C4T #4

For my C4T #4 I was assigned to William Chamberlain's bloodspot. His blog was about what his seventh grade class were working on. His class was working on making Russian nesting dolls for their geography lesson. They could create their nesting dolls to be any character. In a week, the teacher was going to get his students to reflect on why they made their choice of character. He wanted to teach his students that they needed to listen to their inner voice and not give into peer pressure. I left a comment stating that I thought it was a great idea using the Russian nesting dolls as a way to get your students to reflect on their choices. Seventh grade is a grade were students are still finding themselves and they tend to give in to peer pressure. They need to learn how to make choices on their own instead of trying to please people around them.



William Chamberlain's latest blog was about one of his students asking him a question. The question that was asked was, "Why do I have to learn History?" This question threw him for a loop. He said there was no simple answer for this question. He had to Google it and found horrible answers. He does not think anyone can answer this question for him. I left a comment stating that history provides us the opportunity to learn from our mistakes. We can look at our countries history and see what and where we need to improve, if at all. We have to know and understand where we came from in order to understand our future.