Hello all, Yesterday, I had to teach my students about the Fugitive Slave Act. This was a law that allowed slave owners to go up to the North and retrieve their runaway slaves. It was part of the Compromise of 1850, and one of the causes of the American Civil War. It’s a pretty tough […]
Hello all, Nice title, huh? Let me explain. I was talking to a friend of mine who has a daughter enrolled in my school. The daughter is not one of my students, but she attends the same school on another track. My friend was telling me about one of her daughter’s teachers who she’s a […]
Hello all, It’s been a while since my last post. The only excuse I have is that I got sick. Nothing serious, just a bad cold, but it made me want to sleep more than write a blog post. Thankfully, I’m better, so I’m back to blogging. Recently, something happened at my school that reminded […]
Today I was reminded about one of the tips that I give my student teachers. If you want to get more students interested in an assignment, have it revolve around them. I wanted to give them an assignment to reinforce the information we were learning about the Texas independence movement, but I didn’t want to […]