Tag: modern history

  • Victory in Europe, the end of World War 2

    Victory in Europe, the end of World War 2

    Hi! Future Ticia 2024 here, tomorrow is the 80th anniversary of D-Day, and I thought it would be fun to republish this Victory in Europe lesson which shows how D-Day was part of a massive victory plan among the Allies. Now I return you to Past Ticia 2013. Victory in Europe at the end of…

  • American Revolution Chapter books

    American Revolution Chapter books

    This post is inspired by a new book series I found, inspired by a true story of a Texan teenager who participated in the American Revolution. It got my brain thinking of all the cool things I could do with it, and then I realized, “Ticia, you do not have time to create an American…

  • We Didn’t Start the Fire history lesson

    We Didn’t Start the Fire history lesson

    Over two decades ago I was subbing in a high school history class. Because the way it works for subs in high school, pretty much all I had to do was hit play on the movie and that was it. This left me lots of time to look around the room and see all the…

  • Frida Kahlo artist study

    Frida Kahlo artist study

    I remember learning about Frida Kahlo in high school. I forget exactly where I learned about her, if it was part of history class or maybe just a random thing I learned, but the big things I took away from learning about her: she really liked her uni-brow and she painted a lot of self-portraits.…

  • Diego Rivera artist study

    Diego Rivera artist study

    As we studied Mexico, we learned about their two most famous artists and turned it into history lessons, well art history, but I don’t have an art history landing page… Hmmm…. I need to create that since I’ve actually got a fair number of them. Focus Ticia, we’re talking about the Diego Rivera art history…