Week 1 Preview of World History II - Mr. Ahmad
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Welcome to the preview to Week One of World History to
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this video will act as a anchor and preview to the entire week ahead.
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You can expect these videos on your beyond classroom or B. C.
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Platform on Sundays on the page that is titled as sunday.
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You will find in the first content block that the weekly
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video will present to you the objectives for the week ahead.
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So in terms of week one week 1 is a week of planning organization and introduction.
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We will be discussing the subject
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and introducing ourselves.
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So in part one of our introduction you will
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introduce yourself to your teacher and your peers.
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You will engage in icebreaker activity.
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These are simple basic sometimes humorous
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activities that students engage in teachers engage
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in uh in order to get to familiarize themselves with each other.
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We will set classroom expectations.
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That is what I expect from you and you can expect from me
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throughout the course as well as um a structure for our class.
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The students will be familiarized with the classroom
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environment and technology in terms of interactive boards what
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they're allowed and not allowed to bring into
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class for such as accepting laptops for example.
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And we will follow up on textbooks Now I want to
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highlight for a quick second here the importance of buying your textbook
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throughout the course.
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Your textbook and your e book will contain resources that you will need.
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It will contain quizzes and assignments.
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Projects as well as presentations that that are a
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critical part of the course and of your assessment.
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You can refer to the assessment policy and check how that fares.
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So it is of utmost importance to buy your books. Otherwise
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that would lead to a tricky situation in which
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the student may lag behind in a major way.
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So
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In the second part of our introduction,
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we will take an overview of the course content.
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This is the lessons,
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subjects and topics that will be covered in world history to of course this course
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um follows up from World History one which is a great 10 course at mes.
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Students will be introduced to classroom expectations and
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consequences those deal with issues of discipline and behavior
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as well as um the system of uh inputting
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their assignments and quizzes and their grading policy.
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Students will learn how to use their Savvas to realize account
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the Savas realize is the platform that contains your e books.
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We will explore it in depth,
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we will see how the platform operates and how you can utilize it for a very fulfilling
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education.
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We'll follow that up eventually with an
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introductory video and engage in discussion.
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The discussion will center around the video.
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The video will be just a simple world history to uh introductory video.
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Um it will just take your broad strokes at the topic
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and
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we expect soon engagement
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during that class.
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So let me move on to the final slide
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new global connections is the name of our first unit
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throughout this unit.
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We will be looking at the major causes of european exploration,
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early Portuguese and spanish explorations and expansion.
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This will include several key figures,
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several technologies that were used during the era,
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as well as the different political systems that were in place.
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We also discuss how the Portuguese and
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spanish established footholds on Africa's coasts,
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so that wraps it up for the week ahead.
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I wish you the best of luck and we will discuss these topics in depth during class.
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Thank you.