"There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know."
Harry Truman
humanities for wisdom
Please make sure that you have your partners ready for the morning of the 21st to take the final.[Please change remember the change on your calendar] The class has decided to take the final the same way we took the exam for the first half of the course. Do not forget the textbook at home. I would focus on the notebook and your outputs. What is your understanding of the information and then you should convey that in the output area, which are the interactions. Also focus on the final and completion of your interactive notebook first. If there is time, then do the extra-credit. So only if you have placed your best effort on the notebook you should work on the extra-credit. Also an email is the best way to send the additional credit.
"There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know." Harry Truman
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The Republicans are the party of Honest Abe Lincoln. But we know that Lincoln has comments that support slavery and comments that state slavery should end. Historically you find that Lincoln had made decisions that were to keep the United States united. Tom Paine gave ideas to President Ronald Reagan to talk about making "American a new". Remember John Winthrop was the religious thinker that believed we were to be a "shiny city" upon a hill in the new world. Anne Hutchinson learned that speaking truth to power was not part of Winthrop's theocracy. Later, George Whitfield discussed the Christian "love" for fellow man in his great awakening among the citizens of America could breed democracy.
These new ideas that created a choice within our inner most consciousness [cave] and that a choice can be made about our own self-governing. We believe that the people can rule themselves. We can have a society without a King and Aristocracy. Through the years since the Civil War and Reconstruction the country has been trying to heal, to really become a Constitutional society with equality for all. Modern Democrats want to avoid the history of destroying reconstruction, supporting Jim Crow, and Black codes for at least a century. There were political shifts that we mapped out on our timelines for this course. This blank check Martin Luther King discusses is from our Declaration of Independence. That document was the same paper Mum Bett used to argue her freedom in Massachusetts in 1781. In Race; Power of an Illusion historican Guteral stated that: "'[m]ost Americans believed that race was one of the most important parts of national life; that race mattered because it guaranteed this country a future in the history of the world. The United States would rise towards glory, towards history, towards its destiny.' This idea is voiced again and again." We hope its use is to improve or maintain the country we are to love. But after Reconstruction was abandoned a real problem existed. The late Professor Horton believed that our system of slavery destroyed the minds of many Americans, and engrained a deep animosity of African-Americans to justify slavery. Horton stated: "If America had just looked the world in the eye and said, 'We hold these people in slavery cause we need their labor, and we've got the power to do it.' Now that would have been much better because then when the power was gone, when slavery was over, it's over. But what we said was, 'There is something about these people.' By doing that it means, that when slavery is over, that rationalization for slavery remains". Since we made this the Story we tell it has made it evermore difficult to have a function democracy in a multi-cultural nation. We should love all Americans, and see how the 7 things that hold us together can find commonalities. Seeing these and then using politics to fix our collective problems. We have always been a multi-cultural country and we need to see that "Different Mirror" "We are a society based on principles literally to die for. Principles that are so wonderful it brings tears to your eyes. But we are a society that so often allows itself to ignore those principles. We live in a kind of heightened state of anxiety because we know we aren't what we could be or what we say we are."[Horton] So we must ask ourselves how much longer can we Americans continue this historical anxiety that breeds distrust and disunity among all of us? Can we all be Americans? We will have to decide what we are to do as history students? What are you going to do to further positive changes for the future?
Please see the last three Presidents Clinton, Bush and Obama below. As you reach closer to the at of voting and will be taking Government in the coming years you might want to know these bits of information. The massive amount of knowledge that is out in the global world today is mind altering and numbing. Try to stay informed and be curious because democracy demands this from a civil society that care about one another in a democracy.
Below is our quick write for Wednesday. Most students are on Chapter 21. Please make sure you will have your interactive notebook ready for the 21st. I will be grading it the day we take the Final. If you have noticed I am making the same informational statements in class that are on the blogs. By next Wednesday you might want to have the textbook notes finished. Please spend time on your output. Keep reading your book and power-points that you deem interesting and important. Reading is best but you could use Professor T. Young's way of reading. This technique does work at times for many students trying to assimilate massive amounts of information. Best wishes, Mr.C
So today we will continue looking at the last three of five Presidents. I hope we can get to Nixon and Watergate today, but we may run out of time. Please remember that these foreign policy issues do not stop while the domestic issues are starting. Please take care of the laptops. This will be the last day the set of computers will be in the classroom. Take care of your research time please do not waste your time. Most students are cutting and gluing the project copies into the input pages of their notebooks. Talk to one another to ensure you can see any cool ideas that students are adding to the interactive notebooks.
11.10 Students analyze the development of federal civil rights and voting rights.
Image GalleryPlease see the Brown Case information on the next blog also. The next blogs connect five Presidents: Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon. We might have to work on the projects from today on Tuesday also. These next five Presidents are really important to understand our past after 1945. Please keep in mind when I will be posting the next two blogs, they are also connected to the civil rights era. Please keep looking at the PDFs that are linked to the site topics. The quizzes will be linked to class notes and these topics.
11.9 Students analyze U.S. foreign policy since World War II.
11.7 Students analyze America's participation in World War II.
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11.7 Students analyze America's participation in World War II.
11.8 Students analyze the economic boom and social transformation of post-World War II America.
Art & CartoonsOn July 5th or 6th we will take the exam in the first half of the course. In the morning from 8-10:30 am, we can monitor and adjust on the difficulty. Please have all the materials you need. Also a progress report might go out before the final first semester grade. This exam will be on the first 5 Units. Please be ready.
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Philosophie: Salon CenterEveryone of us is living history. We all have a story to tell and the ancestors that came before us that carved a way for us to become a new member of civilization. We also are learning that we are all related genetically and culturally in the family of humanity. All people’s past becomes part of all of us, and will always be completely intertwined with the entire world community.
Author's NOTEFrom time to time we will have some ideas from words that give us wisdom about our world. Writers are some of the most insightful people that understand our modern and ancient world quite well. Feel free to read, think, comment on these ideas. It seems that some of the students would like to debate issues of government, economics, and history. This can be a forum for this idea. Also if you would like to do formal debates in class we need to prepare debate rule and procedures. This can be a start and then we can decide if we will proceed to bring the debates in class on topics we study. Please follow our classroom rules if you decided to write on the blog. Make sure that you ask questions, and be helpful, and mature in all your interactions. This can be a helpful way for you to share what you have learned and what you want to learn, or just share ideas. Also just submit an idea through an email, or web contact, and we can maybe add the idea. Send a picture with the suggestion for the classes. Thank you. Archives
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Photos above left to right: The Solon, by Raphael was a depiction of the place where ideas were discussed and debated. Greek democracy in the public sphere. Here is the philosopher Seneca talking to Nero-Claudius Cesar Drusus Germanicus [Roman Emperor 54-68 BCE]- about society,law, politics, ethics and morality. Anthem for the doomed!
Class ForumStudents can also decide to add a topic that can be approved and monitored by Mr.C. Please be responsible and follow the social contract. You can share ideas and questions on your now topics about our class. Friends can help each other study with their devices. Please only students, but fell free to share the forum communications with your family. This can be a source for all students.
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