Tuesday, June 2, 2015

Wrapping Up...

So... what we have learned this year?  Hundreds and hundreds of pages of reading. Hundreds more of notes, dozens of hours of notes and projects. Essays and projects, rubrics and IC.  But, really, what have we learned and...

Why should we care?

Listen to each other explain how today's events and even crises and conflicts are due in large measure to the conditions created by historical events we have been studying since August.

Let's care about this stuff: because this is YOUR world and it is more connected than in any other age because international events now travel to your screen at essentially the speed of light.  Listen, learn, and respect it because you own it in your own little way.






Monday, June 1, 2015

Today's Frame

How did Italian Fascism and German Nazism lead to catastrophic policies and racist and anti-Semitic laws and actions that culminated at least in some cases, in genocide (Nazism)?