Kicking off the New Year

Sunday, January 3, 2010

Tomorrow is the first school day of the new year and we're diving right in. We've got a lot of work to do for History Fair--which will most likely be held the first week of March. We've also got an interesting unit on Protest & Rebellion which will seek to answer a fundamental question: when, if ever, do people have the right to rebel against authority?

To help answer this question students will write 5 "Recipes for Rebellion" and a 5 page research paper. The instructions for this project are here. I also have a sample recipe I created to give students an idea of what their recipes could look like. This is also available on my website here. I encourage students to be creative with their recipe designs and thorough with their research. Their recipes will help them write the research paper, so the better the recipes are, the better the paper should be.

We will do a lot of multi-tasking this trimester with this unit and History Fair. I plan on devoting some class time to work on both History Fair and the research for the essay to ease the homework burden.

I'd like to invite all of you to talk about the essay and History Fair projects at home. And please, if you have any comments or questions feel free to post them here or email me at: mpond@mrpond.org

Happy New Year!