James Langan, Social Studies Teacher

HISTORY MEMES

                Students make a meme related to course concepts and/or content.  School-appropriate humor is encouraged as long as the concept or content is not being obscured or lost.  Memes are shared on Mondays to review material from the previous week and to aid in connecting new material to learned material.  Students may submit memes digitally or in hardcopy which will then be scanned and uploaded by the teacher.  All memes are reviewed by the teacher prior to posting on the class blog.

 

THE FEED

                Primary sources will be analyzed in real time via a discussion board moderated by me.  During these class sessions I will distribute a link to the discussion board and the digital document (archive.gov or google books primary source).  Students will use an input device, such as chromebooks from the class cart, to access the discussion board and submit analysis.  I will refresh the site at regular intervals for the class to see the progress of analyzing the document.  Students will be encouraged to not only interpret the document but use the internet to place the document in context and find information on authorship.

 

SCREEN MEDIA

                For unit study guides and overviews students will access the youtube channel crash course history created by John and Hank Green.