The Mayan Ball Game

I would also stick with either the Jeopardy game for the rest of the class or instead of letting the students pick one activity to do after the game, I would set up three centers and let students do each center for the rest of the class time. I would do this because it took more time than I thought it would to go over the review video. Cutting back on what I put in the lesson, I would have more time to go over the review and then give them one fun activity that allows them to practice what we are reviewing and not run out of

One, the first main point is how to properly lay aside your differences and learn how to accordingly utilize them in a team sport. Two, the second main point is implementing teamwork and having absolute confidence in each other; and by doing that you will unceasingly come out with a victory! I hope I peaked your interest and you consider reading The Boys in the Boat this year for your knowledge and enjoyment. I would thoroughly enjoy coming back and talking to you and your students in your Physical Education class about what they thought.Before I go, I want to leave this quote from George Pocock “ Harmony, balance, and rhythm. They're three things that stay with you, your whole life. Without them civilization is out of whack...and with them, you will be able to go out in life, fight it, and handle

Editors note: Daniel Gonzalez is a journalist Miami, Florida. He has always been interested with the Mayans. Daniel Gonzalez traveled back in time with the time machine that he made in his high school wood shop and was able to go back to the 13th century to write about the fall of the Mayans.

In the realm of the Classic Maya ballgame, there is much speculation based off carvings, and there exists little concrete knowledge. Overall, the ballgame served as a religious altar where sacrificial events took place, but various researchers find drastically different reasons for the act of sacrifice on the ball court. Miller and Houston explain, through a materialistic and political lens, that the Ancient Mayan ballgame served as a means for an individual, typically a captive of war, to play for their life; it was a political game to emphasize who was the stronger and authoritative society. However, Freidel, Schele, and Parker, through a spiritual and idealistic lens, see the ballgame as a ritualized reenactment of a mythological event involving the Hero Twins. Moreover, Miller and Houston’s argument, using archeological proof, is more convincing because Freidel, Schele, and Parker’s reliance on the Popol Vuh, written much later than the actual events it accounts, and a spiritual viewpoint exhibits a distorted story.

For the Honors World History midterm project the class was put into groups and we were to make a poster with information about one topic from the first semester. We started with three topics and then picked which idea would be best to transfer to a poster. My group started with the three categories, people, revolutions and countries. We chose countries for our poster. Even though this project was very intimidating and stressful at first, I ended up enjoying it because we worked with other classmates which allowed for more creativity as well as a more complete poster since more people worked on it.

Team building exercises were engaged in to bring the team members together on a personal level. The exercises and the time together engendered greater loyalty, personal connections, appreciation for team mates, and common purpose. Genuinely caring for team members or co-workers should compel team members to always give their best in the interest of the

The class played 4 games that used root words. There was 8 teams, 2 teams per a game. Each team had 2 people. There were an annoying dice game, snake, soccer, and concentration. There were some unacceptable parts.

Heart racing, knees shaking, arms trembling; it was the first day of my sophomore year and I was about to enter my AP World History, class. My palms were sweaty; I didn’t know what to expect, but afterward, the teacher gave a brief overview of the course. He mentioned how it was rigorous and demanding course, and it would prepare us for college-level courses, such as developing our speaking skills and helping us receive college credits. We focused on teaching the class about the content, which was good opportunity to defeat my fear. At this point, I had to get over my fear of presenting in front of others, but the thought of it tortured me. All I could think of was my 10-year-old self speechlessly standing in front of many students with so

Teamwork is a key skill that everyone should have installed in them at a young age.The brain of a child is like a sponge, they absorb everything and use it in the future. Playing football is not an individual sport unlike competitive swim or boxing, when playing a sport heavy contact or not as a team a child learns to work with others to achieve a common goal of winning or advancing. Children become cooperative and have the ability to collaborate with others making them more resourceful and beneficial in any real life situation. According to live strong representative and author of article “Benefits of Teamworks in Sports” Wade Harle, stated “ Teamwork in sports can help give participants stronger communication skills and teach them to work better with others. Additional advantages to teamwork in sports are learning to deal with conflict and varieties of different ideas within a team.” As the young child grows and prospers into a young adult having the teamwork ability and characteristic will only gain them the upper hand when applying for jobs, working on projects and in life commitments and relationships.

I feel as if everyone should be close on a team as opposed to just groups of two, three, etc. I believe this year that my team and I will have sharp motions and put the extra work in at home, so time is not taken out of practice.

Having played a variety of team sports throughout my life, I saw a lot of parallels throughout the class work on team building between positive teamwork and success. Reading Five Dysfunctions of a Team and then applying what we learned from the reading into several team building exercise gave me a unique perspective on how to create and identify key team building skills.

At the Freshmen Respect Retreat we started our day off with a few games. The games they provided us with pumped the building with energy. We started off buzzing around the room playing caught in the middle, a game where everyone is divided into teams and gathers in a circle. The people inside of the circle run to others on the outside of the circle and pull them up. From there the same is done to another person till the music stops. If someone is not sitting down on the outer edge of the circle when the music stops, they have been caught in the middle. A team is announced the winner if they have the least amount of their players caught in the middle. The energy of that game kept us in a light and airy mood throughout the majority of the day.

2. Math Games: What did you learn about the math skill you selected? How did creating a game push you to think about supporting this skill in a playful way? How successful was your game in supporting children’s learning of the concept that you selected? The game was designed for the math skill of children knowing 1- 10 correspondents. Creating the game was hard because I wanted to make it easy, make sure it made sense and something the students in the class would enjoy. The game wasn’t too successful for my class because of the six students only two were interested in actually trying the game. It was difficult for one of the students because he didn’t know his colors very well and that made it difficult. The other student did very well at the game but I also expected her to, because she is the more advanced child in the class.

Ending of this Introduction to Ethnic course I will discuss of two key learning moments that will stay with me upon my departure from this course. I also will discuss of learning tools that help guided me through this course. In addition, I will discuss of what I had gained fromthe two moments of learning. Lastly, I will share how I can continue to learn and discuss about ethnic-studies related issues.

The lesson that I got to observe was Math. Miss. Phillips started on the smartboard with naming shapes and then she asked four to five students to look around the classroom and find the shapes they were naming from the smartboard. One student found an oval and another student had found a square each student found what Miss. Phillips had asked them to find, then all the students had traced in the air with their finger what shapes Miss. Phillips called out. Now she plays the dice game, each number that it lands on the student writes down and then add each number on the dice. Example 2+5= 7 and then she ask the students to show the number on their hands. Miss. Phillips has some actives set up around the room for them to do Math centers, one table has AB Patterns table 2 has ABB patters then at table 3 has number writing 0-5 at the end of the lesson she had the students meet back at the ABC rug and then they played counting to 100 by singing and dancing, a