Tuesday 20 September 2016

Socials 8

September 19, 2016

1.  Students wrote "European Map Quiz".
2.  Reviewed what we learned about last day
              - Fall of the Roman Empire and the consequences of that on Western European civilization
              -Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
3.  Students then wrote a paragraph that outlined what they thought it is going to take for Western Europe to get back to the level of civilization that existed during the Roman Empire.
            -students were given time to work on their paragraph during class - due: Sept 20
4.  As a class we discussed what might help W. Europe become more civilized.  One common answer was rules, laws and someone to enforce these - lead to the topic of "religion".  
        -we defined religion
        -we discussed the purposes of religion within a society
        -the three main religions found in Europe during the time period we will be studying - 
         Christianity, Judaism, and Islam.
5.  We finished off with Canadian trivia.