Homework Due Friday the 3rd

Hello class,

I just wanted to congratulate everyone for the wonderful jobs they have done presenting the "Family Tree" projects.  I have been very impressed with the courage that I have seen from each and every one of you.  It is not easy to stand up in front of your peers and present information.  But hopefully from this experience you have learned that it is not as bad as you may have originally thought.

I hope that everyone enjoys the holiday off tomorrow.  That being said, we do have a homework assignment that needs to be completed by Friday the 3rd.  I would like every student to make a blog post answering the following:

--> Tell us what you have learned from this process about either yourself / a classmate / or another culture.  Many of you have had conversations with your parents while researching for this presentation, try to talk about either something you learned about your family history.  You can also talk about something that you learned about another culture that is not yours.  Lastly, if you have learned something interesting about someone from your class, and would like to talk about that, you may do so.  This post needs to be two paragraphs in length.  Remember there is NO EXCUSE for spelling errors as you can write a post in "Word" first, do a spell check, then post on your blog. 

-->  The next post is the study guide that I we began working on.  Please post a bullet point list of what you think should be included on a study guide for what we have studied in class this year so far.  We worked on this in groups for every period except for 1st.  However, I expect every person to be able to post a list of topics / ideas / vocabulary that we have covered since the start of the year.  This means that 1st period will also be responsible for this post, even though we did not work on it in class.

If you have any questions regarding the homework that is due for Friday, please email me:  blake.stok@ais.edu.vn

Homework over the weekend

Continue to work on your family tree project and be ready to present next week!

Homework for Thursday Night

Continue to work on your family tree project.  The day that you picked to do your presentation is posted on the wall in my room if you have forgotten.  Come by and check it if you need to. 

Wednesday's Nights Homework

For homework tonight, enter a blog post with the following information:

Describe one place that you have been.  You must discuss at least three physical characteristics and two human/ environment interactions.

This should be at least two paragraphs in length. 

Family Tree Project

Family Tree Project –

Your task is to share with me and the rest of the class, who you are and where you come from.  You will do this by designing a short 5 minute presentation about your family history.  Questions that you will ask yourself and answer in your presentation are:

o  What is your History?

o  Where does your family come from?

o  Who is in your family?

o  Examine your own culture

o  Discuss your interactions with others unlike yourself

o  Present as much information about your family background as possible – including but not limited to religious affiliation, culture, language(s), country of origin, education (how this may be different from people that don’t go to AIS – Why is this important?), any other information you think is of interest and value.

o  You can present this information in any style or format that you think would best illustrate your background – examples of this include a powerpoint presentation, a family tree, food – if you are from a particular region or area that has a special dish (I encourage this!!!), style of dress / clothing, BE CREATIVE!!!  Use your imagination when coming up with ideas of how to present this.

Create a Blog

For tonight's homework, each of you will create a blog that is specific to this class.  I know that all of you have been instructed to create a blog for Mr. Patrick's class, so you should be familiar with the process.  However, you are not allowed to use the same blog for both his class and mine.  You will have to create one for my class that has a unique URL. 

For those of you that have yet to complete the assignment for Mr. Patrick’s class, I will now walk you through the steps that you will need to follow in order to compete our homework.  First you must go to the blogger site.  You will click on the “create a blog” tab taking you to a window that requires you to sign up for a google account. 

As most, if not all of you , have already created a google account, all you will have to do is go to blogger, sign in, and click on the “create a blog” button.    If you have any questions about this process, please feel free to contact me via email, blake.stok@ais.edu.vn.  Or another great option would be to contact your classmates that may have already completed this.

Once you have the blog up and running.  Please go to our class blog, 8thgradesocialstudiesais.blogspot.com and click the “follow” button.  This will allow me to view your blog and read what you have written.  As your first blog entry, tell me something about yourself that you think I should know.  This only needs to be one paragraph.  This assignment is due on Friday, August 20^th.

Electronic Communication

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