Week 16 Day 2

This is the last day of History before the exams! We need to be able to study hard for these exams. So this day, Mr. Rick did not come, but we were asked to review for the exam.

Good luck everyone!

Week 16 Day1

Week 16 Day1

Today Mr. Rick told us the things we need to describe for our hots test.

1. Describe the fears and prejudices surrounding the issues of giving women the right to vote
2. Describe why giving the women the right to vote might conflict with the traditional rules of women
3. Describe the differences suffragist and sufferegets

He also talk about some other things and give example: 

1. What does it wants you to think?
2. What's trues about it?
3. What is it not telling you?
4. Do you trust it?
5. Do you agree or disagree with it?

Week 15 Day 2

Week 15 Day 2

Today, we we're told to finish the thing we did yesterday. We answer the questions he dictate to us. We are not done with the answer because there is a lot. 

Week 15 Day 1

Week 15 Day 1

today mr rick dictate to us the materials for the test next week. There is about 20 questions. Then he let us answer those questions so we can review for the test. 

Week 14 Day 1 and 2

This week Mr. Rick did not come to school. He asks us to review for our exams, and to practice and continue writing discussion questions. And there are a few files that we have to download in schoology.

Week 13 Day 2

WEEK 13 DAY 2

Today mr Rick told us to continue what we do because yesterday we didn't have time to finish it.

after that we watch a video and mr rick paused and explain the video. The video is still related to yesterday's lesson.

then he gave us a homework to be done together with our group.

Week 13 Day 1

Since exams are coming near, today Mr Rick reviewed us about Female Suffrage .

He reviewed about lower order thinking skills and higher order thinking skills. Lower order thinking skills are usually like list and state(like level 0 questions). Higher order thinking skills are analysing, evaluating and creating(level 1 questions). 

He also talk about how we should determine how much time we should spend on a question. We should multiply the points with 2 and subtract it with 2. 

we should identify the command word before we do a question. describe question needs 3 paragraph (opening, argument, source support argument)

Then he told us to practice answering describe questions with our group. He told us to describe the motives that parliament might have had to over throw the king. We need to answer it the way he teaches us to. We need to make a mind map of 6 different ideas.

We didn't finished it so he told us to keep it and continue it tomorrow. 

Week 12 Day 1 and 2

We finish the Poster, which is an application of what we are doing for the essay and the Inquiry Wheel. It should be a 3D poster, and it should look really nice. Then we will take a picture of it and submit on Saturday.

(This is past, forgot to update blog.)

Week 11 Day 2

This day, Mr. Rick did not come to school, so Mr. Mak who substitute us tells us to finish the essay. For the whole lesson, seems like no one did it...

Week 11 Day 1

Welcome back from the one week of the term break! There is an essay assignment that we have to submit by Saturday midnight, so Mr. Rick is going to teach us on how to make it.

Our essay format is called MLA, and we need to be able to format everything correctly. If not, Mr. Rick is going to give us a 0 if we don't follow instructions. Every MLA formatting rule can be found here, and it's simple on how to edit it... Just needs to change the margins and also the line spacing. You can look up the tutorial in the internet...

The important thing you also need to have is that your essay must be an argumentative essay, not a report. An argumentative essay is an essay that will support your thesis, what you are talking about. And it needs to be about 1500 words long. That's kind of long... about 5 pages. Well... a good thing we have a lot of time to do it!

Also for your essay, you need to cite your sources. You need to have at least 5 sources or else it's not valid because you don't research in a lot of places. There is a special way to cite sources, so look it up in the internet.

Well, so there's the essay. Do well on it.

Week 10 Day 2

Today Mr. Rick comes to the class.

We need to be able to finish the work that Mr. Rick gave us, we need to finish the whole inquiry wheel. After we have finished "Sorting Out", we need to work on the next section of it. Then we have to finish the whole 6 sections of the inquiry wheel with our group and make an essay. We need to finish it during the term break holiday. 

For this time there is little work on the actual history on the textbook, but he next term we'll have something more educational.

Term Break!

Week 10 Day 1

Mr. Rick still hasn't came today, and another teacher had to replace us for the work. We need to continue what we did last week, and start on the new section of the inquiry wheel, "Sorting Out".

We did the interview for the section two of the inquiry wheel, and we just need to organize a little more and do more research, and soon we will be done with the section two.

Week 9 Day 2

Today Mr. Rick doesn't come to class and he left us to do some assignments on the board. We need to finish the interview and the section "Finding Out" on the inquiry wheel. We should start working on the next section.

Mr. Hadi replaced us, but he doesn't like photos...

Week 9 Day 1

Today we need to finish with the section 2 of the inquiry wheel, finding out. This section is about research on the topic.

Umm... Okay.

So what we have to do here is discuss with our group. We need to divide the jobs for everyone. Someone must search in the internet, or the library or books. We also need sources from people, because they are reliable and they do have a lot of education for that. Since our topic is called "How did Britain control one quarter of the world by 1900", we can ask the teachers who are British for the interview. We have to prepare a questionnaire first.

I hope we get this thing done soon....

Week 8 Day 2

For the next few weeks, we're going to finish this thing, until it's done. It's gonna take forever, but let's do it!

1. Mr. Rick passes out a few bottles of perfume... and then we have to smell each one. It's a man perfume, and the bottles look colorful. 

So all the group has to pass it around and has to smell each one of the bottles. They all smell like a man, of course...

And most groups agreed that the purple bottle (the second from the left, from the picture) smells the best. Well, we all have different opinions.

2. Mr. Rick is practicing out on how to do the inquiry process. We need to finish these questions for next time and until we are done with all the sections. 

There are a lot of sections though... This is the example document, with the first part all done.

So now we have to finish doing the third part as well, and delete the picture of the cheese in the bottom of the document. (yes)

3. We need to work together with the group and have the interaction. It's nicer to get things all organized and well with everyone working together. 

Week 8 Day 1

Mr. Rick continues to discuss on how to do the inquiry cycle.

1. We finished what we have done last class, the first part of the document. Now, Mr. Rick is going to explain how to make the second part of it. Here is a photo where Mr. Rick doesn't want it to be there...

So the second part is called "Finding out." Actually, if you don't know the inquiry cycle or the questions in it, here is a clear picture with the writings on it. Then find "Finding out".

So in this stage, we have to do a lot of research. Research is very important. You don't just look at one source, you have to look at many sources. Don't just look in the Wikipedia, go out to other websites too, like Yahoo Answers or blogs and stuff. You can ask a person that knows more than you about the same topic, to find out more about the topic. Like, do an interview and ask for more information.

2. We have to communicate a lot to get a work done. We also need to listen to the teacher for more information about the lesson.

Week 7 Day 2

Today's topic is about tuning in
we need to answer this questions

• What do I know about this topic?
• What do I know about my question?
• What do I need to know?
• What could an answer be?
• What are the phases of the inquiry process?
• What are some possible ideas about my topic that I am interested in?
• How do I know it?
• What am I feeling?
• How are my feelings likely to change during the inquiry process?

We need to answer that according to our presentation yesterday

We're not done with it by the end of the class and Mr Rick said we may continue it until tomorrow

Pictures of the document

Week 7 Day 1

Today is the submission of the projects of TEAM ACTIVITY 1.

In the beginning of class

So Mr. Rick asks us to fill in a piece of paper with the group's information. Then next we have to pick a piece of paper from the tray, and see what number we get. The order was from number 1 until 6. Our group got "6" which is the last one to present.

We need to gather around the group who is going to present their landscape. The person has 3 minutes for their presentation. In the end of their presentation we have to ask questions about the landscape or the topic.

This is our project

I hope that we get a good score.

Week 6 Day 2

Today we continue to finish the project for History. There was not much taught this lesson.

1. Mr. Rick told us a story for this class. He was surprised that he didn't tell anything about it last class.

The story took the whole lecture, so there wasn't really a lecture about the history lesson, but it was a nice story...

2. The next thing is to finish the LdL 2 for this time. There isn't a fourth member of the group so there isn't anyone teaching in the group. Here are the other groups finishing LdL

Then we finish the project for History. We need to do it quick because the submission is on Monday Week 7 Class 1 of that week.

3. We're nearly done with the landscape, so hoping that we can finish it nicely and get good scores. The group members should work together and help each other.

Week 6 Day 1

Today Mr. Rick came to class and there were two LdLs today because no one took the score for the old one.

1. The admin checking the attendance of the class

And then Mr. Rick has to calm down a student who is angry

Luckily Mr. Rick came today and gave us the topic for today. Most topics in the classes are mixtures of small topics being put together, and there is a lot of them and Mr. Rick only teaches some of the important ones.

2. Was the British Racist? (No, not now)

Before there were no machines yet, people had to use man power to do everything they need for their industry like planting crops or mining metal ores. These British needed to have cheap labor to do this, because hiring skilled people would cost a lot. If they don't have it, the economy of the British would come to a halt. So people had slaves, people who worked without being paid.

Slaves were consists of "black" people (dark skin African). The British are strong in economy because they had these slaves and they work for the British people. The British people became arrogant as they were on the top of the world. The racism in here was they bought the African people into slaves. Then they also sent them in other places too, like America where they get their raw materials from.

Also, Women were second class citizens. They don't have full rights to do everything, like voting. They also have lesser education, and no women can go to college. That time, their job was only to get married, have babies and do the housework like cooking. There were less jobs for them too. The jobs that women can find are like working in the mines. They are less paid or even not paid, as the British needs the cheap labour.

But with the help of the machines and technology, there are lesser needs of man power because there are machines working for them already. They no longer need the slaves to work like that, and finally abolished slavery. Women were now becoming equal. So there are good things about machines and technology...

3. Because Mr. Rick didn't come last class and no one took the score for the last LdL, there needs to be two LdLs. This was a problem because most of the others have forgotten what they did for their PowerPoints last class. Here is the first lecturer, still doesn't want her picture to be taken.

And then there is Mr. Rick grading it (sort of... as usual)

Then there is the next person to do the LdL.

Next class are going to be the last people to do the LdL. There is no one in our group who will teach though. So we get a break. Then we need to continue to LdL 3.

4. We need to be able to manage our time to do the project so we can finish it quickly. The due date is Week 7 Day 1, so we need to do it fast.

Week 5 Day 2

Today Mr. Rick didn't come to school, so there is Mr. Mak who replaced him. We have to do LdL by ourself and discuss what we are going to do for the Team Activity 1.

The first thing we do in class is the LdL. This is our teacher for today, but she doesn't want her picture to be taken, so here is her laptop with the material in it.

And this is the rest of the class doing the LdLs and there is Mr. Mak with his headphones.

After the LdL, we have to discuss what we want to do for the Team Activity 1. We can do either a team poster, a team presentation or a Team landscape (3D Model). The submission is Friday 5 September.

Week 5 Day 1

Today we begin the new LdL 2. And Mr. Rick has to catch up with all the textbook material that he has missed.

1. Mr. Rick tells us who is going to teach for today's LdL. As he reviews, he asks us what our team name is. Our team name is Faith. Then Mr. Rick asks us what does faith mean, but nobody knows. So then Mr. Rick tells us to search for it...

But finally we got it. (Hebrew 11) So Mr. Rick now has to teach the material from last class (Week 4 Day 2) and this class. So that is the Peace and War Textbook page 32-41 (Changing needs for transport)  and 50-63 (Was life getting better?).

2. Week 4 Day 2
During the Industrial revolution, the world is changing in great and fast pace. They are pushing science and people for this thing. People are making more improved things, and more people are needed to make them. From the Domestic System, people now use the industrial system.

The problem is that there are limited resources and unlimited demands. So like in the 1750s, farmers grew crops for themselves (and sell the others to get extra money) and then it was enough. Then in 75 years, the farmers now have to feed themselves and the rest of the country. Imagine, 20% of the population feeding the rest 80% of the population plus themselves. They need something faster.

One example is broiler chickens. The regular chickens have smaller meat, but there are so many people in the world that need to eat, and there is no way the chicken farmers to make chickens grow instantly. So some people did research and then they made a solution. These chickens were injected with Hormones so they can grow very big, and then can feed for more than one person. That is one way of quickly solve the limited resources problem (but it's not as healthy as normal chicken).

In the Victorian times, England was the most top in industry. Mr. Rick explained about the triangle, about the slave trade. Someone like John Newton. Ships from England that send finished goods go to Africa to get slaves. Then the ships go to America and they trade slaves for raw materials. Then they send the raw materials back to England so it be processed and then turn it into finished goods. Then they do that again... and again.

Week 5 Day 1
During the Industrial Revolution, people are getting rich because of their business that they make. Then they made so much money that they don't know what to do with it. Never has people had money to do whatever they want with it. They usually have enough money to survive on necessary things like food or house. (Rich people make these things nicer) But now that they have so much money, they can go on leisure. (Rich ones, the poor ones still need to survive)

People go to certain places, and one of them is Brighton. They go to the beaches. At first their purpose is actually not swimming in the beach, but people say that swimming in the beach is healthy, so the people go there. Then more people started coming, and then soon it was the beginning of the new industry called "Tourism".

At first these people don't actually have swimming suits invented yet, so the men actually don't wear anything. The women wore their underwear, which is awkwardly very long, and seems like it's not used for swimming...

3. Now it is time for the LdLs. Mr. Rick had a lot to teach, so there wasn't a time limit for the teaching. The group members in the team forgot to take picture of the one teaching, so there is no picture of them. But here are the rest of the class, a few people left that are still teaching

And then the people have to give the LdL submission form. Mr. Rick announces that there is going to be a project, and we have to choose between what we want to do, a Landscape Project, a Poster or a PowerPoint presentation. We start working on it tomorrow!

4. The team should start working together. Maybe listening to the person in front who is teaching would be nice. The team also should remind each other of the responsibilities.

Week 4 Day 2

I don't know what happened, maybe I was clumsy and accidentally deleted this post or I was not paying attention. So sorry for late updates.

I couldn't remember what we did, but Mr. Rick told something about how to make PowerPoints for your LdLs. There wasn't any textbook teaching though.

Today there was LdL, but only for a few groups because they had 4 members in one team. The rest of the groups get to rest while they teach. Our group gets to rest, and here is Mr. Rick grading the others in the other groups (Sort of)

By the time next week, we should get a "disciple", and get a Grade 7 to teach. This is for the extra-dextra score! 

Week 4 Day 1

Today there is no textbook lecture by Mr. Rick. We learn how to do homework (yes), BHI and BHQ.

1. The first part of the class

Today we have the last member in our group to teach for LdL 1. The next day there will be no teachers and we would have a break.
Mr. Rick is supposed to teach about the textbook topic for the day, but he taught us something else.

2. Mr. Rick tells us on how to make Homework. Making "homework" has a few steps to do. The full document can be downloaded below. Everything that Mr. Rick tells us to do is in the document.

CLICK!

Here is part of the document

The highest stage of learning is learning by teaching, called LdL (lernen durch lehren). You need to teach for you to be able to learn, and make sure you have an active classroom. The way to make the homework is...

1. Read the topic. You need to know about the thing you are searching for. 
2. Get the BHI. BHIs are Big Hairy ideas. This can be in just one sentence. 
3. Create 2 BHQs out of it. BHQs are Big Hairy questions and this is what you want to find out more about the BHI.
4. Create Hypothesis. I think this happened because of.... etc. Something like that.
5. Chase your threads. Go and research! There is the vast world of internet out there full of content and information.

Everyone does this for their homework. But the teacher assigned must put it in a PowerPoint presentation. This year our PowerPoint is based on our BHQs. Your PowerPoint must not be contain the textbook, because you are teaching new things to your team. And then time for LdL.

3. Today the last member in our team does her LdL (we only have 3 members in a team).

She did quite well! Hoping that everyday would get better...

The next day there is no one teaching. So, we have a break from the teachers. The next week we will restart again.

Plus since we are Grade 8, the first year to experience active classrooms, we need to get a "disciple" from G7 and teach them about how active classroom works, presentations, Google Drive, portfolios, blogs... etc. By next week we should have one.

4. We did great, but let's hope that we actually listen to the teacher and take down lecture notes. And if there is a team member struggling, we should be there to help them!

Week 3 Day 2

Mr. Rick thought us that the need of things keep on rising but the supplies decrease.
the population are doubling every 70 years
he great issue about economics is limited demand and limited resources
growing population and shrinking woods

There were many theories about what cause disease, most people didn't work and when you're sick the medicine given to you could sometimes made your sickness worst.

—The demand of spun cotton increased enormously in England

—Machines for carding and spinning had already been developed but were inefficient.

—Spun cotton was also produced by means of the spinning jenny

—But it was insufficiently strong to form the warp of a fabric—

So they use linen thread

—Producing a type of cloth known as fustian

—In 1769, Richard Arkwright patented a water frame to use the extra power of water mill 

—He chose the site at Cromford because it had year-round supply of warm water

It is from the Cromford Sough which drained water from nearby Wirksworth lead mines, together with Bonsal  

Brook

Here he built a five-storey mill, with the backing of Jedediah Strutt, Samuel Need and John Smalley

Starting from 1772, he ran the mills day and night with two twelve-hour shifts

—He started with 200 workers

More than the locality could provide

So he built housing for them nearby

He is one of the first manufacturers to do so

Most of the employees were women and children

The youngest being only 7 years old

Later, the minimum age was raised to 10

the children were given 6 hours of education a week so that they could do the record-keeping that their parents

could not.

The children working their work twelve hour shifts.

From 6 am to 6 pm or from 6 pm to 6 am

They get 3 breaks

In the morning and afternoon for breakfast and tea

One at midday

—Hair and clothing might get caught in the fast moving machine

—Hands could be trapped

—The air was laden with dust

There was also danger of slipping because of the fast moving water.

The factory was very noisy

—It it hard for the workers to talk  to each other

—They were experts in lip reading

They develop sign language to communicate to each other


There are two teachers for the day, but unfortunately one picture was not taken. Here is the other one.

Mr. Rick teaching us how to do BHQs

Week 3 Day 1

Today we start the beginning of the book. And a good thing is... There are pictures in the blog!

1. The first thing we do in the class is discuss about Active Learning.

Mr. Rick passed out a chart that decides who should teach today or tomorrow. (And our group is called Faith! The letter F) And Mr. Rick also says that if we don't know what the thing that Mr. Rick is talking about, then google it! Some words...

• Infrastructure
• IDL
• Epistemology

What do these words mean? Don't know? Then GOOGLE IT!!!

Mr. Rick also laminates a piece of paper, and it is about "Reflecting on Personal Understandings." Here is a picture of it. (Some words are quite small, but I think you can work out the titles)

Mr. Rick is going to teach about the topic "Britain 1750-1900: What Changed?"in the textbook called Peace and War.

2. This topic is quite boring for the first half of the semester, but we need to study about it and have some research...

The changes in these times include things such as: Population, Work, Health and Medicine, Transport, Culture and Politics. As the times change, these following things improve or increase. This is the start of the Industrial Revolution.

Britain 1750: The population was little, because health and medicine was not good many children died before their first birthday. People still didn't know that germs caused sickness. The most important industry was farming, because most things are not automated yet and it uses hand, but steam engines are beginning to be used. Getting around the country was slow. And King George ruled in these times! There's also still more.

People use the domestic system. At these times, there were no factories. So for example you want to build a wagon, so you have to contract people to build the parts of the item, and it can take really long to build stuff.

Britain 1825: Things are starting to improve after 75 years. Machines and Steam power are being used more often. People are inventing newer technology. But why?

So this market system. If you can build something, for example, you supply people. If you ask for the built thing, you are asking for a demand. If the demand is more than the supply, you can raise the value of the item and make it more expensive. If the demand is lower than the supply, you can make the thing cheaper. The problem was that items were being slow to process, and items were getting more and more expensive. So people invented a new and quicker way of doing things to make things cheaper.

And then there are roads. Do you know why Romans were so powerful a long time ago? They built roads and transporting things were faster. There are also roads being built here, and then there are turnpikes. Turnpikes build tolls and charge money for you to go to it.

Britain 1900: Well, during this time, Britain is modern. Many people used machines and many children went to school (I don't see how that is a good thing but oh well). There was also Louis Pasteur who knows that sickness was caused by germs.

3. There should be teaching today, but the schedule hasn't been set up. So Mr. Rick explains on how to make a good PowerPoint presentation.

You do not make a powerpoint out of the book. That's what Mr. Rick teaches. You have to teach out of the book. To do that, you need to make 6-8 BHQs (Big Hairy Questions) related to the topic and then find it out. You can look in books, and there is a big world of the internet that you can use as well.
Then when you make PowerPoint presentation, make it with little words and a lot of pictures. You do not read the PowerPoints with small tiny and lots of words to your friends. You need to explain it better, and with depth. It will show you that you did something.

And finally the class ends. Since there is no teaching today, there are going to be 2 teachers tomorrow, and hoping that we have time to do all of them.

4. What we learned today is that we need to communicate more. We need at least one way to contact the other members in your team and inform what will happen. Hoping that we would improve!