Final Exam

Revolutions (35 questions)

-          Scientific Revolution

-          Enlightenment

-          Agricultural Revolution

-          Industrial Revolution

-          Thinkers

History of India (35 questions)

-          Early History

-          Geography

-          British Colonialism/Building Blocks

-          Gandhi, Nehru, Jinnah

-          The independence movement

-          Partition of India and Pakistan

-          India / Pakistan conflict, Kashmir

Nectar in a Sieve (10 questions)

-          Quotes

-          Characters

-          Plot (facts from the story)

Vocabulary (5 questions)

-          Fill in the blank sentences

Academic Skills: Chunks, Text Notes / WCP & Cornell Notes (10 questions)

Grammar (5 questions)

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Tips for Studying:

1.        Go through your classroom file and take anything out that will help you study

2.        Make a study guide – Cornell Notes of all of the important topics you need to know

3.        Make a set of multiple choice questions. Trade this set with a friend and take each other’s tests.

4.        Try writing a paragraph about a key topic, such as British Colonialism in India, without looking at your notes. Then refer to your notes to see if you forgot anything.

5.        Make flash cards of vocab words, important events, people, etc.

6.        Work with a friend. Test each other on what you need to know. Remember—all of the freshmen will have the same final, so you can work with any freshman (not just the ones in your classes).

Presentation Order

Here is the order of presentations for tomorrow:

Indian National Congress

AO Hume

Amritsar Massacre

Salt March

Jinnah and the Muslim League

Nehru

Kasturba Gandhi

Quit India (except in 5^th pd Scher)

Partition

2^nd Kashmir war

Powerpoint and Works Cited Page

Your Powerpoint and Works Cited page are due tomorrow.

Please PRINT your Works Cited page and bring it to class tomorrow.
Please PRINT a copy of your Powerpoint and bring it to class tomorrow.
Please DROP a copy of your Powerpoint into my teacher desk inbox (on the computers at school) before class starts tomorrow. You will find your folder if you go to my teacher desk--> Inbox-->2011-2012.

India Independence Project

The final project for the India unit is a group research project, meant to help you further understand the independence movement in India. You will be exploring the following essential question (EQ): Why was (insert particular person, group, or event) important to Indian independence?

Assignment	Points	Due Date	Group or Individual?
Group plan	25	Wed 11/30	Group
Research worksheet	200	Mon 12/5	Individual
Powerpoint, with a works cited attached (print out a copy of the powerpoint and works cited!)	100	Wed 12/7	Group
Presentation note cards	25	End of class 12/7	Individual
Presentations	200	Fri 12/9	Group
Notes on presentations	50	Mon 12/12	Individual
Total points: 600 *All Hard deadlines*

Project Topics

Amristar Massacre	A.O Hume in India
Quit India Movement	Jawaharlal Nehru
Indian National Congress	Muhammad Ali Jinnah and the Muslim League
Partition of India and Pakistan & 1947 War	Salt March
Second Kashmir War / Insurgency (1965 & 1989)	Kasturba Gandhi

Nectar in a Sieve

Humanities 9

Nectar in a Sieve  Overview and Assignments

Essential Question:  How does a person maintain hope despite challenges in their life?

Reading Schedule

Note: You are expected to have read the following pages by the dates below. Please keep up to date on all of your reading and assignments—it is hard to get caught up if you fall behind!

                                   

Chapter/Pages	DUE DATE
Chapter 1 (8 pgs)	Wednesday 11/9
Chapter 2-3 (14 pgs)	Thursday 11/10
Chapter 4 (6 pgs)	In class 11/10
Chapters 5-7 (15 pgs)	Monday 11/14
Chapters 8-10(12 pgs)	Tuesday 11/15
Chapters 11-13 (20 pgs)	Wednesday 11/16
Chapter 14 (10 pgs)	In class 11/16
Chapter 15-16 (13 pgs)	Thursday 11/17
Chapter 17-19 (11 pgs)	Friday 11/18
Chapter 20 (7 pgs)	In class 11/18
Chapters 21-24 (30 pgs)	Monday 11/21
Chapter 25 (12 pgs)	In class 11/21
Chapters 26-27 (27 pgs)	Tuesday 11/22
Finish the book	Wednesday 11/23

Reading Quizzes (10 points each)

You will have in-class quizzes periodically. These quizzes will be basic checks to make sure you are keeping up with your reading!

Nightly Homework (30 points)

In addition to reading the chapters assigned for each night, you will be responsible for two assignments while you read.

1. Every time you see a moment in the book where a main character (Nathan, Ruku, or one of their children) has hope, put a post it note in your book. Write one sentence on the post it note to describe the moment. You should do this EVERY TIME you see a moment of hope! 10 points each night.
2. You will be writing one chunk each night. It will be stamped and will be collected about once a week. You only write one chunk, whether you’ve read one chapter or more. 20 points for each chunk.

In your chunk, you need to state the following:

TS:  _______________ maintains hope by __________________.

                     (character)                                                                             (one major way the character maintains hope)

CD: Quote intro and a quote about how the character you’ve chosen maintains hope in this reading. Don’t forget a text note.

AP: Analyze how the character maintains hope IN THIS MOMENT.

AP: Explain how this action will keep them going, despite whatever challenges they face.

CS:  Conclude by explaining how people like this character could maintain hope by acting in this way.

Nectar in a Sieve

Tonight, please read all of chapter one in Nectar in a Sieve. Also, put a post it note in ONE place where one character shows hope.

Tonight's homework

1. Write questions and a summary for today's powerpoint lecture on British colonialism in India.

2. Study for a quiz. The quiz will have questions about ancient India, the textbook reading on India, the building blocks of colonialism, and today's lecture.

3. Get a copy of Nectar in a Sieve from the Oceana library. Cover it with white paper and leave the front blank.

Colonialism Dialogue

Please complete your dialogue between an English monarch and the French king. Make sure your dialogue clearly explains all 6 Colonialism Building Blocks.

Ancient India

Please write questions and a summary on your Cornell Notes from today's lesson on Ancient India.

India Map

Today in class, you were given a blank map of India (if you were not in class, please print a blank India map or draw it, based on any up-to-date map online). Please complete the following tasks on the map:

1. Add India’s largest cities:  Mumbai, Kolkata, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad.
2. Draw in the Ganges River.
3. Draw in the Eastern and Western Ghats.
4. Mark out the Great Indian Desert
5. Mark out the Deccan Plateau.
6. What is the country immediately to the north west of India? Sketch an outline of its shape in the proper place.
7. India has a gap in its shape, off to the right. What country goes there? Sketch that in and label it.
8. Sketch in the Himalayas.
9. Identify the Hindu Kush and the Khyber Pass (hint—these aren’t part of India any more. You’ll learn why.)

Here are some hints that will help you with this activity:

• You can use symbols to represent parts of the map, like rivers and mountains. Just be sure to include a key/legend on your map to explain what the symbols represent.
• There’s more than one map in the atlas that includes India. You will need to use ALL of the India maps for this assignment.
• Some questions involve other sections of the atlas—for example, check Population Density.
• It can be hard to find things on highly detailed maps.
• The map legend is on page 51.
• Sketch everything in pencil first. Then, make sure it is correct. Then use colored pencils or markers in an organized fashion. You will lose points if it does not have color.

Written Response

Look at the World Population Density map on page 60-61 to answer this question in 3 or 4 sentences, on the back of your map:

For most of its history, India (which included both Pakistan and Bangladesh) had very little contact with the rest of Asia, to the east, and was constantly invaded from the West. How does India’s geography help explain this?

Revolutions Timeline

Revolutions Timeline Project

100 Project Points 

As a final assessment for the revolutions unit, you need to create a timeline that includes the key events, people and ideas from the Enlightenment and the Scientific, Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions. Here’s what you need to do:

To the left of the timeline, before you add any dates, include a description of life before the enlightenment. You may do this in the form of a 3-4 sentence description or it can be an illustration with 1-2 sentence caption. You may choose to discuss political, economic or social life.

Then:

Choose 2 events from each revolution (Enlightenment, Scientific, Agricultural, and Industrial). You should have 8 total events.

Each event must be listed chronologically and must include:

      The year it took place

      A brief description of the event

      An image or visual

      A statement about the impact on politics, thought and culture, social structure or economics

At the end of the timeline finish this sentence: The scientific, agricultural and industrial revolutions and the enlightenment are all revolutions because…

You should include a detailed answer and it should be big and bold at the end of your timeline!

Some helpful hints:

      It’s fine to include people, but make sure you include their big ideas and major work. List them in the year their major work was published.

      Your image or visual should represent the person or idea. Make sure it’s colorful and detailed!

Here’s an example:

1640

Thomas Hobbes published Leviathan

Hobbes believed that all people are naturally selfish and therefore they need a strong ruler to keep them in check. His social contract was the idea that people should give up some of their rights in exchange for law and order.

Impact: These ideas are the basis for most Western political thought. Socially, people worked hard and willingly gave authority to their government so they could help control society.

Grading Checklist

_____ (15 points) Detailed and accurate description of life before the enlightenment

_____ (5 points) 8 total events, 2 from each revolution

_____ (15 points) Brief, yet accurate description of each event

_____ (5 points) Each event includes a visual

_____ (20 points) Each event includes a thoughtful and detailed statement about its impact

_____ (15 points) Thoughtful concluding sentence that proves that all revolutions were actually revolutions

_____ (15 points) Correct grammar and spelling

_____ (10 points) Whole poster is creative and colorful with lots of attention to detail 

_____ / 100 TOTAL

Questions and Summary

For homework, please write questions and a summary for the Industrial Revolution powerpoint notes.

Grammar Quiz and Cornell Qs and Summary

Your homework for Wednesday is:
1. Study for the grammar quiz. It will cover parts of speech, pronouns, clauses and verb tenses.
2. Write questions and a summary for today's powerpoint lecture on the Agricultural Revolution.

Questions, Summary, and Study

1. Please write questions (of all levels) and a summary for the thinkers presentations you heard today. You should do this directly on the yellow notetaker you used today.

2. Study for a quiz on these thinkers, which you will have on Monday.

Thank you Letter

Please complete a thank you letter to the Youth Speaks poets. It should be typed or neatly written in pen. It should be multiple paragraphs and talk about what you learned, how it impacted you, and what you took away from the day. Please sign it at the bottom.

Setting

If you plan to write about setting, please respond to this post with ideas. Which settings will you compare? What will you write about?

Compare and contrast any two places in the novel, explaining how the places differ, what each place symbolizes, and how each reflects the society of the times and the morals and values of its inhabitants.

Youth Speaks

Please bring your signed permission slip and $8 (cash or a check made out to Oceana High School) to your Humanities teacher by Friday, October 14th.

FINAL Three Chunk Paragraph

Identity Unit

Final 3 Chunk Paragraph

As a final assessment for this unit, you will write a two or three chunk paragraph that answers the essential question:

What does it take to be comfortable with one’s own identity?

In order to answer this question, you will need to consider all of the short stories we read. You should use the graphic organizer that you made on Tuesday to help you come up with an overall answer to the question.

Assignments & due dates:

ALL DEADLINES ARE HARD DEADLINES!

Assignment	Due Date	Points
Topic Sentence Approved	Tuesday, 10/11 (in class)	10
Quotes & Quote Intros	Wednesday, 10/12	25
Rough Draft	Thursday, 10/13	50
Final Draft	Wednesday 10/19	100
	TOTAL	185 points!

Reminders:

v  Label each part of your paragraph

v  3 chunks will get you an A on that bullet point of the rubric

v  2 chunks will get you an B on that bullet point of the rubric

v  Concrete details MUST be quotes from the stories

v  Don’t forget quote introductions and text notes

v  Don’t say “This quote says” or anything that mentions “the quote”.

v  Make sure your analysis explains how your CD’s prove your topic sentence

v  Final draft must be typed, skip lines between each part

Outline:

TS: While some people become comfortable with their identity by/through___________, others become comfortable with their identity by/through _____________

(finish the sentence!)

CD1: Use a quote from any of the stories that gives an example of a character learning to accept their identity by the reason you stated in your first part of your TS. Don’t forget to intro the quote and text note it!

AP1a: Explain how your quote proves that this person became comfortable with their identity by the reason you stated in your TS.

AP1b: Go further in explaining how this quote shows that many people become comfortable by using the strategy you stated in your TS.

CD2: Use a quote from any of the stories that gives an example of a character learning to accept their identity by the reason you stated in your second part of your TS. Don’t forget to intro the quote and text note it!

AP2a: Explain how your quote proves that this person became comfortable with their identity by the reason you stated in your TS.

AP2b: Go further in explaining how this quote shows that many people become comfortable by using the strategy you stated in your TS.

CD3: If you choose to include a third CD, it should match one part of your TS. Choose a different character from a different story who learns to accept their identity by one of the reasons you stated. Make sure you have this chunk follow the first chunk you wrote about that reason!

AP3a: Explain how your quote proves that this person became comfortable with their identity by the reason you stated in your TS.

AP3b: Go further in explaining how this quote shows that many people become comfortable by using the strategy you stated in your TS.

CS: Wrap up the paragraph, summarize the main point that you made, make a connection to your TS.