As I have said to both classes, you go to school to learn. Just because the Common Tests are done does not mean your learning for the year has stopped (you should learn things between end of school and 31 December, too!)

Generally, education systems are set up where the Government tells me what to teach you, and I tell you what you have to learn … you rarely have a say in it. Well, now is your chance!

For the rest of the year, learn about something you want to learn about that is related to Humanities (History, Geography, Politics, Law, Business, Economics).

For the Dewhirst class, here is your chance to better your webdesign skills – please present it on your WordPress site that you set up at the start of the term.

For the Pope class, either take notes and comments in your Google Drive folder, or you may learn how to present differently – perhaps create a website (maybe using a different site – Wix, WordPress, Weebly, Wikispaces, Google Sites all have free options)

I look forward to seeing what you find through the process.

Your ‘mark’ at the end of this is self-satisfaction and new knowledge.

We’ve spent the last few weeks looking at aspects of global interconnection, but what about the ability to do what we like in our own country?

The right of a country to determine its own laws is called national sovereignty.

What are the limits on national sovereignty?
Should there be any limits?

What is the dichotomy between global interconnection and national sovereignty?

Hot off the presses from Mr Anderson: Year 9 Humanities Common Test – Help Sheet

Common Test is on 27 November (week 7)

Topics covered:

Part 1 – History (Making a Nation, World War I, Industrial Revolution)
Part 2 – Civics and Citizenship (“For we are young and free”)
Part 3 – Geographies of Interconnection

Start today on assessment task please

T4 Assessment Task

DUE:

Dewhirst: Monday Week 6, start of lesson

Pope: Tuesday Week 6, start of lesson

Rough scratch up of an annotated map…

Resources

For lots of statistics about Australia, try the Australian Bureau of Statistics (www.abs.gov.au)

An example of an annotated map of the globalised nature of one product by the BBC. (You may not use this example!)

Five Great Trade Routes

http://frontiermarketstrategy.com/2013/02/24/five-key-trade-routes-from-history/

Small groups:
Take one each of

1. The Silk Road
2. British-Indian Spice Route
3. Trans-Saharan Trade
4. Saudi-US Oil
5. Incense Route

Use at least one different source per group member (in addition to the introductory site above) to explain this trade route. You should tell us when this route existed, what caused it to start and finish, how did it impact on the countries involved and show us the route on a map.

As a geographical concept, Place is fundamental to how we think about ourselves and our world.

Place

Quick Questions (answer in a new DOC in your shared Google Drive: call it Place – Quick Questions)
Name 10 places (can be country, city, suburb, building, park etc)
What word/s do you immediately think of when you hear this place (eg Adelaide Oval – cricket; Glenelg – beach; Antarctica – penguins, Grandma’s house – cheesecake etc.) Label each as ‘positive’, ‘negative’ or ‘neutral’ depending on how you think about it (Grandma’s cheesecake = positive!)

List as much as you can think of for each of these places:
New York, London, Tokyo, Germany, Russia, Sudan, China, Indonesia, Melbourne
What is similar for all/many of these?
How is it different to what you know about Adelaide?
What sorts of factors determine someone’s feeling about a place? Could different people feel completely different about the same place? How/why? Give an example.

Do these feelings about place determine how we interact with them?

Would you love to travel to any of those places above? Would you not travel to any? Why/ not?

If you have time, start this – otherwise we will do it tomorrow

Activity – do this as a New Doc in your shared Google Drive (call it “Place – Around the world trip”). 

You have won an around the world trip to 20 destinations anywhere in the world for you and 3 others. (You should take parent/s and sibling/s as first priority – if you are an only child, then you can take a friend (an actual friend – name them).) Each person should have at least 5 destinations that they are excited to go to (eg Dad is NOT excited about shopping anywhere) – there can be multiple people

For each destination, you need to:

1. Name the place
2. Provide photo/s and
3. a short explanation of why you chose it (should include who is excited to go there and why)

Create a map (eg Google mymaps, or other is ok) and tag each place. Insert the map to your page.

As a geographical concept, Place is fundamental to how we think about ourselves and our world.

Place

Quick Questions (answer in your wordpress blog)
Name 10 places (can be country, city, suburb, building, park etc)
What word/s do you immediately think of when you hear this place (eg Adelaide Oval – cricket; Glenelg – beach; Antarctica – penguins, Grandma’s house – cheesecake etc.) Label each as ‘positive’, ‘negative’ or ‘neutral’ depending on how you think about it (Grandma’s cheesecake = positive!)

List as much as you can think of for each of these places:
New York, London, Tokyo, Germany, Russia, Sudan, China, Indonesia, Melbourne
What is similar for all/many of these?
How is it different to what you know about Adelaide?
What sorts of factors determine someone’s feeling about a place? Could different people feel completely different about the same place? How/why? Give an example.

Do these feelings about place determine how we interact with them?

Would you love to travel to any of those places above? Would you not travel to any? Why/ not?

Activity – do this as a New Page in your WordPress site. Provide a link in your blog post of today.

You have won an around the world trip to 20 destinations anywhere in the world for you and 3 others. (You should take parent/s and sibling/s as first priority – if you are an only child, then you can take a friend (an actual friend – name them).) Each person should have at least 5 destinations that they are excited to go to (eg Dad is NOT excited about shopping anywhere) – there can be multiple people

For each destination, you need to:

1. Name the place
2. Provide photo/s and
3. a short explanation of why you chose it (should include who is excited to go there and why)

Create a map (eg Google mymaps, or other is ok) and tag each place. Insert the map to your page.

Factual
How do people perceive places?
How do people connect to different people and places?
How does trade connect people and places?

Conceptual
Who wins and loses in a globalised world?
How important is the formation of networks in a globalised world?

Debatable
Can the action of one person change the world?
Are people are more concerned with about cheap consumer goods than labour exploitation?

Submission for both classes is tomorrow (Friday 16 October)
DEWHIRST: by recess
POPE: at start of class

A reminder that ideally all tasks 1-6 are on your ‘Art as Protest’ powerpoint which we began the unit with. This includes your response to #6 where possible.

Some people have created physical artworks – please indicate in your powerpoint at the end of your 300 words (eg “See painting / poster / sculpture etc”)

Reference to research and authoritative sources is good!

9 Pope (L1)   |   9 Dewhirst (L2 / L7)

Continue on with the other two paragraphs from Section 3 on Art as Protest website. These should be on slides after your original Art / Not Art slides from Monday.
Move onto Section 4 and Section 5.

*****  Remember that Section 6 is your assessment task.  *****

Next term: Time in class for first two lessons, due on 3rd lesson back (ie L1/L2 on Thursday 14 October)