It’s a Friday tradition in my class…the Friday song. At the end of each week we take the time to celebrate the week by doing our weekly Lessons Learned segment and jamming out to Arcade Fire’s song “Wake Up”. The video clip above is from my 4th period class enjoying the music. Mr. McClung
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Lesson One – Remembering 9/11 This weekend marks the 9 year anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City. Like many other classrooms across America we will be spending a portion of class today to discuss the events of that day in September. This will be my 3rd year…
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Today in class, like thousands across America, we will be observing the attacks of September 11th, 2001. As we move further and further away from the date of the original 9/11 attack on America, it becomes more important that we not only observe this day but also teach to our students exactly what happened on…
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Students, in continuation of our discussion about the current mosque debate in New York we will be discussing in class on Friday the recent decision by the pastor in Florida to call off his self proposed “burn a Quran day”. Mr. McClung
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Let’s face it, there is a lot of information to remember when your dealing with social studies and history course. Today in class we are going to focus on a way to effectively organize information in a way that is going to help you as a student. Cornell Note Taking is a note taking system…
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Your band of the week is Passion Pit. Passion Pit is an American Second Wave synthpop band from Cambridge, Massachusetts. Formed in 2007, the group consists of Michael Angelakos of Buffalo (lead vocals/keyboards), Ian Hultquist (keyboards/guitar), Ayad Al Adhamy (synth/samples), Jeff Apruzzese (bass/synth bass) and Nate Donmoyer (drums). All of the band members, except Angelakos,…
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There is no shortage of ways to stay in touch with our class…now I would like to introduce to my new students another way to keep tabs with what is happening in class by befriending our class on Facebook. I started a class Facebook page about a year ago in an effort to keep my…
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Above is a screen shot of a teaching tool called EarthPluse. It is an application that is hosted on National Geographic’s Website. It serves as a resource for viewing maps, global trends, and human impact. The image you are viewing above is the import and export trends of different regions around the world. Today we…
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Lesson One – JDRF Walk for a Cure My eldest niece, Avery. If you are a regular to our class blog, by now I’m sure that you are aware that I’m a sucker for a good fundraiser. In addition to supporting the Susan Komen Foundation, I also support the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation…the reason why,…
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