Thank you for the engaging lesson on Canada!! I laughed out loud at, “Unlike my students in middle school, Canada did fight in WWI.” Also! Your hotel room IN THE STADIUM looks SO cool.
One of the things I am oh-so-grateful for was my 8th grade history teacher making us do a 6 week long unit on WW1. Or maybe it was a month. Or 8 weeks. I'm not sure, but it was long. At that time, we all had grandparents who had fought in WWII, so he rightly pointed out that we wouldn't be as familiar with the conflict that made WWII a reality. We watched so many primary source videos, and so many documentaries and read so much and even decoded the Zimmerman telegram.
I read All Quiet on the Western Front to go along with that, and then had a 30 minute conversation with him about whether the last line of the book had ever happened. He was a great history teacher, and also opened the year by telling us how he hated talking about the Pilgrims (this was in New England) so we were just going to jump to 1850 and Manifest Destiny and Custer. All to say, props to you for making this engaging as possible! WW1 had such a huge impact on the world and yet often gets overlooked.
Thank you for the engaging lesson on Canada!! I laughed out loud at, “Unlike my students in middle school, Canada did fight in WWI.” Also! Your hotel room IN THE STADIUM looks SO cool.
One of the things I am oh-so-grateful for was my 8th grade history teacher making us do a 6 week long unit on WW1. Or maybe it was a month. Or 8 weeks. I'm not sure, but it was long. At that time, we all had grandparents who had fought in WWII, so he rightly pointed out that we wouldn't be as familiar with the conflict that made WWII a reality. We watched so many primary source videos, and so many documentaries and read so much and even decoded the Zimmerman telegram.
I read All Quiet on the Western Front to go along with that, and then had a 30 minute conversation with him about whether the last line of the book had ever happened. He was a great history teacher, and also opened the year by telling us how he hated talking about the Pilgrims (this was in New England) so we were just going to jump to 1850 and Manifest Destiny and Custer. All to say, props to you for making this engaging as possible! WW1 had such a huge impact on the world and yet often gets overlooked.
What a great newsletter! Love the baseball stories, the Canada stories and Poutine.
I just moved to Kansas from a lifetime in Virginia (by DC). And I didn’t know Kansas City has jazz and a Negro Baseball League Museum!!
Now I want to go to Kansas City!