This Week
This week students are working on their "creative projects," whereby students research an area of innovation or an invention that changed society, travel, communication, or the economy over the course of the 20th century in a significant way. Students were given the following resource (greatestachievements.org) to help inform the projects, but the method for presenting their information was left up to them. It could be a podcast, a poem, a video, a creative writing piece, or any other creative means they can think of. Students have been working on this every day this week and will present to the rest of the class on Monday, so ask them to show you what they've worked on this weekend!
Upcoming Week
Next week is parent-teacher conferences. If you would like to meet and talk about your son or daughter or are concerned about your student's performance and would like to schedule a meeting, please use the pick-a-time website that the school is using for scheduling conferences. I'm always happy to meet with you if you'd like to discuss your son or daughter's performance or learn more about what goes on in the class, or would just like to walk through their grades in more depth. I also like having the students be a part of the conference as well, so please know that they are welcome to join us if you would like.
I also want to note that next week we are starting our Conflict and Genocides of the 20th Century unit. If you would like to learn more about what we study, I would encourage you to check out the video and description about this unit on our website (click here) and learn more about what we focus on in order to get an idea of the content we will be covering. In an age of ISIS, intractable conflict in Syria, regime changes in the Middle East and other flare-ups around the world, now it is more important than ever to study the conflicts and genocides of the past in order to ensure that we know how to stop those that are happening in the present. Specifically, we will cover the Armenian Genocide, the Holocaust, the Cambodian Genocide, the Bosnian Genocide, the conflict in Kashmir, the conflict in Northern Ireland, and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. This unit will go into 3rd quarter and most likely we will finish sending letters to our Members of Congress and creating posters about certain conflicts sometime in January or February. Posters will most likely be on display at the Wright State Educational Resource Center sometime next year, so look for a post about them early next year!
Lastly, we will have a great opportunity to visit the US Air Force Museum on November 25th. I'm looking for a few chaperones to help me with this trip, so if you are interested, please email me at arch.grieve@wright.edu and let me know whether or not you would be available during school hours. You would be assigned a group of 10 students and would travel with them throughout the museum during their scavenger hunt. It's a big place and involves a lot of walking, so please make sure you're ready to walk if you would like to come! It's always a good trip and one of the reason we go is that students have the opportunity to hear from a Holocaust survivor, which is unfortunately an increasingly rare opportunity. They will also be led on a tour of the Holocaust Exhibit. This is a powerful and moving experience for the students and it is great that we have such a powerful exhibit right here in Dayton.
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| Learn more about the exhibit here: USAF Museum website |
I look forward to seeing many of you next week!
~Mr. Grieve
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