September 10

IB 30/35

We spent most of today's class in the library working on your IA. This may have been your only class period to work on the IA, so I hope you made it worth the trip to the library. Tomorrow you will be writing a Paper 1 on the Mexican-American War.

Social 10-1

I gave you some time to do a rough draft of the first paragraph of an informative essay on your global connections. Think of how you'd answer/address the following questions in your essay: what impact does globalization have on your individual identity? How do you affect the world economically, socially, environmentally, and technologically? Your final copy (good copy) of this essay is due on Thursday. You have a world geography test on Friday and the study guide will be posted here on the blog tomorrow.

I talked a little about your mapping assignment which is due tomorrow. Here are the instructions for your global connections map:

• your map must have a title ("Global Connections Map")
• you do not need compass directions on your map
• you do not need a border for your map
• you must have a simple key on the front of the map and a detailed key on the back
•  on the map your simple key will consist of the following: 5-6 colored boxes (depending on how many categories you had for your 25 item chart) which will be labeled- food, clothing, electronics, entertainment, household goods, miscellaneous AND you must also draw a colored dot and label it "people" (for the information from the Global Bingo game that we played)
• you will only color countries and label ones that you have a connection to through the 25 item chart (for example, you own a sombrero that is from Mexico, you would color Mexico and label it "MEXICO")
• there will only be 5-6 colors on the map, you don't need to have 25 different colors for each of your 25 items
•  you also have to label the 16 people that you talked to during our Global Bingo game, they will be represented by colored circles (pick a common color for all people) and numbers (1-16, if you didn't talk to 16 people, you label as many as you talked to)--you do not color the countries that are represented on your Global Bingo card, you simply draw a circle on the country, color the circle, put a number beside it, and label the country (for example, if the only connection you have to Australia is that one of your classmates went on a vacation there, you draw the circle, write the number beside the circle, and label the country "AUSTRALIA"-- you don't color the country)
• on the detailed key on the back of your map, you will be recreating your 25 item chart (make sure that you have the categories clearly colored and matching the simple key on the front of the map) and the information from the Global Bingo card (clearly identify people by number)

IB 20

We finished watching "Vantage Point" today. We had a little bit of time to talk about the various perspectives in the film and the limitations of each of the witnesses to the assassination. I want you to go through the Evaluating Sources PowerPoint on the wiki (it's in Unit 1 Historiography), as well as read over the Paper 1 and OPVL Document Analysis sections on the wiki tonight. Tomorrow we should have time to discuss OPVL a little bit more.