History, Who doesn't love it!!??!! (Ignore that photo behind the curtain! The Great Oz has Spoken!) Okay, okay, I confess, once in a great while and I mean GREAT while, my classroom may have looked like this, but there was always a Bavid Fictum, (Real name cleverly disguised to protect the innocent) to save the day! Can't figure out why the Grover Cleveland years may have bored them? But in the end I still say, Who doesn't love history?
C'mon now. How can history not be exciting for one and all? With stories about knights in shining or even dull armor, the French.....ha ha, the French, English royalty warring among themselves, probably over tea or crumpets, unsinkable ships, well, maybe not TOTALLY unsinkable and cool airplanes of either world war. (A big fan of the French Spad. I know, a French plane! Who'd a thought?) There's yummy canned meat with rat tails and varmint droppings from the turn of the century, political scandals from the past. Well, obviously from the past cause there would be no modern scandals in politics today would there?? (Cough..Fast and Furious...cough..IRS...cough..Ever Changing "AFFORDABLE" choke, choke, choke, Care Act rules and regulations..cough and......okay no more, totally unbiased, political ramblings. And how bout Millard Fillmore, huh!!? Nuff said.
We can even chat about revolutions all over history like the American Revolution, the English Revolution, the French Revolution, the Russian Revolution, and the 33 Revolutions Per Minute. Too many there to teach all of em.
What about cool inventions throughout history? My favorite, the flush toilet! (Come on, you gotta agree the alternatives make this, one great invention and INDOORS besides) Of course there is the 100 Years War, (How come reenactors don't reenact this war? You'd have to rotate the hobby through your offspring. Long war.) or if that's too long how about the 90-ish day Spanish American War. Didn't even get the most of the Cavalry's horses on the battlefield in time for this one. Only the "Dis-Mounted" Cavalry was ready for this one...Private joke chuckle.
So much neat stuff in history and I haven't even scratched the surface. Wow, scratching is even a history thing. It could be the scratching of a quill pen dipped in ink when Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, or the scratching of chickens feet on a pioneer farmstead, or the starting point in a sporting event or baking an item from original ingredients from start to finish. Whew and I didn't even mention the scratching from mosquito bites that could at one time kill you.
So who says history has to be boring!! WHO I SAY?? I think you all had better call up your former history teachers and apologize for sleeping in class. I'm just sayin! I guess that would keep me on the phone a long time if all my former students did, soooo....never mind.
Now go out there and read a history book for the gipper! Ah, even some history in the word gipper. Here's a clue to find out it's meaning. Ronald Reagan. I'm talkin history oozing out of every pore on this one. Okay, go, learn and be fulfilled and may the force be with you.
C'mon now. How can history not be exciting for one and all? With stories about knights in shining or even dull armor, the French.....ha ha, the French, English royalty warring among themselves, probably over tea or crumpets, unsinkable ships, well, maybe not TOTALLY unsinkable and cool airplanes of either world war. (A big fan of the French Spad. I know, a French plane! Who'd a thought?) There's yummy canned meat with rat tails and varmint droppings from the turn of the century, political scandals from the past. Well, obviously from the past cause there would be no modern scandals in politics today would there?? (Cough..Fast and Furious...cough..IRS...cough..Ever Changing "AFFORDABLE" choke, choke, choke, Care Act rules and regulations..cough and......okay no more, totally unbiased, political ramblings. And how bout Millard Fillmore, huh!!? Nuff said.
We can even chat about revolutions all over history like the American Revolution, the English Revolution, the French Revolution, the Russian Revolution, and the 33 Revolutions Per Minute. Too many there to teach all of em.
What about cool inventions throughout history? My favorite, the flush toilet! (Come on, you gotta agree the alternatives make this, one great invention and INDOORS besides) Of course there is the 100 Years War, (How come reenactors don't reenact this war? You'd have to rotate the hobby through your offspring. Long war.) or if that's too long how about the 90-ish day Spanish American War. Didn't even get the most of the Cavalry's horses on the battlefield in time for this one. Only the "Dis-Mounted" Cavalry was ready for this one...Private joke chuckle.
So much neat stuff in history and I haven't even scratched the surface. Wow, scratching is even a history thing. It could be the scratching of a quill pen dipped in ink when Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, or the scratching of chickens feet on a pioneer farmstead, or the starting point in a sporting event or baking an item from original ingredients from start to finish. Whew and I didn't even mention the scratching from mosquito bites that could at one time kill you.
So who says history has to be boring!! WHO I SAY?? I think you all had better call up your former history teachers and apologize for sleeping in class. I'm just sayin! I guess that would keep me on the phone a long time if all my former students did, soooo....never mind.
Now go out there and read a history book for the gipper! Ah, even some history in the word gipper. Here's a clue to find out it's meaning. Ronald Reagan. I'm talkin history oozing out of every pore on this one. Okay, go, learn and be fulfilled and may the force be with you.
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