Mrs. Baylor

Asian Religions 2010-Jekyll Week

 

SS7G12 The student will analyze the diverse cultures of the people who live in Southern and Eastern Asia.

            a. Explain the differences between an ethnic group and a religious group.

            b. Compare and contrast the prominent religions in Southern and Eastern Asia: Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Shintoism and the philosophy of Confucianism.

We'll begin the interesting study of Asian religions...Hinduism, Buddhism, Shintoism, Jainism, Taoism, Confucianism...wait, is that a religion or a philosophy?

Cool 90 Second History of Religions

  Our Jekyll week assignment we will be in the labs to create Inspiration diagrams on Asian religions.  Some classes have had DVD clips about these Asian religions, some of you have worked on packets of information.  For the 2+ hours of classes we'll have on Monday-Tuesday/Thursday-Friday, we'll get into partners and create an Inspiration diagram which you can turn into an outline to study!  Neat, eh?  For some of you this will be an "Advance Organizer" and for others, a culminating activity.

DAY ONE IN LAB: Inspiration.  Create your map, adding color, features and clip art.  Your teacher will guide you. Use the visual organizer called Ancient Asian Faiths to identify symbols and add other information to your topic.

HOMEWORK: Inductive Learning Activity.  You'll use the Power Points to help you group and label the list of religious terms.

DAY TWO IN LAB: Use your Inductive Learning homework and the NOTES feature on Inspiration to complete your map.

Download Shintoism-1

Download Buddhism1

Download Hinduism2

Download Buddhismconfucianismtaoism-2

Download Jainism

Start studying your Asian physical  geography, because we'll eventually have a MAP test March 3 after Jekyll week!!

Asian Religions 2010-Jekyll Week

 

SS7G12 The student will analyze the diverse cultures of the people who live in Southern and Eastern Asia.

            a. Explain the differences between an ethnic group and a religious group.

            b. Compare and contrast the prominent religions in Southern and Eastern Asia: Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Shintoism and the philosophy of Confucianism.

We'll begin the interesting study of Asian religions...Hinduism, Buddhism, Shintoism, Jainism, Taoism, Confucianism...wait, is that a religion or a philosophy?

Cool 90 Second History of Religions

  Our Jekyll week assignment we will be in the labs to create Inspiration diagrams on Asian religions.  Some classes have had DVD clips about these Asian religions, some of you have worked on packets of information.  For the 2+ hours of classes we'll have on Monday-Tuesday/Thursday-Friday, we'll get into partners and create an Inspiration diagram which you can turn into an outline to study!  Neat, eh?  For some of you this will be an "Advance Organizer" and for others, a culminating activity.

DAY ONE IN LAB: Inspiration.  Create your map, adding color, features and clip art.  Your teacher will guide you. Use the visual organizer called Ancient Asian Faiths to identify symbols and add other information to your topic.

HOMEWORK: Inductive Learning Activity.  You'll use the Power Points to help you group and label the list of religious terms.

DAY TWO IN LAB: Use your Inductive Learning homework and the NOTES feature on Inspiration to complete your map.

Download Shintoism-1

Download Buddhism1

Download Hinduism2

Download Buddhismconfucianismtaoism-2

Download Jainism

Start studying your Asian physical  geography, because we'll eventually have a MAP test March 3 after Jekyll week!!

Physical Geography Notes p583-589

Download Notes Physical geography of Southern Asia pg.583-589.

Finish labeling your 3 maps
Download Asia-or-p2
Download Asieorientale03
Download Chine05

Download Inde05

Mount Everest

National Geographic Mt. Everest

Tues. 2/16 Physical Geography of South Asia

Enduring Understandings/Essential Questions:

Students will understand that location affects a society’s economy, culture, and development.

1.Where are the Ganges River, Huang He (Yellow River), Indus River, Mekong River, Yangtze (Chang Jiang) River, Bay of Bengal, Indian Ocean, Sea of Japan, South China Sea, Yellow Sea, Gobi Desert, Taklimakan Desert, Himalayan Mountains, and Korean Peninsula?

2. Where are the countries of China, India, Indonesia, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, and Vietnam?

3.What is the impact of climate and location on population distribution in Southern and Eastern Asia?

4. How do the mountain, desert, and water features of Southern and Eastern Asia affect the population in terms of where people live, the types of work they do, and how they travel?

We played catch up today to finish our tests from Friday. Everyone was assigned pg.583-589 for notes and to be ready for an open notes quiz on Wednesday. 1st ,2nd periods were given 30-40 minutes to work on their notes. Students in 6,7th periods had less time after they finished their test. Wednesday we will go over the notes from the lab, their maps with rivers, and review the geography of this region. Maps were given out Thursday.

2/11 Maps

Students who finished their charts today in class were given maps to label. Rivers only.Friday they will be asked to label and color additional landforms . From their infromation we will draw conclusions about the countries of Asia.

Asian Geography 2/9 - 2/12

Students took their test on Africa's government, they are posted. By Wednesday we will have checked and graded their review over Africa's Economic Understandings with a test on Friday. Wednesday we are going to the 7th grade computer lab to do research on specific Asian countries.

SS7G11 The student will explain the impact of location, climate, physical characteristics, distribution of natural resources, and population distribution on Southern and Eastern Asia.

a. Describe the impact climate and location has on population distribution in Southern and Eastern Asia .

b. Describe how the mountain, desert, and water features of Southern and Eastern Asian have affected the population in terms of where people live, the types of work they do, and how they travel. 

SS7G12

 c. Evaluate how the literacy rate affects the standard of living. Use the following sites for your research. Do not just choose the first one.

Background Notes Country Profiles

map of Asia

Countries Federal Library of Congress

China's Geography and History

CIA World Factbook 

National Geography Travel

Country Facts

Infoplease Countries

Civics / Government Understandings 2/1 - 2/5 Test Tuesday*

Brain Pop Apartheid

We have been reviewing the different forms of government and the ways government systems distribute power. Remember your flash cards from the Middle East. Finish your review packet for Thursday so we can check it. This applies to 2nd, 6th and 7th periods. First period lost 20 minutes to Honor Roll celebration.

Civics/ Government Understandings

Governance: The student will understand that as a society increases in complexity and interacts with other societies, the complexity of the government also increases.

• How do the unitary, confederation, and federal government systems distribute power?
• How do autocratic, oligarchic, and democratic governments determine citizen participation?
• What are the components of parliamentary and presidential governments?
• What distinguishes the form of leadership, public voting procedures and personal freedoms the republican systems of government in the Republic of Kenya, the Republic of South Africa and the dictatorship of the Republic of Sudan?
• How does gender affect access to education in Kenya and Sudan?  
  
• What is the impact of government stability on the distribution of resources to combat AIDS and famine across Africa?
  

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TEST Tuesday will use the Questions from your packet like before.