Do Now: Read over the World History Semester 1 Final Exam Study Guide!

1. Your Desk • Agenda • SSR Book • HW20 Economics in the News Do Now: • Read over the World History Semester 1 Final Exam Study Guide! • Remember, the final exam is next week and is worth 150 points!

2. CRS Unit 4 – ISMs Day 74 4 ALL: It’s Interim Review Time!! Greeter • SWBAT explain the importance of being able to successfully do Q-Bucket reading skills. • SWBAT identify areas of strength and growth in reading. Big Idea HW “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” ~ Nelson Mandela 1. Community Property Group Presentations on Thursday: 1.9.2014 2. AoW12: Rising Riches due Friday: 1.10.2014 3. Begin studying for the Semester 1 Final Exam!

3. Teach Me How to Study! • What are some effective ways to study for the final exam? • Think-Pair-Share

4. Homework Review! • Who would like to share about an economics news article of interest that they read about over the break?

5. Interim Data Review! • Grade-wide average of 54% • Highest scoring Q-Buckets: • MOW: 58% • GEN: 57% • Lowest scoring Q-Buckets: • MID: 50% • REL: 52%

6. Independent Analysis! • Group 1- Passage I: Prose Fiction (page 24, questions 1-8) • Group 2- Passage II: Social Science (page 26, questions 9-17) • Group 3- Passage III: Humanities (page 28, questions 18-25) • You will have 15 minutes to independently read the passage, MUTT the passage, answer the questions, include evidence for reasoning, and identify the Q-bucket for each question. • DO NOT TURN OVER THE PAPER THAT I PLACE ON YOUR DESK!

7. Group Analysis! • For the next 10 minutes in your groups, come to a consensus about the answer and Q-Bucket for each question. • Be prepared to share your results with the rest of the class!

8. How Did I Do? • Turn over the sheet of paper that I placed on your desk! • See how your scored on the Interim when you took it in December and breakdown how you scored for each Q-Bucket category on CW47. • Any Trends?

9. Community Property Group Presentations! • Do not forget that your groups will be presenting about your community property in class on Thursday!

10. Exit Ticket! • What is your biggest area of strength and area of growth on the reading section of the interim? • Why?

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12. Your Desk • Agenda • SSR Book Do Now (Answer on CW48!): • Our class is about to watch portions of a film entitled Capitalism: A Love Story. 1. Explain capitalism in your own terms. 2. Do you feel Capitalism is a good economic system? What do you like about it? What do you dislike about it? Does capitalism favor a particular group of people? If it does favor a particular group, who would it be?

13. CRS Unit 4 – ISMs Day 75 4 REL 602 - Understand the dynamics between people, ideas, and so on in more challenging passages Greeter • SWBAT participate in a class discussion on the negative effects of capitalism as it is spelled out by documentarian Michael Moore using clips from his film, Capitalism: A Love Story. • SWBAT discuss the current state of American capitalism. Big Idea HW “The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.” ~ Winston Churchill 1. Community Property Group Presentations on Thursday: 1.9.2014 2. AoW12: Rising Riches due Friday: 1.10.2014 3. Begin studying for the Semester 1 Final Exam!

14. Preview Quick Qs • Work independently to answer the 4 Qs in the Preview section underneath today’s Do Now. • You’ll have 5 minutes to complete them all. • Prepare to share. 

15. Worker Owned Business – 2:30 • Clip 1 - http://youtu.be/PueE7o_uG3Q • Why does the speaker feel there is a “fundamental tension” between capitalism and democracy?

16. Pilots 5:25 • Clip 2 - http://youtu.be/tKQJx3L_CDQ • Based on what you’ve seen, do you believe new hire pilots should earn more? Explain why.

17. Dead Peasant – 3:28 • Clip 3 - http://youtu.be/frs25RsstoA • What is your opinion on “Dead Peasant” insurance? How do you think a family and business are impacted by the “Dead Peasant” policy?

18. Squatters In Your Own Home – 3:17 • Clip 4 - http://youtu.be/YVYIBikzwmk • Do you agree with the advice that the congressperson has given to evicted families? Why or why not?

19. Wrap-Up • Final Thoughts/Takeaways on Capitalism OR the film Capitalism: A Love Story?

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21. Your Desk • Agenda • SSR Book Do Now: • In your notebooks, respond to the following question: • How has the emergence of the internet influenced all of the SPICEyelements of modern day society? Feel free to write in paragraph form or use the SPICE outline/acronym to answer the prompt. Be prepared to discuss!

22. CRS Unit 4 – ISMs Day 76 4 REL 603 - Power: Understand implied or subtly stated cause-effect relationships in more challenging passages Greeter • SWBAT explain the struggle between emergence of new technologies and the government’s efforts to regulate commerce. Big Idea HW “The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.” ~ Bill Gates 1. Community Property Group Presentations on Thursday: 1.9.2014 2. AoW12: Rising Riches due Friday: 1.10.2014 3. Begin studying for the Semester 1 Final Exam!

23. What is the Deep Web? • The Deep Wen is the World Wide Web content that is not part of the Surface Web, which is indexed by standard search engines. • Searching on the Internet today can be compared to dragging a net across the surface of the ocean: a great deal may be caught in the net, but there is a wealth of information that is deep and therefore missed. • Traditional search engines cannot "see" or retrieve content in the deep Web—those pages do not exist until they are created dynamically as the result of a specific search. • There is concern that the deep web can be used for serious criminal activity.

24. What is a Bitcoin? • Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer payment system and digital currency introduced as open source software in 2009 by pseudonymous developer Satoshi Nakamoto. • Bitcoinwas the first cryptocurrency, so-called because it uses cryptography to control the creation and transfer of money. • Users send payments by broadcasting digitally signed messages to the network from a personal computer, mobile device, or web application. • All transactions are verified, timestamped, and recorded by specialized computers into a shared public database called the block chain.

25. Independent Read! • Read the article about the Deep Web! • Make sure to answer the analysis questions on CW50 as you are reading the article. • Be prepared to engage in a discussion about the article at the end of class. • In your notebook, write three questions to contribute to the class discussion.

26. Class Discussion • Should the Deep Web be allowed to exist?

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28. Your Desk • Agenda • SSR Book • Community Property Presentation Rubric Do Now: • Group Meeting Time! • Spend the next five minutes meeting with your group in preparation for your presentation today.

29. CRS Unit 4 – ISMs Day 77 4 GEN 601 - Power: Use information from one or more sections of a more challenging passage to draw generalizations and conclusions about people, ideas and so on Greeter • SWBAT present about their group’s analysis of their assigned community property and evaluate socialism as an economic system. Big Idea HW “Democracy is the road to socialism.” ~ Karl Marx 1. AoW12: Rising Riches due Friday: 1.10.2014 2. Begin studying for the Semester 1 Final Exam!

30. Community Property Presentations! • Groups will present about their community properties and their analysis of socialism! • Students that are in the audience will evaluate the quality of each group’s work by scoring them based on the grading rubric. • Students will turn in their scores at the end of class.

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32. Your Desk • Agenda • SSR Book • AoW12 Rising Riches Do Now: • Read over your OER essay and compare it to the rubric in which it was scored. Complete the graphic organizer attached. What would you do differently? What was your area of strength? What was your area of weakness?

33. CRS Unit 4 – ISMs Day 78 4 MID 503 - Power: Understand the overall approach taken by an author or narrator (e.g. point of view, kinds of evidence use) in virtually any passage Greeter • SWBAT analyze their writing skills and identify their areas of strength and growth on the English OER. Big Idea HW “If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.” ~ Benjamin Franklin 1. Study for the Semester 1 Final Exam!

34. AoW 12 Review! • Is this demographic of the new rich Americans a good or bad consequence of capitalism in America?

35. OER Data Review! • Grade-wide average of 6.72 • 6.72/12 = 56% • 6.74 average on the first OER . . . • Highest scoring Bucket: • Claim/Thesis: 1.71 • Lowest scoring Bucket: • Organization: 1.64

36. OER Pairing • Divide your white boards into two columns like so… • Write your biggest strength in one box and your greatest weakness in the other. • Stand and find a partner that has a strength AND weakness different from yours to share your essays and your strategies.

37. Results / Trends & Observations?

38. The Final Exam is next week! • Make sure you study for your final exam this weekend! • Let’s review, what are some effective ways to study for the final exam? • Do not forget to use the study guide that you got on Monday! 

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