2012 April 10 – Bell Ringer Turn in your homework to the bin on the front table. Get out a blank sheet of paper, head it with your first and last name, today’s date, and the period that you have world history. Title the paper “Classroom Points of Order.”

a lesson on procedures and expectations CLASSROOM POINTS OF ORDER

New Rule or Old Rule? Writing You should have a pencil to write with in this class every day. Your work must be in pencil. No pens are allowed. Copy one of the following sentences: I knew I have to write in pencil. I didn’t realize that I needed a pencil in class every day. I didn’t know that I couldn’t write in pen; I will write with a pencil instead.

New Rule or Old Rule? Bathroom use during class time I expect you to use the restroom during lunch or in between classes so that you never leave class. Starting today, if you use the bathroom, you will be required to make up the time you were out of the room. Make up time will be served before or after school. If the time is not made up within one week, you will be issued a detention. Copy one of the following sentences: I don’t go to the bathroom during class. I will be making up time with Mr. Deutsch because I do not use the bathrooms during lunch and between classes.

New Rule or Old Rule? Gum chewing in class There is no excuse for chewing gum in this class. Starting today, if you chew gum in here, you will be required to make up the time as if you had gone to the bathroom. Make up time will be served before or after school. If the time is not made up within one week, you will be moved up a step on the discipline ladder. Copy one of the following sentences: I don’t chew gum during class. I will be making up time with Mr. Deutsch because I cannot stop chewing gum in class.

New Rule or Old Rule? Lost Papers and Nameless Papers I will only hold lost or missing papers for three days from now on. You should check the wall every day or so just in case your paper is up there. If you check eSembler, it can tell you if you are missing work. Check your paper right now. Did you head it correctly? Copy one of the following sentences: I always write my name. I have not always headed my paper correctly in this class.

New Rule or Old Rule? Notes I expect you to keep every paper that I hand back to you. The grades in the 3 rd nine weeks were atrocious because people were unable to produce the work I know they had completed. Notes check grades are NOT going away. If you need to punch holes in your paper, please use the three-hole punch on the front table. Copy one of the following sentences: I will keep all my notes. I need to do a better job of keeping my notes together so that my grade does not drop even though I did all the work.

WHAT IS LEFT? (1 MINUTE TO WRITE) Write a complete+ sentences to answer the following question: What is something we have not learned in history class that we will be studying in the next nine weeks?

TIME’S UP! Did your answer include one of these three things?

African Civilization

Classical Asia

Holocaust

The City of Constantine CONSTANTINOPLE

An Atlas Activity OPPORTUNITY COST Please get into four groups. No more than seven students may be in a group. Stand with your group in one of the four corners. You will work alone on these questions for ten minutes. The better you answer, the more valuable you will be to a group later. There are twenty different questions. You should write in complete+ sentences. Once you have your paper, go get an atlas and get started!

An Atlas Activity OPPORTUNITY COST Please get into four groups. No more than seven students may be in a group. Stand with your group in one of the four corners. You will work alone on these questions for ten minutes. The better you answer, the more valuable you will be to a group later. There are twenty different questions. You should write in complete+ sentences. Once you have your paper, go get an atlas and get started! GO!

TIME’S UP! Put away your atlases and turn in your question sheets. Now get all the other answers written down. Everyone in the class can be your resource. When you get an answer from someone else, write their name next to that answer. Good luck!

BuddhismChristianityHinduismIslamJudaism Founder Time period / location of founding Holy Books Beliefs Customs / Practices Holidays / Festivals Important People It would be a really good idea to have this completed by tomorrow, but you sorta do not have homework.