Sunday, September 29, 2013

Week of September 30, 2013

Open House on Tuesday night.  I hope to see your parent(s)/ guardian(s) there.

Freshman Homework club meets Tuesdays and Thursdays in room 218 from 2:10-3:00. There are late busses that leave Tuesdays and Thursdays at 4:00. Go there for extra help in any class on Thursdays I will be there after school
Due  Tuesday
27(3) India Seeks Self-Rule (865-867)
Identify the terms, people, and places.
Read Witness History (865) Why were many Indians frustrated? With whom?
Read The Salt March (866) How do you think Americans would have viewed the British if they violently reacted to the Salt March?
Answer the 3 checkpoint questions in complete sentences.
Due Thursday:
We will be studying the life of a great Hindu, Mahatma (Great Soul) Gandhi.
Gandhi cited 7 Social Sins afflicting western culture. Choose three of the following and explain why you agree or disagree with Gandhi's observation. Give examples of how Gandhi lived these words. Would Gandhi be happy or unhappy with western life today?
Use the Answer, Evidence, Explain method
1. Wealth without Work
2. Pleasure without Conscience
3. Science without Humanity
4. Knowledge without Character
5. Politics without Principle
6. Commerce without Morality
7. Worship without Sacrifice

Book work due Friday
3(2) Buddhism p.79-82
Identify
Siddhartha Gautama, Eightfold Path, nirvana, sect
Answer thinking critically questions #1+2 on page 79.
List the 4 Noble Truths on page 80.
Look at the map on page 81. Answer question #2.e
Answer the two checkpoint questions in complete sentences.

Due next Wednesday
3(4) Rise of Civilization in China (92-100) Double homework credit.
Choose 5 and  Identify the terms, people, and places (p.92)
Outline the Mandate of Heaven, listed as the Dynastic Cycle on page 95.
Read the Biography of Confucius on page 97. Why do you think Confucianism lasts to today?
Draw the yin-yang symbol pictured on page 98.
Read the secrets of making silk (99) Answer thinking critically question #1.
Answer the 6 checkpoint questions in complete sentences.


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