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Diving Deeper with ParaFLY

HistoryRewriter

This post features examples of a 10th-grade World History class practicing interpreting literary criticism. This was a part of a large, interdisciplinary project that required the collaboration of an ELA teacher, a History teacher, and a Spanish teacher.

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The Importance of Research in Social Studies Classrooms

Teaching American History

Czarnecki, a 2022 graduate of the Master of Arts in American History and Government program, wrote the paper for a “Great Texts” course taught by Professor Stephen Tootle on John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath. Research Empowers Students of History Research work benefits everyone, Czarnecki feels. I was raring to go!

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Refreshed Digital Notebook Activities for Social Studies

Students of History

I designed the digital pages I created to look like traditional notebooks - vertically aligned and in the style of the "cut-and-paste" activities we were already doing. Thankfully, I had been using digital notebooks in my classes for a few years. It started with occasional trips to the computer lab.

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High schools fail to provide legally required education to students with disabilities

The Hechinger Report

One time, a teacher gave his special education world history class all of the answers to their final exam. high school with a traditional diploma, proving that his disability didn’t prevent him from meeting the same standards as his peers. He said he never had to study or actually learn anything to get an A.

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New Ways to Teach about Revolutions

World History Teachers Blog

In another essay called " You Can't Teach the age of Revolutions without the Black Intellectual Tradition, Robert D.

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Unearthing the Origins of Plantation Slavery on São Tomé

Sapiens

São Tomé’s role in this devastating and transformational history is largely unknown—some people have never heard of the tiny nation. Our team aims to illuminate the island’s central and brutal place in world history. Reconstructing their experiences and Praia Melão’s place in history will take more research.

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Florida Rejects 35% of Social Studies Texts as Too Leftist

Diane Ravitch

history and world history courses. The passage went on to say, “These societies may promote greater equality among people while still providing a fully functioning government-supervised economy.” In other words, why do anything if the government is eventually going to do it for you?”