Wednesday, March 16, 2011

16th of March of 2011

Today in Social Science class, Ana Margarita has been with us. Paqui has worn her glasses, because her lenses were broken. Daniel Rodríguez has done the exam, because the other day he was ill and he couldn’t. First we have checked the exercises of homework. They were about what is a State, what is monarchy and what is a republic. Yolanda has checked some of them, because this term she is going to change, so she has done the homework. After that we have copied the meaning of Democracy: “demo” means people, and “cracy” means government.

Here we have a small joke about democracy:


It is the people’s rule. Then we have spoken about the elections, they have to be bi universal suffrage, free, plural and periodic. In Spain there are every four years and the European Elections are every five years. At the end of the class we have copied a small scheme about constitution. It is a supreme law of a State. It includes rights, duties and institutions and organizations of the State. Finally we have to do exercises 6,7 and 8 of page 66 for homework.

Today in the class Paqui has explained us the protestant religion, because I have asked her about if they are protestant because they protest. It was founded by Martin Luther. They have shepherds and they can get married. In USA they have a lot of different churches and religions. In this religion was common the Gospel.

We have started to sing songs in English and in Spanish about mass. After that Paqui has taught us some words in Chinese, because the other day some friends from other groups told us that Paqui speaks in Valencian with them, so she has taught us some words in Chinese: Xie Xie, thanks; Nihao, hello and zaijian, bye.

3 comments:

Paqui Pérez Fons said...

Hello Yolanda,

You have to explain why we have talked about religion today. This was not included in the unit. You have asked a question (I don´t remember which one) and I have explained some things, but we haven´t had time to give a lot of details. There is a mistake about this: in the USA they have a lot of different churches and religions, not a mixture of religions. Here you have a link where you can learn more about religion in the USA:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_the_United_States.

And you have to explain also why I have told you some words in Chinese.

Maybe you could change the order of your journal, writing all the contents related to Unit 5 altogether and the other things that have happened during the lesson in another paragraph.

I think you could look for a picture related to the content of the unit (democracy, elections, Constitution...)

Last, you have written that my "lentils" were broken. I like lentils, but I can´t wear lentils. I can eat them. Think about that ;)

Anyway, well done. See you on Friday.

Laura Meco said...

Today, the class has been really fun, but it has also been interesting because I like this unit about politics and I also think religions are interesting. We should now other cultures, and on this way, we will learn a lot about the people around us.
Well done Yolanda! See you tomorrow.

Paqui Pérez Fons said...

Hello Yolanda,

I like a lot the picture you´ve included. I love Mafalda! This cartoon perfectly reflects the difference between the theory and the practice in democracy. In theory democracy is people´s rule, but this seems a joke in reality, as Mafalda, a very inteligent child, has noticed.

There is a type of democracy where people participate directly. We spoke about this last Friday. Do you remember?