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19646. arkymalarky - 6/17/2006 3:21:31 PM Haha! Thanks, Ulgine! I must also add that in this process I'm trying to get a system for keeping up this coming year. I don't want to live like I have the past three or four years, and especially last year.
I'm adding AP history to what I'm teaching, I'm taking two night classes in the fall and two more in the spring, and our rural work will ratchet up tremendously due to a legislative session in January, to say nothing of my daughter getting married in March. I'll be buried alive again in paper if I don't have a way of dealing with it going into this year. I don't like the panic I've felt more than once lately of needing something desperately and not having a clue where I put it, or even whether I may have thrown it away.
As far as prepping for company, I know I've told this before, but Bob's sister once got a call from their preacher that he and his wife were going to drop by, and since she didn't have time to wash the huge sinkload of dishes (they didn't have a dishwasher), she threw the dirty dishes in boxes and put them in the attic. Where there's a will there's a way. ;-)
19647. jexster - 6/17/2006 5:20:03 PM Dick's Thought for the Day:
Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them,
you're a mile away and you have their shoes. 19648. jexster - 6/17/2006 5:44:00 PM Lesson Plan AP History ark???
Think Juan Cole's site and America Abroad at TPMC sometimes has history stuff
Also, Cole loves to refer to History News Network
Betcha if I asked him, he be delighted to recommend an appropriate work on Middle Eastern History too. 19649. arkymalarky - 6/17/2006 7:24:42 PM Thanks so much, Jex! That would be fantastic! Especially since I don't even know yet whether it will be American or World History; but I teach non-AP too, so all of that will help tremendously. 19650. arkymalarky - 6/17/2006 7:28:43 PM And at a glance, that History News Network site looks great. My parents are on their way over, so I wish I'd checked it out later when I could really look through it. It'll just have to wait until they leave, I guess. 19651. jexster - 6/17/2006 11:22:18 PM When you figure it out Arky, why don't you email him at UMich address. Tell him who you are, what UR lookin for, that you're Ellie May Clampett's cousin from Bugtussle etc .John McCutchen from SF State saud you should write. 19652. jexster - 6/17/2006 11:34:08 PM This is an attention-getter no matter which subject you teach. Perhaps you've read it Arky....
Lies My Teacher Taught Me
Good critical thinking...
Woodrow Wilson
".. two antidemocratic policies that Wilson carried out: his racial segregation of the federal government and his military interventions in foreign countries" (23).
"Under Wilson, the United States intervened in Latin America more often than at any other time in our history.. In 1917 Woodrow Wilson.. started sending secret monetary aid to the "White" side of the Russian civil war... This aggression fueled the suspicions that motivated the Soviets during the Cold War..." (23-4).
"..Wilson's interventions in Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and Nicaragua set the stage for the dictators Batista, Trujillo, the Duvaliers, and the Somozas.." (24).
"He was an outspoken white supremacist--his wife was even worse--and told "darky" stories in cabinet meetings" (27).
"Spurred by Birth of a Nation, William Simmons of Georgia reestablished the Ku Klux Klan. The racism seeping down from the White House encouraged this klan.." (28).
"Wilson was not only antiblack; he was also far and away our most nativist president, repeatedly questioning the loyalty of those he called "hyphenated Americans"" (29).
"To oppose America's participation in World War I, or even to be pessimistic about it, was dangerous. The Creel Committee... After World War I, the Wilson administration's attacks on civil liberties increased, now with anticommunism as the excuse. Neither before nor since these campaigns has the United States come closer to being a police state" (30).
"Because heroification prevents textbooks from showing Wilson's shortcomings, textbooks are hard pressed to explain the results of the 1920 election. James Cox, the Democratic candidate who was Wilson's would-be successor, was crushed by the nonentity Warren G. Harding, who never even campaigned. [It was] the biggest landslide in the history of American presidential politics" (31).
19653. arkymalarky - 6/18/2006 12:29:33 AM Thanks Jex. I'll see what schedule I end up with (which probably won't be final until August) and drop him a line.
Interesting on Woodrow Wilson. The history/text attitude toward Wilson from my high school and college to now is almost like night and day. Another interesting site for me to go through, too.
You really ought to check out C. Vann Woodward and his take on the post-Reconstruction era, both nationally and in the South. I keep telling Wombat the same thing. His work on the Compromise of 1877 and the rise and fall of the Populist Movement (and the corporate and political machinations that helped doom it) are absolutely fascinating. Here's a bibliography with links to some great articles from the New York Review of Books.
Speaking of Wombat (hint, hint) I'd love it if he weighed in with any advice, info, or resources for an AP history class. 19654. arkymalarky - 6/18/2006 2:28:39 AM Bro's the first one pictured in this Ome Banjo "Artists Gallery". 19655. Magoseph - 6/18/2006 6:49:13 AM Bonne fête papa ! 19656. arkymalarky - 6/18/2006 4:01:42 PM Happy Father's Day all you Mote Dads!! 19657. judithathome - 6/19/2006 1:41:24 AM Ditto from me to all the Mote daddys!
Arky, your bro looks so much like his dad! 19658. arkymalarky - 6/19/2006 2:20:17 AM I'll have to tell them--they'll both appreciate that!
Bro's in CO right now. I've got the next twelve days to run the gauntlet, then we're headed there. Bro will be home by then, though. 19659. arkymalarky - 6/20/2006 2:58:08 AM One day down, eleven to go.
It's an excellent program, though. I'm learning a lot and enjoying it. Creating the portfolio and the four ten-page papers that go in it (along with a bunch of other stuff) will be hard to find time for, but I have until November to do that, because it requires using my work environment, instruction, and student interactions during school time. 19660. arkymalarky - 6/21/2006 2:55:35 AM Well this place is a regular beehive.
Ten to go. A presenter talked about Pinker's The Language Instinct today and I told her about the wonderful, lengthy discussion we'd had in here several years ago. She absolutely loves the book and the copy she showed us was thorougly worn out. I never did read it, but I'm taking it and Guns, Germs, and Steel to CO with me, so maybe.... I recommended GGS to a colleague this spring, even though I still haven't read it, and he read it and loved it. 19661. judithathome - 6/21/2006 2:16:36 PM I've heard a lot of favorable comments about it...my reading has skidded to a dead stop, I fear. I think I read better in winter.
Haven't stopped ordering and/or buying books, however. 19662. wonkers2 - 6/21/2006 3:02:13 PM WRT to Wilson's racism, such attitudes were pervasive during that era both in the North and the South. It's the unfortunate truth that there were more people with attitudes like Wilson's and Ezra Pound's than like of Norman Thomas and Walt Whitman. 19663. judithathome - 6/21/2006 5:17:41 PM What ever happened to the Rants thread?
I just got a call from my friend Patti wanting to know when my car would be ready and offering to take me to pick it up...she asked me what the problem was with it and I told her what the mechanic had told me and she says "Oh my god!! That is the most expensive part there IS in that car!" To begin with, it is not and she doesn't know any more about cars than I do but this still caused my blood pressure to shoot up as she started lecturing me on its being time to ditch that car and get a new one....yes, my car has need for repair a few times a year but even at its most costly, it is far less on upkeep than making $500 car payments each month like she does.
And for her to chide me for keeping my car, which is a classic and still looks fabulous, is just short of ludicrous considering SHE kept hold of her ratty 1986 puce-colored BMW that was rusted out and had thread-bare seats through 2006, having a $4,000 repair bill done on it just 6 months before it caught fire and burned to the ground.
And I had to bite my tongue when she repeatedly advised me not to get an Alexis...no, she wasn't saying A LEXUS but AN Alexis ....just as she says Wives Saint Larent for the designer. I'm sure I want to take automobile advice from this woman when she can't even say the names of cars correctly.
19664. Magoseph - 6/21/2006 8:19:07 PM This is the place for rants, Judith. I'm preparing one against people who should not ask personal questions and those who are so greedy for family heirlooms that they don't want to wait for our demise.
Wonk, what type of lumbar contraption for the car did you get?
19665. wonkers2 - 6/22/2006 1:19:05 AM It's a small, ribbed foam cushion covered with cloth. It has an elastic strap intended to go around a bucket seat and hold the cushion in place. However, the strap was not sewed securely to the cloth cushion cover and came loose after a couple of days. I bought it at a Murray auto supply store. It cost $12 and change as I recall. It's a big help even though the strap failed. I just adjust the cushion after I get into the car. It helps keep the proper forward curvature in my lower spine.
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