TCIS

Week 21

AP Psychology students: How intelligent are you? According to Spearman, Thurstone, Garnder, Strenberg, and Goleman what are your strengths? What are the dangers of limiting intelligence to IQ? While we all agree that your educators should teach to your multiple intelligences, should they assess them equally? Should your essay score equal someone else’s drawing score? Should universities use the SAT or portfolios for admissions? What is the best way to measure and use aptitude and achievement in high school assessments and university admissions? And what about your teachers, should they be tested? When? How? Any data proves that existing practices work? What is the best way to teach to all the students' intelligences>

Week 21

Grade 9 History Students: What aspects of ancient African society might be root causes of today's ethnic/clan problems in Africa? How has trade and colonialism exacerbated these divides? How has African art perpetuated the importance of ancestral worship? Is there a link between ancient divination practices and modern clan conflicts? And here's your chapter review sheet: Download Ch7review And your Hist. Fic. rubric. Staple it to the back of your project: Download Rubric.His.Fic 

 

Week 18

AP Psychology Students: Please take the personality test linked below. What did you learn? How could this be useful? How did Jung’s theories differ from Freud’s? Where do you think personality comes from? Or what is it? Whose theories are best?

http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes1.htm

Try some more personality tests or intelligence tests. Is one approach better than the other? Do you have a favorite?

http://www.nedprod.com/Niall_stuff/intelligence_test.html

http://www.psychtests.com/cgi-bin/tests/transfer.cgi 

http://www.intelligencetest.com/test/signupuser.php 

http://www.mindandmuscle.net/content/page-304.html 

http://www.4tests.com/exams/examdetail.asp?eid=6 

http://hlavolamy.szm.sk/download/iq-tests-logic-games.htm 

Week 18

Grade 9 History Students: Is repetitive struggle a part of Arab Islamic life? How has the Sunni and Shiite split affected the Islamic world both immediately after Muhammad's death and during current conflicts? Which group has been more faithful to the word of Allah? Are Islamic civilization’s nepotism and sexism faithful to the Islamic religious principles of honesty and justice? How is Islam better than its predecessors? http://religion-cults.com/Islam/islam.htm

And please download and print the attachment below for Ch. 6: Download Ch6review

Week 16

AP Psychology Students: Whose experiment presentation did you find the most fascinating? Why? If you could do yours again, what would you change? What was most difficult and most rewarding about yours? And begin reviewing for your Midterm Exam. Rewrite ALL your previous FRQs with the correct answers. Redo ALL previous MCs what is the correct answer?, and why did I get it wrong? Plus redo ALL your notes following the 3-source-protocol. And here's a review sheet for organizing some of the content. Download Sem.Review. After completing these four steps, see me for more review ideas.

Week 16

Grade 9 History Students: Please download and print the following: Download CHAPTER 5 notes and Download Ch5review. The Midterm Exam will be short answer questions from previous chapter tests and one new essay question. Begin organizing your previous work and make sure you have the correct answers. And please answer the following questions: What factors contributed to the rise of the democratic Roman Republic? How did it end? And who were the initial Roman Emperors? How did their dictatorships begin? How did they often succeed each other? Who most exemplified the virtues of Cincinnatus? The least?

What do the following mean (then & now): “Long live the Republic.” “Crossing the Rubicon.” “Stabbed in the back.” “When in Rome.” “All roads lead to Rome.” “The power and the glory.” “Tour of duty.” “Spoils of war.” “Bread and Circuses.” “Render untor Ceasar what is Ceasar. Render unto God what is God’s.” “Fiddle while Rome burns.” Can you place them in the history of Rome’s rise and fall. What can a civilization today learn about rises and falls from Rome’s history?

http://www.romanemperors.com/ 

Week 13

AP Psychology Students: Answer the following questions: How developed are you, according to Piaget, Freud, Erickson, and Kohlberg? At what stages are you? Which models are best and why?http://classweb.gmu.edu/awinsler/ordp/theory.html

Download, print, and begin the following review sheets and rubric: Download review.Dev.Theories.doc Download Sem.Review.doc Download rubric.6th Annual TCIS Science Fair - Upper School.doc

How is your adolescence going? Why can it be such a stressful period? How about your personal development? Are you on schedule? Read the linked articles. Do you think adolescents are growing up too fast? Or not fast enough? Has adolescence changed or do the theories still apply? What would different kinds of psychologists say? What do you think about your experience?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/parenting/your_kids/preteen_adolescence.shtml

Please read this attachment on early adulthood too since it's where you may be headed next. What sounds exciting to do in your 20s? What are you not looking forward to? Will your 20s be the same or different that described? Download NYTimes August dev. psych. 20s

Week 13

Grade Nine History Students: How did the geography of Greece effect its development? How did Homer’s epics and the lessons of Arete effect Greek culture? Which do you think had a stronger effect? Why? http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/MINOA/HOMER.HTM

How did democracy rise in ancient Greece? Why in Greece? How were Athens and Sparta unique? Which do you think was better? Why? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_democracy#Ancient_Greece

http://www.studyworld.com/newsite/ReportEssay/History/European%5CSparta_Vs_Athens.htm

 

And download, print, and begin filling in: Download Ch4review

 

How did geography & arête effect Greek life? How did divine intervention & democracy contradict each other? How did Greek philosophy and drama help the development of critical thinking? What goals of your current education have roots in ancient Greece? Please give specific examples.

http://www.museum.upenn.edu/Greek_World/Index.html

http://members.aol.com/Donnclass/Greeklife.html#FAMILY

http://www.iep.utm.edu/g/greekphi.htm

http://www.temple.edu/classics/dramadir.html

 

How did Alexander the Great and the following Hellenistic Age spread western culture? What ideals were spread? Was multiculturalism spread? Was democracy spread? Or was it an ethnocentric age?

http://www.isidore-of-seville.com/Alexanderama.html

http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9106270/Hellenistic-Age

Week 11 & 12

AP Psychology Students: What motivates you the most? Which theory best applies to you in what situations? What motivates you to buy things? Give examples. Which emotions theory do you think is most correct? Do you think you can judge emotional intelligence? Try the EQ test linked below. How emotionally intelligent are you? Was the EQ test accurate? http://testyourself.psychtests.com/testid/3038  http://www.ihhp.com/quiz.php  http://www.helpself.com/iq-test.htm

Week 10

AP Psychology Students: #1 Read and solve the attached logic problem. Use the links to research and use various problem solving strategies. Which are most helpful?

Why? Download logic_q.doc

http://ctl.unc.edu/fyc20.html

http://inst.santafe.cc.fl.us/~mwehr/StudyGM/12Ove_Th.htm

http://www.engin.umich.edu/%7Eproblemsolving/strategy/cthinking.htm

http://www.une.edu.au/psychology/staff/malouff/problem.htm

 

Also, #2 Do you think humans can acquire language on their own? Is it more nature or nurture? How so? #3 If "Language speaks us.", and you are bilingual, is your thinking more complex/advanced or do you have two sets of simple/less developed thinking skills? How so? How do others compare TCIS students to other students? Who's right? 

And answer the following question: Chomsky writes of surface structure and deep structure. Surface structure receives messages, and deep structure “faces inward towards the hazy region of conceptualization … of relations between verbs and nouns.” What’s this ‘hazy region’? Is he right? How do you think we learn language? And does bilingualism make you two simple persons or a more complex one? Use information from the chapter on thinking to defend your answer.

Read the attached: Download NYTimes August Whorf Lang