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Historical Essay
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Summative Performance Task & Tool Harwood Union History Department Your Challenging Task: Answer a historical question in a formal academic essay using ample evidence from multiple sources. Your Learning Target: I can uses evidence from multiple sources to make a strong argument on an historical question or debate. What is your Historical…
How does politics really work in America?
Lesson Overview This learning unit is based on a recent study from Princeton University that confirms what many Americans have felt for years – the preferences of the average American have very little impact on the laws being passed by the Federal government. Students learn more about how our democratic republic is supposed to work…
Review Unit – 15,000 years ago – 1900 a.d.
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Required Class Materials Single Subject Binder Paper Writing Utensil P.M.A. Essential Question: How were Europeans able to eventually dominate the Native Americans? Roots of Inequality Focus Question: What advantages did Europeans have that Native Americans did not? Watch clips of Guns, Germs, Steel – https://youtu.be/36BQW1SuHQ8?t=1724 (watch 15 minutes) Reviewed Lecture Notes – https://youtu.be/VuVXLqrsRgI Geographic…
Harwood Open House
Creating Sustainable Communities Mr. Matt Henchen CSC – Civics mhenchen@wwsu.org How to view student assignments – Visit My Blog http://newschoolhistory.com/ Each week, I will attempt to post the following information: What we are currently learning about with links to resources, readings, and handouts What we will be studying next week with resources for pre-teaching A…
Coptic Stitch Notebook and First Journal Prompts
Your challenge: Turn an old binder destined for the dump into an amazing Coptic Stitch Sustainability Journal. Journal Reflection: What Skills, Knowledge, and Attitudes did you need in order to accomplish this challenging task? What are you proud of? If you had more time or the chance to do this again, what would you do…
Political Interest Survey
How interested are you in politics? How knowledgable about politics are you? This survey is designed to gauge a student’s self-perceived level of political literacy. Loading…
#makeschooldifferent
Reposted from Scott MacLeod’s Blog – http://dangerouslyirrelevant.org/ When it comes to education, we have to stop pretending… that short-term memorization equals long-term learning that students find meaning in what we’re covering in class that low-level facts and procedures are a prerequisite to deeper learning that analog learning environments prepare kids for a digital world that what…
2015 NESSC High School Redesign Conference – Presentation on Political Literacy
Dear CSC Students and Parents, I wanted to send a big thank you to my current and former students for their recent participation in the High School Redesign Conference in Boston this past week. The conference was sponsored by the New England Secondary School Consortium (NESSC) and the Great Schools Partnership (GSP). These organizations both…
Why New School Civics?
Blogger: Matt Henchen
