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Tuesday, December 23, 2008

America's History of Intolerance GabCast Reflection Highlights!!!

Here are a few entries from the GabCast Assignment Reflecting on the History of Intolerance in America: The Assignment Read As Follows:
1. Reflect on the History of Intolerance in America.
2. What stood out to you?
3. What can be learned from this?
4. How does this apply to today?
5. How can we fight intolerance in the world today?
Students were given free reign to then respond however they wanted in their reflection highlighting any of the components from the week long unit in class. Below are a few entries that displayed exemplary reflection and implementation of the class material.


Highlighted Entry #1: Gabrielle Medina.


Gabcast! Gabrielle Medina History of Intolerance Reflection




Highlighted Entry #2: Molly Boland.


Gabcast! Molly Boland History of Intolerance Reflection

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We can learn from history how past generations thought and acted, how they responded to the demands of their time and how they solved their problems. We can learn by analogy, not by example, for our circumstances will always be different than theirs were. The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone. They foreclose the possibility of making other choices and thus they determine future events.
-Gerda Lerner

History, we can confidently assert, is useful in the sense that art and music, poetry and flowers, religion and philosophy are useful. Without it -- as with these -- life would be poorer and meaner; without it we should be denied some of those intellectual and moral experiences which give meaning and richness to life. Surely it is no accident that the study of history has been the solace of many of the noblest minds of every generation.
-Henry Steele Commager

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
-Robert F. Kennedy