You must get your late notebooks to me by this Thursday for the points to go on to this grade. Please be sure you have your late coupon. This is the fourth announcement for this notebook. These grades are counted by the school for end-of-year activities. Also separate Extra Credits need to be in the notebooks you give me in late or future notebooks. It is your job to find the points on the site. Most students who keep up see the E.C. Good luck. Mr.C
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If you are not busy and feel you have some time to spend on History here are some things you can add to your interactive notebook. Especially if you are bored. This will make your first week back a little easier. The notebook will be due Thursday or Friday. Make sure you have the quiz chart done by the end of class Thursday. You are to download or draw it. Good luck.
Last week at our 1/27/16 staff meeting, the entire staff in attendance talked as a school about PBIS, or Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports. Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports is a way of approaching school-wide discipline with
Another note. The SVJHS Bully Ambassadors, students who are designated to help with the Safe School statute and Seth's Law, have advocated for more help. Some Ambassadors said that they may be working on a form so that students can report bullying cases in order to satisfy the California and Federal statutes. These students have commented anecdotally in class, when our social contract comes up in our intense study of HISTORY, that outside-of-class bullying may be on the rise, with students seeing more and more students becoming adversarial on campus. We know in our class that the social contract is not just for Room 27, but for everywhere, and at all times. The entire basis of our American legal system is the social contract too—don't forget to use your US brochure from our class handouts. And this Friday, as a school, we filled out our SMART Goals form, putting students' academic goals into words for a more successful semester. The more positive we can be at school—socially, academically, and culturally—the more we can learn for our academic success. Students and Parents, here is a helpful link that might help you if you have questions about bullying: California Department of Education. Please use these links to help us improve our students' abilities to meet our SMART goals that the principal sees as very important. There is also a blog from August 2015 you can read about how we have approached this topic in class. Also, Students, you are to place the SMART goals sheet into the front of your student agendas. Take care, and follow the social contract, Matadors. Peace, Love, and Happiness. Many students have been asking questions about who will be the next President. The discussions in public have been heated and interesting by the candidates running and the public personalities endorsing them to be president. Both parties are dealing with different issues, but Democrats and Republicans are trying to make sure their party wins the White House Job. President Andrew Jackson was a very polarizing executive. Some say Obama was also very polarizing or an office holder who divided American voters. However remember the opposition party only gave Obama about a two week window before they began politically attacking him as someone else president, not their president too and support him first, at least for a year or so. One thing to consider is that Presidents that are upholding the Constitution, at times skirt or ignore certain parts of the Constitution, to maintain the state of the union. Try to remember that your 11 sentence paragraph is an interaction connection to something [output]. The video might give you some ideas but talking to fellow historians/classmates might be good too. Ask for help and pair share.
Helpful link to understand more on next weeks voting. _Check it out? Above are John F. Kennedy, Nelson Mandela, and Margaret Thatcher, who gave many political speeches. In class, as we studied the BILL OF RIGHTS, a majority of students wanted to understand why political speech is almost always protected by the United States Supreme Court, especially when a politician is running for an office, but not in office. Most students believed speaking truth would be really important to follow the social contract and the ideals of America. Below are places you can check current speech. You be the judge.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/ http://www.politifact.com/personalities/ Good luck.
This week Ms. Verduzco, our SVJH counselor has started the Association that helps to monitor ending bullying on our campus. Announcements were made on the load speakers for students to get involved in making a safe campus.
We are working on creating a better school campus culture. Even in our history classes last year we tried to link the power struggles of humanity in United States and Medieval World History, to put the bully issue in a historical context. While reading and writing through the curriculum we tried to work on skills and read like historians. For the 7th graders last year we studied the Legacy: China: The Mandate of Heaven, and the teachings we learned from the great Medieval Civilization. The ideas and goods that were traded throughout the world from then to today, which is one of our most important and largest economic partners in the world. This is also here to stay, whether for good or bad. Has the East adopted the Western idea of materialism? Michael Wood asks this question throughout the episode. In Race: The Power Of An Illusion, we will learn how we are one family. Our genes, and history, totally bind us together over time and space forever. Only our understandings of these events can we make sure that certain history does not repeat itself. If we are to unmake racism [eracism] ]we need to learn history. Civilization depends on us all understanding how we all can change the world one person at a time, starting with ourselves. The anti-bullying campaign was just a great conduit to use to link important connections to the 8th grade students. Please see the handout that we took time to share with our Matadors on this last year. SVJH bully flyer.pdf_ If you would also like more information on bullying from the State Legislature of California and the American Civil Liberties Union please take a look at this link. seths_law_ab_9.pdf Implementation of AB 9 (Seth's Law) Letter - Uniform Complaint Procedures (CA Dept of Education).pdf The UC Davis Journal of Juvenile Law & Policy Review on the California AB 9 law has some important facts parents and students might want to know. There are many important ideas that the school community should know: “On October 9, 2011, Governor Brown signed Assembly Bill 9 (AB 9) into law. AB 9, or Seth's Law, calls for the implementation of anti-bullying policies in public schools. The law was promulgated in reaction to the death of thirteen year-old Seth Walsh, who took his life after being repeatedly bullied at school for his sexual orientation. Seth'sLaw amends the existing framework of the Safe Place to Learn Act found in Education Code Sections 234, 234.1, 234.2, and 234.3, and adds Section 234.5 to the Code.”........ “Seth's Law makes several distinct changes to the Safe Place to Learn Act. First, Code Section 234 now protects student victims from not only discrimination and harassment, but also "intimidation and bullying based on actual or perceived characteristics," including the student's disability, gender, nationality, race or ethnicity, religion, or sexual orientation. Seth's Law calls for the California Department of Education to develop a model handout with school policies for receiving complaints, which can be modified and displayed on school campuses and websites.”....... “In Section 234.1, Seth's Law states that the school must also ‘set up a timeline to investigate and resolve’ complaints, as well as implement an appeal process. Furthermore, any school personnel who witnesses acts of discrimination, harassment, intimidation or bullying ‘must take immediate steps to intervene when safe to do so.’” [562].... “Seth's Law leaves Sections 234.2 and 234.3 largely unchanged, though Section 234.3 now explicitly states that schools must periodically update their handouts and websites related to discrimination, harassment, intimidation, and bullying.”..... “The newly added Section 234.5 orders the Superintendent of Public Instruction to post and annually update his or her website with ‘a list of statewide resources, including community-based organizations, that provide support to youth [and their families] who have been subjected to school-based discrimination, harassment, intimidation, or bullying." ..... “Finally, Section 234.5 states that in accordance with the CaliforniaConstitution, the state will reimburse school districts and local agencies for certain state-mandated costs associated with Seth's Law.” § 234. Citation of article; Policies (a) This article shall be known, and may be cited, as the Safe Place to Learn Act. (b) It is the policy of the State of California to ensure that all local educational agencies continue to work to reduce discrimination, harassment, violence, intimidation, and bullying. It is further the policy of the state to improve pupil safety at schools and the connections between pupils and supportive adults, schools, and communities. This law went into effect July 1, 2012, for all California public schools. RECENT COURT DECISIONS AND LEGISLATION IMPACTING JUVENILES, 16 UC Davis J. Juv. L. & Pol'y 551, 561-562 The students were very well behaved–almost perfect– and they really have stepped up trying to work on the the write path and the skills we talked about for two weeks. I stressed that for them to be successful in high school they will need to practice specific things in the here and now. We worked on indoor voices, note taking, quick writes [a.k.a. warm-ups], listening, writing, and Reading Like a Historian.
We worked on the Stanford Common Core content for 7th and 8th grade this week along with working on the expectations of each and every person in class. I hope the students keep it up. A few need to bring in work Monday because they forgot; we want to remember to bring our work completed at home and we want everyone to come to school. We also have a routine for our agenda books everyday of the week. I also hope to add to this every couple of weeks. Students wanted to add the textbook link to the website and students were asked to find their textbooks and preview the chapter for the course. I also told them they might have to bring their textbooks once and a while. The room is also coming along and the students seems to like that Everyone is Living History! Many new experiences for us in Room 27, and it went well this week. We are working to study a tough subject like history and begin creating a community to follow the social contract. Great job, everyone who participated in our scholarly endeavor, that includes all our students and families. Thank you. |
Philosophie: Salon CenterEveryone of us is living history. We all have a story to tell and the ancestors that came before us that carved a way for us to become a new member of civilization. We also are learning that we are all related genetically and culturally in the family of humanity. All people’s past becomes part of all of us, and will always be completely intertwined with the entire world community.
Author's NOTEFrom time to time we will have some ideas from words that give us wisdom about our world. Writers are some of the most insightful people that understand our modern and ancient world quite well. Feel free to read, think, comment on these ideas. It seems that some of the students would like to debate issues of government, economics, and history. This can be a forum for this idea. Also if you would like to do formal debates in class we need to prepare debate rule and procedures. This can be a start and then we can decide if we will proceed to bring the debates in class on topics we study. Please follow our classroom rules if you decided to write on the blog. Make sure that you ask questions, and be helpful, and mature in all your interactions. This can be a helpful way for you to share what you have learned and what you want to learn, or just share ideas. Also just submit an idea through an email, or web contact, and we can maybe add the idea. Send a picture with the suggestion for the classes. Thank you. Archives
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Photos above left to right: The Solon, by Raphael was a depiction of the place where ideas were discussed and debated. Greek democracy in the public sphere. Here is the philosopher Seneca talking to Nero-Claudius Cesar Drusus Germanicus [Roman Emperor 54-68 BCE]- about society,law, politics, ethics and morality. Anthem for the doomed!
Class ForumStudents can also decide to add a topic that can be approved and monitored by Mr.C. Please be responsible and follow the social contract. You can share ideas and questions on your now topics about our class. Friends can help each other study with their devices. Please only students, but fell free to share the forum communications with your family. This can be a source for all students.
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