Friday, April 4, 2014

March 28, 2014

Today, we discussed the upcoming P-Ville Olympics. We are going to be sponsoring the Limbo and Water Balloon competitions. Good luck Period 5!!! At 1:17 we found out the winners of the Stalin essay and art competitions. For the essays, "[DOM] got 1st place" (Dania A) and "NeKendra got 4th!" (Kent Hirano). 
At 1:30, we talked about the Great Depression and how it was in Germany. It was terrible because it cost "2 billion marks for bread" (Dylan Han). At 1:51 we learned that corporations will be most influenced by bis businesses like McDonald's.

-T

March 27, 2014

March 25, 2014

Today we collected our financial sheets before the class started. 
At 1:48 we started class by talking about P-Ville. Nida was our pizza owner, Paul was the delivery person and Matt was the farmer. The lesson was on how one change in a business can change the outcome of many individuals lives. 
At 2:38 "Mr.P [was] about to fall off the desk" (Kent Hirano) demonstrating how America was about to have a giant financial crisis but noticed just before they did. 
At 2:47 we learned that there are "2 types of stock brokers" good ones and bad greedy ones (Minji Seong). At 2:52 we looked at the interview videos for the student teachers that will be coming to our class. 

-T

March 24, 2014

Today in class we we learned that we are going to be getting a new student teacher in a couple days. 
At 1:12 we went over the Mao video notes and the "Stalin vs. Mao" sheet (Elisabeth Gomez). We also went over "students in the cultural revolution" and why they were a part of it (Kent Hirano). 
At 1:37 we learned about the "100 flowers bloom" and how that led to the great purge (Ariel Rubin).
 At 1:49 we learned about how Mao used the "little red book" to manipulate students into following the revolution (Nida G). 

-T