Hello all, One thing about teaching History is that you have a lot of videos that you can show to enhance the lesson. Today I showed a clip of Ken Burns’ Civil War Mini Series. I don’t like showing videos too much, because it seems too easy. I have heard of a few teachers who […]
Hello again, Today I handed out topics for the Civil War in a Can project. This time it was for my other two groups of students. At my school, we block schedule. I will have one particular group of two classes on Mondays, Tuesdays, and every other Wednesdays, then another group of two classes on […]
Hello again, Today I came into class with a nice lesson plan, but I was short about 10 minutes. I never like to have the class sit around with nothing to do, because that leads to them talking, then getting loud, and it’s harder to get them back on task, so I had to come […]
Hey all, Today I passed out my Civil War in a Can project direction sheet. This is my big end of the year project. I saw another teacher using this with her English class, and I modified it for the Civil War. I really got tired of hearing boring reports read by the students, so […]