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Family Smart: Mammoth movie
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Sunday, March 22, 2009. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). I'll have my blog talk to your blog. Is Vassar THE Ivy League Whorehouse Or A Whorehouse TO The Ivy League (Special Report). Despite the outpouring of responses to the Westboro Baptist Church planning to protest Vassar, one question remains unanswered: Even *Lisa Kudrow '85* cal. All That Glitters Is Gold. Sabbatical, Phase One success. Little jack in the city. Jack and ben playing ball. Image: Posted by Picasa]. A Day In the Life. Jim's MySpace...
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Family Smart: February 2009
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Sunday, February 15, 2009. Yesterday I had the pleasure of watching Jack swim fast at the Vassar College Sprint Invitational. He won several events and improved to his fastest times ever in most of them. It was really fun cheering with the other Vassar parents. Here is a video of his close win in the 100 IM:. Http:/ www.youtube.com/watch? Click here to read all about it in the Vassar newspaper:. Http:/ athletics.vassar.edu/swimming/m-index.php. Basking in the glow,. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Super hot ...
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Smart Thoughts?: Teaching ideas for history lessons
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Saturday, August 07, 2010. Teaching ideas for history lessons. They had to crank them out, it's all in the title, and the artwork really captures the flavor of the Gilded Age. Each student could read a different one, and write one of their own. Put a strong statement of the board. Divide the class into two groups: agree and disagree. During the discussion, kids are allowed to change sides. Song to play about lynching: Strange Fruit by Billie Holiday. Posted by Jim Smart. View my complete profile.
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Smart Thoughts?: Gilded Age Seminar at Stanford - Day 1
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Monday, August 02, 2010. Gilded Age Seminar at Stanford - Day 1. Richard White lecture - introduction. Too often skipped in US History instruction. Most people began working for wages - a new thing. USA becomes truly continental. Like our own period, it's a series of unimportant presidents. 1 Lincoln's funeral train route 1700 miles through the cities and the midwest. No man is good enough to govern another man without that man's consent". After the war: the state followed the corporate model. Friends" -...
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Smart Thoughts?: Stanford Day 1 Afternoon - teaching ideas
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Monday, August 02, 2010. Stanford Day 1 Afternoon - teaching ideas. Ideas for the classroom:. Crop It - Use a famous primary source photo but reveal it a piece at a time, one face at a time, discussing as you go. Or "over-zoom" a photo and slowly pan around it. Gradually the whole picture is seen with more understanding. Value Sort - Write ten values like justice or equality on cards and have them sort them in order of importance. Harper's Weekly - good primary source. Posted by Jim Smart. Watermark temp...
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Smart Thoughts?: Day 3 - Allyson Hobbs - Race Identity in the Gilded Age
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Wednesday, August 04, 2010. Day 3 - Allyson Hobbs - Race Identity in the Gilded Age. Racial passing - hard to gauge how much it happened; hard to find records. No accurate count. Ellen Craft. Was a pale slave who disguised herself as an invalid white man, and her husband pretended to be his slave attending to him as they traveled north. Identities can be reshaped and presented in new ways in the Gilded Age. Some argued that "whiteness" is a kind of property that could be taken away wrongly, such as by a ...
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Smart Thoughts?: Stanford Day 2 - Business corporations and Industrialization in the Gilded Age
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Tuesday, August 03, 2010. Stanford Day 2 - Business corporations and Industrialization in the Gilded Age. There's a certain synchronicity in learning about the Gilded Age on a campus that was built with the Gilded Age fortune of Leland Stanford. Is an interesting character from this time. I'd like to read some of her books. Poverty was increasing at the same time. Transition - from small shops to factories. Thomas Edison - not highly educated; an American tinkerer. Folk genius with an invention facto...
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Smart Thoughts?: Stanford Day 3 - Blacks, Indians, and Immigrants: Assimilation?
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Wednesday, August 04, 2010. Stanford Day 3 - Blacks, Indians, and Immigrants: Assimilation? Last night's film: Life of Andrew Carnegie. This was a very corrupt era; Carnegie's protege "Scott" ran the Penn. legislature for his own benefit. New Amendments after the Civil War:. Federal government attempted to bring these amendments into reality; mixed results. It's a white man's country, but what exactly does it mean to be white? Grant had let the soldiers keep their arms, and they used them in the terror w...
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Smart Thoughts?: Stanford Gilded Age Seminar Day 4 - politics
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Thursday, August 05, 2010. Stanford Gilded Age Seminar Day 4 - politics. Last night's film: Hester Street. Really good film about Jewish immigrants. Tight little plot about a marriage in a NY neighborhood with the Carol Kane character ending up re-inventing herself most successfully. America is about that chance to reinvent yourself. These immigrants would never want to go back, no matter how strange and hard things were in America. Don't we all use changes to reinvent ourselves? All about party loyalty.
