Please find your name and desk number as you come in. You will sit in that desk this week.

Please find your name and desk number as you come in. You will sit in that desk this week. Period 3 925.787.2591

Please do not talk at this time. August 19 HW: Bring all Your materials, especially your Binder Notebook on Wednesday/Thursday • When you arrive at your desk write down the materials you will need for this class • Next, Complete the Personal Definition paper on your desk. • A Binder • Lined Paper • A folder or pocket to keep papers • Something to write with (pencils, pens) • Glue • Scissors • Colored Pencils or pens • 3 colors of Highlighters (optional) • Have these Materials for Check off by Wednesday/Thursday

Personal Definition- Sample: Mrs. Caramagno

Quick! • Name three things about me from my Personal Definition!

Share Out… • Now that you have a personal definition, pair up with the person in the seat next to you and tell them about yourself. • Make sure you start with your name! • When you are listening to your partner, jot down their name and 2 or 3 things about them on the back of your half sheet so you can tell a little about them later. • How to talk to your partner: • LOOK at your partner • LEAN toward your partner • LISTEN to your partner • LOWER your Voice when you speak to your partner.

Advice from last year… • With your partner, look at this list of advice from last year’s World Studies Class. Record your answers to these questions on the back of your half sheet. • What comes up the most? • Which of these statements relates to academics? • Which relates to social life? • Which advice seems the hardest to follow? • How could this knowledge help you be a better student? If you are a slow reader, look at the words in BOLD first.

Please do not talk at this time. August 20 HW: Bring all Your materials, especially your Binder on Wed/Thurs Introductory Survey due Friday • As you come in, please find your desk from last time. • When you arrive at your desk write down the homework for this class • Then, take out a half sheet of paper (you can share with a friend) and answer these questions: 1. What rules make you comfortable in a classroom? 2. What is the most inappropriate thing you have ever seen or heard about happening in a classroom?

Introductory Survey • Please complete this survey by Friday. • It will help me learn about you, what you like and how you learn. • I will use this information to craft lessons that work for you. • The more information you give me, the better I can do my job for you. • Survey is on the main web page under Surveys. • Here is the direct link: • http://www.mvla.net/teachers/SophiaC/Lists/Introductory%20Survey/overview.aspx

Mrs. Caramagno’s Rules Nothing: Rude Crude Lewd Nude

Rude- Being mean or showing disrespect • Name some behaviors that are Rude:

Crude- Having to do with bodily functions • Name some behaviors that are Crude:

Lewd- Having to do with reproduction • Name some behaviors that are Lewd:

Nude- Being without clothes • Explain:

Also, we follow some SCHOOL Policies in here as well: • No food in class • Water, Coffee and Tea are the only beverages allowed (we have a bug problem) • Cell Phones should be OFF during class unless you have asked to use them. • Ask to use any electronic device before you use it or it will be confiscated (calculators, cell phones, iPods, etc)

Your Books • Do not bring your books to school. We have a class set.

You will only be graded on your own work.I will NEVER give you a group grade.

Extra Credit • We no longer do extra credit. • If you want to improve your grade, redo your assignments or retake tests you didn’t do well on.

Bonus Points • Use these to go to the bathroom or leave class to get something you have forgotten. • If you run out of Bonus Points you can give me time after class. • Please come and get a set of Bonus Points now… and put your name on them!

Contact Info for Sophia Caramagno • My Phone/Text Number: 925.787.2591 • My Web Page: Sharepoint.mvla.net/teachers/sophiac • My email: • Sophia.caramagno@gmail.com • Sophia.caramagno@mvla.net • Office Hours: Lunch, before and after school, at Homework Club on Monday • Twitter Homework Feed: ClassCaramagno • Facebook: Sophia Caramagno

Please get out a piece of binder paper and a pen/pencil.We are going to do a quick writing assessment. I just want to see where you are. This is ungraded. Please do not talk at this time. August 21/22 HW: Online Survey must be completed by Friday Please get out your Binder and supplies for this class to be checked off.

World Studies Writing Pre-Assessment • Menu: Choose one of the below prompts to answer on a separate sheet of paper. Writing Time: 30 minutes maximum. • Describe a person who is important to you and explain why. • Describe something you accomplished in the last year that you are proud of and explain why. • Describe a significant person in history and explain why they were important. • Describe an academic assignment you did particularly well and explain how it was well done. • Requirements: Your paper should include the following: • 1. Topic Sentence (answers the question prompt). • 2. Provide at least 3 reasons. • 3. Write at least three specific examples. • 4. Write a concluding sentence. • 5. Length: Paper should be a maximum of 1 page long.

Thinking like an Historian • How do we know what happened in the past?

Historians look at: • Writings • Documents, fiction, stories, letters, reports, diaries, etc. • Other Records • Film, photographs, video, drawings, etc. • Artifacts • Things people made like clothes, furniture, tools, art, etc. • Things people changed, like terraces cut into the ground or dams put across a river.

Now you try it! • In a minute I will give you a group and a collection of artifacts and documents. • These are all real things so please be gentle with them!* • Using what you know about the world, people and history, see what you can guess about the people who made these things. • Record your ideas and your thought process on a piece of paper. *ok, ok… some of them are accurate reproductions…

People may have lived near water Bubble Notes- one strategy for recording your thinking… Goldfish requires freshwater Blue dye or paint Fish image on cup Paint brush or drawing tool Fish species: goldfish Clay Porcelain cup Kiln Fire

Note: • These items should be considered separately. Don’t think of them as items to be taken together. • They are not meant to be found in the same archeological dig! • You don’t need to do ALL the items. Pick ones that interest you. • Everyone needs to record their own ideas on their own paper about at least 1 item.

People may have lived near water When you aren’t sure but it’s a good guess, put a question mark! Goldfish requires freshwater ? Blue dye or paint Fish image on cup Paint brush or drawing tool ? Fish species: goldfish Clay Porcelain cup Kiln Fire

With your team… • Pick your best one to share with the class!

Get out a 7 Learning Styles Assessment and a packet.Your On Line Survey is due today.Please make sure you have taken it and submitted it so you can get credit.Here is a direct link to the Survey:http://www.mvla.net/teachers/SophiaC/Lists/Introductory%20Survey/overview.aspx Please do not talk at this time. August 23 HW: No HW!

Learning Styles • There are 7 dominant ways that people learn. You may already know about them, but since people’s learning styles change during the teen years, we are going to take a survey to find out what your best learning styles are right now. • This information is very helpful to have. It can tell you what you can do to be more successful at school and it can help you understand why some things are very hard for you, while other things are easy. • This knowledge can also make you better at working with other people. If you understand how they communicate and process information, you will get along better. This makes your life easier.

The 7 Learning StylesAKA: Multiple Intelligences Linguistic: Words! Logical – Mathematical: Numbers and Logic Musical: Music and rhythm Body - Kinesthetic: Movement/ Hands On Spatial – Visual: Pictures and Images Interpersonal (Groups): Talking Intrapersonal (Alone): Individual Contemplation

Learning Styles/Multiple Intelligences Survey: Read the statement on the handout. Decide how true it is for you: 1 = Mostly Disagree, 2 = Slightly Disagree, 3 = Slightly Agree, 4 = Mostly Agree Mark your answer in the white box on your answer grid. Add up the columns and record your totals. Look at the totals and find out which ones have the highest score. The 1 or 2 Intelligences that have the highest scores are the main ways you learn. Read the description of your learning style(s) on the handout. Chart your answer on the graph on the back of the paper.

Get a 3X5 card Front Mary • Print your first name (that you want to be called) on the front of this card very big and very neat. • Draw a border around your name in the color that matches your highest learning style. • If you have a tie in the top 2, make a double border in two colors Back- leave this blank

Discuss the answer to this question with your partner. Write down your answers on your answer sheet so you are ready when I call on you. Remember: Look, Lean, Listen, Lower your Voice • How should the following learners study to be the MOST successful at learning new information: • Linguistic • Logical - Mathematical • Musical • Body - Kinesthetic • Spatial - Visual • Interpersonal (Groups) • Intrapersonal (Alone) When we take notes in this class, we will be using different techniques that support the different learning styles. Sometimes these techniques will match your learning style and they will be really easy and helpful. Sometimes these techniques will be for a learning style you don’t do well, and they will be difficult. In this case, do your best. When you do difficult things, you are growing your brain!

Please write down your homework and then look at the back wall to review the 7 learning styles… Please do not talk at this time. August 26 HW: Get your CIS Signed.

Now share what you have learned about yourself… What happens when an Interpersonal learner and an Intrapersonal learner have to work together? What happens when a Linguistic person has to explain something to a Visual- Spatial person? What happens when a Kinesthetic learner has to take a long multiple choice test? Why would it be important to know this?

Please get a Course Information Sheet and a set of scoring Rubrics for this class.

Class Information Sheet • Read over the Course Information Sheet for this class. Pay close attention to the sections labeled: Assessments and Grading, Classroom Rules andHelp. • In pairs, looking at the three sections named above, underline those parts of the CIS that will help you be the most successful in this class. In other words….What do you need to know from those sections to be successful in this class? • What does this document reveal about what I think is important? • Sign your CIS when you are done. • Share Out

Grading: Work Habits = 10% - Preparation (Daily on time homework completion) = 5% - Collaboration (citizenship and being prepared in class) = 5% Content and Skills- Revision is Encouraged: - Cornell Notes Skill Mastery (chapter notes): 10% - Critical Thinking: 20% - Academic Writing (essays and projects): 20% - Content Proficiency (assessments, including 7 total units): 40%

10% of your grade is based on turning things in on time and participating appropriately in class.

What does this really mean? • You get points for having complete work on time. • You only get one chance to get these points. • You cannot make up these points. • You get points for participating in discussions, activities and classwork. You get points for staying focused and on task. • I use a rubric to score this. • You cannot make up these points either.

Work Habits Rubric A: ADVANCED Preparation– brings completed assignment on time Collaboration– participates effectively in individual or collaborative activities and works well with peers and teacher (initiates, seeks clarification, propels conversation, builds on other students ideas, encourages other students) C: BASIC Preparation– brings partially complete assignment on time Collaboration– participates in individual or collaborative activities and works with peers and teacher, but is sometimes off task and/or needs additional prompting F: FAR BELOW BASIC Preparation– assignment is late, incomplete or missing Collaboration– even with prompting, does not participate effectively and/or does not work well with peers and teacher

Tell your partner: • How do you get an A in Work Habits if the teacher asks you a question about the reading?

90% of the grade in this class is based on what you have shown me you have learned. This applies to both Content (like facts and vocabulary) and Skills (like writing and note taking)You get more than one chance to show me what you have learned and what you can do.You get to show me what you have learned and what you can do in more than one way.

What does that really mean? • You can resubmit graded work for a better grade. • Not all work is graded. Some work is practice. You can only redo graded work, but this is also the only work that goes in the grade book. • You can rewrite essays for a better grade, until the end of the semester. • You can retake tests once, and you get the highest score of the two, even if it was on the first test.

Tell your partner: • How many times can you rewrite an essay? • How many times can you retake a test?

Critical Thinking Rubrics • Graded assignments will be graded with rubrics. • You will always know what you need to do to get an A, B, C and so on for any particular assignment. • When an assignment doesn’t have a specific rubric, it is graded with the Critical Thinking Rubric.

A: ADVANCED • All proficient requirements • PLUS any of the following independent of instruction as appropriate: • explains alternative or opposing perspectives addressed in a counter-claim • demonstrates the following skills: creating metaphors, creating analogies, generating inferences, analyzing errors, creating categories, valid predictions • demonstrates sophistication in: including depth, complexity, connections to prior content • B: PROFICIENT • As appropriate: • creates a reasonable and logical claim • uses appropriate, historical evidence to support claim • builds on or challenges other student’s ideas and/or perspectives • demonstrates the following skills: compare and contrast, clarifying, analysis, questioning, categorizing, accurate interpretation of primary and secondary sources Tell your Partner: How are the A grade requirements different from the B grade requirements?

Please find your name and desk number as you come in. You will sit in that desk this week.