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1  Creation Stories;

Due: Personal questionnaire

Class: Notes on creation myths

Read, discuss Yanomamo Myth (creation stories). 

 

2

Class: Group work on creation stories- prepare to act out.   Discuss Book reports and book list;

 

3

Due: Animal or Angel writing assignment

Class: Demonstrate class website;  Jared Diamond excerpt from The Third Chimpanzee; What Makes Us Human;   Present Creation stories

4

Due: Select book for  Book Report

Class: Read and discuss Creation stories

7

Labor Day Vacation

8

Class: Comparison of Cream/Robert Johnson's version of Crossroads and Grateful Dead/Otis Redding's version of Hard to Handle

Work on Creation Story skits

9

Due: Creation story skits

Class: Creation story performances; Engrish PowerPoint

10

Class: Introduce Hero myth and PowerPoint ;

Read Jospeh Campbell the Power Of Myth and do worksheet questions.

 

11

Class:Share Ms. May-Beaver's Notes on Biblical Creation story; Read Jospeh Campbell the Power Of Myth and do worksheet questions.

14

Due: Creation Myth comparative essay

Class:  Watch Lion King and note how the movie follows the Hero cycle

15 Parent Open House

Due: Jospeh Campbell the Power Of Myth and do worksheet questions

Class: Finish the Lion King; Class Writing on Hero- 

Evolution PowerPoint and evolution notes

16

Due: Read "Can you believe in God and Evolution"

Class: Review homework. Article on Kentucky's Creation Museum;  Notes on Evolution; Evolution PowerPoint

17

Class: Review Evolution and 4 ways species change over time; Judgment Day: Evolution on Trial

18

Judgment Day: Evolution on Trial

21 1st Quarter progress reports

Class: Read "Divided Over Evolution" and write a movie review

22

Class: Race: Matter of Illusion

23

Discuss video about race; Read articles about evolution- race.  Attitudes about race

24

Due: Portrayal of race on tv

Class: Field Trip- Vermont Folklife Museum and Middlebury College

25

Class: Read articles about evolution- hair and lice; youth energy and coffee, skin

28

Evolution projects

29

Evolution projects

30

Due: Evolution projects

Class: Intro to Primatology; Video: Conversation with Koko

 

American Cultural values

 

 

Ron Eisenman

Rutland High School

reisenman@rutlandhs.k12.vt.us