WHY STUDY HISTORY!?!?!? EWWW….WHAT A BORING SUBJECT, RIGHT?

Why is history TAUGHT IN SCHOOL, THEN? WHY IS IT IMPORTANT? PUT YOUR RESPONSES BELOW!

BASED ON YOUR RESPONSES, WHAT ARE PRESENTLY SOME MAJOR ISSUES THAT ARE OCCURRING THAT RELATE TO WHAT YOU PUT DOWN?

Your job is to remember the year you were born and then… 1. YOU NEED TO USE THE INTERNET (IF YOU HAVE IT) TO FIND ISSUES AND EVENTS THAT TOOK PLACE THE YEAR YOU WERE BORN. 2. FIGURE OUT THE WHAT YEAR IT WAS WHEN YOUR PARENTS WERE 14 OR 15. WHAT WERE SOME MAJOR ISSUES AND EVENTS OCCURRING IN THAT YEAR? 3. FIGURE OUT WHAT YEAR IT WAS WHEN YOUR GRANDPARENTS WERE 14 OR 15. WHAT WERE SOME MAJOR ISSUES BACK THEN? **IF YOU NEED HELP WITH MATH, I’M HERE!**

RESPONSES

CAUSE AND EFFECT PARAGRAPH First Flight of the Space Shuttle Columbia. This was also the first year that the Word Internet was mentioned and MS-DOS was released by Microsoft along with the first IBM PC. On the world stage the events that captured the imagination included Lady Diana Spencer marrying Charles The Prince of Wales. In Politics a little known group before Solidarity inspire popular protests and a general strike in Poland and the government in the UK starts the process of privatization of Nationalized Industries which is later followed by many other countries around the world. Effects: The use of computers; the elimination of Communism; the fascination with the royals from England (Will and Kate)

TASK GROUPS 1. FIND OUT WHO IS IN YOUR TASK GROUP. 2. YOUR GROUP WILL RECEIVE A QUOTE ABOUT HISTORY. 3. YOU AND YOUR GROUP WILL LIST A SET OF OBJECTIVES (OR GOALS) FOR THE CLASS AND WILL BE HUNG UP TO SEE BY EVERYONE. 4. YOUR GROUP WILL THEN LIST SKILL REQUIRED TO MEET THE GUIDELINES YOU HAVE SET UP.

WRAP UP HISTORY IS A STUDY OF THE PAST SO THAT ONE CAN LEARN ABOUT THEIR POSITION IN THE PRESENT. “HOW DID I GET HERE?” HOW DID THIS ACTIVITY HELP YOU IN UNDERSTANDING THAT WHAT HAPPENS IN THE PAST JUST ISN’T ‘IN THE PAST?’