Course Calendar

Monday, August 23, 2010

Tuesday, August 24th

Assignment(s) Due:
Personal History Portfolio
(Including a Personal History, Timeline, & Picture/Artifact).
5th Grade Personal History Project
5th Grade Rubric for Personal History Project

6th -8th Grade Personal History Portfolio
Middle-Level Rubric for Personal History Portfolio

In-Class Agenda:
Biography - Speed-Dating Style. In-Class Writing Assignment.
(Students will each get two minutes to add onto the personal history of a classmate. At the end of class each students' personal history (as constructed by their classmates) will be collected.)
Allow a Few Students to Voluntarily Share their Autobiography Information.

Homework:
N/A.
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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