Welcome to Grade 9

1. Welcome to Grade 9 What do I need to know to do well in Social 9? Introductions What you need to know Get to know you hand out The Perfect Social Answer

2. What you need to know • Course Break down • Assignment (GUIDELINES and submitting electronically) • Missed Classes • Just In Case Assignments • Hints for Success • HAND OUTS !!!! If they are lost you must pay and redo.

3. Get to know you hand out Complete this quietly by yourself. Try to be as specific as you can and be realistic. While you are doing that I will hand out text books. Please put your name in the book and make sure the text book is in good condition. After you have your text book and if you are done the hand out you may start the Perfect Social Answer worksheet or Questions 1-7 are due Sept.4.

4. Perfect Social Answers 1. What do all three formats have in common? 2. Which format do you think you will want to use? Or what is a question you have about the formats?

5. The Perfect Social Answer • Topic sentence: Use the question to create your topic sentence. • Opinion: Expand on your own opinion to the topic sentence. • Evidence: Give specific reasons to why your opinion is correct. • Example: Give a specific example to support your answer. Personal examples or examples you can explain are best. • Conclusion: Summarize all your main ideas in a new way.

6. Other Formates S.E.E.D 1) State it 2) Explain it 3) Evidence 4) Draw a conclusion P.E.T • Position 2) Explanation 3) Tie together

7. Example Perfect Social Answer • What flavor of ice cream is your favorite? Check with a neighbor if your spacing is the same. If it is find someone else. If not figure out why.

8. Due Tomorrow Your turn What did Mrs. McCracken do this summer?

9. Home Work Perfect Social Answer- What did Mrs. McCracken do this summer? Complete Questions 1-7 for Thursday Sept. 3

10. Day 2 of Welcome to Social A 2 PARTER For the 1st 5 min. Of class work on unit outline Or unfinished work. Quiet time How to write a successful Social Answer? How can we improve our quality of life?

11. What did the grade nines do this summer? This summer the grade nines had an enjoyable summer that included taking part of normal summer activities ranging from going on vacations to hanging out with friends. The grade nine students at Olds Koinonia Christian school are active teenagers who enjoy tons of different activities. During the summer most of the grade nines focused on their own hobbies like playing video games when they were not busy working for their parents or at a summer job. From reading the “Getting to know you” worksheet it is obvious that this class would have been very busy since eighty percent of students indicated that the biggest struggle they would have this year is to find time to do their home work. For example a number of grade nines are also active on school sports teams so a few students would have spent their summer working on perfecting their sports skills for the upcoming season. From this it is evident that while summer break would have been enjoyable for the grade nines they all would have been busy during the summer. To what extent do you agree with the information above?

12. Share your Answer with a partner • Underline the topic sentence • Pace dashes under your opinion ----- • Place a wavy line under your evidence • Circle your example • Strike through your conclusion Choose to share one of the following three when your name is called. Examples? Solutions? Challenges?

13. Part 2: How can we improve our quality of life? • Grade nine is focused on quality of life • It affects everyone • To help you throughout the year there is a quality of life sun • (whoops I forgot all of Social is about this)

14. Issues…Quality of life…Identity …Government

15. Terms (write in ch.1 outline) Perspective: values and ideas SHARED by people with a common languages, culture, and history. Point of view: opinions and preferences of an individual based on personal experiences. Quality of life: a measure of personal and collective well-being. *Criteria: standards for evaluating something Identity: who or what one is (Can be individual or collective)

16. What do you believe are the most important factors that affect your quality of life? (pg. 5) • Reminder quality of life is your/society’s wellbeing.

17. How does your quality of life compare to the children in the movie? • Find one example to show the quality of life of the children in the movie. • Do you think quality of life can improve or decrease? • Who is responsible for your quality of life?

18. Rules and Rights • Rights: What individuals and groups are allowed to do in society, as established in law • Rules: a prescribed guide for conduct or action -an accepted procedure, custom, or habit - to exert control, direction, or influence on the passions that rule our minds (Webster's dictionary)

19. Why do we need Rules? How does this affect our quality of life?

20. Our Classes… Rights • To learn • To have an opinion • To have a life outside of social class  Rules To be respectful To work

21. Homework • Try to add to the list of important rights or rules you think we will need this year. • Remember questions 1-7 are due on Thursday. • Complete the first 7 definitions for tomorrow.