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Hope everyone’s having a great summer!
I suppose I should answer my own questions as well!
I’ll remember all my students. You are a terrific bunch. I’ve been bragging about you all year. When people ask me if I’m glad the year is over, I usually say, “Not really. I’m going to miss my students. I’ve got a great class.” Besides all my students, I’ll remember:
The movie at the Skirball. I got just a little bit bored and fell asleep. Oops.
The bird walk in Woodly Park and walking to see the stream at Lake Balboa.
The science field trip. Wading in the stream in the COLD water.
Painting pictures of Ancient Greece.
The Greek Olympics
Working REALLY hard to prepare for the CSTs, especially the contest in room one
All the girls baking cupcakes
Random acts of kindness from so many students
The girls playing violin after school by the bench
All the pillows and blankets for the Daoism activity
Digging in the sand box at the Skirball and all the docents telling me what a nice class I have
The “culminating activity” before winter break. All the food and presents!
Applauding when classmates raised their grades
Teaching. Learning. Becoming a community.
It was a good year!
What advice do you have for my class next year to help them succeed?
How have you changed this year? If you had it all to do over again, what would you do differently?
What have you learned this year? Be specific. What skills or information have you gained? Don’t list every little thing, just the big ideas.
What will you remember about this year? What are your best memories?
What have you learned from this book?
How have your opinions changed?
How have your actions changed?
What book do you want to do your book report on? What format do you want to do?
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Directions:
Spend a minute looking at a modern world map to review your knowledge of the world’s continents and bodies of water.
Look at each of these Roman maps. As you look at them, notice how different they look from modern maps.
Orbis Terrarum According to Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa (20 CE)
http://www.henry-davis.com/MAPS/AncientWebPages/118.html
World Map According to Pomponius Mela (c. 40 CE)
http://www.henry-davis.com/MAPS/AncientWebPages/116.html
World Map According to Dionysius (124 CE)
http://www.henry-davis.com/MAPS/AncientWebPages/117.html
Use your browser’s Back and Forward buttons to go back and forth between the maps
you’ve just seen. Answer these questions about the maps:
1. What lands existed on the outer edges of the known world in these maps? Provide at least four examples.
2. According to these maps, did the Romans know about these places?
a. the Nile River
b. the British Isles
c. India
d. Japan
e. North America
For questions 3-8 Compare the Orbis Terrarum (the first map) with one of the other maps.
3. Write the name of the second map you’ve chosen here.
4. Where are Rome and the Italian peninsula located (center, left, right, top, etc.):
on the Orbis Terrarum?
on the other map?
5. Why do you think the Italian Peninsula is located in this position on each map?
6. Which map is more detailed, with more place names?
7. Which of the two ancient maps is more accurate in terms of the shape of landforms and bodies of water? (compare the maps to a modern map)
8. Which parts of the maps are the most accurate: the parts closest to Rome or the parts farther from Rome? Why?
9. Our world map today looks very similar to the world map 100 years ago, but the
Roman maps you’ve seen look rather different from each other even though only 104
years passed between the making of the earliest and the latest maps. Why do you
think this difference exists? Why would the Romans have created world maps that
looked this different from each other within such a relatively short time span?
Which of these ideas do you like for our 2nd semester elective and why?
I Video Games (computer)
A. Must be educational
B. Needs to be Mac compatible
C. Students need to research and give me suggestions
II Economics:
A. Zoo Tycoon
B. selling stuff game
C. managing your own money
D. stock market game
III Study Skills
A. Do homework
B. Learn how to be organized
C. Chill
D. Grades???
IV Horticulture (gardening)
V Current Events
A. presidential race
B. other news stories
C. Debates
D. Oral Reports
E. Use the newspaper
F. Internet, TV, radio news
G. Videos on issues
VI Arts & Crafts (probably need a room with water)
VII Cooking (needs a room with water)
A. Recipe book of family recipes
B. Recipe book of what we make in class
