February 2

Social 20-1

I had you all sign up for the Social 20-1 wiki. The e-mail invitation in all likelihood will be sent to your junk e-mail. I started the PowerPoint presentation on "Nation and Identity" today. I covered all of the understandings of nation. I will continue this presentation on Monday. If you missed this class today, you need to get the notes/points that I emphasized while I was lecturing. You have homework this long weekend, you need to write a friendly letter of introduction.


You have a friendly letter of introduction which is due on Monday, February 6th. Please make sure that you organize your writing in a friendly letter format, covering the following topics: 

• family
• interests
• academic background (i.e. what junior high school did you go to?)
• academic goals (what are your goals for Social Studies/ academic goals for this semester/year, future goals/aspirations)
• what other classes are you taking this semester?
• hobbies
• sports,
• favorite movies
• favorite TV shows
• favorite music
• favorite books

These are just suggestions to get you started, if you can think of other topics to cover, please do so. You will hand in this assignment on Monday, February 6th at the beginning of class. It can be typed if you choose, or hand written. It doesn't matter to me if it's double-spaced or not. 

Social 10-1

We started looking at different perspectives of globalization by looking at definitions from different speakers. Some of these definitions were positive, negative and neutral. This activity should have introduced you to the idea of analyzing a text-based source, and finding the key phrases in a source that indicate the speaker's perspective. You were supposed to take a picture of one of the globalization images that was in the envelope with the globalization quotes. You're going to create a Google Doc and share it with me (allow me to edit it), with the image at the top (give the Google Doc a title like Social 10-1 Globalization Source Analysis, and don't forget to put your name on it). You're to write a paragraph about your source. I will comment on your Google Doc, and you'll probably have to edit it. Make sure that you're making connections to globalization concepts in your analysis.


You have a friendly letter of introduction which is due on Monday, February 6th. Please make sure that you organize your writing in a friendly letter format, covering the following topics: 

• family
• interests
• academic background (i.e. what junior high school did you go to?)
• academic goals (what are your goals for Social Studies/ academic goals for this semester/year, future goals/aspirations)
• what other classes are you taking this semester?
• hobbies
• sports,
• favorite movies
• favorite TV shows
• favorite music
• favorite books

These are just suggestions to get you started, if you can think of other topics to cover, please do so. You will hand in this assignment on Monday, February 6th at the beginning of class. It can be typed if you choose, or hand written. It doesn't matter to me if it's double-spaced or not.