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Fernwalt Aura Distracting Social Studies Students
Posted on March 31st, 2010 | No CommentsSome students encouraged to read in bathrooms to stay up on content. Throughout the halls, there’s an underlying problem with students as the attention span of history and geography students spirals downwards at an alarming rate. The reason behind all of this is quite simple:... -
Uncle John’s Readers Placed in School Bathrooms
Posted on March 30th, 2010 | No CommentsReading material meant to elevate social studies interest, promote reading across the curriculum. Birds flying backwards? Popes serving in the military? Origins of Oscar the Grouch? President Wilson’s lucky number? Number of vending machine deaths per year? What’s the common thread? You can learn these... -
Mr. Troutman’s Grandmother Writes on Life during the Great Depression
Posted on February 26th, 2010 | No CommentsThis February the Explorer ran into CHS Social Studies Teacher Mr. Troutman and learned that his grandmother wrote a letter in 2004 to describe what it was like to live during the Great Depression. Below is that letter, word-for-word, from an American who persevered during this...