How can I become....

I was talking to one of my friends today about history... we came to the conclusion that since we are first generation students, history doesn't really concern us because of the fact that our history didn't begin here and most of our parents don't have that connection with the U.S. Am I being wrong? I really only passed history in high school because of worksheets...read and fill in the blank... How can I help myself feel interested a lot more in history? It is interesting to learn all this new facts, but...really now i don't see myself sitting down to relearn the things that I once "learned" How can I make myself feel otherwise? Any suggestions??

Let's talk about History...

How good can I do will all the information that I'm finding? Loewen talks about lies and lies and more lies!! Wow!!! For me it's been an eye opening. I came to hate history at a certain point...well...I'm still not sure if I still do or not...because of a simple fact that nothing relates to me. Loewen talked about this and this made me realize that I might be self-centered or that I really don't care...or maybe history is just not for me. Who knows!! I do understand that while I come to a more precise understanding of what history is all about it intrigues me and makes me wonder of all the truths that we still have to find. I do, however, realize that history is important. It's our background...I like the quote that one of the girls said in class...

"Those who do not know history are due to repeat it"

I know for sure I don't want to repeat the same mistake my teacher did to me. I do want to be prepared. I came to a conclusion that history has to be important, for me, for you, for anyone and everyone. History has a little of each one of us in it.

Social Studies...

...WORDS ARE POWERFUL AS OUR ACTIONS...

As our actions become powerful so do our words... how can we make sure we know what to teach and what we are teaching if we don't understand our material. Our students deserve so much from us and we owe them that...our preparation...