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As a Social Studies teacher, you are in the business of making memories.

Whatever you are teaching today,

you want students to remember in May.

But have you ever thought of your long-range impact?

Using our lessons, your students will remember you for the rest of their lives.

We don’t memorize, but we do make history memorable . . .

1. The ABCs (Game to recall terms.)
2. Can You Talk Like . . . ? (Game to define terms.)
3. The Bell Game (Game with bells.)
4. The Gong Show (Game with a gong.)
5. Honk if you hate history! (Game with a honker.)
6. The Great Race (Game of guys vs gals)
7. Mars / Venus (Game of guys vs gals.)
8. Top Ten Reasons (Groups imitate David Letterman.)
9. Life is like a Rock Group (Groups express their opinions.)
10. Four Corners (Groups persuade the class.)
11. The Great Debate (The Chief Justice gets the gavel.)
12. Political cartoons (Pairs interpret cartoons.)
13. Great Quotations (Pairs interpret quotations.)

Videos from YouTube (Great for homework.)

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Around 500 B.C., direct democracy arose in Athens.

In a direct democracy, citizens do not elect representatives to make law.

Instead, they made law.

Every nine days, the citizens met in the town square.

There, they debated and voted with pebbles.

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To make this story vivid,

here are the best videos on YouTube!

This is an update of our workbook,

Ancient Greece (BZ-4772).

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Theoretically, this lesson should be taught at the beginning of the school year.

In practice, it is perfect for November.

By now, students are deep into history.

And can appreciate both the question and the answers.

Why not try this lesson the week of Thanksgiving!

It’s a short week – and this makes a great homework assignment.

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Yesterday was the 90^th anniversary of the end of World War I.

On November 11, 1918, World War I came to an end.

Both sides declared a ceasefire.

Armistice means “ceasefire.”

(Months later, a peace treaty was drawn up.)

From then on, the U.S. celebrated a national holiday on November 11th.

At first, it was called Armistice Day.

Today, we call it Veterans’ Day.

To honor those who died in all wars.

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In 1963, it began as a musical in London.

In 1969, Sir Richard Attenborough turned it into a film.

Starring Maggie Smith and Lawrence Olivier.

It features World War I songs:

“It’s a Long Way to Tipperary

“Pack up Your Troubles”

“Keep the Home Fires Burning.”

When World War I begins, the songs are happy.

As the war drags on, the songs become very sad.

The last four minutes is one of the most powerful endings in all cinema.

It is a satire.

No war is lovely – to think so is folly.

In satire, human follies are held up to ridicule.

Although satire is witty, the purpose is to attack.

The author of the play is opposed to all wars.

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Using maps, games, political cartoons, and YouTube videos, we teach:

The Missouri Compromise of 1820

The Compromise of 1850

The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854.

On the upside, these delayed the Civil War for 40 years.

On the downside, they spread slavery to the West!

This is an update of our workbook,

Growth & Conflict (BZ-4129).

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Have your students already run out of gas?

Here’s a fun lesson for homework!

1. Photos: Events that changed the world.

2. Videos: Events that changed the world.

3. Time Magazine’s Top 100:

Which people and events would YOU choose?

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Lotsa Free Lesson Plans

In case you missed them last week, or over the weekend, here’s the list of current lesson plans on our site:

George Washington: How well do you know this guy?

Colonial America

Child Labour in England (Industrial Revolution)

Pictures of the Revolutionary War

Political Cartoons of the American Revolution

Hamilton & Jefferson – and the rise of the two-party system.

The World’s Wealthiest Countries

Our National Debt

Political Cartoons to teach the Bill Of Rights

Wall Street: 1929 and 2008

The US Constitution

Ancient Egypt on YouTube

The Thirteen Colonies

Where does your food come from?

Dissecting Iowa 1/3/2008

Pakistan: On the brink?

The Nobel Prize

A Humorous Look at Election ‘08

Little Rock - 50 Years Later

Chopsticks in China

World Population

“Is it snowing in Canada?”

Why are Russians buying SUVs?

The rising price of gasoline

World Regions: Asia

Election crisis in Kenya

What is the Holy Land?

Are your pills made in Puerto Rico?

The Andes & The Amazon

The European Union

Cultural Summary of Latin America

Margaret Thatcher

Famous People of The Holocaust

Generals of World War II

The Birth of Israel

The World Today - The Economy of Mexico

Cold War Timeline

Conflict in the Middle East

Armenian Genocide

The Holocaust

Philosophers of the Enlightenment

Attila the Hun

Cleopatra

The Fall of Rome

Bacon

Saint Patrick

The great Chinese inventors!

Confucius

Cortez & Pizarro

Timeline of the Middle Ages

“Lady Murasaki and the Tale of Genji”

Christopher Columbus

China in the Middle Ages

King Tut

Romulus

Famous People - Aristotle

Julius Caesar and the Ides of March

Famous People - Hammurabi

The Ancient Hebrews

Famous_Romans

Ancient Greece - New videos

Who’s on the U.S. Supreme Court?

“Glittering generalities”

Campaign 2008: The Immigration Debate

Affirmative Action

Principles Beneath the Constitution

The Forgotten War

Korean War Atrocities (debate)

Sandra Day O’Connor

Taxes and the 16th Amendment

America In World War I

Malcolm X

Thurgood Marshall

The Causes of the Great Depression

The Great Depression

Truman

FDR

Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover

President Woodrow Wilson

Andrew Jackson

John Q. Adams

Franklin Pierce

I never got to Japan . . .

The Principal hired me to teach geography.
I was eager, yessirreeebob.
I’d been to 49 states (but not Hawaii; you can’t drive there).
I’d even won a trip to London (thank you, Optimists Club!).

But I was clearly in over my head.
My mission? The course known as World Geography.
That’s right: Around the world in 180 days.

It was predictable.
I spent so much time on the Americas, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East . . .
That I barely covered China!
And I never got to Japan.

Time was my enemy.
But as veteran teachers know, if you plan ahead, you can do it.
If I had used lessons from Performance Education, I could have zoomed around the world.

Take a look at Performance Education Unlimited - you might find yourself with a lot more time on your hands!
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If a subscription is too much for you, buy one workbook.
After all, I invested $25 on that Optimists Club ticket – and won a trip to London!

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