Merry Christmas

I’d like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas! Hopefully everyone is enjoying the break and we will return to school on January 4th. Mr. McClung

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Propaganda Projects

About two weeks ago my students and I began to discuss the role that propaganda played in WWII. Students learned that propaganda was very strategic type persuasion that helped rally the people of Germany behind Adolf Hitler and clearly identify the Jewish Population as an enemy. For this lesson students were asked to browse through…

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Paperless Finals

My sixth period students taking their finals using Examview. It’s been well documented that I’m not a fan of paper…and one aspect that I really appreciate about the integration of technology into the classroom setting is that it allows me to do away with many assignments that have been traditional dominated by paper. For the…

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Study Guide

The document embedded above is a copy of a completed study guide for our test in social studies. Mr. McClung

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Not Your Typical Timeline Project

I’ve always had a problem with timeline projects, although they are very useful for putting information into chronological order they can be very messy and quite boring. Being a social studies teacher, there is still a need for timelines to organize information, so I decided to find a different approach to handling timelines. Several weeks…

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Lessons Learned

Lesson One – What in the World Does Aplomb Mean? Before I tell this story let me first say that I would like to think of myself as being a fairly smart person…having graduated with my undergrad degree and planning to graduate in the spring masters, I wouldn’t exactly say I’m a dummy. However, this…

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Top 10 2010

Top 10 lists are something that Americans have always loved to read. The lists range from top 10 websites to to 10 baby diapers. Today I give you… TOP 10 GOOGLE SUGGESTIONS 2010: 1. When will… Esoteric meets practical where concerns over death and the apocalypse meet the need to procure Twilight () on DVD…

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Propaganda Progress

One of my sixth period students traces lettering of a German children book that was used as propaganda to indoctrinate the youth. As we move forward with our propaganda projects, my students are really starting to get into this project. They are starting to see that propaganda from this time period didn’t just consist of…

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