day and we had a lot of work to do. First off we had to do a geography challenge test which consisted of history, people, land and water masses. The reason we did this was so we could learn about geography knowledge that we would need in real life. Mostly you would need to know about languages religions you would defiantly need to know about continents and water and you should also know the history of the world. The reason we should know this is if you ever wanted a job or if you wanted to be a historian or someone who makes globes you would need to know this important information.

We also had to look back at the movie the first knight. We didn’t exactly watch the movie but we watched the first thirty minutes which had someone explain what had happened in the middle ages. There were three parts in the middle ages which were the early middle ages the high Middle Ages and the late middle ages. In the early middle ages there was someone called King Charles or Charlemagne. Charlemagne was very important not because he was king, but his acts as king what he did was he had made it so even if you are a very poor person you could still have food. He did this by having the people alive to make more crops which mean more food and more food means more people. He also had built roads all across Europe so that more people could get around. In the high middle ages there were the Crusades. The Crusades were mainly made up of villagers. The Crusades had wanted to travel to Jerusalem because they had wanted to steal the religion because they didn’t think the Jerusalem’s weren’t as religious. The reason why the villagers had willingly gone to war is because the leader had told them that if they had fought for Gods side they would go straight to heaven. Once they had arrived in Jerusalem they had found out that they were even more religious than them. They had also learned s lot of things while they were there. They learned roman numerals languages and much more. The late middle ages were probably the worst time in the middle ages. First of all there was terrible weather which meant fewer crops. Also in the early middle ages Charlemagne had made it so that there was way more people so in the late middle ages less food and more people meant more people would die. It was even worse because there was a disease called the Black Death which meant if you had it you would die in five days.

In second block we had gone to the library because we had to work on our blogs. All we had to do was find out who had been posting what we had to do and follow everyone blogs. The most important thing was critiquing each other’s posts. What we had to do was look at each other’s blogs and see what we did wrong.

hum 8 blog stuff

     Okay so today, we started the day by talking about the warm and fuzzy drive. We are are supposed to bring in any not worn out jackets, blankets, pants, hoodies and other fuzzy and warm clothing. Mrs. Lees also told us that we do not have to have our books finished right away and we did not have to be finished reading them until this monday.
     We talked about the warm and fuzzy drive because there are people on this planet who are not as fortunate as us and they need help finding comfortable clothes such as fuzzy clothers and warm nice jackets. We were given an extra week (6 days) to finish the books because some people in this class do not read as fast as others and they will need a bit more time to finish the books.
     A connection in real life for a warm and fuzzy drive would be, there could be a little boy in the neiborhood whose parents cannot afford to buy him a warm jackets for when he goes out into the cold walking to school what it is snowy or very rainy out. A connection for real life in getting extra days to read a book could be that one boy could be slower at reading and everybody else was fast and the teacher didnt want to make to boy feel sad about reading slower so she gave everybody an extra week to finish the books.
    Some homework tips for reading the book could be to go to sleep 30 minute to an hour early so you can read the book for a long time before you go to bed. You could also not watch TV and read a book instead. I did that with my book because it was a very interesting book about saladin attacking Jerusalem and there being a very big fight to take over Jerusalem.