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My Serial of Boxes (Pt. 2 of 3)

When last we met, I was explaining my dread, as I contemplated using Will’s boxes with my 4th-6th classroom.  Here was this rich, layered theory, which I still hadn’t mastered; yet, the politicolors had given dimension to the founding, I’d never before imagined.  Could I bring them

How the Hobbes Stole Christmas

Looking for a way to make Thomas Hobbes more to your students than life as “nasty, brutish, and short”?  Today, I shared with my 4th-6th graders Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas. You’ve no doubt seen the Chuck Jones animated version, but I’m going to visit

Duty Bound to Civic Education

With a NY Times op-ed titled “The War as We Saw It [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/19/opinion/19jayamaha.html?_r=3&oref=slogin&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin] ,” a group of infantrymen and non-commissioned officers from the 82nd Airborne Division answered a different call to duty last week.

How I Realized I Was a Federalist (or Christmas in July)

Once upon a time, there was a beast. He chose to live on the outskirts of society; he chose to let his anger fester. He watched and he boiled as the people lived their lives, free and happy. One day, however, the people’s joy stabbed him so fiercely that

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