Friday, February 21

Today’s Learning: What was the significance of Kublai Khan?

Warm Up: Share your response to the close reading question, along with the supporting evidence: “What did Marco Polo really think of Kublai Khan?”  with your assigned travel partner. Discuss as a class.

Class Work: Write a tweet from Marco Polo to Kublai Khan. In your tweet imagine Marco Polo would have said to Kublai Khan after Marco left China. You have a maximum of 140 characters (EACH space and punctuation mark is a space).

Memorial discussion: What memorials have you seen? What do the memorials represent? In what ways do memorials convey their message?

• Gateway Memorial Arch
• Mount Rushmore
• Marine Corps (Iwo Jima) Memorial
• Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial
• Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial
• Lincoln Memorial
• 9/11 Memorial (Pentagon)

Mongol Memorial Assignment. Due at the beginning of class Tuesday, February 25.

Describe the stories you hear on today’s CNN 10 in a sentence each on p. 39 of your notebook.