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This wiki is to help you. I will post the materials we use in class in case you missed something. Use the index on the left to guide you, most recent material will be at the top and will be organised by date.

If there is something you CANNOT do, or DO NOT understand, please come and see me. My email is louisedavis@vsa.edu.hk.

A prize if you can get the answer: Pale and sickly around, uh, river port in central China (5 letters)

31/5/12

25/5/12 Three Gorges Dam Why did China build it? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BlxRBMLpFU

24/5/12 first period Review sources, homework notes on the 3 sources. second period assessment one period Please collect

If they finish they can watch these tedtalks: [] media type="custom" key="18608554" []

17/5/12 Review of our source analysis skills

Homework Preview and take notes due 24/5/12

Source help from year 8

11/5/12 Mining Tungsten http://www.bloomberg.com/video/90231421/

What are the consequences of resource exploitation? Brainstorm on bubbl.us - the impact of China's resource use according to the AoIs. environments, health, solutions + technology (HI), community

Homework due 18/5/12

10/5/12 China and resources

Describe the map on page 105 of the atlas. Complete China's energy production and consumption worksheet. Complete activity 1 on China energy, "You work for the energy department....."

water: http://www.circleofblue.org/waternews/2011/world/infographic-chinas-water-pollution-events-and-protection-policies-2004-2011/

http://www.circleofblue.org/waternews/2011/world/infographic-chinas-water-pollution-events-and-protection-policies-2004-2011/ http://www.circleofblue.org/waternews/2011/world/rains-bring-relief-for-six-month-china-drought/ http://www.circleofblue.org/waternews/2012/world/map-major-hydropower-in-china/

http://www.circleofblue.org/waternews/2011/world/chinas-other-looming-choke-point-food-production/



http://www.circleofblue.org/waternews/2011/world/off-the-deep-end-beijings-water-demand-outnumbers-supply-despite-conservation-recycling-and-imports/ http://www.pbs.org/kqed/chinainside/nature/environment.html

4/5/12 So what? Why is population and population structure an issue? Isn't democratic reform more important? Malthus and his ideas

3/5/12 some additional reading http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-03-05/china-one-child-policy-poses-risks-for-next-leaders-correct-.html?cmpid=otbrn.sustain.story

Homework due 11/5/12 aim to write a page, arial font 11, 1.5 spacinh

26/4/12 China's population structure Population M and Ms Game

World odometers http://www.7billionworld.com/ http://www.worldometers.info/

20/4/12

19/4/12 We began our new unit on China. Remember to bring a brown pack of M and Ms on Thursday.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-17509464

30/3/12 Work on your assessment.

29/3/12 We'll check your review. We'll zip through the last 2 stages of the revolution

and introduce the assessment task - a speech which you will video You'll begin working on it, Thursday, Friday, Friday's homework. Due Monday 2/4/12.



President Obama

Obama speech [] start at 5 minutes and watch to end. This is what he is saying: Obama.doc

24/3/12 Plus ca change Have a look at what has happened in Mali http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/23/world/africa/mali-coup-france-calls-for-elections.html Which stage of a revolution is this?

23/3/12 You need to review. Follow the instructions on the review sheet, which is a printout of this powerpoint. Complete it for homework for 29/3/12. You will need to look over your work and the readings which are on this page. Here are some extra ones:

22/3/12 Project Week is over. And today we will miss our lesson because we will go to CIS to see their PP exhibition. So, we will delay the assessment by one week. You will begin work on it next week.

8/3/12 We'll complete our work on the tension graph and statements. We will lose our class on 2/3/12 due to staff training.

1/3/12 Tension graph

24/2/12 Cartoon analysis Homework due 1/3/12 The Terror is the wrong document for homework. Thank you to those who noticed and who are not leaving their homework to the last minute. Please do the questions on The Thermidorian Reaction. You can have an extension but you must email it to me on Friday. 23/2/12 17/2/12 Homework is due today. Homework for next Friday 24/2/12 16/2/12 Causes and consequences 10/2/12 Record your podcast. Let's listen. Homework: Answer questions 1 and 3 for 17/2/12. Print out your homework. 1/2 page answer for each question

9/2/12 Bonjour la class. Working in pairs. Choose which socal group you want to be. Find out from the Part-1 doc what life was like. Create your phone conversation. Want a French name?Look for your birthday and the saint's name. http://www.frenchsaintsdays.com/list.html

3/2/12 We reviewed our timeline of last year's Arab Spring Revolutions. Keep up-to-date, things have not quite finished there: @http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2011/mar/22/middle-east-protest-interactive-timeline

Then we began to look at France in the 18th century, during the old regime.

20/1/12 We had intended to finish our work from yesterday but so many did not have computers. Instead we watched the newsclip about cotton in India: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-16639391

Then we watched a film about democracy in mainland China (grade 3 style). You will find it on youtube and youku "Please vote for me!"

19/1/12 What stages do revolutions go through? Did the ones last year follow this pattern?





12/1/12 6/1/12 Finish the research on the Industrial Revolution and present the bubbls. Complete this sheet for homework - due 13/1/11

5/1/12 We begin our new unit but firstly an end of an era.... [|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9shSgKbdON8&feature=player_embedded#]!



Listen to one of the songs. What? How? Who? Why? 1. [] 2. []





LAST DICTATOR STANDING - WHO IS NOW LEFT? media type="youtube" key="38YWB8iX7OY" height="315" width="420"

8/12/11, 9/12/11, 15/12/11

We'll go over the exam.

Then we'll finish the unit by looking at an example of a totalitarian society.

Humanities assessment notification.

24/11/11

Would you wear a skirt? You could win a human rights prize if you do. We'll finish the human rights cases. Second period is for revision.

18/11/11 Your country - democracy? 1 minute feedback. Homework= Revision. Bring some questions to the next class.

17/11/11 Describing and explaining maps.

1 minute presentation - why is your "country" a full/flawed/hybrid democracy? 11/11/11 Human Rights - what are they? What were the big developments in human rights?

Today we will look at the human rights video clips and you completed the timeline of human rights. Human Rights Worksheet.pages Human Rights Worksheet.doc

Homework due 17/11/11 Complete the research on the country you were given.

11/11/11 What were the major human rights events? Find out from the video and complete the timeline. 10/11/11 We will look at whether democratic countries have human rights? We will use: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ks.html the atlas Human Rights Watch: http://www.hrw.org/

We will analyse maps.

4/11/11 We will work through this worksheet. Follow the instructions closely.

Homework due 11/11/11 Go through your copy of SCMP and cut out those articles which are connected to rights. Finish the second task on the Human Rights Worksheet - what can be done about human rights?

3/11/11 Human rights What are your needs? What do you want? Do they match? What is needed for quality of life? Can we link those things to the Areas of Interaction?



28/10/11 Last presentation today. We'll begin human rights if we get time - what do you want, what do you need? Please complete the evaluation for homework:

27/10/11 We'll finish our presentations.

Week commencing 10/10/11 No lesson Friday.

Thursday 12/10/11 We will finish off.

Week commencing 3/10/11 Checklist

29/9/11 As we are not in school, you need to work on your presentation. If you received an email form me, you are working with me. I will email you today what you need to read. For everyone else, you need to organise your groups and decide what form of government you will research. Keep it simple: totalitarian, dictatorship, democracy, monarchy, oligarchy. Use the ppt to help you organise your slides - you do not have to use that background but the organisation of the slides will mean you can focus on good answers to the questions. Spend today's double lesson time on this.

Homework: Read over the assessment task. Next week's lessons will be in the library. a powerpoint to help you organise yours

Some more straightforward information sheets on fascism and totalitarianism.

23/9/11 Presentations Good work on these. Amazing that the same information could be interpreted and presented in different ways. Remember my comments for the group work you will do: Present clearly, do not read the slides, speak loudly, be prepared.

22/9/11 15/9/11 We'll discuss your notes for the Student Council elections. You'll finish your diagram. We'll look at other election systems in the Democracy doc below. Your vocabulary test.

9/9/11 We went over next week's homework which is based on the Student Council elections. You should make every effort to be at school on that day. Review the worksheet so you can take notes. The homework is to write a letter to Mr Parker - see the worksheet - but we will have to wait and see if the elections go ahead. We shall talk about it on Wednesday in class.

We then looked at the First Past the Post system. You will be working in a group to create an effective diagram to represent the information from the worksheet.

Vocabulary test on 15/9/11 monarchy, oligarchy, tyranny, democracy, direct democracy, democracy deficit, representative democracy, election, citizen, government

8/9/11 double lesson Democracy powerpoint - read through. What are the main aspects of democracy? What is Democracy Rank from the most to least important aspect of democracy in the diamond 9 activity. What is democracy diamond rank activity.doc Read the first page of the worksheet and answer the questions about the House elections. Democracy.odt

Highlight any words form the glossary that we covered today. Democracy Glossary.doc

2/9/11

1/9/11 Why do we need government?