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Book Review: Lovely War

HistoryRewriter

I thought it would be too slow and boring for my 10th-grade World History students. I hope it is well-stocked in school libraries. I remember skimming it in Barnes and Noble and putting it down because it starts off with a romantic triangle between Aphrodite, Ares, and Hephaestus in a New York City hotel suite in 1942.

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Timbuktu Manuscripts: Really Cool Google Arts and Culture Site

World History Teachers Blog

Click on the history volume and you can learn the history of empire from Ghana to the Sultanate of Massina. Learn about the Mosque of Djenne here and its importance as a library for manuscripts. In another section, you can click on the different topics that the manuscripts cover and read a summary of what they say.

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Mastering Close Reading: A Smart Literacy Strategy for Secondary Students

Leah Cleary

Mastering Close Reading The World History Project 1750 to the Present has a free template called “Three Close Reads.” I’ve got a Socratic Seminar Template for you in my free resource library. In looking at the text that way, the student is analyzing and interpreting. That’s what we want them to do in our classes and beyond.

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3 Tips to Blend Paper and Digital for Meaningful Lessons

Leah Cleary

I’ve also got four preps, AP World History, Sociology, Psychology, and IB Theory of Knowledge. Some of these templates are available in my Free Resource Library. Economics and World History are fully structured this way. At the start of this school year, I was still assigning everything digitally.

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Lose the Breadth, Keep the Depth: How to Make Learning Meaningful with Inquiry-Based Lessons

Leah Cleary

Along with these solutions, I’ll be adding resources to my Free Resource Library that you can edit and use in your classroom. You can get access to the Library by signing up for my email list. Grab these inquiry-based lessons from my Free Resource Library when you sign up for my email list!

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‘Twas the week before winter break…

Rosie the History Teacher

My 9th grade US History class is finishing up the World War I unit and they have learned so much! I focus on the US involvement in the war and students will learn about global perspectives in their World History class in 10th grade.

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5 Simple Ways for Teachers to Save Copies without Going 100% Digital

Leah Cleary

I was assigning SAQs this way for AP World History. Share Printed Manipulatives Across PLCs A couple of years ago, our US History PLC worked together to print, laminate, and cut out class sets of manipulatives (diamond puzzles, true-false-fix, card sorts, visual flashcards, hexagonal thinking, etc.) I’d definitely check.