Subject: Individuals and Societies (Year 2)
Start Date: January 2017
End Date: April 2017
Statement of Inquiry: Time, place and space influences the culture and governance of societies.
Criteria Assessed: A and C
Key Concept: Time, place and space

There were a lot of different activities that I did during this Unit. We had levels that we would have to go through. There were 5 posters that indicates where each of us were in. To represent ourselves on the posters/levels, we created our own Coat of Arms. My Coat of Arms looked like this:

Ms. Gilbert created a website that allowed to access documents and directions of what we have to do in each level. In the Introduction, we had to work on our Coat of Arms, upload it to ThingLink and add annotations of why we chose the symbols that were drawn in our Coat of Arms. We were given two websites that consisted symbols and their meanings. After using ThingLink, we had to upload it to padlet. To have bonus points, we had to upload it to three different social medias. I completed that task and got 15 more bonus points.

In each level, we would have questions that we would have to answer. The information would be from the textbook. Each level would be about a certain chapter. There would be activities, like contests, skits and simulations, that would be required to be complete. There would also be different bonus activities for each level. Some are videos, questions, letters or maps. Each of the activities would relate to the topic of the level.

Each block/class was a team. At the end of each level, Ms. Gilbert would set a due date for the assignments, you can still turn it in after the date, but it would not count as class points. Ms. Gilbert would find the average of the points to determine who the winning class is.

I learned about how the transition between the Roman Empire to Medieval Europe and how Medieval Europe ended. I learned that Christianity was the center of the society. During the Introduction, we learned about the location and geography of Europe. It is close to Jerusalem, where Judaism started. Christianity is a religion derived from the religion, Judaism. The religion soon became the daily lives of the people living in Medieval Europe. The Christian religion became so common at the time, “Age of Faith” was the name some historians call the Middle Ages. I also learned about trading, life and systems during the Medieval times. Living during that time was very different from living today.

Some of the challenges that I faced during this Unit was that there were other homework assignments that were also due that was not from I&S, so I would have to plan my time and use my time wisely and not getting off track. During the summative, I had to make sure I have progress each day so I would not have to wait till the very end to finish the whole game board. This is what my summative game looked like:

My favorite part about this Unit was our class winning Level 2. It really motivated me to do other challenge assignments. It also made me really happy. I also liked working on my summative. I was proud of the work I completed. I spent many hours on the game, creating questions cards, drawing the game board, thinking of a fun game that is also educational and would be related to this Unit.

I think the questions were great. It allowed me to understand more about the sections in the chapters.

From the assessment rubric, I feel that I undertook the activities in the Unit pretty good. I tried my best on every assignment. I learned that sometimes I would not be that careful and would make some mistakes. I would improve by rereading more. I also feel that my grammar was not so strong. I would make the answers better by revising it.

Mind Map created by Allison Chen with GoConqr

Christianity Canva Link

In this Unit for Individuals and Societies, we learned about the Ancient Greece, the Persian Empire and the Roman Empire. We learned about the Ancient Greek Government, Athens, Sparta, the Greco-Persian Wars, Alexander the Great, the Roman Republic and how Rome changed from a republic to an empire. For the summative of Unit 1, is the key concept of systems. Systems are how something works. We had to pick one of the four choices of the system our teacher had listed. I chose Roman Republic as my system that I am going to do a presentation on. The Roman Republic is a system because it is how the government of Rome worked before Rome became an Empire. I improved in this Unit by learning new things that I didn’t really understand before. An example is, I learned more about the Greek government had changed over time and how it transferred from one to another. I also learned new vocabulary words, such as consuls. Now I know what consuls mean. Consuls are the elected officials that has the most power. In the Roman Republic, the consuls were elected every year. Here is the presentation on Roman Republic, which also will talk more about consuls.