May 4 - Mapping Monday #10

Hello ladies and gentlemen,

Welcome to another remote lesson!  I hope that everyone is doing well and taking care of themselves.  Do your best to stay on a routine to help maintain some kind of normalcy, this includes doing your school work!  This week we will be continuing our look at religion and diving into religious conflict, but that will start on Wednesday.  Today is yet another Mapping Monday!  Let's get right to it!

Objectives:

1. Locate and identify political and physical features of Asia
2. Research and summarize a current event from Asia

Agenda:

1. Mapping Monday

Homework

1. Current Event #13 due TONIGHT (Event from Asia/Oceania)
1. Current Event Mapping Instructions
1. Add CE #13 to the same map you did CE #1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12
2. Asia Map test Monday May 18
1. Digital Map Directions
1. For Asia you will be doing your map digitally so please follow these directions
2. You can also do it physically and take and upload a picture if you want
2. Asia Countries Quiz (Test prep)
3. Asia Physical Features Quiz (Test Prep) (make sure to customize)
4. Australia and Oceania Countries (Test Prep)
5. Australia Physical Features (Test Prep) Make sure to customize!

That's all for the day folks!  I hope that you are well.  I miss you all!  Take care!  May the Fourth Be With You!

Live long and prosper,

Mr. Marchetti

5-4-2020 PPT

Here is what Mr. Marchetti has read so far:

• Doing a Virtual Book Club with my Friends so far we have read
• Ready Player Oneby Ernest Cline
• Pretty good book!  Definitely better than the movie but I liked the movie as well.  It has a great science fiction backdrop and also a ton of pop culture references for people my age and older.
• The Kingdom Keepers: Disney After Dark by Ridley Pearson
• Pretty good YA book that ties in with Disney parks.  Takes a while to get interesting but once it does it is fun.  Recommend for people who enjoy Disney Parks.
• On Basilisk Station (Next on our list) by David Weber
• I've read this one before.  It is part of the Honor Harrington series which is a great science fiction military/political story.
• Reading on my own
• Star Trek Picard: The Last Best Hope by Una McCormack
• Ties into the recent Star Trek Picard series.  I didn't finish unfortunately because I got distracted by other books but it was an easy read and good up to the point I read.
• Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus that Caused it by Gina Kolata
• This was a great and eye opening history of the science and history behind the Flu.  Gives a rundown of what happened in 1918 and then focuses on the search for the 1918 virus.  It is pretty scary to think that they have recreated the most deadly disease in human history in a lab in Atlanta.
• Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and how it Changed the World by Laura Spinner
• Another good book on the 1918 flu.  This one I chose because I wanted more history of what happened during the 1918 Flu.  It was eye opening.  I didn't realize how devastating the Flu was or how much it impacted the world.  Probably much more influential than World War I but few have known or talked about it.
• Vicksburg: Grant's Campaign That Broke the Confederacy by Donald L. Miller (Currently Reading)
• So far this is a great book!  Really enjoying the look at the western theater of the Civil War, which many ignore over the more famous eastern theater.  Also learning more about Grant which is interesting.