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: "Book of Days" by Enya. Selected for today because of our work with analyzing how the textbooks have changed throughout the course of time.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 9/18/18:
News Brief - Suzanna
Important Events
Textbook Examination
Work Time
We also checked in about the weekend to see if anyone was up to anything interesting or fun outside of class.
Jaden 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):
Important Events: The homework from last class was to create your list of what you believe to be the 5 most important events in United States history. As a class, we made a list of your responses to this, in terms of helping everyone think of these, and also, to see how different historians will obviously interpret and analyze history differently.
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 was due today in class (it is graded):
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 on Thursday!
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 was due today in class (it is graded):
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 on Thursday!
