by David Russell | Jan 7, 2019 | 9/10th Grade, Authenticity to the Discipline, Social Studies, Solutions
In my first post I posed two Problems of Practice: How might I ensure that what all students are doing is an activity or task that a historian, in the midst of gaining new knowledge through research and analysis, would actually do in the course of their work? How...
by Lynn Yellen | Jan 6, 2019 | 11/12th Grade, Authenticity to the Discipline, Social Studies, Solutions
by Cyndy Ware | Nov 6, 2018 | 11/12th Grade, Personal Authenticity, Social Studies
One of my goals is to make sure students can personally connect to the work in Constitutional Law class. Fortunately, this is not difficult considering the Con Law is, in one sense, an ethics class and students are asked to judge (in the style of a SCOTUS justice) all...
by Maurice Blackmon | Oct 22, 2018 | 9/10th Grade, Personal Authenticity, Social Studies
The inevitable question that boldly emerges in some form or another at the conclusion of a lesson well-taught, from the teacher’s perspective at least, or that whispers in the ear of the student as they work to make meaning of a number of competing feelings...
by Lynn Yellen | Oct 17, 2018 | 11/12th Grade, Social Studies
In a course called 19th century movements for social change, my students are preparing for their Anti-Slavery Convention. This is part of a unit on the abolition movement, the mother of all movements in the US. Early on in the unit, the students learn...
by Monique Velazquez | Oct 16, 2018 | 9/10th Grade, Authenticity to the Discipline, Social Studies
In the essay “Examining the Reputation of Columbus” Jack Weatherford writes, “Christopher Columbus’ reputation has not survived the scrutiny of history, and today we know that he was no more the discoverer of America than Pocahontas was the...