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Question:

This year begins with many important events: international political, military and financial crises, a major Lincoln anniversary, a ground-breaking inauguration, and more. Which, if any, current or upcoming events will prompt you to depart from your usual curriculum and spend class time to help your students gain meaningful perspective on today's world? How will you help them make the connections?

Replies:

Terri Messing - Port Orchard, WA
One of my history classes will be spending the next three months involved in Project Citizen. They will be delving deeply into problems found in our town and school, choose a problem and come up with ways to develop public policy to address the problem and hopefully to find a solution. This is an intense project that will take the students to our state competition. Through Project Citizen, students come to see that even as young teens they have a voice that can be heard and change can happen.

C/bean
The ground breaking ceremony will be a moment in time This speaks to the whole world as it will send positive messages to all people. 'Change' is essential and if we do not accept it we will never understand our world.

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