CPWC Day 41 - Introduction to East Asia

Objective:   Introduce unique cultural, geographic, and historical characteristics of East Asia.

Task:  When you arrive to class, please pick up the worksheet from the front podium.  Please complete the worksheet while I check your homework.  After a brief discussion, we'll watch a few segments from a travel guide to China.  While watching, you'll complete a chart identifying cultural and geographic features in Central China.  Finally, if there is any time remaining, you'll work on the East Asia map.

Homework:

• TODAY - Chapter 27, section 1 reading notes due
• Tuesday, April 7 - Chapter 27, section 3 reading notes due
• Wednesday, April 8 - East Asia Map due in class (homework completion quiz)
• Wednesday, April 8 - Current Events Extra Credit due in NoodleTools by 3:00 pm (see below)
• Thursday, April 9 - Chapter 28, section 2 reading notes due
• Friday, April 10 - Chapter 29, section 1 reading notes due
• Monday, April 13 - Chapter 29, section 2 reading notes due
• Tuesday, April 14 - Unit 5 reading quiz (27.1, 27.3, 28.2, 29.1, & 29.2 - reading notes may be used)
• Thursday, April 15 - Unit 5 Test
• Friday, April 24 - Field Trip to the Museum of Jewish Heritage, NYC

CPWC Current Events - Extra Credit Opportunity (due in NoodleTools by 3:00 pm on Wednesday, April 8)
Use one or more of the news sources below to find recent news articles relating to topics we've studied in quarter 1.  Create citations and annotations in NoodleTools.  The annotation MUST include a summary AND an explanation of how the article relates to our studies.  Share your work with the "CPWC Quarter 3 Extra Credit" dropbox.

• Al-Jazeera America
• BBC World Service
• Christian Science Monitor
• The Economist
• Euronews
• The Guardian
• National Geographic News
• New York Times
• Newseum
• NPR
• Reuters
• The Washington Post
• The Week
• The World

Each citation/annotation is worth up to 5 points and you may complete up to 3 per unit (Foundations, Sub-Saharan Africa, Middle East, Europe).