HWC Day 9 - Considering Modernity & Other Social Constructs

Objectives:  Trace the development of humanity from the origins of man to the 21st century. Assess knowledge and understanding of textbook reading.

Task:   Happy Friday!  Please get out your reading notes and a writing implement and clear your desks of everything else.  The first half hour of class taking the reading quiz.  If you finish the quiz early, turn the quiz in to Mrs. Friday and get out a computer to work on your imperialism chart.  After everyone has finished the quiz, we'll continue our periodization notes and compare colonialism and imperialism.

Globalization & Development Video Assignments (links on Moodle):

• Pogge - Nick, Cole, Jake, Aaron, Jillian
• Khana - Noah, Katia, Jonah, Ash, Camryn
• Ashdown - Zach, Laura, Kate, Calista, Dino
• Bales - Ashley, Khoa, Allan, Sarah, Daniela, Allyson 

Homework:

• TODAY- Colonialism vs. Imperialism due
• TODAY - Globalization & Diversity chapter 1 reading quiz (reading notes may be used)
• Monday, February 9 -  Primer vocabulary quiz
• Monday, February 9 - Post "Ayiti Reflection" on Moodle forum due
• Monday, February 9 - Imperialism chart
• Tuesday, February 10 - Globalization & Development video summary on Moodle forum due
• Wednesday, February 11 - Unit 1 Test (study guide will be posted on Moodle Friday, 2/6)
• Wednesday, February 10 - Globalization & Development comments on Moodle forum due

Extending class discussion:

• "Why Time is a Social Construct" (Joshua Keating, Smithsonian, 1/2013)
• "Imagined Communities" (excerpt from scholar Benedict Anderson's, Imagined Communities)