Welcome to a new year!

Sunday, August 8, 2010

Hi all:

Welcome to our U.S. History blog! Here you will find regular postings by me about news, homework, projects--anything and everything to keep you in the loop!

I also hope this blog will be a play for us to share stories and experiences, as well as a place for students to showcase their work.

A little about me:
This is my fourth year at Lindblom and it is one of my favorite places on Earth! This year I will be teaching 3 sections of U.S. History--so this blog might get a little crowded at times--but that's ok since we have plenty of room on the Internet.

I am married to my beautiful wife and we have a little boy named Henry who is going to be 16 months old. We love to travel and in fact just returned from a family trip to Yellowstone National Park. I'll try to post pictures later this month.

A little about the course:
This will be a thematic class that will use Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States 1492-Present as the primary text. It will be supplemented by several additional readings as well as digital and visual media.

Our first theme will be "Government & Leadership." We will study government while trying to answer our essential question: what is good government and how do we know when it is effective?

Students will have several Constitution quizzes and a Constitution test in the form of a project (more on that to come).

In the meantime--feel free to post any general questions or comments you may have. I'm looking forward to a great year with all of you!