https://padlet.com/educvasc8917/eejlelskyc8k7zv7 Connecting Families with Classroom Material and Content en-us 2022-11-07 02:41:01 UTC 2025-12-15 15:03:50 UTC hello@padlet.com educvasc8917 https://padlet.com/educvasc8917/eejlelskyc8k7zv7/wish/2372284638 11/26 - Labelling of the Ancient World Map

1/12 - An analysis of world winter holidays and traditions (to be worked on over winter break)

4/16 - Student picks--5 biggest events in world history]]> 2022-11-07 02:44:19 UTC https://padlet.com/educvasc8917/eejlelskyc8k7zv7/wish/2372284638 educvasc8917 https://padlet.com/educvasc8917/eejlelskyc8k7zv7/wish/2372287465 August-November: The Ancient World

November-February: The Medieval World/Rise of Monotheistic Religions

February-April: Renaissance up until Colonialism

April-June: The Modern World]]> 2022-11-07 02:46:33 UTC https://padlet.com/educvasc8917/eejlelskyc8k7zv7/wish/2372287465 educvasc8917 https://padlet.com/educvasc8917/eejlelskyc8k7zv7/wish/2372296625 Through the year, I heavily encourage students and parents to work together during specific content areas to consider their own family history. Whether this is on the car ride, at the dinner table or whenever, I hope students will become curious at their background enough to ask parents about their heritage and maybe even dig deep enough to track their ancestor's movement. 

A secondary part of this involves the direct cooperation and sharing of family history in person with the class! For instance, when learning about the Vietnam War, many Vietnamese people emigrated to the U.S. and their stories are often incredible, visceral and most of all, important to be shared and recorded. If a student's family fled here during this time, I would love family involvement during class to share their story. Maybe your family has a direct trace to the Oregon Trail Settlers or Pioneers, or maybe were one of the original (with proof) colonialist to settle in the Americas in the 1600/1700s. Regardless, I would love a chance to share your family's story with the class. 

With permission, I'd also love to record these for the sake of Oral History recollection! 

Beyond this, I also strongly encourage and suggest constant involvement with classroom material through my teacher website which is updated daily or weekly with overview of lecture content, assigned readings and homework or just general interesting historical tidbits, oddities and visual imagery. 

All of this will help you connect with your child about their learning experience and hey, a little extra historical information never hurts!]]> 2022-11-07 02:54:14 UTC https://padlet.com/educvasc8917/eejlelskyc8k7zv7/wish/2372296625 educvasc8917 https://padlet.com/educvasc8917/eejlelskyc8k7zv7/wish/2372323900 Hello students and parents! Thank you for taking the time to read this newsletter. This page presents a digital medium by which families can better connect with their child's education material and maybe, directly contribute to their and their peer's educational experience. 
Like my class website, this newsletter will be constantly updated with any information necessary for parent knowledge such as: assignments, projects, readings, movies, pictures or anything else that can connect this classroom with your family. 

Because my learning principles rely more heavily on in-class engagement instead of assigned homework, I do have higher expectations for student competency and results. Generally speaking, I strongly believe in not over-burdening a student's post-school life. They are already inundated with homework and readings from other classes, and likely topped off with extra-curricular activities like sports or clubs; I do not want to place another responsibility onto them. 
Because of this, my day-to-day classroom culture is one of heavy dialogue and discussion. Generally, lecturing will be rather light compared to the usual history classroom; but make no mistake, the material will be dense and require attention nonetheless. This is because most class time will be spent discussing openly and in groups, the presented material either through lectures or in-class/at-home (occasionally) readings. 
I understand and am quite sympathetic to the anxiety and fears this creates for those students with social anxiety or public speaking fears. Trust me, this was me at your/their age. However, it was also in a history class where this fear and anxiety was shattered and a new person emerged. I would not be the person I am today if not for my high school history teacher who knew we were capable of more. The good part is while you think you're alone in your anxiety or fears of speaking and sharing opinions/rationalizing thoughts, so is everyone else! 
It's obviously uncomfortable to share opinions; worrying you might be wrong and "sound stupid," but remember this: everyone is ignorant and scared of the unknown, I hate those who laugh at others for voicing their opinions when it's hard (those who laugh at others for being brave enough to speak up will be HEAVILY reprimanded--to create a culture of safety and comfortability), all of you will be going through this together and by the end of the year, you will also have grown together. 
You WILL make friends, gain social skills, break down self-created walls and perceptions of your fears or self-image. 
You WILL actually have something to tell your family after school instead of the usual, "it was fine--school is school." 

Again, welcome to World History, let's rationalize some ideas!]]> 2022-11-07 03:17:00 UTC https://padlet.com/educvasc8917/eejlelskyc8k7zv7/wish/2372323900 educvasc8917 https://padlet.com/educvasc8917/eejlelskyc8k7zv7/wish/2372395144 2022-11-07 04:30:01 UTC https://padlet.com/educvasc8917/eejlelskyc8k7zv7/wish/2372395144