The Grammar of History Textbooks, Part I: Language Analysis Why do it? Do your students groan that the textbook is boring or difficult? Do they say it contains too many facts and not enough explanation? It may be that they are unfamiliar with the academic language that history textbooks use. Academic language differs from everyday language. It uses abstract words and complicated sentence structures. Getting Meaning Through Language Analysis is a strategy that linguists Mary Schleppergrell and her colleagues developed while working with middle school and high school history teachers and students. What is it? Analyzing a short passage, students identify all verbs and place them in one of three categories. action verbs such as fight, defend, build, vote, and so forthsaying and thinking-feeling verbs such as said, expressed, suppose, like, resent, and so forthrelating verbs such as is, have, is called, and so forth In addition to categorizing verbs, students identify all participants (that is, the subjects and objects of the verbs). Resources Mary J.
101 Short Stories that Will Leave You Smiling, Crying and Thinking post written by: Marc Chernoff Email Since its inception eighteen months ago, our sister site Makes Me Think (MMT) has truly evolved into a remarkable online community. As stated on the MMT About page, sometimes the most random everyday encounters force us to stop and rethink the truths and perceptions we have ingrained in our minds. I believe the 101 stories listed below perfectly fulfill that description. What do you think? To Kill a Mockingbird Study Guide To Kill a Mockingbird is set in the fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama. While it is the story of Scout’s growing up, it is also a story of the racially charged atmosphere in the town in the years of the Great Depression. Mockingbird therefore falls into a particular subset of American literature called Southern literature, since it deals explicitly and implicitly with themes and issues that were uniquely Southern. Other notable works of Southern literature include Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind, William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, and Flannery O'Connor's A Good Man is Hard to Find. In 2015, Lee’s publisher released Go Set a Watchman, which was billed as a sequel to Mockingbird but was actually her first draft of Mockingbird. It’s set 20 years after the events of Mockingbird.
The Grammar of History Textbooks Part II: Questioning the Text Why do it? History is a discipline constructed through language. For history students to be successful they must be able to comprehend, discuss, analyze, and write historical texts. Getting Meaning through Language Analysis not only helps struggling students comprehend the basic meaning of history writing, but this close text analysis can also promote historical thinking as students grapple with the language choices the author made in constructing the text. What is it? Language Analysis is a way to help students better understand and analyze historical text. These questions drive a classroom conversation about the text's meaning. 1. Let's examine the following sentence excerpted from a passage in an 8th-grade U.S. history textbook. Claiming that the nation needed protecting from treasonous ideas and actions, the Federalist-controlled Congress passed the Alien and Sedition Acts in the summer of 1798.(1) Standards-based investigative questions guide students through text interpretation. 1. 2.
How the Necronomicon Works" Weird fiction author H.P. Lovecraft created a mythology that includes bizarre monsters, troubled communities, insane scholars and a library of books filled with forbidden lore. Of all the books detailing this mythology that Lovecraft mentions in his fiction, one in particular captures the imagination more than any other: the "Necronomicon." In reality, the "Necronomicon" doesn't exist, though more than a half dozen books with the title "Necronomicon" are available at bookstores. The "Necronomicon" plays an important role in the Cthulhu mythos -- the mythology behind much of Lovecraft's work involving extraterrestrial beings of immense power. Lovecraft tells us that the author of the book was the mad Arab Abdul Alhazred, who perished in A.D. 738 after being eaten by one or more invisible monsters. So what's in this book? In other words, the book is a fictional history about our world and the creatures that eons ago ruled the Earth and other realms.
UNICEF Specialised agency of United Nations UNICEF ( YOO-nee-SEF), originally called the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund in full, now officially United Nations Children's Fund,[a] is an agency of the United Nations responsible for providing humanitarian and developmental aid to children worldwide.[3][4] The agency is among the most widespread and recognizable social welfare organizations in the world, with a presence in 192 countries and territories.[5] UNICEF's activities include providing immunizations and disease prevention, administering treatment for children and mothers with HIV, enhancing childhood and maternal nutrition, improving sanitation, promoting education, and providing emergency relief in response to disasters.[6] UNICEF is the successor of the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, created on 11 December 1946, in New York, by the U.N. UNICEF relies entirely on voluntary contributions from governments and private donors. Creation[edit]
Prohibition - Facts & Summary In the 1820s and ’30s, a wave of religious revivalism swept the United States, leading to increased calls for temperance, as well as other “perfectionist” movements such as the abolition of slavery. In 1838, the state of Massachusetts passed a temperance law banning the sale of spirits in less than 15-gallon quantities; though the law was repealed two years later, it set a precedent for such legislation. Maine passed the first state prohibition law in 1846, and a number of other states had followed suit by the time the Civil War began in 1861. By the turn of the century, temperance societies were a common fixture in communities across the United States.
Southern Ghost Stories, Folktales, Storytelling: The Moonlit Road.com Instructional Unit Samples - 8th Grade Over the fall/winter of 2013-14, the content specialists in the Standards and Instructional Support office worked with educators across the state of Colorado to build instructional units based on select curriculum overview samples. Teams of teachers authored units for each grade and content area of the Colorado Academic Standards. Below, are sample instructional units for 8th grade mathematics, reading, writing, and communicating, science, social studies, comprehensive health, visual arts, drama/theatre, dance, and music. As examples, these units are intended to provide support for teachers, schools, and districts as they make their own local decisions around the best instructional plans and practices for all students. Comprehensive Health Unit Title: Who Influences Me? Instructional Unit (Word or PDF) Unit Storyboard Unit Title: Setting and Respecting Personal Boundaries (Durango School District) Instructional Unit (Word or PDF) Unit Storyboard Dance Drama and Theatre Arts Mathematics Music
Odd Facts and Stories from Prohibition - Prohibition: An Interactive History Odd Facts and Stories from Prohibition Congress had its own bootlegger known as the Man in the Green Hat. Members of Congress who wanted alcohol during Prohibition could turn to Capitol Hill’s top bootlegger, George L. Cassiday. Cassiday walked through the halls of Congress making up to 25 deliveries of illegal booze a day while Capitol Police allowed him in at all hours. Herbert Hoover never referred to Prohibition as “a noble experiment.” Many books and articles on Prohibition have quoted President Herbert Hoover describing Prohibition as “a noble experiment.” Al Capone’s oldest brother was a Prohibition enforcement agent. While his younger brother Al built a criminal empire based on illegal liquor in Chicago in the 1920s, James Vincenzo Capone enforced Prohibition laws for the federal Indian Affairs administration on reservations of the Winnebago and Omaha tribes in Nebraska. The end of Prohibition made U.S. constitutional history. The Prohibition Party still exists.
Bullet Catch History Deaths Houdini Dorothy Dietrich Chung Ling Soo Penn & Teller Instructional Unit Samples - High School Over the fall/winter of 2013-14, the content specialists in the Standards and Instructional Support office worked with educators across the state of Colorado to build instructional units based on select curriculum overview samples. Teams of teachers authored units for each grade and content area of the Colorado Academic Standards. Below, are sample instructional units for high school mathematics, reading, writing, and communicating, science, social studies, comprehensive health, visual arts, drama/theatre, dance, and music. The units include learning experiences, teacher and student resources, assessment ideas, and differentiation options. As examples, these units are intended to provide support for teachers, schools, and districts as they make their own local decisions around the best instructional plans and practices for all students. Click here to view additional High School curriculum overview samples and write your own instructional units using the Colorado based template. Dance Music
Prohibition: Unintended Consequences Share details Anti-Saloon League paper, The American Issue, with headline, "U.S. When the Mayor of Berlin, Gustav Boess, visited New York City in the fall of 1929, one of the questions he had for his host, Mayor James J. The Noble Experiment When the Prohibition era in the United States began on January 19, 1920, a few sage observers predicted it would not go well. This should have come as no surprise with a venture as experimental as Prohibition. Anheuser-Busch Bevo near beer poster, Anheuser-Busch The Atlanta Constitution Cover: "$100,000,000 For Government From Income Tax", Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Economics of Prohibition Prohibition's supporters were initially surprised by what did not come to pass during the dry era. Instead, the unintended consequences proved to be a decline in amusement and entertainment industries across the board. On the whole, the initial economic effects of Prohibition were largely negative. "Cat and Mouse" The Greatest Consequence
Learn Criss Angel Style Magic Tricks "Awesome, you're a great illusionist!" Criss Angel is a great entertainer, performing many stunning illusions. Here are some great Criss Angel style coin tricks that look like real magic! THE EFFECT: You place any coin on the palm of your open hand, giving a magical snap, it vanishes into thin air! Watch the effect, then learn it! Do you want to own all my tutorial videos? THE SECRET: Ok, ok the saying "nothing up my sleeve" does not apply here! Be warned the 'flick move' does take some practice. To achieve a good 'flick' place the coin on your palm and your middle finger and thumb (of the other hand) in a clicking position above and in front of the coin. As you click your fingers allow the finger to strike the coin. When you have finished the trick you can push both of your sleeves up, the coin will be taken up too in the fabric. Needless to say when performing this trick you need to wear long sleeves that are quite baggy, otherwise you will never pull it off!