History and My Story

This week we are thinking about thinking.  After experimenting  with the 6 thinking hats technique what do you think?  Is this method helpful?  Are you in favor of practicing this technique again?  Why or why not?

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This afternoon President Obama spoke to you, the schoolchildren of America, to encourage you to take responsibility for your learning. The President challenged you to set goals, try hard and not to be afraid of failure.

Click here for transcript of the speech. It is similar to the remarks released Monday for preview, but has [...]

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Here are the finished VoiceThread projects.  How do you think your class did compared to the others?  Obviously, the larger classes (D and C) had the advantage and have an impressive number of comments and countries included.  In the next few days I will be reviewing all of your work and then you will be assigned questions [...]

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Here is a quick link to the Black Ships and Samurai site that we are using for this project.  Below is a list of which chapters to look at when you are answering each of the questions.  Remember you all have the same 12 questions.  College Prep students have 2 additional questions that Academic students [...]

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Just a heads up that any comment that does not list the student’s name will be immediately deleted. Also any student comment that links to a URL will be deleted as well. This is a popular function on blog sites….people promote their own blogs by posting on other people’s blogs. Readers will [...]

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Hope everything goes well today.  For the newbies, remember you need to go back into the archives and call up the older April posts from vacation week in order to catch up to the rest of the class.
 Also, once everyone is finished with their assignments, please explore the “helpful world history sites” in the right margin…..you [...]

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By Monday you are to have read pages 604-612 and 638-641.  After much trial and error–I figured out how to get you all access to the book on-line.  For now log into http://www.pearsonsuccessnet.com  and use my info: username=mbuell ~ password=history.  From there you can access the book, but you need to know the chapters and section [...]

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Don’t forget the term ends on April 11th.  Currently you should be working on your Antisemitism packet and questions which is due Friday April 4th and your Irish Indepence Essay which is due on Wednesday April 9th. 

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Complete questions 6 and 7 from the Nationalist Movements in the Middle East handout.

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