At the AVID Institute, a teacher shared this video with our group. It is great. I plan to show it to all of my classes, including my college sections. Of course, the more you know about Second Continental Congress and the players, the more enjoyable this clip really is. I am including the link for my readers. Just control left click on the title below! Enjoy!!!
Too Late to Apologize, Declaration
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
AVID Summer Institute, Dallas
I attended AVID Summer Institute I in Dallas and it was great. Particularly the strands where teachers explored AVID instructional activities and got the opportunities to share resources and advise on success and failures in the classroom implementing AVID activities. The Write Path AVID book for Social Studies is fantastic and has so many activities. Great!!!
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Polk, Polk and more Polk
I am currently read the Polk biography from Walter Borneman and have decided to read Silbey,s annexation of Texas text and the book from Merry on Polk and the expansion of the United States. It will keep me busy for a few weeks.
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Current Reads - Constitution
This is such a wonderful book that I am not even finished and I am making recommendations. It is not only accurate, historical and insightful, but just good plain reading. It has enough of a narrative to follow the author with enough insight to the reader interested. Great!
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
The Avalon Project - Primary Sources
If you are looking for a site that has primary sources....look no further. This site in maintained by Yale University and is the most comprehensive and accessible that I have used. I have used it extensively in the past when assigning primary sources to students for homework or projects.
Saturday, December 18, 2010
If you are looking for a great site to link to your powerpoint or notes for use in class this is it. Many speeches include the audio or video, if available. The text of the speech is included with the audio or video file as well. I have used it with great effectiveness is my instruction of my first college courses. Highly recommended. Here is the link!!!
Monday, August 23, 2010
Calling Parents
If your school does not subscribe to teleparent, the next best thing is dialmycalls. It will call a bank of up to 25 numbers that you enter and you can have a thirty second recording. See the website dialmycalls.com for more info. It is a web 2.0 application and is currently free at the level that I described. Check it out!
Sunday, August 22, 2010
First day of School
On the first day of school we cover a lot of school procedures. I am looking forward to my course intros which include reading the introduction to "Sounder" by William Armstrong. It is perfect for an anecdotal history survey course. I also like to cover the Leonidas story from Herodotus and the charge of Alexander in Quintus Curtius Rufus, I do dress up the Rufus a bit. Best of luck to all on their first day!
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Iraq Reconstruction
There is an excellent documentary, No End In Sight, about the reconstruction of Iraq and the faults and foibles. It was interesting, factual and nominated for an Oscar. There is also a great book by Richard Haas, the president of the Council on Foreign Relations, aptly named War of Necessity War of Choice. If you want an educated perspective using the facts about this war, you cannot pick better resources.
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