Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Tuesday Tips February 28, 2017

This is a fun interactive site to explore and bring back some memories.  You enter in your date of birth and Atlantic magazine puts together a list of major events from your lifetime.  Each return comes with links to stories the Atlantic has done about many of these events.  It even ends with a forecast for events yet to come in your lifetime.  For me, I have never lived in a world without Sesame Street and we will explore Mars by 2035.  Could be a way for students to jump start papers or stories about events that have shaped the world they've grown up in.  
Found this tip from Larry Ferlazzo's blog.
BOOK TIP:  This Is Where It Ends by Marieke Nijkamp
Wow.  A powerful page turner that looks at what can happen in a high school in under an hour.  At a school wide assembly, the doors to the auditorium are locked, trapping the student body, including faculty, inside when a lone shooter takes the stage.  The novel is told through many viewpoints and gives you insight into how several students deal with the situation.  A book that I found hard to turn away from.

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