Any New Year's resolutions, guys? I resolve to make sure my students move on to the next grade having completed a high-quality in-depth research project. You ready?
In the meantime, it's not too late to get your holiday project done. Here's the PBS American Experience website, in case you've misplaced it. Having watched about six of the films in the past week, my favorite is Roads to Memphis. What can I say? Dr. Martin Luther King was an incredible man, and the story of his assassination is incredible too. I also liked The Polio Crusade. Have you even heard of polio--the disease that paralyzed President Franklin D. Roosevelt and many children in the same era? In the early 1950s, the only thing that Americans feared more than polio was nuclear war. A Class Apart shines a light on the Hispanic civil rights movement, which all history students could stand to learn more about (myself included).
See you tomorrow!
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