Quarter+Two

Humanities One Quarter Two: __Resources, Status, and Wealth__


 * Essential Questions**:

1. What is a civilization? (need to know this before you can move on to discussion about society)

2. How are power and wealth distributed in different regions/countries?

3. How are resources used/not used to further economical, political, and cultural development?

4. What do the socio-economic conditions look like? (government system, caste system, class structure, ETC.)

5. What is the societal structure's impact on every day life?


 * Skills**:

1. Use multimedia to express different ideas and information (i.e. wiki space, power point, digital story-telling) 2. Analyze and process information and how it relates to different areas of society, in this case, foundational structures of society (culture, economy, politics) 3. Continue to build on skills (vocabulary, grammar, and writing) from Quarter One (need to flesh this out) 4. recognize validity of sources 5. Compare information from various sources (consistency?)


 * Assessments**:

1. Reading comprehension quizzes 2. Vocabulary in writing (free write, essays) 3. Writing from different character perspectives 4. Organization of numeric information into words using into graphs, charts, line graphs, ETC. to supplement ideas/hypotheses 5. Create own class system (add to Wiki project)


 * Resources**:

1. __The Colors of the Mountain__ 2. pbs.org 3. discovery.com 4. http://elibrary.sd71.bc.ca/subject_resources/socials/CHINA.htm#civilization
 * cool site that is worth checking out. Provides links to various websites that explain various elements that we are going to consider. Just be careful of some of the sites and their legitimacy. Take some with a grain of salt perhaps.

Some other things I need to consider: 1. Need supplemental texts to support primary text and mix up topics. 2. need to find resources that talk specifically about important geographical information and historical data. 3. Need video, clips, art work, etc