Thursday, February 25, 2010
Questions and information on the travel seminar
If you have questions regarding preparation, expectations or requirements for the travel seminar please post them below. Either Jay or Cindy will be make an effort to respond as quickly as possible.
If you are unable to post on the blog, please send Cindy an email @ cindy_ness@byu.edu, and she will walk you through the process of posting a blog on the site.
By His Own Hand? Thread
It has been send of “By His Own Hand”:
This is a valuable addition to the Lewis and Clark literature. This slim volume contains three outstanding essays, one by James Holmberg of the Filson Historical Society in Louisville, a second by John D.W. Guice, professor of history emeritus at the University of Southern Mississippi; and an excellent round-up of the arguments by Jay Buckley of Brigham Young University. This anthology is highly readable and well-edited and will be enjoyed with anyone with an interest in Lewis's sad fate.
For those of you participating in the mock trial it is a must read! Please share your reflections, comments, curriculum ideas and respectful responses to "By His Own Hand" below
Undaunted Courage Thread
Do you remember your college days? Racing your way through the text, with an occasional scribble in the side margins, as if by the very practice you would absorb the information you had so quickly read- or was that just me? So often, my sole purpose for reading the text in college was to receive credit for the course, knowledge was way down on my list of motivators. I remember very little from what I read. Go figure?!!?
My experience with college textbooks reminds me of the following quote by Walt Whitman. He wrote "The process of reading is not a half sleep, but in the highest sense, an exercise, a gymnast's struggle: that the reader is to do something for him or herself, must be on the alert, just construct indeed the poem, argument, history, metaphysical essay--the text furnishing the hints, the clue, the start, the framework." Why didn't I think like this in college? When I think of all the time I wasted reading books because I had to rather than because I wanted to I could slap myself upside the head!
Though it is required we hope you will collectively construct, argue, debate and build a framework for understanding the Corp of Discovery, from Monticello to the Pacific coast, not because you have to, but because you want to. Please post your insights regarding Stephen Ambrose’s fabulous text “Undaunted Courage” within this thread.
Monday, February 22, 2010
Strategies that worked... or didn't Thread
Before the travel seminar you are expected to practice with your students two of the "Marzano" strategies presented in the pre-travel seminar. On completion of your practice lesson, please utilize the blog to present your ideas, reflect and evaluate the procedures. The strategies you used do not necessarily need to be within the context of teaching Lewis & Clark. Please take the time to read what others have posted and share suggestions and experiences that can improve our collective teaching. If you have lessons or ideas you would like to post online, please send me a copy at cindy_ness@byu.edu and I will post the assignment or link within the strategies thread.
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