Liz+Knapp

Hi my name is **Ms. Knapp** and I will be some of your **Geography** or **World History** teacher this semester! I completed my undergraduate studies in Rome, Italy where I was able to understand the world from a unique perspective. I have a Masters in World History and a Masters in the Art of Teaching from Georgia State University.

In World Geography we will be covering the whole course //SSWG1-SSWG9// and in World History we will cover standards //SSWH9-SSWH20// this semester. Both of these courses focuses on GLOBAL interactions and interconnectedness. NOTHING happens in a vacuum. Hopefully after these courses you will understand more about the world you live in, the history that surrounds you, and therefore yourself.

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Remember to go to our class website for any question about the syllabus and of course you are free to contact me at eknapp3@student.gsu.edu at any time! I look forward to an exciting semester. I am hoping both of our class will have a positive learning environment where higher level content, complex thinking and new ideologies on how society functions are built!

World Geography Tutorial is Mondays and Wednesdays 3-5:30 World History Tutorial is is available Tuesdays and Thursdays 3-5:30

My Favorite (and probably yours as well!) Web 2.0 is Youtube [[|http://youtube.com]] using Youtube you can watch your favorite music for free OR do some types of research. On Youtube there are many different types of videos, many of which are helpful for you.

I am also a HUGE International Herald Tribune fan. [[]] The Herald Tribune is the Global addition of the New York Times and it offers extremely reliable world news (helpful for World Geography and World History) and video and blogs applications. Please investigate these two resources!

Class Wiki Project page! Blog Projects Throughout the course of the year we will have blogs on different time periods (for World history) or Regions (for Geography) that we are studying. You will daily post about your "character." For the blogs you must first pick a person (Age, Sex, Marital Status, Race, and Religion) before you can ever start blogging quotidian aspects of this persons life. I expect you to read each others and will have you write about other students blogs periodically on "pop" quizzes. Right now we are covering WWI.