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Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Blog Post 5- History Lesson Plan
I have decided to create a lesson plan for an eleventh grade world history class. This lesson plan will be “mini project” that coincides with a unit on WWII. This “mini project” will help students gain a better understanding on a significant event during WWII of their choice. It will also help the students master the skill of using primary sources to learn history.
Performance Objective
Using a computer with internet access, the eleventh grade world history student must look for a primary source (e.g. picture, letter, newspaper article, map) online on a significant event in World War II (e.g. Bombing of Hiroshima, Rape of Nan King, Holocaust, D-Day, and Bombing of Pearl Harbor). Using the primary source, the student must write a two-part essay that is at least 700 words and complete 70 percent of the assignment rubric.
The paper must have two parts. The first part of the paper, the student must analyze the primary source found online. In the second part, the student must write a vignette using their primary source describing the events and thoughts as an individual living through this time period. The paper will be submitted through GoogleDocs by Sunday, April 21st, 2008.
C. Using a computer with internet access,
A. the eleventh grade world history student
B. will look for a primary source online on a significant event in World War II.
D. Using the primary source, the student must write a two-part paper that is at least 700 words and complete 70 percent of the assignment rubric. The paper must have two parts. The first part of the paper must analyze the primary source found online. In the second part, the student must write a vignette using their primary source describing the events and thoughts as an individual living through this time period. The paper will be submitted through GoogleDocs by Sunday, April 21st, 2008.
Domain: Cognitive
Standards Met
HCPs III - Eleventh Grade: Social Studies
Standard 2: Historical Understanding: INQUIRY, EMPATHY AND PERSPECTIVE- Use the tools and methods of inquiry, perspective, and empathy to explain historical events with multiple interpretations and judge the past on its own terms
Standard 3: History: WORLD HISTORY-Understand important historical events from classical civilization through the present
HCPs III - Eleventh Grade: Language Arts
Standard 2: Reading: READING COMPREHENSION: Use reading strategies to construct meaning from a variety of texts
Standard 3: Reading: LITERARY RESPONSE AND ANALYSIS: Respond to literary texts from a range of stances: personal, interpretive, critical
Standard 4: Writing: CONVENTIONS AND SKILLS: Use the writing process and conventions of language and research to construct meaning and communicate effectively for a variety of purposes and audiences using a range of forms
National Education Technology Standards
NET 1: Basic operations and concepts
NET 3: Technology productivity tools
NET 4: Technology communications tools
NET 5: Technology research tools
Performance Objective
Using a computer with internet access, the eleventh grade world history student must look for a primary source (e.g. picture, letter, newspaper article, map) online on a significant event in World War II (e.g. Bombing of Hiroshima, Rape of Nan King, Holocaust, D-Day, and Bombing of Pearl Harbor). Using the primary source, the student must write a two-part essay that is at least 700 words and complete 70 percent of the assignment rubric.
The paper must have two parts. The first part of the paper, the student must analyze the primary source found online. In the second part, the student must write a vignette using their primary source describing the events and thoughts as an individual living through this time period. The paper will be submitted through GoogleDocs by Sunday, April 21st, 2008.
C. Using a computer with internet access,
A. the eleventh grade world history student
B. will look for a primary source online on a significant event in World War II.
D. Using the primary source, the student must write a two-part paper that is at least 700 words and complete 70 percent of the assignment rubric. The paper must have two parts. The first part of the paper must analyze the primary source found online. In the second part, the student must write a vignette using their primary source describing the events and thoughts as an individual living through this time period. The paper will be submitted through GoogleDocs by Sunday, April 21st, 2008.
Domain: Cognitive
Standards Met
HCPs III - Eleventh Grade: Social Studies
Standard 2: Historical Understanding: INQUIRY, EMPATHY AND PERSPECTIVE- Use the tools and methods of inquiry, perspective, and empathy to explain historical events with multiple interpretations and judge the past on its own terms
Standard 3: History: WORLD HISTORY-Understand important historical events from classical civilization through the present
HCPs III - Eleventh Grade: Language Arts
Standard 2: Reading: READING COMPREHENSION: Use reading strategies to construct meaning from a variety of texts
Standard 3: Reading: LITERARY RESPONSE AND ANALYSIS: Respond to literary texts from a range of stances: personal, interpretive, critical
Standard 4: Writing: CONVENTIONS AND SKILLS: Use the writing process and conventions of language and research to construct meaning and communicate effectively for a variety of purposes and audiences using a range of forms
National Education Technology Standards
NET 1: Basic operations and concepts
NET 3: Technology productivity tools
NET 4: Technology communications tools
NET 5: Technology research tools
Friday, February 15, 2008
Blog Post 4
One of the websites that I found to be extremely useful is www.history.com. This is the official website for the History Channel. I find this website to be extremely useful in providing both resources for the students, and also information and activities that can keep students motivated in the subject of history. This website has games, weekly featured articles, monthly historical event clips, and a section which lists the events that happened on each day in history. This website is also a great area for looking up interesting historical information to motivate students to learn more about history, and this is also a good starting point for research projects. A teacher can use this tool to help make history more relevant to the students by assigning students a short assignment using this website to find out what historical events took place on their birthday. Another useful way to use this website is to use the information obtained from the website as an attention starter at the beginning of each class to warm the students up for the lesson head.
Friday, February 1, 2008
Blog Post #2 - Visiting blogs
Of the blogs I visited, a majority of the comments posted were describing how the person felt about the topic, such as arguing against the point that the person had made in his blog, or supporting it. Other comments looked like the person just wanted to express their feelings, such as they had learned something new, or that they wanted to try it out and wanted more information about it, and had left questions for the owner of the blog to answer.
I think the purpose of having comments on a blog is to be able to learn and find out what other people feel about the topics you wrote about, and to find out different perspectives or learn more information from other people. It also gives the person who is commenting the ability to communicate with the blogger as well and learn from them. Vice versa, I also think people want to comment on other people’s blogs for the sole purpose of communicating their thoughts and feelings as well. Blogs have become a form of communication among the many other forms of internet communication, such as email, forums, chat rooms, and websites.
I think the purpose of having comments on a blog is to be able to learn and find out what other people feel about the topics you wrote about, and to find out different perspectives or learn more information from other people. It also gives the person who is commenting the ability to communicate with the blogger as well and learn from them. Vice versa, I also think people want to comment on other people’s blogs for the sole purpose of communicating their thoughts and feelings as well. Blogs have become a form of communication among the many other forms of internet communication, such as email, forums, chat rooms, and websites.
Friday, January 25, 2008
Blog Post 1 - History Blog
I chose a world history blog because my focus of interest is specifically in Asian history and I am hoping to teach world history for high school in the future. I thought this blog titled “The World History Blog” would be an excellent and creative source of information for myself as well as for students to learn from. The blog covers a variety of topics from past to current as well as covers information about a variety of places around the world. The most interesting part of this blog is that it does historical comparisons of the accuracy of different movies. I initially had an idea for a lesson plan in which the students have to watch a popular movie and research on the subject of the movie, and compare its historical accuracy. Along with its interesting entries, there are also links to sites which discuss teaching history that may be useful to my future teaching career.
Copyright address
The following website is a great website with some tips on teaching students about copyright.
http://teachingtoday.glencoe.com/howtoarticles/copyrights-and-permissions-giving-online-credit-where-credit-is-due
Have a good day
http://teachingtoday.glencoe.com/howtoarticles/copyrights-and-permissions-giving-online-credit-where-credit-is-due
Have a good day
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