Wednesday, February 12, 2014

2/12 HW/Review

HW:  None
Review:
Today we ran through an entire Model UN session on North Korea, from start to finish.
Tomorrow we begin learning about the Israel/Palestine issue in preparation for our final Exhibition,
Monday March 17 2014 at Fort Lewis College
More details coming soon.

Tuesday, February 11, 2014

2/11 HW/Review

HW:  Write a 2 minute speech to convince other countries to support one of the four resolutions you received in your packet today.

Review:
--Ran through parliamentary procedures on a resolution to make Durango the best-dressed city in the US.
--Read the four resolutions up for debate in tomorrow's simulation, and decided how our country felt about each resolution.
--Began thinking and discussing possible amendments to the resolutions, according to the perspective of our countries and our allies.

2/11 Classwork

Click on the link below to read and rate the resolutions between the ones your country would support, and the ones that your country would not support using this scale:

1= definitely support resolution as it is
2=support with some small changes
3=not support unless major changes
4=would need to get a LOT of changes to support

https://docs.google.com/a/animashighschool.com/document/d/1fB8Z0U6MoxOLs6tcf_YMdEY29oCKWbR72lr1nRetYxA/edit?usp=sharing

Monday, February 10, 2014

2/10 HW/Review

HW:  None
Review:
Today we had in-class worktime all day to complete our resolutions and did peer and self critiques.
Students who finished early completed a survey about the project and began watching the video of last year's MUN.
Students who needed to re-do their policy papers checked in with Matt on how to complete revisions correctly.
Tomorrow we will prepare for our Wednesday simulation of a model UN session!

2/10 Classwork


Email parents the time and date of exhibition written on whiteboard.


Copy and paste this google doc into a NEW googledoc of your own...title it
"___(your name)_____ Resolution


Complete this survey:, be Specific, Helpful, and Kind please!   https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/HS2P696

When you're all done, watch as much of this video as you can and take notes on the sequence of events...imagine yourself going through the debate and learning how to do it right:
https://docs.google.com/a/animashighschool.com/file/d/0B4rDlTO-PUWvM3VoaXdGRGcxS1k/edit