Japan Geo Challenge

Label these items on your map:

• Sea of Japan
• East China Sea
• Pacific Ocean
• Kyushu
• Shikoku
• Honshu
• Hokkkaido
• Chagoku Mountains
• Japanese Alps
• Hidaka Mountains
• Nara
• Kyoto
• Mt. Fuji

Answer these questions in your workbook:

1. Which island has the most people?
2. What percent of Japan's land is used for agriculture?

Research and record three facts about each of these places:

3.  Mt. Fuji

4.  Kanto Plain

5.  Kyoto

6.  Tokyo

7.  Honshu

8.  The birthplace of Godzilla

Find interesting facts that relate to the history and/or geography of Japan.

Use the above information to make a final, large, version of your map with annotations.  Illustrations are optional.  

Write Your Name in Chinese

This is a history assignment due this Friday.

Write your name in Chinese characters.  Use the small strip of paper I gave you in class today.  These will be posted in the classroom so make them look good.  Use color, markers, paint, whatever you like to make a good looking product.

To find out how to write your name in Chinese characters use this websites:

http://www.mandarintools.com/chinesename.html

On the back write what your name in English characters, what your name means and what year you were born in.

College Brochure Projects

If you are having trouble making your brochure this website might help....

http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Brochures-on-Microsoft-Word

If you still have questions you can leave them here in the comments. I will check back on Friday and answer them if I can.

Stay dry everyone.

Latin Roots Book Project: Word List

These are the roots and the words for the Latin roots book projects. 

All projects are due tomorrow, December 9.

1. foli - leaf: foliage, bifoliate, portfolio, defoliant
2.  manu - hand: manufacture, manuscript, manicure, manipulate
3. mal - bad: malevolent, malicious, malady, malnutrition
4. miss/mitt - to send: missive, transmit, missle, missionary
5. gen - birth, origin: genesis, generation, gender, indigenous
6. ped/pod - foot: pedel, pedestal, pedestrian, podiatrist
7. stell - star: stellar, constellation, interstellar, stelliform
8. aqua - water: aquarium, aquatic, aqueduct, Aquarius
9. mob/mot - to move: motor, automobile, motivated, remote
10. bene/bon - good: bonus, benediction, benefactor, benevolent
11. cor - heart: courage, encourage, concord, discord
12. cis - to cut: scissors, incision, incisors, precise
13. cred - to believe; to trust: credit, incredible, credentials, credibility
14. dict - to say: dictator, dictionary, predict, contradict
15. fract/frag - to break: fraction, fragment, fragile, fracture
16. mem - mindful: remember, memory, memorial, commemorate
17. port - to carry: portable, import, transport, portfolio
18. rupt - to break; to burst: erupt, interrupt, disrupt, rupture
19. scrib - to write: scribble, prescribe, manuscript, inscription
20. spect - to look at: spectator, specimen, inspector, suspect

Current Homework

Here is the homework for the first week of December for all of my classes.
 

1. Read 150 pages for Friday's Reading Race
2. Complete your Latin Root book.  See me during lunch if you need to review the word list because you have lost yours.  Due Tuesday, December 9.
3. Type up a new draft of your Hugo essay.  Use MLA format. Follow the directions that were handed out in class today or use this website.   The website contains directions and a sample page. It may be easiest to use the sample page.  Papers not in MLA format will have to be reprinted. Due Friday.

Crusader Trading Cards Mini-research Project

Crusader Trading Cards

A mini-research project

Directions:  Create four trading cards about the Crusades.

Steps:  

1. Read History Alive chapter 11 pages 119-126.
2. Select four people from the lists below.  Select two from list A and two from list B.
3. Do some research into each of the four people selected. For this project, Wikipedia is probably the best place to go.  You may also use your history book.
4. Find out these things about each person: home country or place of birth; date of birth; date of death;  religion;  one major reason they were  important  during the Crusades.
5. Use your research to create a trading card about each person.  All four should fit onto a single piece of paper.   (You can divide your paper by using the columns feature.)  Your cards should all have the same format.   Include a picture or a symbol on each card.  You may use borders and other artwork.  ( An example is done below.)
6. Create a rough draft in class.  
7. Create a final (typed) draft at home or in the library.

People of the Crusades List A:

• Pope Urban II
• Alexis Comnena
• Anna Comnena
• Richard I of England
• Eleanor of Aquitane*
• Stephen Count of Blois*
• Peter the Hermit*
• Baldwin, King of Jerusalem*
• Phillip  II of France
• Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor*
• Stephen of Cloyes*

People of the Crusades List B:

• Eleazar ben Nathan
• Salah al-Din (Saladin)
• Eleazar ben Judah
• Usamah ibn-Munqidh
• Kalonymus ben Mushullam*
• Ibn al-Qalanisi

*Challenge: These people are not mentioned in History Alive.

Sample Card

Nicholas of

Cologne

Home: Germany,  

Born:1198 (approx)

Died:  1212 (approx.)

Religion: Christian

Importance:  Nicholas

was a young shepherd

who started the first

Children’s Crusade in 1212.  He led 7,000

young people from Germany to Genoa, Italy

where many of them settled down and became

citizens.  He later died while crossing the Alps

on his way home to Germany.

Source: Wikipedia.org

History: Common Core Writing #2 What is the hajj and why is it so important?

After you have viewed the websites listed below, write a multi-paragraph essay that describes the hajj, discusses what people do on the hajj, and makes conclusiong about why it is important.  Support your discussion with evidence from the websites.

Websites:

Beliefs and Traditions: The Hajj, National Geographic
http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/saudiarabia_mecca

While you watch this short video about the hajj, take note of the different places people visit on the hajj.

Hajj Pictorial from Time Magazine
http://content.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1865298,00.html 

While you review this photo-essay, see what conclusions you can draw about the hajj from the pictures.  How can you include this information in your essay?

Hajj 2013, Islam's Pilgrimage to Mecca: Facts, History and Dates of the Muslim Holiday.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/11/hajj-2013_n_4064513.html

Take Cornell notes on this article. Write a summar when you are done. Be sure to review the annotated map to get a sense of all the places visited on the hajj and the importance of each place.

British Museum: Hajj Stories
http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/past_exhibitions/2012/hajj/hajj_stories.aspx

Watch the short video introduction and then read at least six accounts of the hajj.  When you find something you think you'll be able to use in your essay, make a note of it.


After you have viewed the websites listed above, write a multi-paragraph essay that describes the hajj, discusses what people do on the hajj, and draws conclusions about why it is important. Support your discussion with evidence from the websites. 

You should follow this outline for your essay:

1. Introduction: hook, topic, thesis statement.
2. Describe the history of the hajj.
3. Discuss what is done on the hajj.
4. Draw conclusions about why the hajj is important.
5. Conclusion: restate the thesis, final statement (food for thought).

Make sure you cite your sources.  Use quote sandwiches.
 

Your essay is due on Friday, November 7.  It should be a proof-read first draft.  You do not have to type it up.