We must understand the past to know who we are and where we are going... on this web page you will find the daily class agenda, historical resources, and, as a class we will analyze historical events and discuss our thoughts on a variety of issues both in history and current events. You will be able to read your classmates comments, and respond to their thoughts and ask other questions regarding history that you may have.
Course Calendar
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Wednesday, March 31st
Assignments Due:
N/A
In-Class Agenda:
Modern Refugees.
Shattered Lives - Literature Circle (Jigsaw of Stories).
Read First 1/2 of Book In Class.
Homework:
Take Notes & Fill Out Role Card.
2 comments:
Sarah Gould
said...
Those youtube videos that we watched today in class really healped me understand how hard it was for the people who had to live in the jungle! It gave me a better picture of how it really was for them. I didn't really get to see the living conditions that they were in but the parts I did get to see were sad and depressing. But the thing that got to me most was the interviews on youtube that we watched with the Hmong people. When they were describing how they felt, it was so heart breaking! It brought tears to my eyes and that lunp in my throat! It's just too hard to believe that it's goining on in life today! :'(
I have to agree with Sarah, it must be absolutely terrifying for those people I could never grasp the fact that it is happening(like the Holocaust), but I can fully understand what they feel, prior to the interviews, and the quotes we read in class on Tuesday. If I had power I would really try to do something about it, but i may end up in war. I hope this ends soon, and they get to rest and live in their country in peace:)
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
2 comments:
Those youtube videos that we watched today in class really healped me understand how hard it was for the people who had to live in the jungle! It gave me a better picture of how it really was for them. I didn't really get to see the living conditions that they were in but the parts I did get to see were sad and depressing. But the thing that got to me most was the interviews on youtube that we watched with the Hmong people. When they were describing how they felt, it was so heart breaking! It brought tears to my eyes and that lunp in my throat! It's just too hard to believe that it's goining on in life today! :'(
I have to agree with Sarah, it must be absolutely terrifying for those people I could never grasp the fact that it is happening(like the Holocaust), but I can fully understand what they feel, prior to the interviews, and the quotes we read in class on Tuesday. If I had power I would really try to do something about it, but i may end up in war. I hope this ends soon, and they get to rest and live in their country in peace:)
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