Friday Aug 31st Day 13

Today well will continue in the 5 Themes of Geography presentation. In addition, you will be placed into your Themes group and you will start to make a list of the design rules your group will use for the project.

Design Principles

5 Themes Project Directions

Wednesday & Thursday Aug 29th & 30th Days 11 & 12

Today well will continue in the 5 Themes of Geography presentation. In addition, you will be placed into your Themes group and you will start to make a list of the design rules your group will use for the project.

Design Principles

5 Themes Project Directions

Date	Assignment	Due Date
8-27-2018	Textbook Page 42 Q’s 1-6	8-31-2018
8-28-2018	5 Themes Project	8-31-2018
8-29-2018	Current Event #1	9-02-2018
TBA	TBA	TBA
TBA	TBA	TBA
TBA	TBA	TBA

Monday & Tuesday Aug 27th and 28th Day 9 & 10

Mapping Monday/ 5 Themes of Geography

A great video that explains the important design principles in making a presentation. There are additional directions to this video that explain certain features that are advanced, so pay close attention to this first few minutes and the ending summary ( design principles )

5 Themes of Geography Presentation (this will be used to build your 5 themes Project, AND is what your first test will cover)

5 Themes Direction Sheet

Date	Assignment	Due Date
8-27-2018	Textbook Page 42 Q’s 1-6	8-31-2018
8-28-2018	5 Themes Project	8-31-2018
8-29-2018	Current Event #1	9-02-2018
TBA	TBA	TBA
TBA	TBA	TBA
TBA	TBA	TBA

Thursday & Friday Aug 23rd & 24th Days 7 & 8

Four Paragraphs About Me Day 2

4 Paragraphs about me assignment - Link

Skills Objective: 

*Each student will be able to access their drive, open a new Doc, and share their work with a classmate.

*Each student will be able to use the commenting tool within Google Docs to provide commentary on their classmate's story.

Google Slides Introduction -

Google Slides/Textbook/Grit

The next tool you will be introduced to is Google Slides. 1st I will demonstrate the various tools within Slides, then we will have you build a sample slide using the various tools available.

challenge slide for Google Slides (after slides demo)

Growth Mindset and Grit

Each student will take the Grit "test" to see where they place along the grit scale.

Grit Worksheet - ( grit worksheet )

Once that is finished we will watch a short video from Angela Duckworth

Video about Grit -Grit vid

Video Open Mindset - (vid)

Grit Reflection Form

Current Events/ Mapping  Monday's

On Monday's (starting next week) you will turn-in 1 current event that you have selected from the news. The story should be "news-worthy" meaning it's not something that would only be shown on TMZ or a gossip magazine/website.

Current Event Template

Tuesday & Wednesday Aug 21st and 22nd Days 5 & 6

Four Paragraphs About Me Day 2

4 Paragraphs about me assignment - Link

Skills Objective: 
*Each student will be able to access their drive, open a new Doc, and share their work with a classmate.
*Each student will be able to use the commenting tool within Google Docs to provide commentary on their classmate's story.

Google Slides Introduction -

Google Slides/Textbook/Grit

The next tool you will be introduced to is Google Slides. 1st I will demonstrate the various tools within Slides, then we will have you build a sample slide using the various tools available.

challenge slide for Google Slides (after slides demo)

Growth Mindset and Grit

Each student will take the Grit "test" to see where they place along the grit scale.

Grit Worksheet - ( grit worksheet )

Once that is finished we will watch a short video from Angela Duckworth

Video about Grit -Grit vid

Video Open Mindset - (vid)

Current Events/ Mapping  Monday's

On Monday's (starting next week) you will turn-in 1 current event that you have selected from the news. The story should be "news-worthy" meaning it's not something that would only be shown on TMZ or a gossip magazine/website.
Current Event Template

Monday Aug 20th Day 4

Four Paragraphs About Me

For this activity you will be creating a new Google Doc, writing
a four-paragraph paper to introduce yourself, and sharing it with a partner.

Once you finish your answers, make a copy of the paper (so you have 2 copies of your
paragraph answers)
*Upload one version to Google Classroom, and keep the other version for class activity during the
next block period

After you have completed your four paragraphs you will be submitting it to me on
Google Classroom.

4 Paragraphs about me assignment - Link

Skills Objective: 
*Each student will be able to access their drive, open a new Doc, and share their work with a classmate.
*Each student will be able to use the commenting tool within Google Docs to provide commentary on their classmate's story.

Thursday & Friday Aug 16th & 17th Days 2 & 3

Finish Intro presentation - 

Chromebook process of checkout and check-in
Chromebook/SJUSD  login

Syllabus Link - Class Syllabus PDF version - Here (Please return by Monday)

Step 1. Join Google Classroom
Step 2. organize your Drive and set it up for the semester

Setting up file structure for your sjusd acct - File Structure

Assignment sheet set-up... here is the formula for auto-grade display (place this formula in the 1st cell of the Grade column. Once in place copy it down the length of the sheet to include all assignments)

=index({0,"F";60,"D-";64,"D";67,"D+";70,"C-";74,"C";77,"C+";80,"B-";84,"B";87,"B+";90,"A-";94,"A";97,"A+"},match(G2*100,index({0,"F";60,"D-";64,"D";67,"D+";70,"C-";74,"C";77,"C+";80,"B-";84,"B";87,"B";90,"A-";94,"A";97,"A+"},0,1)),2)

4 Paragraphs about me assignment - Link (start Monday of we don't get to it in class)

Wednesday Aug 15th Day 1

World Cultures 1,2

This is the Classroom Blog - you will log-in to this site each day when you arrive. http://gilliswc.blogspot.com/

(Monday’s ) - these are shorter days the bell schedule changes on Monday’s. Monday’s are known as Mapping and Current Event Monday’s. Each Monday you will search and write a summary about two current events. There is a  Current Events Template that you will use to write-up your current event story.

In addition, you will establish a MyMaps (from mymaps.google.com) world map to place the location of your current event.

(Tuesday's-Friday's) These are block days. After your table group has retrieved the chromebooks, logon toyour sjusd acct, and go to the class blog for daily activities/assignments/etc

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Today we will get temporary seating assignments, go over the course syllabus, classroom expectations, procedures, etc, etc.

Each day students will go to the chromecart as a table group. Each student is assigned a Chromebook based on your seat number.

Students will never get their chromecart when they enter the room, it will always be as a table group

You will log-in and access the class blog - SJUSD student log-in

We will also be using Google Classroom for assignment submission (if the assignment is electronic in nature) On the class blog are the class codes for Google Classroom.

Course syllabus - Written form with Parent signature section

(YOU NEED TO BE LOGGED IN TO YOUR SJUSD acct TO ACCESS THE SYLLABUS)

Course syllabus - Syllabus Presentation  (YOU NEED TO BE LOGGED IN TO YOUR SJUSD ACCT TO ACCESS THE SYLLABUS)

My contact: sgillis@sjusd.org