The American Dream: Happy Monday...

Hey Partially 9th Graders,

We start this week with a couple questions:

1.  How has your experience this year at STEM influenced your idea of learning?

2.  How do the times that a person lives through influence that person's idea of the American Dream?


      Our friends at West are eagerly awaiting our arrival tomorrow to begin work on The American Dream.  We will be interacting with text and media.  We will be thinking about and looking for evidence that answers some curious questions.  We will be formulating and generating questions of our own.  This last and final West experience is the start of our push to the end of the 2012-2013 school year.

      It has been said and quoted many a time that, "a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step".  Well folks, today is that step in a direction.  Most of the links found in this Think Spot post lead to a blog Dubbs found that is fantastic.  It gives us one author's perspective of The American Dream, and a tiny insight into the timing of the origin of The American Dream.  As I read this post it came across to me as a little idealistic.  An academic conversation with our 8th grade learning community would be an awesome place to share ideas about this text.

      Here is another person's idea of The American Dream.  Think about the Great Depression.  Think about what we know about the last two TLH categories: CC/CH & UP.  Remember CC/CH is "Change and Continuity".  Also remember UP is "Using the Past".  Let's look at the text provided by Dubbs and the link provided by your's truly to see if we can begin to THINK LIKE HISTORIANS.


Your's truly,
C
     

 



From the cluttered mind of C, Teacher
School District of Waukesha
Waukesha STEM Academy