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1827. arkymalarky - 2/20/2016 1:09:36 AM Cool Guy and dad of a good friend of Mose:
http://www.hsu.edu/directory/people/professors/travislangley.html 1828. arkymalarky - 2/20/2016 1:10:06 AM You Will love that, No. 1829. Ms. No - 2/20/2016 4:39:36 PM Yes! I really did love that. I want to read his books -- Hell, I want to take his class! 1830. arkymalarky - 2/20/2016 5:51:42 PM Ha-ha! Me too! 1831. Ms. No - 3/13/2016 7:42:19 PM Got the Walking Dead book, but won't get a chance to read it until Spring Break --- just one more week!
Sat in on a focus group yesterday hosted by my alma mater and am intrigued by a new program they're putting together. I don't know that I'd be drawn back for an EdD, but they're broadening their satellite campus here in town to include the School of Education and I intend to take full advantage of the networking possibilities. 1832. Ms. No - 3/23/2016 11:50:04 PM I just completed the unit plan for the Holocaust project. I veered away from dystopian fiction and went with a much easier concept for the time being. I'll work out the other at some later date.
The essential question of the unit is: "What truths do we get from memoir, that we don't get from exclusively factual accounts of historical events."
I'm having the students make an interactive time-line that they will have to research and then do some imagined memoir-writing entries for.
In the meantime, I'm going to mock one up based on WWI so they've got something to look at. I've got time to do it before I roll this out in the last month of school. 1833. arkymalarky - 3/24/2016 2:16:23 AM Sounds great. What course and age? 1834. Trillium - 3/24/2016 2:30:56 PM Ms. No, as you present WWI, you have an opportunity to help students understand instability and massive collapse of established political systems around the same time.
Gavrilo Princip, a teen anarchist, sparked WWI by assassinating the Austrian Crown Prince. World War I ended the power of the Habsburg monarchy, which had ruled much of Europe and far beyond for hundreds of years. That happened in Europe -- but anarchist radicals were also destabilizing the U.S. around the same time with Brussels-style terror bombings and assassinations. Because history textbooks usually leave out this part of U.S. history, your students are not likely to imagine with any accuracy how people at the time felt (whether new immigrants or more established citizens).
Today on Ebay you can find a "Rare 1920 SEWARD POST Alaska Territory newspaper" with headlines ANARCHIST WALL STREET BOMBING: Dragnet for Radicals, Nationwide Roundup Starts". Even though World War I had ended by 1920, the United States and the rest of the world were still reeling with revolutions, terror bombings, police roundups and press censorship/propaganda.
Berkman and Galleani were influential anarchist leaders. Many of their terror victims were young people and minorities who worked near wealthier and more powerful people.
Berkman
Galleani
Wall Street Bombing
Current students and teachers are often taught to view history through the lens of racist memes that are simple (and the Nazis, a favorite topic, also sorted the world by racist categories) but reality was much more complex then (and now).
1835. arkymalarky - 3/24/2016 4:33:37 PM WWI is incredibly complex, and I always told my AP Euro Hist students that to understand it they have to dig broadly and deeply, understanding not only the geopolitical history of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, but the cultural as well. Few people, and I am not among them, truly do. Here in the Mote, there were several, including PE, Irv, and Wombat. What happened in the US was largely due to issues of Labor rights and Communism or responses to it, but like virtually everything, it's not simple. 1836. arkymalarky - 3/24/2016 4:55:35 PM No, I also just taught Animal Farm. It's Jr high, so it's hard for me to draw the line of historical context, but in AP we read the Brothers Karamazov and we talk a lot about how obvious it was then that the Revolution was coming. I really miss not teaching history and English together. The math-science school used to in one block. Don't know if they still do. I need to ask. 1837. Ms. No - 3/26/2016 7:47:05 AM Arx,
10th grade English. I'm not really teaching the history so much as supporting their inquiry into it and teaching the reading and writing that supplements it. 1838. Ms. No - 3/26/2016 7:48:26 AM Trillium,
I'm not teaching WWI this time around. I'm just using WWI to make an example of an interactive timeline. 1839. arkymalarky - 3/26/2016 4:58:44 PM Yeah, I realized that. I kind of got sidetracked.
One of my absolute favorite projects is around Halloween I take kids to the cemetery, have them select a tombstone ( with preset parameters) and have them research the time period and circumstances of what that person's life might be like based on their age of death and gender, then afterward they write journals or news items (or some other approved format) for that person and put in time and setting appropriate pictures et cetera for a PowerPoint of their written part to share with the class; then they research and see if they can find anything about the actual person. 1840. arkymalarky - 3/26/2016 5:06:26 PM Do y'all ever do concurrent grading? I used to do that with the History/English teacher, depending on which one I was. Kids could work on a pretty sizable project and get credit for it in two classes and help doing it in two classes. 1841. Ms. No - 3/28/2016 12:07:05 AM Ooh! Fun project!
Our integrated units work that way -- or are supposed to. They need a major overhaul this summer. The History teacher and I are theoretically doing a share project, but they'll be doing little more than getting background knowledge and reading "Night" in his class. They'll be putting the timeline together in my class, so I'm teaching the tech and the writing skills. I'm going to force the history teacher to do all the fact-checking on them.
I'm so irritated with him right now I could spit. He's a nice guy, but one of the laziest teachers I've ever met. I think I mentioned that we're doing this Holocaust PD that we've been attending about once a month since October. The culminating project is a lesson plan that we submit and then present to the entire group. Mine is the timeline thing, his is some bullshit he googled and got online about teaching the book "Night."
I think it's funny how his project and mine are sort of backward from what one would expect from our two content areas, but I'm not in the least bit amused by the fact that he's just copying somebody else's lesson plan and putting his name on it. I mean, yeah, we all get inspiration from others, and when we're teaching day to day, there's no reason to reinvent the wheel if there's already a good lesson out there, but we're being paid a stipend to develop these lessons and I think it's cheating that he's not doing the job.
/rant 1842. arkymalarky - 3/28/2016 1:59:34 PM That seems to be a common issue, and I hate to stereotype, but it seems to plague history teachers and coaches more than most groups. Of course, at least here, most of the history teachers are coaches. 1843. Trillium - 3/28/2016 7:57:17 PM There are NYT articles about Wiesel's Night that mention details not likely to show up in your buddy's lesson plans. The book was originally 800+ pages written in Yiddish; later translated to French by a famous Catholic writer (Francois Mauriac), then translated by Wiesel's wife to English as a much smaller version. Some details were rearranged to appeal to American readership.
Donadio on "Night"
Hyatt on "Night" 1844. Ms. No - 3/29/2016 11:23:07 PM Arky,
Stereotypes exist for a reason. I was going to say that it seems to be more true of male history teachers than female, but I know more male history teachers than female, so my pool may be skewed. 1845. Ms. No - 3/29/2016 11:24:01 PM I mean, just because you love history doesn't mean you're a good teacher of history. .....And just because you love WWII doesn't mean you are either. 1846. arkymalarky - 3/29/2016 11:33:53 PM Stan's brother was an excellent history teacher, and very demanding In his AP US history classes. He had an excellent pass rate, but even with him the running joke for the history teachers In the hallways when the Bell rang, was gentlemen start your VCRs!
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