History and My Story

You all worked very hard last week on your Glogster poster projects. While many of you had beautiful and creative posters the following presentations contain the most helpful information:
Caste System:

Economy, Flow of Money:

Economy, Famine:

Changes in the Government of Spain:

Father Miguel Hidalgo:

Father Jose Morelos:

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Last year Susan Boyle won over international audiences with her rendition of I Dreamed A Dream….in the musical this is sung by Fantine after she is fired from her factory job, but before things get really rough.

 
Last year a student sent me this link (hint, hint). The clip is from the 10th anniversary celebration—so from [...]

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As we learn about the major ideologies of the 1800s I would like you to think about how similar or different they are to the ideological battles being fought in the United States in 2009. Watch this clip from today’s Meet The Press where the panelists discuss the right vs. left in America today. [...]

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Green Day has been all over the television this weekend giving interviews, concerts and promoting their newest album (or do just say CD now?). We’ve talked in here about how differently artistic messages can be interpreted. (Btw–the Pearl Jam song I couldn’t think of is “Alive.”) During one the interviews I saw [...]

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As I’ve been telling you in class, I really like Twitter and see it as a very useful site to communicate with students and parents.  Please check out my accounts and let me know what you think here.
http://twitter.com/ClassUpdate for homework and updates on our class.  I am just getting this going…next year I plan on [...]

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Go ahead and follow me if you dare…see sidebar. If you are still in the dark—Oprah explains all…plus Ashton Kutcher who is the first person in Twitter history to reach 1 million followers. Craziness.
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By the time you get to my blog over vacation you’ve probably already seen or heard about Susan Boyle and her performance on the British equivalent of American Idol.  Still….it’s just soooo good so I had to post.  Plus, she sang a Les Miserables song….if you see the You Tube version (which has disabled embedding) [...]

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I came across the Ricky Gervais video while on another website that didn’t have the embed code…so off to YouTube I went…and I discovered many video interview clips produced by an organization called Big Think who describe themselves as a “global forum connecting people and ideas.”  You can also see their work on You Tube.  [...]

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One of the reasons we struggle to understand concepts like totalitarianism is because it’s so foreign from the values that we as Americans have internalized. Comedian Ricky Gervais hits on something here when asked about differences in writing for UK and US audiences:

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See 4:30 on this clip from last night’s Presidential Address to Congress:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib2X1syZgkM
 
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