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Reaching the end of the course, August seems so long ago now that it is December. We have covered a lot of important topics since the first class that have all worked together and grown on each other. One of the themes that seemed to play an important role throughout the semester was the idea of 21t Century Skills and how they will be incorporated in to the classroom. As you look through the following posts I hope that you see how the use of these skills will be important to the future teacher.… Continue

Marshall McLuhan, a Canadian communications theorist and educator, said, “American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.” Though a true but startling fact to the historian and political scientist in me, I always wonder when this change in importance came about. Basic concepts in American History show us that millions of men and women have fought and died for this right to vote that now seems to be a second thought to the youth of America. T… Continue

I have had the privilege to go to several different exhibits of Picasso’s work. I say privilege not because of my sheer enjoyment of his work, because I generally do not care for much of Picasso’s work, but just because Picasso was extremely talented and had an immeasurable effect on the world of art. Anyone who appreciates art must respect this aspect of Picasso even if they do not like his work. Though I always find myself jaded when looking at Picasso’s work because of my dislike of it the ex… Continue

Looking at Chapter 13 in Tony Horwitz’s book, A Voyage Long and Strange, about the Colonization of Plymouth, Ma, I applied his point of view on two different images depiction the time period. I then applied this some technique to the same images using two other works of literature. The first is American History by Marcius Willson (1847) and the second An American History written by David Saville Muzzey (1920).

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