Past projects 3
American History Classroom Library
Funded Oct 7, 2024Thank you for providing the funds for me to add to our classroom library. I feel that it is important to give my concurrent enrollment students the opportunity to read topical historical scholarship at the college level, especially from current developments in the field. Your donation has helped me create a small but potent classroom library that focuses on recent scholarship in American history, and I want to allow my students to freely check out books and bring them back. We will also use this library for classroom activities and assignments, where the students learn how to quickly identify an author's thesis, summarize their main arguments, evaluate their evidence, and create a classroom synthesis of American history. Their practice with these books will put them in a position to learn how to produce historical narratives, and their final project will be modeled on these books (though on a much smaller scale).”
With gratitude,
Dr. Hatch
This classroom project was brought to life by SONIC Foundation and one other donor.Classroom Set of Graphic Novels
Funded Aug 15, 2023Thank you for the donation which has enabled me to purchase a classroom set of 33 graphic novels for my class on WWII. We recently read the book (George Takei's THEY CALLED US ENEMY) as a class and had a wonderful discussion surrounding the topic of Japanese-American incarceration during WWII. We discussed citizenship, participatory democracy, issues of race in the US, and whether or not the US should actively engage in reparations for groups that have been adversely affected by government policies. Thank you again!”
With gratitude,
Dr. Hatch
This classroom project was brought to life by The SONIC Foundation and one other donor.American History Classroom Library
Funded Jan 20, 2022Thank you so much for helping me purchase a classroom library! I feel that it is important to give my CE students the opportunity to read topical historical scholarship at the college level, especially from current developments in the field. This small but potent classroom library will allow my students to freely check out books and bring them back. We will also use this library for classroom activities and assignments, where the students learn how to quickly identify an author's thesis, summarize their main arguments, evaluate their evidence, and create a classroom synthesis of American history. Their practice with these books will put them in a position to learn how to produce historical narratives, and their final project will be modeled on these books (though on a much smaller scale). This classroom library will expose students to historiographical trends in US History and will allow them access to college-level historical texts without having to go to the WSU library in Ogden. We will also use these books to examine how historians craft historical narratives, how they create a thesis, how they structure primary and secondary evidence into cohesive paragraphs, and how to properly cite sources. By so doing, they will also learn how to practice and emulate good writing.”
With gratitude,
Dr. Hatch
This classroom project was brought to life by Utah State Board of Education.