Thursday, February 15, 2018

Shutting Down the Blog

As the very few of you who visit the blog have no doubt noticed, I have stopped posting assignments and updates here. I will be shutting down the blog for the remainder of the school year.

The reason for this is very simple: nobody is using it. At least not enough people are using it to justify the effort it takes to keep it up. I have a counter on the blog and I am averaging less than two visits to the site per day. Frankly, students are not using it as a resource and neither are any parents. The amount of time I spend updating it is no longer validated by the amount of good it is doing students/parents.

If you need to contact me for any reason, please email me at michael.mayes@killeenisd.org

Thank you.

Thursday, February 1, 2018

Finishing Up Chapter 12, The Holocaust Letter

Today we finished up Chapter 12 which covered Western Europe. While we discussed events going back to Medieval times, I stressed the events of World War I and World War II strongly. I gave particular emphasis to the Holocaust. In fact, in lieu of a standard test over Chapter 12, I have assigned the students another project that will count as their Summative grade for the Chapter (see instructions below). I have also provided a link to a short Holocaust documentary we watched in class that may be helpful to students as they complete this assignment.