January+8

=World Cultures Daily Round Up for (date)=

Scribed by: Alyssa, christy, Zach,Matt,Eric,Dan, Shea, Cody, Kirste,nick, Danielle, pat, Kyle, Brittani,Zach(bentzly), Mandy,Jessica Bright

Activities for today
 * Describe acitivies for class
 * POTD: Watermelon Carving Contest
 * Meet Miss? Tuss?
 * Disco Week
 * *China Geography
 * Met student teacher
 * Take notes over Confucius and Confuscainism
 * Notes met the new teacher notes and talked.
 * Started Chinese religion/philosophy notes
 * there were some sweet watermelon carvings and mr. neiffer's favorite: the old man
 * we talked about confucius, and took some notes.

Concepts covered in class with brief summary > Ren- humaneness, benevolence, humanity > Shu- reciprocity, empathy > Yi- righteousness > Xiao- Filial Piety (Respect your Elders!!!) > Assignments for the week > Finals Brainstorm Scribe- what you think should be on the final. due thursday. > make a list of unfamilier terms > mark things that you dont in your notes that you already know so you dont restudy them, > STUDY FOR FINAL!! > What we need to do for the final test, and chinas religious belivers > > > Assignments for tomorrow or later > > Additional resources and interesting items related to class today
 * Describe important concepts covered in class
 * 50-75% of Chinese rivers have significant pollution
 * we talked about why the rivers in china are so polluted and gross.
 * *China's geography
 * Chinese Philosophies and Ethical Codes.( a major philosophy is confucianism.)
 * *Confucianism ~ chinas major religion -started by man named confucias -has 5 major points
 * *The five principle relationships in Confucianism are- ruler and subject, father and son, husband and wife, older brother and younger brother, older friend and younger friend.
 * Confucius was a teacher and an editor of books
 * Confucius (551-479 B.C.E.)
 * Five principle relationships: 1)ruler-subject. 2)father-son. 3)husband-wife. 4)older brother-younger brother. 5)older friend-younger friend
 * Discussed China's waste water and rivers in China are pulluted
 * we discussed the pollution in china's rivers.
 * the five principle relationships of confusianism.
 * the five major confucian principles: Ren, Shu, Li, Yi, Xiao
 * Li- rite, rules, ritual decorum
 * confucius, and other china things, but mainly confucius.
 * Describe assignments made in class
 * FINALS BRAINSTORM SCRIBE
 * *PRINT SCRIBBING GRADING LIST
 * Go through notebook
 * Go throught your note book and highlight key words and facts.
 * make study cards for terms like miss tuss said to do for the semester test.
 * Edit Wiki
 * notes
 * read through your notebook and type in what are the most important concepts we've studied this semester.
 * print of work form the wiki and scribe of the finals
 * Do some scribing to get the average of 1 per week

confucicas
 * Here is where you put facts, websites or other information that relates to concepts discussed in class
 * http://www.religioustolerance.org/confuciu.htm
 * http://www.religion-cults.com/Eastern/Confucianism/confuci.htm
 * http://www.interfaithpartnership.org/worldreligion/confucianism.php
 * http://www.wam.umd.edu/~tkang/
 * um we talked about the watermelon carvings
 * Mr Neiffer shode us pictures of carved watermelons.