American Experience

What’s in a Speech

Medium Post 4

Eloquence is a substantial part of English. People read Sylvia Plath or C.S. Lewis, and they strive to write like them. So, how do people incorporate that eloquence into their own writing? Big words, lots of cliché metaphors, and sentences that…

Medium Post 3 Tariffs

One of the great joys about history is connecting it to contemporary issues and having students see the connection. For this lesson have high school social studies students do a “What do you know? What do you want to know? and What have you learned?” activity (KWL). Use this article…

Medium Post 1

The article I choose for my class is Why Grave-robbers Won’t Leave Native American Burial Sites Alone. Most people would be surprised that grave robbing still happens in the 21st century. To use this article in a high school social studies lesson would be intense but eye opening, hopefully leading to…

Medium Post #5 — Stretching

The article I have chosen to focus on for my 5th and final medium post focuses around stretching. The article…

Medium Post #3 — Suicide

For my 3rd Medium Post, I have decided to focus it on the topic of suicide. This is a very sensitive topic to talk…

Medium Post #2 — Teens & Alcohol

My second Medium Post is focussed on teenagers, and why they are so likely to start drinking alcohol…

Math shows how human behavior spreads infectious diseases

The article I chose was an article telling about how there was a study on how human behavior during an infectious disease can spread the infectious disease. It talks about how they modeled it by putting different scenarios and…

NBA Players Rationale

This article is model of NBA players rationale when they are playing in game from the decision to either pass or shoot. The efficiency of their choice was there a higher success when this player passed or when they shot. It also takes in to account being fouled on a shot and the free throw…