Better late than never

So....I know that I promised when I showed you all my eboard in class that I would be keeping up with my blog. Just think, that was only 2 short weeks ago!

I hope that everyone has had a good first couple of weeks of the school year. I'm really excited about all of the things that we will be working on this year.

In US History we will be starting my favorite unit of the whole year in October! We will be learning about the Constitution. I know that may not seem super exciting to many of you but we do a lot of hands-on activities and a nifty project which is very awesome!

In Global II we are currently learning about the Enlightenment which is sooooo important! It will really help us to know about the Enlightenment when we study the French Revolution. BTW, the French Revolution is super bloody and has a lot of gory stories. My advice is to maybe not eat too much lunch before class when we get started talking about the revolution.

Psychology has been a great experience for me so far. You guys have been great and have made the class really fun. My goal is to work on reducing my unconditioned response of blushing. *The kids in my class know what I'm talking about!

Lastly, I've been working with Ms. Dahl on getting Student Council up and running for the year. I know that I will be talking about it a lot as the year goes on. Be sure to check out my Student Council page on my eboard for all kinds of info about what is upcoming.

Well, I will try to really keep up on posting here about current events both inside the classroom and in the school as well. I also love to discuss current events and I hope to bring up a lot of the really interesting topics here.

Good Luck this year and keep reading and posting here on my super cool blog!!!!!

Current Happenings

As we began the 2nd marking quarter, a lot has been going on in all of my classes! On Tuesday (11/14) we had our first movie night of the school year and almost 30 of my students (and a few of their friends) came out to see B0wling for Columbine. Our next movie night will be Tuesday 11/28 and we will be watching a movie that deals with global studies. I'll be making a movie suggestion box for my classroom so that all of you can have your voice heard. You can also give your suggestions here!

We've also been working on debate issues in all of my classes. My US History classes will be beginning their debates on Monday (11/20) in the LGI and I'm really excited to see what everyone has to say. The big issues are abortion, gay marriage, the death penalty, and the legalization of marijuana.

My Global II class is working on two projects simultaneously. Most of the class is creating their posters for their persona from the Industrial Revolution while 8 students are getting ready for their first debate in the Current Event Debate Series. They are debating the issue of adoption of children from Africa.

Lastly, my period 8 US History class is creating a new student government. We're hoping that this work can translate into real positive changes for our school.

I'm really proud of everything that all of my students are doing and I've been enjoying the break from "regular" teaching. I hope that you all are having fun AND learning something valuable as well!