Current events
At least 1.5 million and perhaps as many as 2 million people marched on Washington, D.C. on Saturday. To put the number in historical perspective, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous "March on Washington" was estimated at 250,000 people.
Review:
To use the Shanawiki page:
(http://shanawiki.wikispaces.com/) effectively, you need to know how to anonymously post.
You post using a random three-digit number. For example, a student in first period, who sits in the first row, in the first seat, is #111. A student in the 7th Period, who sits in the seventh row, in the seventh seat, is #777. Each student then can determine their unique, anonymous, randomly assigned three-digit number. The number order is period first, row second, and then, your seat within the row.
N.B.: you should never post any personal information online, there should be nothing online that really identifies your actual name, address, or any other personal information. The randomly assigned three-digit number keeps you anonymous online.
Other housekeeping matters are to update the textbook situation and HW.
Quarter Grades
60% = Tests & Papers
The format may include a variety of question types such as multiple choice & free response questions. You must be able to apply the information from lecture notes, visual materials, and assignments (reading & written). Class materials should be reviewed on a nightly basis. Tests will be announced and posted in advance of the test date.
Papers will be assigned periodically and they will count as test grades.
25% = Assignments (class work & homework)
You will be required to complete readings and answer content related questions, define terms, solve problems, write papers, perform projects, and participate in class. It is your responsibility to keep up with the work load in this class and to ensure that all assignments are completed and submitted on the assigned due date. Assignments will be posted by their due dates.
All assignments that are collected and graded will be checked for complete, fully detailed, and accurate answers.
Reading Assignments: you will be assigned reading to cover in preparation for discussion of the material in class. You must complete the reading by the assigned due date. You should be prepared for a quiz on the terms and reading material at any time; the quiz may or may not be announced.
Reading Questions & Terms: To complete these assignments, you must use the information from the reading to answer the questions and define the terms to post on the Shanawiki page.
Class Activities: we will cover activities, simulations, and other work during the school year. At the conclusion of these activities, or in-class lessons, you may be required to complete review questions or answer questions. If you are absent on a simulation day, you will be expected to make up the simulation in order to earn a grade for the follow up assignment; failure to make up the assignment will result in a zero.
Format for typed assignments (or emailed)
Heading:
Include your name, period, title of the assignment, WH 2, and due date
15% = Quizzes (announced & unannounced)
Quizzes will check your comprehension of smaller portions of class content. The format will vary. Questions will require you to demonstrate comprehension of class notes, facts from video presentations, class simulations or lesson plans, reading and written assignments. Some questions will make you apply the material learned and use the facts to solve problems. They can be announced or unannounced.
Semester Grade
40% of each quarter grade and 20% of the semester exam grade
Final Year Grade
Average of the first and second semester grades.
Lecture:
Section 1 The Scientific Revolution
Sixteenth-century Europeans began to question the scientific assumptions of the ancient authorities and to develop new theories about the universe. Nicholas Copernicus, Johannes Kepler, and Galileo Galilei revolutionized astronomy. Copernicus claimed that the sun, not the earth, was at the center of the universe—an idea considered heresy by the Catholic Church. Equally revolutionary were Isaac Newton's explanations of gravity and the movement of the planets. There were breakthroughs in medicine and chemistry, and numerous women contributed to the body of scientific research. The new view of the universe affected Western philosophy. The Frenchman Rene Descartes, the first rationalist, declared that matter could be independently investigated by reason. Francis Bacon, an English philosopher, developed the scientific method—a system for collecting and analyzing evidence.
Lecture material on (Pearson 13.5) The Scientific Revolution.
HW
1. In the textbook (but as I stated, everyone does not have a text, thus, we will-also cover this material in class for everyone), answer p. 299 #6-9.
2. Research on LibraryThing and report the bibliographical information or any material you can find on Adam Smith, Galen, or other historical figures in Chapter 10.
Extra work: Cf. On iTunes, you can download "Adam Smith on the British North American Colonies," by Thayer Watkins of San Jose State University, and summarize his lecture in a two-minute presentation.
