Class Notes

Tuesday January 24, 2012

WELCOME BACK, NOAH!!!

In class today, I gave you back your tests.  As I told you in class and on the blog, this was a very hard test.  I DID give you the questions in class the session before the test and instructed you to underline or highlight the answers; some of you did not participate and it showed on your results.  Everytime any of you talk off topic or cause a distraction, it affects everyone in the class.  The distaractor doesn't know who he/she may be causing to miss important instructions from me.  Our classes are spending too much time on distractions and not on the lesson.  We are having to wait on those who are not on task, and it is now a problem.  From now on, in our class, if you are a distraction and I have to speak to you more than one time, we will call your parents right then and invite them to spend a few days in class with you.  The work you are having to do at home is directly related to this because we are not able to get through the work we should be doing in class. The distractions will stop.
Your work for Fiday should not take you very long at all.  You need to find a picture and photocopy it, write a paragrah and read the rest of lesson 31 and all of 32.  If you do the photocopy and read lesson 32 on one day and do the paragraph and read the rest of lesson 31 on the second day, you should not be working on this more than 50 minutes each day.  If it takes you longer, look at what you are doing INSTEAD of the work assigned. I gave you the websites yesterday but I will put them here anyway.

Your assignments are:

Wednesday 25 January 2012
1.Read the rest of Lesson 31.
2. Page 179:31C:#3: Find an article on the web about Wu Zetian's tomb and read it.  Do not choose the wikipedia site.  After you have read an article on the tomb, answer the question the author raises about the tomb.  A short paragraph!

Thursday 26 January 2012
1. Read lesson 32: Beowulf"
2. Page 178:31B:#2 Read the directions. Just make a photocopy of the cave. Bring it to class. Be able to tell us about your picture.

WEBSITES FOR TOMB AND CAVES:
Google: Wu Zetian's tomb  (this is the easiest way to get several articles ansd you can choose the one that interests you!)  The one that follows is long and involved, but you can use it.
http://www.china.org/  "Qianling Mausoleum of the Tang Dynasty"
Remember, you are trying to find out what they have done with her tomb, that's all you need to be concerned with.
For the caves, I just googled "dunhuang caves" and the second site on the page gave MANY images to choose from.  Open the site, right click on an image, scroll down and click on "print piture".  You're done!  It took me less than 5 minutes to do this assignment!