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Lesson Plan - Russian Revolution

Subject: World History II                 ___________________________________________
Objectives: Given a blank chart, the student will be able to fill in all important people and events that lead to the Russian Revolution and the creation of the Soviet Union.
SOL: WHII.9 C
Evaluation: Completion of a chart graded with the Stafford Public Schools grading scale
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Procedures and Materials
 
- Class will begin […]

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Have I said yet how glad I am that Gene Roche (”Techfoot”) is blogging again? I really should pony up some tuition dollars–reading his stuff is like being in a great seminar….
Gene’s latest post comments on a very thoughtful and timely article by a former colleague. I’ll direct you to Gene’s post for all the […]

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Today’s Social Research Colloquium at Mary Washington featured Tom Fallace of our Education Department talking about his research on John Dewey. I know a mere thimble-full about Dewey and was keen to learn more, and Tom certainly delivered: it was a fascinating and lucid talk and sparked many ideas and questions in my mind. The […]

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Regarding Mike Caulfield’s latest thoughtful post:
On one level, I couldn’t agree more. I write this post after long silence not to refute Mike’s ideas, wonderfully expressed, deeply encouraging.
But I’m driven to respond because the matter is not simply one of awakening from a “hasa” world into the brave new “isa” world. If only it were […]

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The Value of Waiting In Airports

Being a veteran flyer now, I have come to know that there is a wonderful game of hurry-up-and-wait played whilst waiting for a given flight. So we do things like load up our iPods with podcasts, music, etc. to while away the hours, or in some cases, days. While waiting for my flight back home […]

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