Welcome to our classroom blog!

Welcome to our classroom blog! 

I'm so excited to start sharing the work the 6th grade students are doing in our World Cultures class. I'll be posting the best work of the week here, as well as homework assignments, weekly vocabulary lists, quiz dates, and unit/lesson essential questions. 

For the first post, I'll start by giving you an update of where we've been and provide some photos of the fantastic work the students have done so far this year! 

Southeast Asia

Before the FCAT began this week we wrapped up a unit on Southeast Asia, my favorite unit so far. I think the students really enjoyed it as well! We learned about the climate, culture, and history of this diverse region of islands and peninsulas. 

My students learned about the Vietnam War through videos, photographs, and various texts. We watched clips from the television show "The Wonder Years," the documentary Dear America, Letters from Vietnam, and clips from the movie Across the Universe. We used cause and effect and sequencing to understand this important event. 

7th Period's "Before, During, and After" Drawings:

We also watched portions of a documentary Scream Bloody Murder to learn about the Cambodian genocide in the mid-1970s by the Khmer Rouge. The students created posters to hang on the door in the style of "Kony 2012" posters; instead of Kony, though, we focused on Pol Pot, the leader of the Khmer Rouge. 

My 4th period class did a great job brainstorming and creating posters:

At the end of the unit, students compared and contrasted the countries of Southeast Asia and then chose one country they would visit. Then they created a travel brochure about that country to try to convince ME to visit! 

Alani's travel brochure stood out from the crowd--she did a fantastic job!

Thanks for reading!

Next Post: Australia!