1. You have 3 minutes to answer the following question…
Journal Entry 9/7/16
You have 3 minutes to answer the following question…
What makes a human a human?

2. Agenda/Goals 9/7/16 Agenda: Goals: Introduction to semester/unit
What makes a human a human?
Goals:
Content:
Begin discussing what the semester and unit will cover.
Start to ponder and discuss what makes a human being different from anything else that lives on earth.
Skills:
Discussion
Analysis
Critical thinking

3. Semester 1: Civilizations, Conflict and Power
Social Studies Units of Study:
Human Culture and Civilization
What is culture? What is Civilization?
How does geography affect human history?
The Middle East
How did humans form societies/cities?
What is a religion?
Latin America
Africa
What was life like in pre-colonial Latin America and Africa?
How were Europeans able to conquer huge parts of the world from the 1450s to the 1900s?
India
How do nations resist colonization?
What is the power of ideas?

4. Semester 2: Global Civics Modern Problems
The USA!
Revolution
Constitution
American Ideals and Values in action
The Modern World
Contemporary world issues and global civics
Rise of China
Humanitarian crises/US responsibility
Foreign Policy

5. Unit 1 - Human Culture Ancient Civilizations

6. UNIT I: Cultural Anthropology
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
Culture
Cultural universals
1. Social Organization, 2. Customs & Traditions, 3. Language, 4. Arts & Literature, 5. Religion, 6. Forms of Government, 7. Economic Systems, 8. Technology
Ethnocentrism Stereotype and Generalizations
5 Themes of Geography Location, Place, Human-Environmental interactions, Movement, Regions
Socio-economic Systems
Communism
Socialism
Capitalism
Government/Political Systems
Direct Democracy, Democracy, Republic, Totalitarian Governments (Oligarchy, Constitutional Monarchy, Absolute Monarchy, Fascism, Dictatorship, Theocracy)
Religion
What is Religion?
Why do people practice religion?
Monotheism vs. Polytheism vs. Pantheism (Animism)
Major Religions of the world

7. Unit 1: Guiding Questions
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
Why do people/countries do what they do, according to Maslow?
Culture
How does my own ethnocentrism influence my interactions with other individuals and cultures?
In a shrinking world (more globalized world) how do we interact with people who are different from us?
What makes us who we are, both individually & as a society?
How is culture shared?
How do cultural differences affect interactions between cultures?
5 Themes of Geography
How does geography affect culture and cultural interactions?
Is geography to blame for inequality/conflict in the world
Government & Economics
What are the positive and negative effects of different government and economic systems?
What makes an individual or community “buy into” a system?
Religion
How and why do religions spread?

8. Be detailed! Humans – You are one
Please draw a person on your blank piece of paper.
Be detailed!
Include:
Clothes (please…), hair, accessories, etc.
Surroundings (house, car, property, etc.)
Name your person
3 interesting facts about your person
Label: What makes this person human?

9. Humans vs. Humanity

10. Is humanity simply a group of people?

11. What are humans?
With your table group, brainstorm adjectives you would use to complete the following sentence:
Humans are _________

12. What are humans? Please take out your cell phone (if you have it)
Individually select the adjective you think best completes “Humans are”
Submit your chose adjective to the following form (it’s on the website): ms/d/e/1FAIpQLScHiRXBXG_6 tYjbMv3- lc3vaQG0Gs9vW4Qr3EMe5Lp wAClnJA/viewform

13. Recap: Homework: Looking forward… Daily Recap & Homework
Discussed what the definition of human.
Homework:
None
Looking forward…
Tomorrow we will discuss the 8 Traits of culture.
You will have homework tomorrow night that is due on Friday

14. Be detailed in your description
Journal Entry 9/8/16
Without using your phone (or any other device) define the term Culture. Don’t ask your table partners yet, we will talk about it.
Be detailed in your description
At least two full sentences

15. Daily Agenda/Goals – 9/8/16
Overview of history terms/vocab
Discuss the 8 traits of culture
Goals:
Content:
To begin understanding the 8 traits of culture. Furthermore, understanding how these traits help shape the societies that we live in.
Skills:
Discussion
Analysis

16. But first a couple of definitions…
What is the definition of discuss?
Offer a considered and balanced review that includes a range of arguments, factors or hypotheses. Opinions or conclusions should be presented clearly and supported by appropriate evidence.
Discuss briefly what the definition of analysis is?
Break down in order to bring out the essential elements or structure. To identify parts and relationships, and to interpret information to reach conclusions.
How can this be used in the classroom in small group or large group discussion?

17. Quick table discussion
What factors make up someone’s or something’s culture?

18. As historians, we have created “8 Traits of Culture”
Culture is complex.
To understand it, it must be categorized and examined in parts.
As historians, we have created “8 Traits of Culture”

19. Religion/World View
Definition - The service and worship of a god or the supernatural
How did the universe begin? Why do humans exist? What is the meaning of life? How should we live? What is right/wrong? What happens to us when we die?

20. Arts and Literature
Definition - The conscious use of skill and creative imagination.
What forms of art do people value? What role do the arts play in people’s lives? Aesthetics: An appreciation of the beautiful.

21. Science and Technology
Definition - Established systems of investigation, knowledge about, and manipulation and control of the natural world. This includes types of tools, weapons, shelter, agriculture, transportation, irrigation, and other methods of controlling and changing our environment.
How do people change their environment? What type of structures do people live in? What do people use technology for? What types of problems do people use technology to solve? What types of technology are considered important? How do people explain the workings of the natural world?

22. Language and Communication
Definition - The process by which information is exchanged between individuals through a common system of spoken expression, symbols, signs, or behavior
What language do people speak? How do people communicate? How do you display your status?

23. Economics and Commerce
Definition - Methods dealing with the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. How the culture deals with the problem of scarcity.
Who gets what and why? What is used as currency? What is owned by individuals? What is owned by the community? How do individuals contribute to society? What types of jobs do people do? Large corporations or small businesses owned by individuals?

24. Forms of Government
Definition - The organization through which a group exercises authority.
Who makes the laws? Who enforces the laws? How is power distributed? How do we decide who gets power? What are the most important rules and laws?
Politics: The art or science concerned with gaining power and influencing or controlling government.

25. Social Organizations
Definition - An established system of hierarchical relationships or status. Informal groups, families, types of relationships, etc.
How is status assigned? What economic and political groups can people belong to? What is the status of women/men?

26. Customs and Traditions
Definition - A binding custom or practice of a community. Rituals, games, holidays, greetings, important values, etc
What are the important holidays? What values and traditions do these holidays celebrate? What rituals mark changing status (adolescentadult, or studentgraduate)

27. Recap: Homework: Looking forward… Daily Recap & Homework
Discussed the 8 cultural traits needed to create a society
Homework:
Cultural Elements of the Sammamish Plateau
Due Friday 9/9/16 (Tomorrow)
Looking forward…
Tomorrow we will do some skills work in the library (Thesis practice)

28. Explain what a thesis statement is.
Journal Entry 9/12/16
Journal Entry
Explain what a thesis statement is.
Use your own words, and be detailed
Argue which of the 8 traits of culture is the most important?
This is your opinion, be sure to explain why you believe what you believe.

29. Daily Agenda/Goals 9/12/16 Agenda: Goals: 5 themes of geography
Content:
To recap the 8 traits of culture and understand their importance
To discuss the 5 themes of geography and understand their impact on the growth of civilizations
Skills:
Discussion
Notes
Analysis

30. Geography 5 Themes Journal Entry 9/13/16
What, do you suppose, might the 5 theme (topics) of geography be?
Geography 5 Themes

31. 5 themes of Geography – Location
Where is it?
Absolute location: degrees of latitude and longitude.
Relative location: point of reference, e.g., near, far, a short drive.
5 themes of Geography – Location

32. 5 themes of Geography – Place
What is it like?
Physical Characteristics:
landforms (mountains, plains, etc.)
bodies of water (oceans, lakes, bay, etc.)
ecosystems (soil, plants, animals, and climate)
Human Characteristics –
Bridges, dams, canals
roads
buildings
culture
language
All places have features that distinguish them from other places.
5 themes of Geography – Place

33. 5 themes of Geography 3. Human/Environment Interaction
How do people interact with and change their environment?
Dams, canals, fields, tunnels, pollution,
How does the environment affect human life? (Activities, culture, food, disasters)
5 themes of Geography

34. 5 themes of Geography 4. Movement
How are people and places linked by communication and the flow of people, ideas and goods?
Transportation
Communication
Trade
Patterns of movement such as migration linkages and connections
5 themes of Geography

35. 5 themes of Geography 5. Regions
What are their unifying features and how do they
form and change over time?
Regions are a basic unit for geographic study.
Geographers divide the world into regions to help them interpret events.
Regions can be defined on the basis of: physical and human characteristics.
For example: The Pacific Northwest, The Midwest, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa

36. Which of the 5 themes of geography is the most important?
Guiding Questions
Which of the 5 themes of geography is the most important?
Which of the 5 themes of geography do you believe has the greatest impact on the development of cultures?
How could the 5 themes of geography and the 8 traits of culture connect?

37. Today we…. Homework: Recapped the 8 traits of culture
Review Monday 9/13/16
Today we….
Recapped the 8 traits of culture
Learned about the 5 themes of geography
Homework:
Read and answer the questions on the HW section on my website for today’s date

38. Using your phones look up the word anthropology
The study of human kind – the comparison of human societies to one another
How does this word apply to what we are studying?

39. Humans Emerge - Background
Use your phones and do a quick search on Mary and Louis Leakey
Include a search for Olduvai Gorge as well

40. Journal Entry 9/14/16
Write a three part thesis statement that argues which of the pieces of technology the Neolithic peoples had (or created) has been the most impactful to humans.

41. Daily Agenda/Goals 9/14/16 Agenda: Goals:
Neolithic Revolution HW Debrief
Neolithic Revolution
Goals:
Content:
Discuss and understand any questions that go along with the homework from last night
Discuss the Neolithic Revolution
Skills:
Discussion
Analysis
Critical Thinking
Note Taking

42. Homework Debrief Take out your homework and go back through it
Discuss question 1 with your table
Do you align with your answers, why or why not?
Discussion question 2 with your table
Discuss question 3 with your table
Discuss question 4 with your table
Discuss question 5 with your table
Discuss question 6 with your table
Discuss question 7 with your table
What questions do you have about the Neolithic Revolution?

43. Review Wednesday 9/14/16
Today we….
Discussed the Neolithic Revolution
Emergence of civilizations
Homework:
Finish the Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs assignment.

44. Civilizations Emerge First civilizations emerged near rivers
Provided regular water supply and a means for transportation
Provided fertile soil to grow crops, animals flocked to rivers for sustenance
The first river valley civilizations emerged in Sumer, between the Tigres and Euphrates, along the Nile, along the Indus (India), and the Yellow River
People who did not live in cities lived on less fertile, dry grasslands called steppes.
These were typically nomadic herders

46. Maslow and his needs…
Read through the article that I provided you and complete the attached assignment.
If you need to research Maslow further to get a better understanding there are additional resources on the website

47. Journal Entry 9/15/16
Take 30 seconds and research Abraham Maslow and come up with some basic background information on who he was.
Where he's from?
What he studied?
Etc...
TAKE OUT YOUR
HOMEWORK

48. Daily Agenda/Goals 9/15/16 Agenda: Goals: Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
Content:
Understand Maslow’s hierarchy of needs
Skills:
Research
Analysis
Discussion

49. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
What was Maslow’s main idea?
What was Maslow’s belief on human happiness?

50. Why is this a pyramid?
Is the order important?
Do you agree with Maslow?

53. Questions – Where is this on Maslow’s Pyramid
If you are simultaneously hungry for food and also want to be a computer programmer, which need will be more important?
You have a long homework assignment, but armed rebels are raiding your neighborhood, which need will be more important?
You finally get up the confidence to ask someone to homecoming and they say no. This upsets you. Why?

54. Technology and Innovation
Technology and inventions help us meet needs.
Some meet basic needs (food, water, sleep, etc.)
Some meet more complex needs (belonging, purpose, self- esteem, etc.)

56. Technology and Innovation
Technology and inventions help us meet needs. What innovations have we looked at? How do they meet different needs?