Henrico High Partners in the Arts Grant
June 16th, 2010Maslow’s Hierarchy
May 26th, 2010For the summer work you are to read Alas, Babylon and relate it to Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. Below is the hierarchy
http://changingminds.org/explanations/needs/maslow.htm
Make sure that you do some research on the hierarchy and then read the book making notes on each area. Make sure that you make connections giving good examples.
The assignment is meant to be completed in a page or two. I really want you to understand Maslow’s idea and be able to apply it to a situation. No citations are necessary since you will be explaining the characters actions and page number.
You can do the assignment a couple of ways. Pick a couple of characters and explain how their situation relates to the hierarchy or find at least two examples of characters on each level.
Give me the character, the page number, what level of the hierarchy they are on and an explaination/connection to show your understanding.
Example following a character:
At the beginning of the book “Joe Character” was on the esteem level because it spoke of his admiration by the other characters.
He slipped to the safety level when his head exploded on page xx because…
He was on the physiological level when…
Example identifying each level:
At the beginning of the book Joe Character was on the esteem level because it spoke of his admiration by the other characters.
When the killer tomatoes invaded the city on page xx “Ima Scardypants” was on the safety level because…
Reasons You Should be Using Delicious
October 11th, 2009- Save site found using multiple computers (home and school) to one resource.
- Access your bookmarks anywhere you have web access.
- Continue to access your bookmarks even when your computer crashes or you get a new computer.
- Share web sites with your students or peers.
- Search your bookmarks by keywords and tags.
- Use related tags to narrow or extend your searches.
- Display your saved web site links by category.
- Learn about new sites from your other delicious users.
- Subscribe to other users’ delicious bookmarks.
- Check out recently posted and popular sites.
Chinese Propaganda posters
February 19th, 2009
I found an interesting website that offers to insert your image into a real Chinese propaganda posters maopost.com. I was thinking about it and found one that I could do myself. I used adobe photoshop and inserted my facial features onto the poster. I think it looks ok but it does seem to be a cross between Fat Albert, Jackie Chan, and me. Next I want to try inserting myself into on that is more detailed. That will be later.
Interesting game from Classtools.net
November 13th, 2008I was directed to ClassTools from activehistory.co.uk Both sites have a plethora of information. There are notes and games available.
The History Bluff
November 6th, 2008I found these guys to be pretty funny. Kinda like the onion focused on history.
History in the News:
November 5th, 2008I found this cool widget that collects current news articles that relate to historical topics.
2nd Period US History
November 5th, 2008
This is a wordle my class created prior to studying the unit on Westward Expansion, SOL VUS 6. Each student added a term. we will complete another list at the end of the unit and I will add to this post. The new wordle will be much more detailed!
Auschwitz: Through the Lens of the SS
October 13th, 2008
Description: In December 2006, a retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel and former member of the Counter Intelligence Corps (CIC) wrote to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum archives. As one of its many tasks as a military intelligence agency, the CIC conducted investigations of Nazi perpetrators for U.S. prosecutors in the Judge Advocate General’s Office after World War II. While stationed in Germany in 1946, this officer found a photograph album in an abandoned apartment in Frankfurt and took it home with him. In 2007, he donated the album to the Museum, but wanted his donation to remain anonymous.
The album contained 116 pictures taken between May and December 1944 chronicling the life of SS officers and other officials at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. The rare images capture SS guards and Nazi officials relaxing and enjoying time off—hunting, singing, trimming Christmas trees, and more—all while Jews were being murdered at rates as fast as anytime during the Holocaust. The album was created and owned by Karl Hoecker, an adjunct to camp Kommandant Richard Baer.
The album complements the only other known collection of photographs taken at Auschwitz, published as the Auschwitz Album in 1980. Those images specifically depict the arrival of Hungarian Jews at the camp in late May 1944, and the selection process that the SS imposed on them. Some of the images contained in the new album were taken just days later. In contrast to documenting mass murder, they focus on the daily lives and recreational pursuits of Nazi officials, and no prisoner appears in any of the images. Remarkably, many of the album’s pictures were taken when the camp’s gas chambers and crematoria were operating at and above capacity as Hungarian Jews were arriving and being murdered. See all of the photos from the Hoeker album and the Auschwitz Album, and learn more about Auschwitz and Karl Hoecker at http://www.ushmm.org/research/collections/highlights/auschwitz/
Great Article on the Value of Serving Your Community.
October 12th, 2008Source: Time
Thursday, Aug. 30, 2007
A Time To Serve
By Richard Stengel
As the Constitutional Convention of 1787 came to a close, after three and a half months of deliberation, a lady asked Dr. Franklin, “Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?” “A republic,” replied the Doctor, “if you can keep it.” — ANECDOTE FROM THE RECORDS OF THE FEDERAL CONVENTION OF 1787, ED., MAX FARRAND, VOL. 3, APPENDIX A, 1911
A republic, if you can keep it. The founders were not at all optimistic about the future of the Republic. There had been only a handful of other republics in all of human history, and most were small and far away. The founders’ pessimism, though, came not from history but from their knowledge of human nature. A republic, to survive, needed not only the consent of the governed but also their active participation. It was not a machine that would go of itself; free societies do not stay free without the involvement of their citizens.
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