Greek Mythology and King Minos's Labryinth

From Youtube Site - Summary the appears  after video, documenting its sourcing and fair use.

"In Greek mythology, the Minotaur (Greek: Μῑνώταυρος, Latin: Minotaurus), as the Greeks imagined him, was a creature with the head of a bull on the body of a man or, as described by Ovid, "part man and part bull". He dwelt at the center of the Cretan Labyrinth, which was an elaborate maze-like construction built for King Minos of Crete and designed by the architect Daedalus and his son Icarus who were ordered to build it to hold the Minotaur. The Minotaur was eventually killed by the Athenian founder-hero Theseus."


see History Channel's version   and the summary shown above.

Baffling 400,000-Year-Old Clue to Human Origins - NYTimes.com

Baffling 400,000-Year-Old Clue to Human Origins - NYTimes.com

Industrialization and Imperialism, Yesterday and Today

Industrialization and Imperialism

Notes on Imperialism
 

NPR reporters try to make a modern t-shirt - go to story

Two Sisters in Bangladesh

The 50 Years War: Israel And The Arabs -- Complete Documentary: Episode ...

6 Day War

Romantic Hindi Songs ᴴᴰ - YRF Huge Video Collection - Vol.4 /4

Global II Assignments Nov 12 week

Revolutions
Notes - Powerpoint

Global I Nov 12 Assignments - Judaism

In Class today we review the 1st note pages in the 

Powerpoint.

Notes in Powerpoint - Hebrews and Judaism  - Last update

 Nov 12, 2014

Handouts -  Summary on Judaism,  Vocabulary Review, 

Section Quiz,

Tuesday  will include a  Cloze review

Promised Land

Promised Land as Song

ROMA and Europe

Roma Child Abduction Case

Editorial on the Roma issues


Piece on Roma - NY Sunday Times

Letter to Editor

Who Was Elizabeth and why didn't Philip and Mary like her?

"Golden Age" Screenplay



http://youtu.be/0wNboYbgYjo

Global 1 Learning Targets October 16, 2013

Learning Targets:

 

 1)  Compare Contrast Sumer and Egypt  (Content)

2)  Create and Outline to Summarize main ideas of a "text document and image documents"  (Process)

 

Agenda

 1)   DIN - Writing down questions regarding learning

2) Review Learning Targets, comments questions from yesterday

3)  Cloze activity on Sumer and Egypt. Learning to add additional information to  answers (preparation for essay writing on exams.)

4)  Summarize how Egypt was able to achieve complex engineering of buildings. See visual, then use an example to support idea.Video

Malala says assassination threats can't weaken her cause

War over Water: Egypt vs. Ethiopia

1. Water Wars: Egyptians Condemn Ethiopia's Nile Dam Project

   news.nationalgeographic.com/.../130927-grand-ethiopian-renaissance-da...‎

   Sep 27, 2013 - Aerial photograph of the Blue Nile river in Northern Ethiopia. ... and fury with which most Egyptians regard plans to dam the Blue Nile River.

2. News for ethiopia nile river dam egypt

   1. Ethiopia seeks Egypt and Sudan support in key Dam project

      Sudan Tribune ‎- 9 hours ago

      The Nile water is a source to 95 % of Egypt's water demand. Ethiopia's massive dam project has been a major economic and water security ...
3. 
   

   Egypt Rules Out War With Ethiopia Over Nile River Hydropower Dam

   www.bloomberg.com/.../egypt-rules-out-war-with-ethiopia-over-nile-riv...‎

   Jul 26, 2013 - Egypt has no plans to go to war with Ethiopia over the Horn of Africa nation's construction of a hydropower dam on the Nile River, said Mona ...
4. 
   

   Ethiopia's Plan to Dam the Nile Has Egypt Fuming | TIME.com

   world.time.com/2013/.../ethiopias-plan-to-dam-the-nile-has-egypt-fumin...‎

   Jun 28, 2013 - Ethiopia's Plan to Dam the Nile Has Egypt Fuming ... Young couple on the banks of the river Nile on the outskirts of Cairo, May 6, 2013.
5. 
   

   Who Owns the Nile? Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia's History-Changing ...

   origins.osu.edu/.../who-owns-nile-egypt-sudan-and-ethiopia-s-history-ch...‎

   Egypt and Sudan are utterly dependent on the waters of the Nile River. ... plans to build an airstrip for bombing a dam in the Blue Nile River Gorge in Ethiopia.
   
   
   

 

John Parr - St. Elmo's Fire (lyrics on screen).

There are many themes in History: One theme is a person's struggle against different forces.

Here are four possible categories

Man versus Man, Man vs Self, Man vs. Nature, Man vs. Society.

Over the past week 2 songs have been played - Horse with No Name, Island Style, and now St. Elmo's Fire. We have classified the songs identifying geographic features and man's view of them. In addition we have seen how nature can be weapon used by men to fight and commit genocide against other groups of men (Saddam vs the Mad'an (The Marsh Arabs). We have also read about how the Egyptians and Sumerians dealt with the forces of Nature which could have threatened their communities and used them for the common good.

Below is a song called St. Elmo's fire. Consider what themes and words that give evidence to Events, History, Culture, Geography and Economics. What is the main idea here? How does it make you feel. (use graphic organizer - I see, I feel, think, and have questions about.

-America- A Horse with No Name

Geography of Iraq  - Images of Iraq

Source: Wikipedia - Iraq.(on Oct 7 2013)

Iraq lies between latitudes 29° and 38° N, and longitudes 39° and 49° E (a small area lies west of 39°). Spanning 437,072 km²(168,754 sq mi), it is the 58th-largest country in the world. It is comparable in size to the US state of California, and somewhat larger than Paraguay.

Iraq mainly consists of desert, but near the two major rivers (Euphrates and Tigris) are fertile alluvial plains, as the rivers carry about 60,000,000 m³ (78,477,037 cu yd) of silt annually to the delta. The north of the country is mostly composed of mountains; the highest point being at 3,611 m (11,847 ft) point, unnamed on the map opposite, but known locally as Cheekah Dar (black tent). Iraq has a small coastline measuring 58 km (36 mi) along the Persian Gulf. Close to the coast and along the Shatt al-Arab (known as arvandrūd: اروندرود among Iranians) there used to be marshlands, but many were drained in the 1990s.

Climate

Main article: Climate of Iraq

Most of Iraq has a hot arid climate with subtropical influence. Summer temperatures average above 40 °C (104 °F) for most of the country and frequently exceed 48 °C (118.4 °F). Winter temperatures infrequently exceed 21 °C (69.8 °F) with maxima roughly 15 to 19 °C (59 to 66.2 °F) and night-time lows 2 to 5 °C (35.6 to 41 °F). Typically precipitation is low; most places receive less than 250 mm (9.8 in) annually, with maximum rainfall occurring during the winter months. Rainfall during the summer is extremely rare, except in the far north of the country. The northern mountainous regions have cold winters with occasional heavy snows, sometimes causing extensive flooding.

No Innocent Spice: The story of Nutmeg

from NPR

The Golden Spice bring health and happiness

JOHN CRUZ Island Style

What is Base 60 and What does it have to do with Hammurabi and Sargon

Connection what does base 60 does have to do with 60 secs in an a minutes, 60 minutes in an hour - read more to find out. Read more Wikipedia Also from more from about.com

Resurrecting Eden

In Iraq, where many biblical scholars place the Garden of Eden, Scott Pelley finds a water world where the Marsh Arabs are making a comeback after Saddam nearly destroyed the cradle of civilization

To see transcript and and links to "ancient crafts" and "waterworld" Photographs of Iraq's marshlands Go to the website supporting and documenting the efforts to restore the marshlands

Are you Ignorant of World Affairs? What were the causes the shutdown of the U.S. Government

Democracy is difficult because it requires an informed citizenry that is patient and willing to participate in the art of compromise (see John Stuart Mill , "On Liberties").

To often in a wealthy society with a tradition of democracy people are not able or choose not to listen to other opinion, reason, consider the evidence to consider for whom to vote, and what legislation is worth supporting that will advance the cause of all people.  They become ignorant and susceptible to demagogues.

Ignorant is often a misunderstood. With out knowledge and informed citizenary we will find ourselves looking for water in the desert, because we forgot to consider the challenge of a desert adventure.

Geography Review

See Video to review some basic geography terms

Breaking News Sept 11

 The Day before
News Events 

and
9/11 news cast.

Egypt Democracy Timeline

see a timeline of events click below.

NY Times Timeline

Country Research Project

Download Powerpoint File / Template to complete project

Two Essays to Write for your chosen country.

Do this First ( due Wed May 30)
  Thematic Geographic Factors - Essay.
1) Outline ( Use MR. Help)
2) Essay
3) Be sure to describe and analyze
4) Include data gathering from the - Country Research Sheet

Do this 2nd  (due Friday, June 1)
Thematic Nationalism Essay
1) - an outline - (Either in Powerpoint, or written)
2) An Essay
3) Be sure to describe and analyze
4) Include data gathering from the - Country Research Sheet

==================
Reminders 
- Gandhi / Hitler Essay due May 28th. 
- Every day after school -  Global Review @ 2:30 - different topic each day.

-  Global Review Night - Thursday April 6 - 4:00 to 6:00 pm.


- Finally - use Castle Learning for Practice Questions and another site is Quizlet

Comparing Leaders or People of Historical Influence

Outline - Thematic / DBQ Essay 

Comparing Two Leaders / People who have influenced History

I.  Introduction - Main Idea - restate Historical Context

1.  Place and Who ? /  2.. Place and Who? 

II. Gandhi 

A.  who was he? where was he from? What his culture?

B.  Key Events in His Life

C. Key  Events in India's History including British involvement

D. Document 1 - The Salt March

1. Key Idea 1 

2.  Key Idea 2

E. Document 2 - Gandhi's Philosophy

1. Key Idea 1 

2.  Key Idea 2

         III. HItler 

  A.  who was he? where was he from? What his culture?

B.  Key Events in His Life

C. Key  Events in India's History including British involvement

D. Document 1 - The Nazi Party's Goals

1. Key Idea 1 

2.  Key Idea 2

E. Document 2 - Nationalism in Germany

1. Key Idea 1 

2.  Key Idea 2

Gandhi - Nationalist - War Through Peace

Video Links   

South Africa - A Lawyer becomes an activist

A Hero returns from South Africa

Armistar Massacre - A challenge to the values of non-violent civil Disobedience.



Review Questions for India

Rwanda

Rwanda Resources

Ghosts Video


Ghosts of Rwanda 14 min Youtube.

Teacher Guide

Full Video by Frontline


Did the French back the Hutu Army during the conflict between the Ethnic Groups
- Backing the Hutus under the mistaken belief they were looking for Tutsi's who allegedly shot down the plane?

Geographic Factors and Nation building

What are the factors that Build a Country?

- Research the geographic factors of a nation
- Use Culture Grams, Online Encyclopedias including Wikipedia (record sources of information
- Use Question and Answer Sheet
- Use MR. Help Graphic Organizer for  Factors of a Nation building

List of Documents




Think Mr. Help

China Current Events

Censorship of American Films



Video: Violent brawl breaks out in Beijing - CBS News Video

'Times' Reporter Ordered To Leave Pakistan : NPR

'Times' Reporter Ordered To Leave Pakistan : NPR

Nawaz Sharif Expected To Win Pakistan's Elections : NPR

Nawaz Sharif Expected To Win Pakistan's Elections : NPR

Interview: Melissa Mohr, Author Of 'Holy Sh*t' : NPR

Interview: Melissa Mohr, Author Of 'Holy Sh*t' : NPR

North Korea Replaces Hard-Line Defense Chief : The Two-Way : NPR

North Korea Replaces Hard-Line Defense Chief : The Two-Way : NPR

Five Years After A Quake, Chinese Cite Shoddy Reconstruction : Parallels : NPR

Five Years After A Quake, Chinese Cite Shoddy Reconstruction : Parallels : NPR

Vietnam's Appetite For Rhino Horn Drives Poaching In Africa : Parallels : NPR

Vietnam's Appetite For Rhino Horn Drives Poaching In Africa : Parallels : NPR

Class Notes and Assignments

Notes from Class

Middle East Nationalism

South Africa

Media Focus On Ailing Mandela Is Not 'The African Way' : NPR

Afghanistan

http://www.npr.org/2013/05/08/179079930/afghans-confront-senstive-issue-of-ethnicity

South Korea

  Links to National Anthem

 Video Clip


Lyrics

North Korea Video of National Anthem

State of Mind - North Korea - Video Review

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0074q9w

India's Color Festival

go to  link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9o1rWMtfPsc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odzAA5jyNYQ   RICE PLANTING FESTIVAL 

1)  What are some events that have caused the Syrian conflict to move from a civil war to a regional war?

2) What claim did Israel make in stating that its bombing in Syria was in Self Defense?


3) Why do other countries believe that Israel was an aggressor?

4) Who is Hezbollah - and who is mentioned as their ally?

5) Who is Russia allied with in the Syrian Conflict

6) Who are Israel's allies?

Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

North Korea - Notes

Images of   North Korea


Mouse that Roared

Some immediately pinned the blame on North Korea because of their activities the previous week

http://blog.syracuse.com/opinion/2013/04/focus_on_compassion_not_fear_a.html#incart_river


Why is North Korea no longer in the News? One wonders why

North Korea smuggler http://nyti.ms/15CKwUg


North Korea  - NY Post

Korean War Vet - who shared wear the medals?
http://blog.syracuse.com/opinion/2013/05/this_marine_thinks_its_ok_for.html#incart_river

Key Dates in North Koreas - Timeline.

Mariela Castro Wins Gay-Rights Advocacy Award : NPR

Mariela Castro Wins Gay-Rights Advocacy Award : NPR

Port Of Baltimore Seeks Boost From Panama Canal Expansion : NPR

Port Of Baltimore Seeks Boost From Panama Canal Expansion : NPR

German Terrorism Trial Puts Racism Fears In The Spotlight : NPR

German Terrorism Trial Puts Racism Fears In The Spotlight : NPR

Axis of Evil vs Axis of Good

Global II Assignment.


Read the following  Chapter 31 -  Section 4   - Conflicts in the Middle East. 



Read the following  Chapter 33 -  Section 3 - Threats to World Security

Read the following Speech.

http://archives.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/01/29/bush.speech.txt/index.html


watch the following video


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tC2PQfx0deM


Then read the speech. 

Global II Assignments Week of April 29 to May 3

Block 1 - Global II. 




Notes
This site should be available on all mobile devices if not - please email - at ssgates@me.com

If you have an Iphone - download load free flipboard program to view this.

If you have an andriod phone - use this?

If you have a windows phone use this..

For Chinese Women, Marriage Depends On Right 'Bride Price' : NPR

For Chinese Women, Marriage Depends On Right 'Bride Price' : NPR

Women hold up half the sky, China's Chairman Mao famously said. But in China, the one-child policy and the traditional preference for boys mean that 117 boys are born for every 100 baby girls. By one estimate, this means there could be 24 million Chinese men unable to find wives by the end of the decade.

As China's economy booms, the marriage market has become just that: a market, with new demands by women for apartments and cars.

But are women really benefiting from their scarcity?

go to link to review story For Chinese Women, Marriage Depends On Right 'Bride Price' : NPR

Hunger Striking at Guantánamo Bay - NYTimes.com

Hunger Striking at Guantánamo Bay - NYTimes.com

ONE man here weighs just 77 pounds. Another, 98. Last thing I knew, I weighed 132, but that was a month ago.

I’ve been on a hunger strike since Feb. 10 and have lost well over 30 pounds. I will not eat until they restore my dignity.

I’ve been detained at Guantánamo for 11 years and three months. I have never been charged with any crime. I have never received a trial.

I could have been home years ago — no one seriously thinks I am a threat — but still I am here. Years ago the military said I was a “guard” for Osama bin Laden, but this was nonsense, like something out of the American movies I used to watch. They don’t even seem to believe it anymore. But they don’t seem to care how long I sit here, either.

When I was at home in Yemen, in 2000, a childhood friend told me that in Afghanistan I could do better than the $50 a month I earned in a factory, and support my family. I’d never really traveled, and knew nothing about Afghanistan, but I gave it a try.

continue this article......

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/15/opinion/hunger-striking-at-guantanamo-bay.html?smid=pl-share

Half of Guantanamo inmates on hunger strike: US official - The Times of India

Half of Guantanamo inmates on hunger strike: US official - The Times of India

WASHINGTON: More than half of the 166 detainees held at the US-run Guantanamo military prison have joined a rapidly growing hunger strike to protest their indefinite detention, an official said on Sunday. 

There are 84 inmates who are refusing food, including 16 on feeding tubes, five of whom are hospitalized, Lieutenant Colonel Samuel Housesaid in a statement, adding that none had "life-threatening conditions." 

House said that as recently as Friday there were 63 inmates who were refusing to eat. On Tuesday of last week just 45 were taking part. 

The hunger strikers are protesting their incarceration without charge or trial at Guantanamo in the 11 years since the prison went into use for terror suspects detained in Afghanistan and Pakistan. 

The hunger strikes began February 6, when inmates claimed prison officials searched their Qurans for contraband. Officials have deniedany mishandling of Islam's holy book. 

An inmate detained at Guantanamo for over a decade without charge gave a graphic account of his participation in the hunger strike in a New York Times op-ed earlier this month entitled "Gitmo Is Killing Me." 

The inmate, a 35-year-old Yemeni named Samir Naji al-Hasan Moqbel, said he had lost over 30 pounds since going on hunger strike February 10 and that a fellow inmate weighed just 77 pounds. 

"I will never forget the first time they passed the feeding tube up my nose. I can't describe how painful it is to be force-fed this way," he wrote. 

"There are so many of us on hunger strike now that there aren't enough qualified medical staff members to carry out the force-feedings ... They are feeding people around the clock just to keep up." 

Like most of the striking inmates, Moqbel has never been charged with a crime or put on trial, and is not viewed as a threat to US national security. 

However, he cannot be released because of a moratorium on repatriating Yemenis enacted by President Barack Obama in 2009 after a plot to blow up an airliner on Christmas Day was traced back to al-Qaida's Yemeni franchise.

Bombing suspect’s YouTube account mirrored jihadist conflicts in Caucasus - The Washington Post

Bombing suspect’s YouTube account mirrored jihadist conflicts in Caucasus - The Washington Post

MOSCOW — In a few months, starting last August, the YouTube account in the name of Tamerlan Tsarnaev took on an increasingly puritanical religious tone. It moved from secular militancy to Islamist certainty.

It seemed to mirror the wars in the Caucasus, which shifted from a separatist conflict in Chechnya in the 1990s to a jihadist campaign that continues to this day in neighboringDagestan.


see images about Chechnya

Beslan Meets Columbine - NYTimes.com

Beslan Meets Columbine - NYTimes.com

I COULD always spot the Chechens in Vienna. They were darker-haired than the Austrians; they dressed more snappily, like 1950s gangsters; they never had anything to do.

There are thousands of Chechen refugees in Austria, and thousands more in Poland, France, Turkey, Kazakhstan, Dubai and elsewhere (as well as scattered communities in the United States). Wherever they are, they stand out, a nation apart.

The word most linked to “Chechen” is “terrorist,” because of the attacks against the audience at Moscow’s Dubrovka Theater in 2002, against children in Beslan, North Ossetia, in 2004, and now the marathon in Boston. But terrorists were only ever a tiny fraction of the population. A more accurate word to link to “Chechen” would be “refugee.” Perhaps 20 percent, perhaps more, of all Chechens have left Chechnya in the last 20 years.

read more

Beslan Meets Columbine - NYTimes.com

Syria

NPR Story

Huge survey reveals seven social classes in UK

People in the UK now fit into seven social classes, a major survey conducted by the BBC suggests.

It says the traditional categories of working, middle and upper class are outdated, fitting 39% of people.
It found a new model of seven social classes ranging from the elite at the top to a "precariat" - the poor, precarious proletariat - at the bottom.
More than 161,000 people took part in the Great British Class Survey, the largest study of class in the UK.
Class has traditionally been defined by occupation, wealth and education. But this research argues that this is too simplistic, suggesting that class has three dimensions - economic, social and cultural.

Read story

Algae Bloom in Florida Kills Record Number of Manatees - NYTimes.com

Algae Bloom in Florida Kills Record Number of Manatees - NYTimes.com

Global II - Renaissance and Reformation

Renaissance and Reformation 

Review some important ideas and images

4 Big Ideas
1) Italian Renaissance
2) The Northern Renaissance
3) The Protestant Reformation - see this link for modern day rap on the 95 Theses
4) Counter Reformation

Challenges of Late Middle Ages

What were the Challenges  of the late Middle Ages

Click here to watch 1

what were the other  two? 

Lesson - Art and Architecture of the Middle Ages

 Monday January 14, 2012 

 Learning Targets
Describe the  Great Achievements that were made in the in the Visual Arts, literature, and thinking and Learning during the Middle Ages

Key Vocabulary 
Gothic, flying buttress, illumination, troubadours, Scholasticism Gist, Hanseatic League, Credit, Guilds, Apprentice,Journeyman

How was this accomplished: 

Students scanned the section Art a and Culture of the Middle Ages utilizing information a section  from textbook to write a summary, utilizing documents, and collecting  timeline data, identifying key ideas in subsections, then placed in a binder. 

Using the data collected a a summary was written considering what the cultural force that impacted the types of Achievements that were made during the High Middle Ages.

Homework - Reading / and Q and A on Art and Culture of the Middle Ages.

Global I Assignments Due

The Listing of Global Assignments due by Jan 17.

Global I -   End of Marking Period Checklist  - the following items should be in your notebook.

I.                    Notebook  - placed in binder or in spiral notebook – all notes for 1^st and 2^nd Marking Period

a.       Notes are in

II.                  Mini- Research Projects

a.       Crusades

                                                               i.      Prezi

                                                             ii.      Document Listing

1.       Summary of Key information from “Documents” in section (maps, charts, art)

                                                            iii.      Data Chart of Key Dates from chapter

1.       Timeline / Story Board on one side key events

                                                           iv.      Gist of each subsection of Crusades Section – key words – using handout

                                                             v.      Summary (5ws and H)

                                                           vi.      (Answers to Questions at end of  Section in Textbook

b.       Your Section Report    Chapter #____   Sec #__   Title: _________________

                                                               i.      Prezi

                                                             ii.      Document Listing

1.       Summary of Key information from “Documents” in section (maps, charts, art)

                                                            iii.      Data Chart of Key Dates from chapter

1.       Timeline / Story Board on one side key events

                                                           iv.      Gist of each subsection of Crusades Section – key words – using handout

                                                             v.      Summary (5ws and H)

                                                           vi.      (Answers to Questions at end of  Section in Textbook

III.                In Class  - Section Reports   Should include  all of the above except the Prezi.

a.       Section 2 Trade and Towns  (Jan 10^th, Jan 11)

b.      Section 3 Art and Culture of the Middle Ages

c.       Challenges of the Late Middle Ages

Packets

I.                    The Early Middle Ages Chapters – Section 1-5

II.                  The High Middle Ages – sections  1-3 (4 and 5) if Assigned

Presentations on Global History - Using Prezis

Post your historical prezi.  Use the following link to share your PREZIs.

Choice 1 - Post your prezi on the  this online interactive billboard

Use the comment section below to share  your Prezi. Use the Share button on in your prezi presentation to show your work. They will not be posted until approved by the Teacher.