Wednesday,
September 3, 2014
Date your papers!
DO NOT WRITE ON THE QUOTE
SHEET! CLASS SET!
An Email From A Former Student I
Received Yesterday
• Ms Barben,
• I just started my second week at Temple and just wanted to let you know
how ready you got me. The talking to the text you had us do seemed
pointless and annoying. Little did I know it is making my freshman
English call so much easier. (I’m one of the only ones who knew how to
"annotate" on the first day.) I am also now ahead on quite a bit of my
work which never used to happen. It is actually quite satisfying knowing
I might have a night where I will not be up late doing work. You didn't
just prepare us for junior year but for college as well.
•
• I hope you have another good year.
•
• Thanks,
• Kevin Lock
•
• P.S. If you told me Id be saying this my sophomore year I would have said
that’s crazy.
World History
Ninth Grade
Ms. Barben
kbarben@gvsd.org
Accelerated Level Only Does PairShare Quote Activity
Thoughtful Quotes on
Importance of History Classes
Why Study History?
Pair-Share Prompt
• As Ms. Barben presents the five following quotes,
you and your partner are to select the quote that
you think demonstrates the importance of the
study of History and Government.
• The quotes are also on the class set paper on each
desk.
• Write down on your lined paper your reasons for
your choice.
• Pairs will share at end of prompt time with the
class.
•“Liberty of thought is
the life of the soul.” –
Voltaire (French
philosopher, 1694-1778)
Hugo Grotius
“Liberty is the power we
have over ourselves. “
Hugo Grotius (Dutch scholar,
1583-1645)
The most tyrannical
governments are those which
make crimes of opinions, for
everyone has an inalienable
right to his thoughts.” –Baruch
Spinoza (Dutch philosopher,
1632-1677)
• “
Thomas Paine
• “He that would make his own liberty
secure must guard even his enemy
from oppression; for if he violates
this duty he establishes a precedent
that will reach to himself.”
Thomas Paine (English-born U.S.
political philosopher, 1737-1809)
The “Four Freedoms” Speech – Franklin D.
Roosevelt (U.S. president, 1882-1945), Message to
Congress, January 6, 1941
• “In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look
forward to a world founded upon four essential human
freedoms.
– The first is freedom of speech and expression – everywhere in the
world.
– The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own
way – everywhere in the world.
– The third is freedom from want – which, translated into world terms,
means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a
healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants- everywhere in the world.
– The fourth is freedom from fear – which, translated into world terms,
means a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in
such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit
an act of physical aggression against any neighbor- anywhere in the
world.
– That is no vision of a distant millennium. It is a definite basis for a kind
of world attainable in our own time and generation.”
Accelerated and Academic A Both
Do Jigsaw Method Reading Activity
Reasons To Study History and
Social Sciences
Why History Matters…
• "Memory is what makes us who we
are. If we lost all of our memory
whenever we fell asleep at night, it
would be the same as if we died and
a new person woke up in our body
the next morning. History is the
memory of a nation."
Thomas Sowell, "The Vision of the Anointed."
Group Tasks:
• We are going to be working with the photocopied
article “Reasons to Study History and Social Sciences.”
• We are going to use the Jigsaw Method.
• Your group will be assigned one of the five reasons to
read, take notes on the provided oaktag, and present
to the class.
• You need to:
– explain,
– provide examples from the reading,
– and provide personal examples to support your assigned
reading.
• Each group will then present to the class.
Reason One
REASON ONE: To Help Us Develop Judgment in Worldly Affairs
by Understanding the Past Behavior of People and Societies
• Examples from Reading:
• Examples from Own
Experiences
History Give Us Identity
• Studying history gives people a sense of
nationalism
• It gives groups such as ethnic, organization,
even schools a sense of identity
• It gives family and personal identity as well
History Helps Us Understand People
• People make up society and it is very hard to
test how that kind of group behaves when it is
made up of 4 billion people
• History acts as a “social laboratory”, one of the
few way we can help predict the future
behavior of such a large group
Reason Two
REASON TWO: To Help Us Understand Change
and How the Community, Nation and World We
Live in Came to Be
• Examples from Reading:
• Examples from Own
Experiences
Reason Three
REASON THREE: To Help Us Develop Essential
Skills for Good Citizenship and Citizens
• Examples from Reading:
• Examples from Own
Experiences:
Those That Study and Understand History
Become Good Citizens
• It provides national identity
• Provides examples of success, morality and of course the
examples of the opposite
• Helps us understand current world affairs and conflicts by
understanding the root of the problems
• Provides support for making decisions and encourages,
“responsible public behavior, whether as a national or
community leader, an informed voter, a petitioner, or a
simple observer. ”
How Does Social Studies Apply Outside the
Classroom?
• It provides knowledge and understanding and the
ability to think, adapt and question
• It educates people for citizenship “in a multicultural,
democratic society” (Star Ledger Sept ’08)—E
pluribus unum: out of many, one
“And if we think them (the people) not enlightened enough,
the remedy is to inform them by education.”
~Thomas Jefferson
Reason Four
REASON FOUR: To Inspire Us
• Examples from Reading:
• Examples from Own
Experiences:
Reason Five
REASON FIVE: To Help Us Develop
Essential Thinking Skills
• Examples from Reading:
• Examples from Own
Experiences:
It’s Not your Parents’ Social Studies class
• Schools used to emphasize solely the memorization
of facts.
• Today the emphasis is on skills (concepts,
connections and application) because of the concern
that students in the U.S. are leaving high school
without the necessary skills to function in higher
education and the workforce in order to be globally
competitive.
What skills will I develop?
Research skills
How to handle &
analyse data
How to organise
information
Excellent
Communication &
writing skills
How to construct an
argument
Problem-solving
The ability to question how
reliable information is
How to select
evidence
In Other Words, the skills needed in
the 21st Century are:
– Creativity and innovation
– Critical thinking and problem solving
– Communication
– Collaboration
– Information literacy
– Media literacy
21st Century Skills (continued)
• Information and Communication Technology
literacy
• Flexibility and adaptability
• Initiative and self-direction
• Social and cross-cultural skills
• Productivity and accountability
• Leadership and responsibility