This lesson coincided our recognition of International Women's Day. As a teacher, I work hard to try to have a program that is inclusive and representative of the voices in our classroom.
video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cE2VhzSGiSU
This is an interesting story, which highlights some of the ideas we have looked at in Media Literacy. In this case, all media are constructions and sometimes these constructions can be both sexist, racist and exclusionary.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/obituaries/overlooked.html
The next story, which many of you are familiar with, relates to a short, in-class writing response for Geography. The exercise relates to 2 of the concepts of Geographic thinking on this chart: Patterns and Trends, Geographic Perspectives.
Today (Friday) will be our Black Panther screening! Here is the last set of notes from a class discussion on the film and its link to our key concepts of Media Literacy:
Finally, some Math.
Pi, the third letter of the Greek alphabet is the relationship/ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter. However, the number is infinite. Here is the list of 10 000 digits which follow the 3.14 that we are so used to seeing.
Have a restful March Break.
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This is an interesting story, which highlights some of the ideas we have looked at in Media Literacy. In this case, all media are constructions and sometimes these constructions can be both sexist, racist and exclusionary.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/obituaries/overlooked.html
The next story, which many of you are familiar with, relates to a short, in-class writing response for Geography. The exercise relates to 2 of the concepts of Geographic thinking on this chart: Patterns and Trends, Geographic Perspectives.
Today (Friday) will be our Black Panther screening! Here is the last set of notes from a class discussion on the film and its link to our key concepts of Media Literacy:
Pi, the third letter of the Greek alphabet is the relationship/ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter. However, the number is infinite. Here is the list of 10 000 digits which follow the 3.14 that we are so used to seeing.
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https://www.math.utah.edu/~pa/math/pi.html |
Have a restful March Break.
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