A passport is a book that also has historical facts in it! This is my favorite page from my older passport. Kiribati is a particularly difficult stamp to get!
Dear students,
I hope you enjoyed our work with looking at how the telling of history has changed through textbook examination! Here's what we did today in class:
Learning Targets Addressed:
Behavior LT 1: I can self direct my learning.
Communication LT 1: I can communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing.
Critical Thinking LT 4: I can evaluate information and explanations within a given context and develop a relevant conclusion.
Soundtrack: "Stairway to Heaven" by Led Zeppelin. Selected for today because of the five year anniversary of the death of my dad, who loved this band. Lyrics here.Communication LT 1: I can communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing.
Critical Thinking LT 4: I can evaluate information and explanations within a given context and develop a relevant conclusion.
AGENDA 9/25/19:
News Brief - Moises
Finish "Lies"
Textbook Examination
Work Time
We also checked in to see if anyone was up to anything interesting or fun outside of class.
Meghana was selected to do the next news brief.
As part of the news brief, we also watched the one minute BBC World News update. Here's the link to see the latest one minute update, at any time of day (it will probably be different from what we watched in class):
Finish "Lies": Last class, we looked at historical perspective and some of the major "lies" people believe about American history. Today, we finished that look at 7 lies told and tried to understand why that would happen, before using that information to move on to a new assignment.
Textbook Examination: The main goal of today was to analyze how the textbooks have looked at singular events in history, and how that might have changed over time. Here is the assignment that will be due at the start of next class (it is graded - paper copies were available in class or it is also available to submit electronically on Google Classroom):
Hopefully this was an interesting activity for you to see! We also talked in class about the importance of citations when you are researching. I gave an example citation for the textbook as:
Author. Title of Book. City of Publication: Publisher, Year. Format.
For the main class textbook, this would be:
Danzer, et. al. The Americans. McDougal Littell, 2005. Print.
If you are at home and wanting to look at the textbook online, it is available on this website in chapters.
Work Time: The rest of class was devoted to in class work time, looking at one of your 5 major events and seeing how textbooks have addressed it throughout time. This assignment was due at the end of class and will be graded for the Critical Thinking LT 4. Thanks, everyone! See you next class!
Textbook Examination: The main goal of today was to analyze how the textbooks have looked at singular events in history, and how that might have changed over time. Here is the assignment that will be due at the start of next class (it is graded - paper copies were available in class or it is also available to submit electronically on Google Classroom):
Hopefully this was an interesting activity for you to see! We also talked in class about the importance of citations when you are researching. I gave an example citation for the textbook as:
Author. Title of Book. City of Publication: Publisher, Year. Format.
For the main class textbook, this would be:
Danzer, et. al. The Americans. McDougal Littell, 2005. Print.
If you are at home and wanting to look at the textbook online, it is available on this website in chapters.
Work Time: The rest of class was devoted to in class work time, looking at one of your 5 major events and seeing how textbooks have addressed it throughout time. This assignment was due at the end of class and will be graded for the Critical Thinking LT 4. Thanks, everyone! See you next class!
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