Social+Sciences

language and reason in history: Initial activity: compare textbooks from different countries on the same event Big question: how many leaps of faith/generalizations are made?

Relevance: Perhaps have them think that their day will somehow be important: ie future importance, etc.

Activity: Write your history of this week: what issues come up for you? What will impact or limit the process of forming this history? How will your week be preserved? (video, twitter, podcast etc.) What event(s) in the week will you choose to highlight? Present these online -- have other "historians" comment and interpret on: causes/effects/motives/impacts and fill in the gaps -- finally you go back and comment on their thinking/generalizations and gap-filling. What happened "this week"?

Basic Assignments: journal on the events of their life for one week. You must also observe one other classmate and write a brief observation of what you see happening in their life and give them this writing? Perhaps as a group make one event THE event of the week: ie: chemistry class. Have them document this moment collectively?

Maybe give them the task: make an activity where you explore and learn about how reason is used to make history? Lindsey Dunn: Loveland High