1. What is history?
Essential Question: What is time? What is history? What is YOUR history? What will be history?

2. What is history?
Webster’s Dictionary: a chronological record of significant events often including an explanation of their causes 

3. What is history?
History:  gossip well told.  ~Elbert Hubbard, The Roycroft Dictionary
History is a bath of blood.  ~William James, Memories and Studies
History is a great dust heap.  ~Thomas Carlyle, Obiter Dicta
History is the sum total of the things that could have been avoided.  ~Konrad Adenauer

4. What is your history?
What is the history of your family? Where did your parents or grandparents live?
Where were you born?
where have you lived?
What is the first thing you remember?
What events stand out in your life?

5. What is time?
Time is passing non-stop, and we follow it with clocks and calendars. Yet we cannot study it with a microscope or experiment with it. And it still keeps passing. We just cannot say what exactly happens when time passes. ScienceDaily (Apr. 15, 2005)

6. According to Einstein's theory of relativity, time is regarded as a fourth dimension, on an equal footing with the familiar three dimensions of space

8. The faster we travel through the dimensions of space, the slower we travel through the dimension of time, and vice versa

9. the faster an object moves the slower time runs, until at the speed of light time comes to a stop

10. Powerful gravitational fields, such as those found at the event horizon of black holes, also slow down time

11. Similarly, a clock at sea level will record time running slower than a clock at high altitude on a mountain top

12. Analysis: This is history
"It's Like That" Run–D.M.C. "It's Like That/Sucker MCs", in late 1983
Unemployment at a record highs  People coming, people going, people born to die  Don't ask me, because I don't know why  But it's like that, and that's the way it is  People in the world tryin to make ends meet  You try to ride car, train, bus, or feet  I said you got to work hard, you want to compete  It's like that, and that's the way it is    Money is the key to end all your woes  Your ups, your downs, your highs and your lows  Won't you tell me the last time that love bought you clothes?  It's like that, and that's the way it is 

13. Bills rise higher every day  We receive much lower pay  I'd rather stay young, go out and play  It's like that, and that's the way it is  Huh!  Wars going on across the sea  Street soldiers killing the elderly  Whatever happened to unity?  It's like that, and that's the way it is  Disillusion is the word  That's used by me when I'm not heard  I just go through life with my glasses blurred  It's like that, and that's the way it is  Huh! 

14. You can see a lot in this lifespan  Like a bum eating out of a garbage can  You noticed one time he was your man  It's like that (what?) and that's the way it is  You should have gone to school, you could've learned a trade  But you laid in the bed where the bums have laid  Now all the time you're crying that you're underpaid  It's like that (what?) and that's the way it is  Huh!  One thing I know is that life is short  So listen up homeboy, give this a thought  The next time someone's teaching why don't you get taught?  It's like that (what?) and that's the way it is 

15. If you really think about it times aren't that bad  The one that flexes with successes will make you glad  Stop playing start praying, you won't be sad  It's like that (what?) and that's the way it is Huh! 
When you feel you fail sometimes it hurts  For a meaning in life is why you search  Take the bus or the train, drive to school or the church  It's like that, and that's the way it is  Here's another point in life you should not miss  Do not be a fool who's prejudiced Because we're all written down on the same list  It's like that (what?) and that's the way it is Huh! You know it's like that, and that's the way it is  Because it's like that, and that's the way it is

16. Run DMC as a historical artifact: How could “"It's Like That” be considered a primary source for historians?

17. What is happening today that will describe our time?