Re: "Passing Algebra"

[Arthur Hu <ArthurH@TANGIS.COM>]

Is there such thing as a standard sequence for history like there
is for math, or does pretty much anything go? I can't seem to find
much of a common thread among any of the states except cover 60% of
world history and government every year from G1 to G12.

-----Original Message-----
From: Glenn [mailto:glenn@PEEDEEWORLD.NET]
Sent: Monday, June 12, 2000 5:45 PM
To: ARN-L@LISTS.CUA.EDU
Subject: Re: "Passing Algebra"


> Actually I was going off on a tangent, I knock out software
> for a living, but some people do take courses as entertainment,
> that's why I watch the history channel.


And you know, my best students in history class this year didn't learn
1/10th as much from me as they did from the History Channel.  They'd dare me
to play "Buy Me A Snack"-- a quiz-show type game, played at lunch, in which
participants ask one another questions about U.S. history, first person to
be stumped buys everyone else a round of hit fries or hohos (I'm a hoho
woman myself).  I ended up spending more money buying those guys junk food
(yes, I know, but what can I tell you-- it's the only prize they deemed
worthy of lunchtime challenge) than I did on my own lunches.

Of course, I also started buying every book about American history I could
get my hands on. :)  It was either that or stay out of the cafeteria.

Teresa Glenn
(certified high school English;
teaching-- and loving-- 8th grade social studies along with English)

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