About me I am currently a freelance writer, tutor and speaker, although since Covid I mainly teach via Zoom. I have taught medieval, Tudor and Stuart History for the Workers’ Educational Association (W.E.A.) in Yorkshire and in Derbyshire following a career teaching various subjects in seco...
“Praise Song for the Day,”here. For a chronological look into African American poetry, students could contrastPhillis Wheatley, the first black woman poet published in America, andNatasha Trethewey, the nineteenth US Poet Laureate.
A reversal of this trend was seen in the early 1990s with a resurgence of drug use docu- mented in 8th, 10th, and 12th graders by the Monitoring the Future study and 12- through 17-y-olds by the National House- hold Survey on Drug Abuse. Currently, accidental trauma including motor ...
"for the sake of humanity"... A small town American high school history project changes lives worldwide. These are the observations of a veteran teacher- on the Power of Teaching, the importance of the study of History, and especially the lessons we
Over the past two decades many social studies educators have called for history to be taught as interpretation, which has included arguments for the teaching of history through inquiry. This case study examined four secondary social studies teachers and their development of beliefs and practices relate...
Learn how a unit on the Middle Ages inspired great writing among fourth and fifth graders in Chandler, Arizona. Included: 12 great activities for teaching about the Middle Ages. Celebrate the Century: Search the Web for U.S. History of the 1950s ...
In 1953, there were 40 1st graders at St Mark’s. A decade later, in 1964, the number had more than doubled to 88. There was hope, however, in the construction of the new school. The dilapidated, outdated classic 1890s school house had been a worn-out collection of hodge-podge ...
1st Grade Teacher, North Carolina I love to use theRuby Bridgesvideo. Many first graders enjoy seeing her because she is still living!I think knowing that connection, makes her very relevant considering many of our other historical figures like MLK and Rosa Parks are no longer with us. ...
Inner-city US history teacher Aaron Brock has developed a multi-purpose children's book project for 8th graders, many of whom struggle with academic literacy.
2.1.2. Control for Arbitrary Selection of Postmedieval Texts The main literary sample was chosen so as to include major canonical texts of each tradition, but the explosive increase in the size of the textual corpora produced after the Middle Ages makes it impossible to ensure a representative ...