RAA Day- Monday, 2/1/2021
Advisement Class- Today is "Reading for Enjoyment!" Have your favorite or current book handy and lets drop everything and read! I will be reading "Cultivating Genius", by Dr. Ghouldy Muhammad. Remember, there are REP points to be earned for being prepared with your own book! 1st Period and 5th Period- Synchronous Live Opening: Today began our unit on Africa History. The students watched several videos that highlighted the achievements of several ancient to recently modern, African Kingdoms or Empires. VIDEO 1: PBSNewsHour "Why we're overdue to know the brilliance of Africa's civilizations" (6:11) VIDEO 2: 12 Greatest Ancient African Empires (16:51) Asynchronous: Students were tasked with completing a RAFT activity on one of the African Empires or Kingdoms we viewed in class. Sevearl articles about various kingdoms were made available to students at various Lexile (readin g levels). Face-to-face students provided a printed copy, and a printable copy of all the articles was uploaded to the African Kingdom_Empires or African History section of your class notebook. This assignment will be due on Thursday, 4 February 2021 for 1st and 5th period classes. Friday, 5 February 2021 for 2nd and 6th period classes. African Empires/Kingdoms RAFT Assignment Additional Resources African Kingdoms and Civilization PPT Khan Academy: Art of Africa Ducksters: Ancient Africa RAFT Flipgrid B-Day- Tuesday, 2/2/2021 Advisement Class- Grade recovery. Students should work on completing missing assignments, prior to Progress Reports. 2nd Period and 6th Period- Today's Assignment is the same as Monday's, 1 February 2021. See above.
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I'm Ms. Mc Bean and welcome to my blog page! This year in 7th grade, we will focus on Southwest Asia, Africa, and Southern & Eastern Asia. In our study of these regions, we will be emphasizing the five main components of Social Studies: geography, history, economics, government, and culture (please note that this includes the world’s major religions). Archives
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