1. Watch the BBC and record 2 news stories.
2. Check your e-mail for a video link. Be prepared to discuss the video at the next meeting.
3. Work on the next stage of your backboard, project or Energy Fair Powerpoint. Come prepared to the next meeting.
4. If I sent you a link or article, please read it. Take notes on it or print it out and highlight important ideas.
5. Write the topic sentence of your position paper. This will be the sentence that introduces your topic. Look in your delegate guide (in your binder) for an example.
6. Decide on the other details that will be in the first paragraph. Will they be: a UN document, a UN convention, a worldwide statistic? Will you have a quote from a UN official? What other details will you include in this paragraph? Write out these details in note form with bullet points (or type it).
Homework due 11/29/12
1. Watch the BBC 1 minute news and record 2 news stories. Try to
watch it one extra time to see if there is any new information about the
stories you record.
2. Communicate with your group, and bring in what is needed to the next meeting.
3. Try to find a NGO that is working with Azerbaijan and your topic. If you can't find an Azeri NGO, find a NGO that is working in Europe or at least an NGO that is involved with your issue. Print out a page from their web site.
4. Start researching this idea: how is my country related or involved in my topic for Model UN? Read, read, read as much as you can about your topic.
E-mail me if you have any questions.
2. Communicate with your group, and bring in what is needed to the next meeting.
3. Try to find a NGO that is working with Azerbaijan and your topic. If you can't find an Azeri NGO, find a NGO that is working in Europe or at least an NGO that is involved with your issue. Print out a page from their web site.
4. Start researching this idea: how is my country related or involved in my topic for Model UN? Read, read, read as much as you can about your topic.
E-mail me if you have any questions.
Homework due 11/19/13 **
1. Research NGOs that are working in Azerbaijan for our Upper Elementary Craft Fair.
Find 1-2 partners, form a small group and share information and web sites. Prepare a short presentation about the NGO.
Possible topics: orphanages in Azerbaijan
helping kids play sports in Azerbaijan
water resources
helping refugees
poverty programs in Azerbaijan
other charities in Azerbaijan
Find 1-2 partners, form a small group and share information and web sites. Prepare a short presentation about the NGO.
Possible topics: orphanages in Azerbaijan
helping kids play sports in Azerbaijan
water resources
helping refugees
poverty programs in Azerbaijan
other charities in Azerbaijan
Homework due 11/15/12
1. Watch the BBC 1 minute news and record 2 news stories.
2. Re-read your background guide. Try to finish all of the research questions at the end of the guide. E-mail me if you can't find something.
3. Be prepared to talk about your topic with me at our next meeting.
4. Communicate with your backboard, energy fair or art group and come prepared for next week's meeting.
Homework due 11/8/12
All students:
1. Continue to watch the BBC and record your 2 news stories. We won't always have time to discuss all the news topics, but staying aware of current events helps you do well in Model UN in many different ways.
2. Come prepared to do the next stage of your project, backboard or energy fair. Call or e-mail your group members to make reminders of what needs to get done at home. You have to bring in research, supplies or other materials for our next meeting.
3. Go to the MMUN web site (http://www.montessori-mun.org/index.php), go to Conference Resources (along the top) and click on your committee. Please print out your background guide. Read through the guide, and highlight or take notes about your committee topic. Be prepared to answer questions about the information you read. Complete at least half of the questions at the end of your committee topic. Use the suggested web sites and your own personal research for help.
1. Continue to watch the BBC and record your 2 news stories. We won't always have time to discuss all the news topics, but staying aware of current events helps you do well in Model UN in many different ways.
2. Come prepared to do the next stage of your project, backboard or energy fair. Call or e-mail your group members to make reminders of what needs to get done at home. You have to bring in research, supplies or other materials for our next meeting.
3. Go to the MMUN web site (http://www.montessori-mun.org/index.php), go to Conference Resources (along the top) and click on your committee. Please print out your background guide. Read through the guide, and highlight or take notes about your committee topic. Be prepared to answer questions about the information you read. Complete at least half of the questions at the end of your committee topic. Use the suggested web sites and your own personal research for help.
Homework due 11/1/12
1. Watch the BBC and record 2 news stories articles.
2. E-mail your group members and plan out your goals for the next meeting. Start collecting supplies (images, text or art supplies)
3. Go to the UNDP (UN Development Programme) Azerbaijan web site:
http://www.un-az.org/undp/sehife.php?lang=eng&page=0405
Answer these questions:
a. What does the author mean when he says that Azerbaijan wants to convert "black gold into human gold?"
b. What has Azerbaijan done with its oil profits?
c. Look up the word "macroeconomics." Go to Roman numeral I-what does the word mean in this context?
d. Why do you think Azerbaijan wants to move towards non-oil industries?
e. Give an example of how gender equality has improved in Azerbaijan.
f. List 4 natural challenges that Azerbaijan faces in its environment.
4. Go to the transparency.org web site: http://cpi.transparency.org/cpi2011/results/
This group keeps track of which countries are the most corrupt. Write a few sentences about the level of corruption in Azerbaijan.
2. E-mail your group members and plan out your goals for the next meeting. Start collecting supplies (images, text or art supplies)
3. Go to the UNDP (UN Development Programme) Azerbaijan web site:
http://www.un-az.org/undp/sehife.php?lang=eng&page=0405
Answer these questions:
a. What does the author mean when he says that Azerbaijan wants to convert "black gold into human gold?"
b. What has Azerbaijan done with its oil profits?
c. Look up the word "macroeconomics." Go to Roman numeral I-what does the word mean in this context?
d. Why do you think Azerbaijan wants to move towards non-oil industries?
e. Give an example of how gender equality has improved in Azerbaijan.
f. List 4 natural challenges that Azerbaijan faces in its environment.
4. Go to the transparency.org web site: http://cpi.transparency.org/cpi2011/results/
This group keeps track of which countries are the most corrupt. Write a few sentences about the level of corruption in Azerbaijan.
Homework due 10/26/12
1. Record 2 news stories from the BBC 1 minute news.
2. Contact the students from your group:
Backboard: Jeff, Michael, Jupiter, Isaac
Traditional Art: Izzie, Laurel, Belisa, Ethan
Energy Fair: Keenan, Stryder, Jacob, Cole, Tarquin
Add the e-mail addresses of these students into your e-mail address book. Send out an e-mail to each other about what you are planning for next week. CC me on all of your e-mails (erin.khalsa@hotmail.com). Come prepared to start the 1st phase of your project next week.
3. Bookmark the Azerbaijan Permanent Mission to the UN web site: http://www.un.int/azerbaijan/ph_gl.php
This is a great web site where Azerbaijan lists all of its UN activities and policies in one place.
Click on "Azerbaijan and EU."
4. Answer these questions:
Why is having a good relationship with the European Union important to Azerbaijan?
What does TRACECA stand for?
What was the most important outcome of the 1998 conference in Baku?
Click on "foreign policy"--->"Economic Cooperation and Development (in pull down menu)--->MDG indicator.
4 of the MDGs are listed with data. Write 2 sentences about each goal. Use statistics in these sentences. Example: Over the last 15 years, child mortality has decreased from . . . . .
2. Contact the students from your group:
Backboard: Jeff, Michael, Jupiter, Isaac
Traditional Art: Izzie, Laurel, Belisa, Ethan
Energy Fair: Keenan, Stryder, Jacob, Cole, Tarquin
Add the e-mail addresses of these students into your e-mail address book. Send out an e-mail to each other about what you are planning for next week. CC me on all of your e-mails (erin.khalsa@hotmail.com). Come prepared to start the 1st phase of your project next week.
3. Bookmark the Azerbaijan Permanent Mission to the UN web site: http://www.un.int/azerbaijan/ph_gl.php
This is a great web site where Azerbaijan lists all of its UN activities and policies in one place.
Click on "Azerbaijan and EU."
4. Answer these questions:
Why is having a good relationship with the European Union important to Azerbaijan?
What does TRACECA stand for?
What was the most important outcome of the 1998 conference in Baku?
Click on "foreign policy"--->"Economic Cooperation and Development (in pull down menu)--->MDG indicator.
4 of the MDGs are listed with data. Write 2 sentences about each goal. Use statistics in these sentences. Example: Over the last 15 years, child mortality has decreased from . . . . .
