Please visit ManageBac to download the document below. By today, you should have: chosen your groups of 3-4 created a GoogleDoc with a list of norms or group rules to which you ALL MUST AGREE decided AS A GROUP upon a significant historical event that has IMPACTED the world, not just one city or country– post … [Read more…]
National Geographic Special Series: 7 Million— VIDEO (scroll to the bottom of the NatGeo page for the video) Slideshow (click on image for link) TED Talk video, ‘Urbanization and evolution of cities across 10,000 years’: OPTIONAL BrainPOP: Population Growth Crash Course: Human Population Growth
The focus of our current unit, Reconstructing the Past: Today, we discussed how are we reconstructing the history of the Gezi Park protests to make meaning of Istanbul. In addition, we looked at how to evaluate evidence: -Evaluate the tone -Compare to other newspapers/ sources in different countries/ regions -Ask people what they think of … [Read more…]
Here is what you say makes the Humans of New York (HONY) stories so powerful. These components help make the personal testimonies clear: the who, what, when and where each testimony is POWERFUL by itself. (There is enough substance to make it inspiring, sad, hopeful, positive, interesting, heartbreaking, realistic, relatable, etc., just like the pieces from … [Read more…]
Last week, we discussed one effect of the Industrial Revolution: child labor. Here are some images compiled to show you what the working conditions were like for children. Click on each image to be directed to its source. Here is a great website about the Industrial Revolution. Here are the BrainPop video and BBC piece on the urbanization in … [Read more…]
Click here to learn about the Industrial Revolution. Here is the video we watched today:
On Monday, we looked at a New York Times article from 1927 as a primary source. After answering the questions that followed, we discussed how media coverage has changed today. Here is what you said: News today is in real time, they are live-streamed There are more eyewitnesses to events because you can see it live on … [Read more…]
Click here for Google doc on the City Biography Project. The areas in red are due Friday. Remember, the City Sources section of your blog is to keep track of, and quickly reflect on, each source you encounter as we proceed on this unit’s journey. Please click here to remember what information you need for each entry. Today, … [Read more…]
After reading The New York Times article about Charles Lindbergh from 1927, answer these questions: • Who wrote the article? • What was the purpose of writing the article? • What details in the article suggest that the writer was present at Lindbergh’s landing in Paris? • Which details show that the article was written long ago? • Do you … [Read more…]
This section will be where you house all of the resources you come across in your study of Cities. Please use this template for each source you encounter: MLA Citation to identify source. If possible, link to citation or embed into the post. In your own words, summarize the source (50 words or less) What is your take away? What … [Read more…]