This week's schedule of items you have to complete:
Monday: Last in-class day to complete research for Data Chart on Maya, Aztec, and Inca. You received your two questions for the Socratic Seminar and should be considering them while collecting data. You will not write your response to the questions yet.
Tuesday: Performance Literary Task in class. It will probably take all period. You are to have read the articles posted on Friday over James Watt, Samuel Morse, James Hargreaves, John Kay, and Edmond Cartwright. You need to know what they invented and the significance of the inventions. You will use your reading background and the primary source documents in the test to write an essay in class. This will not be on the Maya, Aztec, or Inca groups.
Wednesday: You will share your completed Data Chart information on Maya, Aztec, and Inca civilizations, write your pre-draft, and write your final draft response to the two Socratic Seminar questions (you received in class on Monday). Be sure you have what resources you used. I will post the two questions, as well.
Thursday: We will begin the Socratic Seminar event in class and conduct it in a similar way as the last seminar. You will be in the center circle talking about your responses, asking questions, and elaborating on your responses. If you are not in the center circle you will have an assigned student to observe (just like last time). Then, when you enter the circle, another student will be observing you. This will be the assessment for our study of the Maya, Aztec, and Inca civilizations.
Friday: We will continue the Socratic Seminar until each student has had an opportunity to sit in the center circle to share. I will be scoring your responses on whether you speak, how much you speak, the quality of what you say, the depth of what you say, your ability to ask questions to further the discussion, Whether or not you "hogged" the conversation and if you invited others to enter in the conversation (especially those who have not spoken). Last of all, I will be listening to your responses to the two questions posed.
If you miss school the two days that we conduct the Socratic Seminar, your written essay response (to the two questions) will serve as your entry for the assessment.
