Team Euro,
We are coming upon the Enlightenment salon and I am excited.
It will be a good time to mingle and enjoy learning while playing a part.
Be sure to print out your resume - and - place it on Drive.
Come dressed and ready to interact!
Thursday, October 31, 2013
Sunday, October 27, 2013
Weekend Reminder
Team Euro,
This weekend:
- Finish your reading and outline
- Remember your study packet is due early this week; it is due Wednesday.
- Be ready for your Europe map quiz
- Be thinking about your role in Friday's solon. It is going to be great.
This weekend:
- Finish your reading and outline
- Remember your study packet is due early this week; it is due Wednesday.
- Be ready for your Europe map quiz
- Be thinking about your role in Friday's solon. It is going to be great.
Thursday, October 24, 2013
Updated Europe Map on Drive
Team Euro,
There is an updated map in the shared folder on Drive with the number of countries and capitals listed for greater clarity as we draw close to Monday's map quiz.
There is an updated map in the shared folder on Drive with the number of countries and capitals listed for greater clarity as we draw close to Monday's map quiz.
Wednesday, October 23, 2013
Pale Blue Dot
The Scientific Revolution's cosmological paradigm shift is not just exchanging geocentric for heliocentric, it is fundamentally changing how humans perceive themselves - how we see ourselves.
In the geocentric model we are the center and the focus.
In the heliocentric model the universe becomes exponentially large. And we are but a pale blue dot.
Carl Sagan, one of the most famous modern astronomers and science popularizer, said of this:
"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar", every "supreme leader", every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there — on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam."
If he is correct, what does this say about us? What are the implications?
Are we something? Are we nothing?
How should we think about this from a Christian perspective?
In the geocentric model we are the center and the focus.
In the heliocentric model the universe becomes exponentially large. And we are but a pale blue dot.
Carl Sagan, one of the most famous modern astronomers and science popularizer, said of this:
"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar", every "supreme leader", every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there — on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam."
If he is correct, what does this say about us? What are the implications?
Are we something? Are we nothing?
How should we think about this from a Christian perspective?
Monday, October 21, 2013
Scientific Revolution Cosmology Quiz
For tomorrow's quiz on cosmology, you should be able to sketch out and label the basic idea behind the thinking of Ptolemy and Aristotle, Copernicus, Brahe, Kepler, Galileo, and Newton. Your quiz will look quite similar to this:
Euro Map Quiz
Team Euro,
It has been decided. We will take our Euro Map Quiz Monday of next week (Oct 28).
You have two options:
- Either take the countries and capitals on Monday and get it out of the way
- Or just take the countries and take the cumulative test the following Monday after your MCQ
The map itself is on Drive.
It has been decided. We will take our Euro Map Quiz Monday of next week (Oct 28).
You have two options:
- Either take the countries and capitals on Monday and get it out of the way
- Or just take the countries and take the cumulative test the following Monday after your MCQ
The map itself is on Drive.
Friday, October 18, 2013
Chapter 18 Reading and Outline, Quiz, and Test Schedule
Team Euro,
We are going to back to the short (well, shorter than the previous) chapters! And we will take two weeks to cover this unit.
This chapter (18) is on the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment. Please note the slightly accelerated schedule. The study packet is on Drive.
Here is the reading and outlining schedule:
Monday, 21 October - Read and Outline p. 589-598
Friday, 25 October - Read and Outline p. 598-609
- Reading quiz over the first half of the chapter
Monday, 28 October - Read and Outline p. 609-end
Tuesday, 5 November - Ch. 18 FRQ
We are going to back to the short (well, shorter than the previous) chapters! And we will take two weeks to cover this unit.
This chapter (18) is on the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment. Please note the slightly accelerated schedule. The study packet is on Drive.
Here is the reading and outlining schedule:
Monday, 21 October - Read and Outline p. 589-598
Friday, 25 October - Read and Outline p. 598-609
- Reading quiz over the first half of the chapter
Monday, 28 October - Read and Outline p. 609-end
Wednesday, 30 October - Study Packet is due
Monday, 4 November - Ch. 18 MCQTuesday, 5 November - Ch. 18 FRQ
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