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Do Now. Use the 1/2 sheet of paper at your desk to answer the question below:. Should history be a graduation requirement in the Boston Public Schools? Why or why not? Explain your answer in complete sentences!!. Today’s Key Questions:.

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  1. Do Now Use the 1/2 sheet of paper at your desk to answer the question below: Should history be a graduation requirement in the Boston Public Schools? Why or why not? Explain your answer in complete sentences!!

  2. Today’s Key Questions: Why do we study history? (quote analysis activity-not included in slides yet) What is the background of my classmates?

  3. History Quote Walk! • Travel around the room and read the various quotes about history. • Mark it with • A star if you really agree with it • An international NO sign if you really disagree with it • A check if it strikes you in a powerful way

  4. Go back to the 3 quotes that struck you in some way—maybe you agreed with them, maybe you disagreed, maybe you could relate to it in some way. • Choose 3 and write them down in the 3 Through Bubbles on the sheet. • In the box next to where you write the quote, answer the following questions: • Why did you choose this quote? • What do you think it means?

  5. For each quote that we show, stand on the line according to how you feel about the statement. STRONGLY Agree STRONGLY Disagree

  6. “If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.” Pearl Buck

  7. History is a myth that men agree to believe. Napoleon

  8. To be ignorant of the past is to remain a child

  9. Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” James Baldwin

  10. Until the lions have their own historians, tales of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.

  11. Map Community building activity

  12. Homework • Read our letters & Write a letter back to us • Tell us who YOU are • Where are you from? • What are your interests? • What are your goals? • What do we need to know about you? • Anything else you want to tell us! • It should be 1 Page (at least) margin to margin 

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