ProfeKinney: Parent Forum
Below you will find comments on what is going on in Profe Kinney’s classes. The parent forum will be updated periodically to keep you informed of what great things are happening in your child’s language class at MHS. Feel free to add comments by clicking the comment button in the top right corner of the page! Enjoy!
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September 19, 2014
Cultural Perspectives - The past two weeks your student began to look at the cultural contributions of Europeans of the industrial revolution. We looked at the age of scientific discovery and how this period of significant technological growth has changed the way people lived in the 18th-19th centuries and today!
September 12, 2014
Cultural Perspectives - This week your student began to look at the cultural contributions of the ancient Greeks and Romans, as well as the Renaissance Period on modern life and modern Europe. They also investigated ancient art, sculpture, and architecture through the use of a virtual learning platform called PLATO. This web based component of our course allows your student to develop the skills to be self directed in their education and to be able to acquire information from web based learning environments. This is a great skill to develop for college readiness!
September 5, 2014
Cultural Perspectives - This week your student continued in our first unit of study on evolution. We discussed how man has evolved over 5 million years and when proto-human and human culture began. We discussed terms such as genetic isolation, genetic convergence and divergence, as well as parallel evolution and genetic drift. After covering 5 million years of history in one week we are ready to begin looking at early human civilization and the culture that evolved into the way we live today!
August 2014
Cultural Perspectives - This month we began our course with the discussion of what is culture? When did man develop culture? What are sub cultures? And what cultures am I a part of? We studied the evolution of man and development of early human culture.