March Fourth!

March is a tough month. Everyone is tired of winter, but its still cold and snowy. There aren't any real breaks the whole month and it's testing season. So the best attitude to have is to just keep going!

Since this week features the only date of the whole calendar year that is also a sentence (March Fourth!), its a great week to adopt the attitude. This month I have a Maine Council for the Social Studies meeting, Smarter Balanced Assessment for juniors, a workshop day, a training on using DBQ's (next week), and a field trip to the Margaret Chase Smith Library and Museum. All things that will make the month tiring but exciting.

This week we were focused on digging in. In U.S. history we examined war and specifically the details of World War One. In Ethics we looked at Moral Courage and the students started some research on real life examples. In Psychology we looked at the famous experiment on obedience to authority conducted by Stanley Milgram. All of these things added up to a busy week!

My blog this week is very short because we just spent a lot of time working as usual. I have been thinking baout making a chenge with this blog for a while and its a week like this that leads me to conclude that starting next school year I will reduce my blog posts to two times a month. Then, each post will have much more to it.

Next week I will blog about the DBQ project training and the MCSS meeting. Until then, March forth!