The War in Vietnam: 50 Years Later – Amit Shah The following introduction was developed by Amit Shah, Managing Director of Green Comma, as a prologue to the chronological middle and high school text by Tom Barber. Tom is a veteran in education publishing and has been the publisher and editorial director for social studies at the nation’s leading US textbook publishing companies. The material is being offered, free, as a teaching and discussion resource in middle, high school, and freshman college classrooms. WE REQUEST THAT CREDIT IS CITED FOR ANY REUSE. All opinions are the writers‘ own. Attribution-Noncommercial CC BY-NC This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, and although their new works must also acknowledge you and be non-commercial, they don’t have to license their derivative works on the same terms. In August 1967, Guy Ulinskas, age 23, was drafted by the US Army but elected to join the air force to stall or avoid going to Vietnam. 2017 is the 50th anniversary. “That was the reality.
Historical Maps :: Hargrett Library :: University of Georgia Libraries The Hargrett Rare Book & Manuscript Library at the University of Georgia Libraries maintains a collection of more than 1,000 historic maps spanning nearly 500 years, from the sixteenth century through the early twentieth century. Although not limited to a single geographic subject, the collection heavily emphasizes Georgia as colony and state, along with its surrounding region. The Hargrett maps database serves as a finding aid for the majority of Hargrett's map holdings and provides digital versions of most maps. Not currently included in the database are maps from the Confederate Imprints collection and the County Maps collection. For information on these, please contact the Hargrett Library. For more modern map holdings, visit the UGA Libraries' Map & Government Information Library. Using the collection: Search the Historical Maps Database. Links to other map collections: For more historical maps: For more contemporary maps:UGA Libraries Map Library
Mississippi Mud Cake Mississippi Mud Cake Makes 1 Cake This Southern classic combines coffee, bourbon, and chocolate for a delicious crowd-pleaser. For you chocolate lovers who may have watched our show on chocolate, this is a very simple cake to make. Top yours with some homemade ice cream - vanilla's my favorite. 1/2 pound (2 sticks) plus 2 teaspoons unsalted butter, cut into 1/2-inch pieces 1 tablespoon unsweetened cocoa powder 2 cups bleached all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon baking soda 1/8 teaspoon salt 1/2 cup bourbon 1 1/2 cups strong brewed coffee, cooled 5 ounces unsweetened chocolate, chopped 1 3/4 cups sugar 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract 2 large eggs, lightly beaten Preheat the oven to 275 degrees F. From Prime Time Emeril by Emeril’s Food of Love Productions LLC. 2001 HarperCollins Publishers. Back to review of Prime Time Emeril.
Resources for Teaching about Veterans Day Veterans Day is next weekend which means this upcoming week will be a great opportunity to visit with students about the meaning of this federal holiday. These resources have suggestions for how students of all ages can honor veterans as well as some activities that can be done schoolwide.Veterans Day Teacher Guide- This 35 page guide is filled with ideas for ways to honor veterans. There are suggestions for what schools can do as a whole as well as activities that individual students can complete.PBS News Hour- 45-minute lesson plan for middle and high school students.
The Collection Current Events Sites for Students CNN Student News, now called CNN 10, is one of the most popular sites for student news and current events, but there are many other sites out there that are worth taking a look at. Here are some of the ones that I have used over the last couple of years.KidsPost- This is associated with the Washington Post. This site focuses on important events, but has plenty of fun and entertaining articles as well. Applications for Education Instead of having all students read and summarize the same current event, why not provide students with a list of places to find current events and have them select articles that interest them?
Mapping Colonial New England: Looking at the Landscape of New England Activity 1. Crisis in the Colonies: King Philip's War, Bacon's Rebellion, and the Pueblo Revolt 1. 2. 3. Student LaunchPad Links to texts and images: 4. Questions: How did the three conflicts differ? Activity 2. 1. Questions to consider include: Look at this map and list everything you see.Describe in detail the use of titles and names, symbols, ornaments, illustrations and captions, scale, and legend.Why would there be prominent images of Native Americans on the map? You may want to use the Digital Classroom's Map Analysis Worksheet for map exercises. 2. On the settlement of towns: These towns were a product, not of long continuous development, but instead, of a rapid process of town planning which was not constrained by existing physical structures and property lines of previous European settlement. On the changes in towns and Indian relations between the 1630s and the 1670s, you can use Digital History's Dimensions of Change in Colonial New England. 3. 4. 5.
Exploring the World in Your Class | Edutopia In the past several years, the National Endowment of the Humanities (NEH) has supported and funded digital games, including Mission US: City of Immigrants, a game about the immigrant experience. You play as Lena Brodsky, a Jewish immigrant in 1907 New York. It’s a great teaching tool: Students quickly realize how difficult it can be to assimilate to a new country. The game includes an Educator Guide with lesson plans and primary sources. I recently spoke with Marc Ruppel, senior program officer at the NEH. Games to Teach the Immigrant Experience In my social studies class, I teach an immigration unit that begins with BrainPOP’s Immigration and Citizenship videos. Mission US: City of Immigrants To frame themes of immigration, try iCivics’ free Immigration and Citizenship game. High school students can play Papers, Please—a serious game about being a border patrol agent checking passports in a fictional Communist nation in 1982. Games to Teach the Refugee Crisis © iCivics Immigration Nation
Geography Education Animated interactive of the history of the Atlantic slave trade. Source: slavevoyages.org For the full interactive version, use a larger device. Interactive by Andrew Kahn. Usually, when we say “American slavery” or the “American slave trade,” we mean the American colonies or, later, the United States. This interactive, designed and built by Slate’s Andrew Kahn, gives you a sense of the scale of the trans-Atlantic slave trade across time, as well as the flow of transport and eventual destinations. History of American Slavery, Ep 2: The Atlantic slave trade during its heyday and the remarkable life of Olaudah Equiano. There are a few trends worth noting. In the 1700s, however, Spanish transport diminishes and is replaced (and exceeded) by British, French, Dutch, and—by the end of the century—American activity. In the final decades of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, Portugal reclaims its status as the leading slavers, sending 1.3 million people to the Western Hemisphere, and mostly to Brazil. Enroll now in a different kind of summer school.
Marcus Tullius Cicero: A Life in Letters Novus Homo Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 B.C.E) was a novus homo (new man i.e someone with no notable ancestors) born at Arpinium, south of Rome, to a reasonably well off family. He studied as a lawyer and, as was the done thing for a Roman barrister, began a political career. Cicero’s time in office would span the crucial years of the end of Roman Republican rule and his own part in these affairs was significant, though in the end not decisive. Throughout his life he kept in correspondence with his good friend Titus Pomponius Atticus, a wealthy individual who lived variously in Greece and Rome and was well connected with the political elite at the time despite his own refusal to participate in such a career. The Catiline Letter In July 65 B.C.E, Cicero wrote Atticus with news that his wife had given birth to a son. Cicero was later to withdraw from the defence team. Exile The Mind of a Man John B.
Newspaper Map We have indexed all newspapers and plotted their correct locations, in 39 countries. Might have missed some. And most newspapers in another 199 countries, a bunch of them not in their correct locations. Add new ones here: add/correct "The immediate usefulness of Newspaper Map is readily apparent." Jared Keller, The Atlantic "News of the World, One Click Away" Sam Grobart, New York Times "I think this mash-up of Google Maps & every online Newspaper in the World is very, very cool" Bill Gross, Founder of Idealab & UberMedia A boatload of more press here The Badass of the Week: Blenda and the Women of Smaland Blenda Life as a Viking woman was pretty hard. Sure, Viking women enjoyed more freedom than many of their counterparts in other parts of the world, but Viking men were really really into raiding and plundering and killing and all that good stuff, and as a result they were usually "away on business" nine months out of the year doing their whole "sacking towns and pillaging monasteries" thing. Sure, a dude's got to pay the bills somehow, but if you were a Viking wife you were generally expected to hang out around the homestead, raise the children, fend for yourself, and keep the community running pretty much on your own most of the time. Regardless, this was the case one day in the early twelfth century when the King of Sweden decided that he wanted to go off and fight the Norwegians for some reason. On this particular instance, the first target in the Danish army's line of fire was the border town of Smaland, which, according to legend, was the home to a young girl named Blenda. Links:
Money as You Grow – Kids and Money – President's Advisory Council on Financial Capability