Today’s Agenda: Class work . . . Day 92
Journal entries . . . 5 minutes.
ICW 19 (Life at the Camel Stops) . . . 12 minutes.
Release time for debate, 2nd Quarter preparation . . . 10 minutes.
Mr. Fulumirani
Friday, January 19, 2018
Today’s Agenda: Class work . . . Day 92 Journal entries . . . 5 minutes. ICW 19 (Life at the Camel Stops) . . . 12 minutes. Release time for debate, 2nd Quarter preparation . . . 10 minutes. Mr. Fulumirani
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Thursday, January 18, 2018
Today’s Agenda: Class work . . . Day 91 TWPS (1 of 10): What is your main goal for the next 18 weeks? What areas of study would you like to improve or excel in during the remaining school term? How do you plan to accomplish your goals? What are your New Year’s Resolution for 2017? . . . 7 minutes. FOAP 1 . . . 10 minutes. Group check-in . . . 12 minutes. Release time for class debates & Second Quarter Projects . . . 30 minutes. Mr. Fulumirani Week of January 17-19, 2018 . . . 3rd Quarter*
Week 20 . . . Weekly Assignments . . . Chapter 14 (The Influence of Islam on West Africa) . . . Content Objectives: SWBT describe the growth of Islam in West Africa. Language Objective: SWBT explain about Muslim influence in the following areas: architecture, education, and art. Essential Question: How did Islam first reach Ghana? Essential Question: How did Mansa Musa’s hajj help Mali gain acceptance as in important empire? *Week 1 of Quarter 3 . . . This is the 1st week of the 3rd Quarter, yes the 3rd Quarter (arguably the toughest of all four Quarters) therefore, start the Quarter off right by staying ahead with your assignments, listen attentively, stay focused & always do your best work! Wednesday, January 17, 2018 Today’s Agenda: Class work . . . Day 90 Check website, Power School Pro, Google Classroom, & Remind.com & bring tablets to class everyday (fully charged) . . . review today’s agenda; announce assignments and activity updates . . . 5 minutes. Journal entries . . . 5 minutes. TFT (1 of 10): “Speak softly, and carry a big stick; you will go far.”—West African proverb . . . 5 minutes. EDpuzzle videos: “Spread of Islam in Africa” (8:17), “Islam & African Religions” (:22) and “Spreading Islam in West African” (:38) . . . 10 minutes. QFT (1 of 10): "In your opinion, what was Mansa Musa's most lasting achievement? . . . 5 minutes. Release for Second Quarter Projects and class debates . . . 15 minutes. Mr. Fulumirani Do Now (1 of 10): TFT, QFT, TWPS, Journal Entries & Essential Questions . . .
ICW #19 (Life at the Camel Stops) . . . EDpuzzle videos: "Spread of Islam to West Africa" (8:17), Spreading Islam in West Africa" (:38), "West African Empire" (9:57) and "Mansa Musa" (3:55) . . . CTC 4 (Identifying Cause & Effect) . . . SSSA 1 (Solving Problems Activity), Group . . . 12 minutes. FOAP 1 . . . 12 minutes. Group check-in . . . 6 minutes. ICA 14 (Community Influence) . . . DBQ 2 preparation & writing . . . Release time for upcoming Class Debate 1 . . . Mr. Fulumirani Friday, January 12, 2018
Today’s Agenda: Class work . . . Day 89 End of the 2nd Quarter 2! . . . Role Play 4 Returning Crusaders & interviews: students perform their respective skits while the audience (class) interviews them. Remember, the interviewers must submit three questions (3, for periods 1, 2, 6, &7, and 2 for period 5) prior to the interviews . . . 12 minutes. TWPS (9 of 9): Would you work for .32 cents per hour or roughly $3 dollars per day? Of course not! Well, people your age (mostly females) and younger are slaving in sweatshops keeping you clothed in the latest “fast fashions (aka trendy clothes)!” This $3 trillion dollars global fashion industry is the world’s second biggest polluter after the oil industry! Would you work in a stuffy, windowless and unhealthy environment doing menial, repetitive and robotic jobs? How do you characterize an industry that egregiously exploits children and teenagers (mostly females) in order for you to keep up with the latest? What do you think young anthropologists? . . . 8 minutes. Release time for Class Debate 1 & 2nd Quarter Projects . . . 15 minutes. CTC 3 (Identifying Cause & Effect) . . . DBQ 2 previewed . . . 10 minutes. SSSA 1 (Solving Problems Activity), Group . . . Mr. Fulumirani Thursday, January 11, 2018
Today’s Agenda: Class work . . . Day 88 Newscasts 4 (Group) . . . 30 minutes. SRQ 11 (The Ghanian Empire: Complexity and West Africa’s First Major State) due by Wednesday, Jan. 11 . . . 12 minutes. Release time for debate & Second Quarter Projects preparation . . . 12 minutes. Mr. Fulumirani Wednesday, January 10, 2018
Today’s Agenda: Class work . . . Day 87 ICW #18 (Life at the Camel Stops) . . . 12 minutes. Role Play 3 . . . King John versus Barons (1215 Runnymede, England next to the River Thames) and the signing of the Magna Carta . . . 7 minutes. EDpuzzle videos: “West African Kingdoms of Ghana, Mali & Songhai” (28:32), Part III . . . 12 minutes. Students prepare for their 4th Newscasts & continue preparation for Class Debate 1 & 2nd Quarter Projects (group) . . . 15 minutes. Mr. Fulumirani Tuesday, January 9, 2018
Today’s Agenda: Class work . . . Day 86 QFT (9 of 9): How did the kings of Ghana, Mali, and Songhai benefit from their location? . . . 6 minutes. EDpuzzle videos: “West African Kingdoms of Ghana, Mali & Songhai” (28:32), Part II . . . 12 minutes. Role Play 2. . . Pope Urban II incendiary call to arms: Clermont, France 1095 thus launching the crusades. . . . 6 minutes. Release time for Class debates 1 & 2nd Quarter Projects . . . 20 minutes. ICWB 2 (Salt vs. Gold) . . . who wins? You choose . . . 12 minutes. Mr. Fulumirani Week 19 . . . 2nd Quarter (January 4-8, 2018)*
Chapter 13 (Ghana: A West African Trading Empire) . . . Content Objectives: SWBT describe the importance of the gold and salt in trans-Saharan trade. Language Objective: SWBT explain how the taxes collected on these goods (gold and salt) made Ghana wealthy and powerful. Essential Question: Why was Ghana’s king so powerful? Essential Question: What factors contributed to the decline of Ghana? *Week 10 of Quarter 2 . . . It is over!—just like that . . . the end of the Quarter 2 is here! Wow, two down and only two more to go! Dear Father Time, please slow down just a little so that we can all ‘smell the flowers’? So long Quarter 2 and hello Quarter 3 and stay alert young people! Monday, January 8, 2018 Today’s Agenda: Class work . . . Day 85 Check website, Power School Pro, Google Classroom, & Remind.com & bring tablets to class everyday (fully charged) . . . review today’s agenda; announce assignments and activity updates . . . 5 minutes. TFT (9 of 9): “Every time an old man dies, it is as if a library has burnt down.” West African Proverb . . . 5 minutes. WCQ 1 (Chapter 12) . . . 8 minutes. EDpuzzle videos: “West African Kingdoms of Ghana, Mali & Songhai” (28:32), Part I . . . 12 minutes. Release time for Second Quarter Projects & Class debates 1 . . . 20 minutes. SRQ 11 (The Ghanian Empire: Complexity and West Africa’s First Major State) due by Wednesday, Jan. 11 . . . 12 minutes. Role Play 1 . . . While Justinian ponders Theodora acts: A speech that saves an empire . . . 6 minutes. Mr. Fulumirani End of 2nd Quarter/1st Semester . . .
Do Now (9 of 9): TFT, QFT, TWPS, Journal Entries, & Essential Question . . . Grade Rationale (2nd Quarter) . . . WCQ 1 (Weekly Chapter Quiz), Chapter 12 . . . ICW #18 (Life at the Camel Stops) . . . Release time for Class debate 1 & Skits 1-3 . . . ICA 13 (Image Analysis) . . . SRQ 11 (The Ghanian Empire: Complexity and West Africa's First Major State) . . . CTC 3 (Identifying Cause & Effect) . . . ICWB 2 (Salt vs. Gold) . . . Weekly Reading: read and study (Chapter 13) pages 145-153 then summarize (outline)the chapter (this assignment is mandatory) . . . EDpuzzle videos: "West African Kingdoms of Ghana, Mali & Songhai" (28:32) . . . Newscasts 4 (Group) . . . Mr. Fulumirani |
**Even though I set the schedule weeks in advance, it is not ‘etched’ in stone and is subject to change depending on the situation therefore, do not stress! “Unbending rigor is the mate of death. Yielding softness is the company of life.”—Bruce Lee.
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