The 6 C's Method

Content: What is the main idea?
Citation: Who created this and when? What type of source is it?
Context: What is going on in the world, country, region, or locality when this was created?
Connections: How does this connect to what you already know from class?
Confusions: What parts of this do you still not understand? What other questions does this article prompt you to ask?
Conclusions: What contributions does this make to our understanding of the article's topic? How did you come to these conclusions?

Classwork for Thursday 4/30/2009

Today was the day of the Junior-Senior picnic, so I decided not to teach any new material. Instead, we went to the library, and people who came to class had the opportunity to earn extra credit completing a scavenger hunt. This was a one-time offer. There is no chance to make this up.

The Ultimate Extra Credit Project

If you can...

A. learn all 44 presidents in order
B. learn at least one thing each of them did as president
C. stand up and perform in each of my classes

...I will give you a hard-earned A in U.S. History.

You have until the last day of the semester to show your knowledge.

Yay, Play!

Relevancy Of Tolerance Explored At NOCCA With

The Laramie Project



Understanding the passing of time cannot erase the tragedy that occurred in Laramie, Wyoming, the Drama Division of New Orleans Center for Creative Arts invites the public to an evening of reflection with the student production of The Laramie Project, February 5-7, 7 PM, Nims Blackbox Theatre.

Directed by NOCCA Drama Artist-Teacher Silas Cooper, the production will explore the change in attitude concerning hate crimes in the last decade, not only in Laramie but also throughout our region and the United States as a whole.

“The production has been structured to emphasize professional theatre standards for the students, including casting, rehearsal and design processes similar to an Equity Regional Theatre,” stated Cooper. “All of the students involved: the cast, assistant directors, stage manager and dramaturg (student researcher) have been challenged to consider this project as an opportunity to examine not only the tragic events of the play, but also as a way of examining our own campus culture and surrounding community for the need to foster tolerance and to celebrate diversity.”

Extra Credit Project

Go see the movie Milk, starring Sean Penn and James Franco. Show me your ticket stub (or just watch it on bootleg, you bums), and have a short conversation with me about the film and what it says about civil rights. This is worth 40 extra credit points.

Unit 7 Extra Credit Project

This extra credit activity is related to the people, places, events, and equipment of the Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War.

You will design, research, and produce a Modern American War ABCs book designed for an elementary school-level student. This book is worth 200 points.

• You are assuming the role of a teacher.
• Your book should be at least 26 pages long (one page per letter) and must be illustrated with student-created art. This can include drawings, sketches, collages, and paintings. Example: A is for Allies, B is for Battleship…
• Each page must contain simple explanatory text (it may be rhyming text). You must use your own words.
• The book should be bound with cardstock or other material, with an illustrated cover.
• A list of possible vocabulary words follows. You may want to conduct research to choose your own vocabulary words.

If you cheat in any way – using another person's words or images as your own – you will receive a zero for this project. Incomplete books without all 26 letters represented will not be accepted.

Your project must be submitted on or before 4:15pm Tuesday, January 13.



Possible Vocabulary Words for The ABCs of Modern American War

Allies, Auschwitz
Bombardment, beaches, Britain, battleship, Blitzkrieg
Churchill, courage, Canadians, camaraderie, Coral Sea
D-Day, Dunkirk, Doolittle, de Gaulle
Eisenhower, El Alamein
Foxhole, fortification, flame-thrower, Free French
Germans, G.I., Guadalcanal, Guam
Higgins boat, hedgehog, hedgerow, home front, helmet, Halsey, Hiroshima
Invasion, incoming, Iwo Jima, island hopping, Italy
Juno Beach, jump zone, June 6th, jeep
Kriegsmarine, K-ration, kamikaze
Landing craft, Luftwaffe, land mine, lend-lease, Leyte, Los Alamos, London
Medic, minesweeper, Manhattan Project, Midway, Moscow
Normandy, Navy, New Orleans, Nagasaki, North Africa, Nuremberg Trials
Overlord, Omaha, OSS, Okinawa
Paratrooper, Panzer, Paris, Patton, Pearl Harbor
Quisling, Quebec Conference, queasy, quiet, quick
Rommel, radar, Roosevelt, Rangers, rationing, Resistance
Submarine, Stalin, Second Front
Teamwork, tank, Tojo, Tokyo, Truman
Utah Beach, U-boat, uniform, USO
Victory, V-1 rocket, V-mail
World War II, Wake Island, WAC, WAVES, war bonds
X-ray, XX Committee, X-craft
Yalta Conference, Yank, Yamamoto
Zero, Operation Zeppelin, Zhukov

These are only suggestions. You may research your own words.