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21st Century Lesson Plan Revised

__**LESSON STANDARDS UTILIZED:**__

//**Content Standard(s):**//
 * 1. E.1** On a map of the world, locate the continent of Europe.
 * 2. E.3** Explain how the following five factors have influenced settlement and the economies of major European countries (G, E) – A. Absolute and Relative Locations.

//**Technology Standard(s):**//
 * 1. G6-8: 1.3** Independently operate peripheral equipment (e.g., scanner, digital camera, camcorder if available.)
 * 2. G6-8: 1.18** Use Web browsing to access information (e.g., enter a URL, access links, create bookmarks/favorites, print Web pages).
 * 3. G6-8: 1.24** Create a multimedia presentation using various media as appropriate (e.g., audio, video, animations, etc.).

//**Literacy Standard(s):**//
 * 1. 1.17** Read, listen, and watch from all relevant and appropriate sources to gain an overview of the topic.

__**DO NOW:**__ Please login to your VoiceThread account created last night for homework in a seperate tab. If you did not complete the homework, a link to the registration page is provided here: Do Your Homework On Time!

After reading the two prompts please respond in a text based fashion. If you are having trouble reading the prompts they are located below:
 * 1) Which backyard would you choose to live in and why? //**-**// **Write //the response on your selected backyard.//**
 * 2) If your backyard could be joined with another, to form a common backyard, whose backyard would you choose? List //two advantages// and //two disadvantages// to this plan. //**-**// **Write //this response on the backyard you would choose to join with.//**

The assigned VoiceThread and responses will appear below for review when completed: media type="custom" key="8830972" //﻿// __**ACTIVITY ONE:**__ Please now open your textbooks to page 213 (14.1 Introduction). When I throw the ball at you, it is your turn to read aloud. Following this reading ONE student will be selected to write the ESSENTIAL QUESTION (provided below) upon the board.

__//Essential Question://__ What forces work for and against supranational cooperation among nations?

__**ACTIVITY TWO:**__ Please now turn your textbooks to page 214 (14.2 The Geographic Setting). I will now select three of you (who have participated most effectively and appropriately) to sit in front of the class and engage in //HOT SEATS.// //HOT SEATS// is a game in which the three students chosen will be called upon after each mini-section of the text has been read, to recall facts. If any of the three students cannot recall a fact, they will be asked to switch seats with the student whom posed the question. At the end of the activity the students remaining will recieve TWO EXTRA CREDIT POINTS.

__**ACTIVITY THREE:**__ Please now open up your notebooks to a clean piece of paper in your classwork section. Format the paper in a two-column notes fashion. Please complete the two-column notes with relation to the aforementioned text (14.2) using the template provided below: 14.2 Two-column Notes

__**ACTIVITY FOUR:**__ Please now watch the below video after gaining a deeper understanding of the European Union via your textbook and notes.

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Now, below your two-column notes, please type three ways in which the above video was similar to the text and three ways in which it differed. After doing so, please also type a response citing who you believe to be the proper audience for such a video (Foreigners, Students, Parents, EU Members?).

__**CLOSING ACTIVITY:**__ Please now take a look at the above posted VoiceThread once more. Take a moment to read your peers responses. Please now reply to the following prompt independently, in a newly formed word document entitled, "14.2 Closing" : //"How does the online neighborhood activity relate to the joining of countries in the European Union?"//

__**HOMEWORK:**__ Please watch the selected clip below. It is a picture journey from Morocco to Spain. Thus, as we are traveling from the continent of Africa to Europe in our textbooks, so shall we in image form:

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Now, form a two paragraph response noting the various places, people, clothing, food, and types of transportation shown. This should be a quick summary of what you have just seen. //Can you make sense of it all?// //Is any image of significant interest to you?// //Is Malden as colorful?//

__**FOR FUN:**__ The below link is a wonderful site to visit if you are in an academic mood and wish to refine your knowledge of the EU. Challenge a classmate to a game, have the winner screenshot the results and email them to me for (5) extra credit points! //EU Game//