Tag: 10th grade

  • Animal Farm book club

    Animal Farm book club

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    As a Freshman in high school I read Animal Farm. I remember being something of a history buff and reading the chapter where the animals went through the farmer’s house and thinking, “Wow, I bet this is what the peasants felt like going through the Romanov palace after the Russian Revolution.” I felt so smart…

  • Burkina Faso

    Burkina Faso

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    I knew pretty much nothing about Burkina Faso as we started our Burkina Faso unit, primarily because I hated geography when I was in school. My 6th grade geography unit was horribly done, and primarily consisted of all the incredibly boring stuff about countries, nothing that made it interesting, like their culture or fun facts.…

  • Slovakia Unit

    Slovakia Unit

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    For whatever reason, I think the name Slovakia is fun to say. It’s an interesting word and if you didn’t know it, it’s also an interesting country. That’s what I learned in our Slovakia Unit when we learned about it for our geography lessons. Let’s see what our Slovakia unit had to say. (there are…

  • All Quiet on the Western Front book club

    All Quiet on the Western Front book club

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    This is one of those books that I read in high school and really hoped to have nothing further to do with it. I was not planning on assigning All Quiet on the Western Front for a book and a movie, but when my kids had their rebellion against reading The Great Gatsby, they all…

  • Bangladesh Unit

    Bangladesh Unit

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    All right, let’s talk about the country of Bangladesh. It always amuses me when we study countries that are tropical and have so much rain. This is especially relevant as we’re heading into another drought and they just started the mild version of water rationing. I guess I’m collecting water again to water my pathetic…