Web 2.0: Multimedia Blog Posting Sem 2_Pre

        This year, I have Mrs. Garvin as my World History teacher. Her room number is 212 which is located by the staircase coming upstairs from the middle school. I have her 5th period right after lunch. Mrs Garvin lived in Wood-Ridge since she was four years old. She also is a big Jets fan and she went to Purdue for college. Mrs Garvin is in charge of student council for 10th grade. When the class first started I expected to learn about the Renaissance, wars, and History from the 1300's to the 1900's. I also expect that we will be doing more DBQ's and learn about detectives of history. This year I want to learn about new cultures and how parts of the world really are. This year we will be learning a lot and I'm excited to learn more about our history.

        In Mrs Garvin's class we have learned about the Renaissance. We also learned about the black death and Renaissance Art. We also did a few fun projects in class. Yesterday, we walked around the room and tried to figure out hints to what the clues were. This project showed the class what was helpful today rather than back then. We also compared Renaissance Art by looking at modern, medieval and Renaissance Art. We compared the similarities and differences of all of them then choose two to work with. My group choose the modern and Renaissance pictures that we worked with.
         Mrs Garvin's grading policy is fair. Forty percentage of our grade go to Summative Assessments which is 65% of tests and 35% of DBQ essays. Another part of our grade go to Performance Based Assessments which is 20% of class Assessments and 80%  from projects. Homework counts as 10% of our grade and the other 10% goes to Formative Assessments which includes participation. So far this year in World History I enjoyed comparing and contrasting Renaissance Art as a project. After we compared and contrasted we choose two pictures to compare and contrast instead of three. In this class technology is used for taking attendance,watching videos, and power-points. This year has been great so far and I'm looking forward to the rest of the year with all my friends and teachers!