Day 3 - Quizzes and more Periodization
Today in class we talked about quality of work on assignments, took a clicker quiz, and continued our discussion on periodization.
First, while we were looking at the Crash Course question, Mr. Profit was showing us some answers for the worksheet. Some of them were good responses while the others weren't quite as good. This may seem like menial information, but I took one important thing away from this discussion, which was a quote Mr. Profit said. He said "If you aren't going to do the worksheet well, don't do it." He then followed that up with an analytical statement saying it's just a waste of time as we will get no credit, which I thought was an interesting way of arguing against just finishing worksheets as soon as you can.
After this, we took our clicker quiz. It was basically what I expected from it, and in my opinion the quiz was easy. The video we had to watch last night really made the information more interesting than simply reading information out of a textbook, which I think made it easier to learn. When I studied I took notes out of the textbook, and then watched the video. I think for the next quiz I'd fill out the video questions sheet, not only to guarantee a 100 but to learn the material better.
Moving on from that, we continued our discussion about Periodization. A lot of general information about periodization was in Day 2 of my blog, if you needed to brush up before reading ahead. One major event for every civilization was when agriculture replaced foraging and hunting, mainly because agriculture allowed populations to grow, allowed for specialization, and creates larger but more sedimentary societies. While agriculture is often described as an amazing achievement, which it is, I think it definitely wasn't as good for humans as it has been thought to be. First off, since one person could man a field to feed many people, some people would work and some wouldn't. Eventually, inequality became more of an issue because of this, which is still present today. Second, the increased populations that agriculture caused still in a way plague the world today because eventually, if our population continues to rise, we will have food shortages due to not enough crops being able to be grown. On top of this, if a "superbug" destroys all of a major crop, like corn, many people will starve not only because of the lack of corn but the mass panic. An example of this is the chaos over gas recently on social media, which caused mass chaos. Multiply that to a worldwide scale, and then imagine what would happen.
Anyway, with that morsel of thought left in my head, the bell rang and we were dismissed. Until Tuesday!
First, while we were looking at the Crash Course question, Mr. Profit was showing us some answers for the worksheet. Some of them were good responses while the others weren't quite as good. This may seem like menial information, but I took one important thing away from this discussion, which was a quote Mr. Profit said. He said "If you aren't going to do the worksheet well, don't do it." He then followed that up with an analytical statement saying it's just a waste of time as we will get no credit, which I thought was an interesting way of arguing against just finishing worksheets as soon as you can.
After this, we took our clicker quiz. It was basically what I expected from it, and in my opinion the quiz was easy. The video we had to watch last night really made the information more interesting than simply reading information out of a textbook, which I think made it easier to learn. When I studied I took notes out of the textbook, and then watched the video. I think for the next quiz I'd fill out the video questions sheet, not only to guarantee a 100 but to learn the material better.
Moving on from that, we continued our discussion about Periodization. A lot of general information about periodization was in Day 2 of my blog, if you needed to brush up before reading ahead. One major event for every civilization was when agriculture replaced foraging and hunting, mainly because agriculture allowed populations to grow, allowed for specialization, and creates larger but more sedimentary societies. While agriculture is often described as an amazing achievement, which it is, I think it definitely wasn't as good for humans as it has been thought to be. First off, since one person could man a field to feed many people, some people would work and some wouldn't. Eventually, inequality became more of an issue because of this, which is still present today. Second, the increased populations that agriculture caused still in a way plague the world today because eventually, if our population continues to rise, we will have food shortages due to not enough crops being able to be grown. On top of this, if a "superbug" destroys all of a major crop, like corn, many people will starve not only because of the lack of corn but the mass panic. An example of this is the chaos over gas recently on social media, which caused mass chaos. Multiply that to a worldwide scale, and then imagine what would happen.
Anyway, with that morsel of thought left in my head, the bell rang and we were dismissed. Until Tuesday!
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