Why study history? The answer is because we virtually must, to gain access to the laboratory of human experience. When we study it reasonably well, and so acquire some usable habits of mind, as well as some basic data about the forces that affect our own lives, we emerge with relevant skills and an enhanced capacity for informed citizenship, critical thinking, and simple awareness. The uses of history are varied. Studying history can help us develop some literally “salable” skills, but its study must not be pinned down to the narrowest utilitarianism. Some history—that confined to personal recollections about changes and continuities in the immediate environment—is essential to function beyond childhood. Some history depends on personal taste, where one finds beauty, the joy of discovery, or intellectual challenge. Between the inescapable minimum and the pleasure of deep commitment comes the history that, through cumulative skill in interpreting the unfolding human record, provides a real grasp of how the world works.—Peter Stearns
Dear Parents and Guardians,
Below are several very helpful resources for history class. Home access center will provide you with your students up to date grades. Planbook allows you to see what we are planning to do each day in class. The most valuable resource for you however is the google classroom and google guardian updates. By logging into your students google classroom you can see each assignment and its resources as well as see your students progress. Each parent or guardian can also sign up for google guardian updates that will send you (depending on your choosing) daily or weekly updates on your students progress. If you have not already signed up for this you can start the process by emailing me at [email protected]. As always if you have any other questions please do not hesitate to email or call at any time.
Together in education,
Andrew R. Ford
Below are several very helpful resources for history class. Home access center will provide you with your students up to date grades. Planbook allows you to see what we are planning to do each day in class. The most valuable resource for you however is the google classroom and google guardian updates. By logging into your students google classroom you can see each assignment and its resources as well as see your students progress. Each parent or guardian can also sign up for google guardian updates that will send you (depending on your choosing) daily or weekly updates on your students progress. If you have not already signed up for this you can start the process by emailing me at [email protected]. As always if you have any other questions please do not hesitate to email or call at any time.
Together in education,
Andrew R. Ford