My students participating in our “All on The Wall” activity. As we continue our conversations about culture and how ideas spread, Monday we took a look at what exactly defines a culture…in other words, what makes people different from one another. Yesterday in class we came to the conclusion that culture can consist of (but…
Read More
As we continue to discuss the all the “stuff” that is in my classroom, today we will review the classroom library. The classroom library consist of a bookshelf full of various books and magazines available to my students for check out as well as a bean bag and stoles for sitting around and reading…or just…
Read More
Japandroids are you band of the week. Japandroids was formed in 2006, and comprises Brian King on guitar and David Prowse on drums. The two met at the University of Victoria, where King studied science and Prowse anthropology. They originally intended to find a third member to act as lead vocalist, but later decided to…
Read More
Lesson One – Lessons Learned in Great American Schooling Nothing says America quite like The Duke… Each Friday in my class is a mini holiday…on Fridays we take the time to celebrate the week that was by listening to a little bit of Arcade Fire and doing the lessons learned of the week. Lessons learned…
Read More
As continue of our talks about culture and globalization, today we will take a look at a developing problem that is occurring in New York. Debate over the potential site for a Mosque located near Ground Zero in New York has sparked several heated rallies. Today we will take a look at this situation and…
Read More
Hockey is your band of the week. Let’s be honest, there is a lot of music out there…and with so much music out there there is no way that you as students can possibly have the time to filter through what’s good and what stinks…and that’s where I come in. Every Monday the first couple…
Read More
Students, embed above is the knowledge map for the first semester of world history. A knowledge map is basically a list of “essential knowledge” statements based on what we will be studying this semester…in other words, this is your answer key to this entire course. Study the knowledge map for the “Weekly Ten” as well…
Read More
Loading… Mr. McClung
Read More
Pictures of my classroom the day before the start of school. Here I am on yet another new school year eve and I can’t go to sleep because I have too many things running through my mind. It’s actually kinda like that feeling you get when your a kid right before school starts…you’re nervous and…
Read More
My cross country kids after one of our morning runs. Ever since I found out that I would be coaching cross country this coming school year, I have been scrambling to schedule practice time to prepare us for the season. So far we have been able to squeeze in 7 summer workouts with 2 more…
Read More
