Humanities II

The essence of inquiry-based learning is that children participate in the planning, development and evaluation of projects and activities. Teachers can take many approaches to crafting an inquiry-based project, but Dr. Cornelia Brunner of the Center for Children and Technology breaks it into four main parts: Posing Real Questions, Finding Relevant Resources, Interpreting Information and Reporting Findings.

This article explains some of the key principles of inquiry-based learning. For step-by-step information on how to create an inquiry-based project, see the article called How to Create an Inquiry-Based Project.

A critique of narratives that try to illustrate the impact of the Iraq War on families at home.

Narratives that use the tag: terrorism

Narratives that use the tag: war

Ginsberg reading lines from "America" is sampled and put to a hip hop beat with some psychedelic paintings.

"Catcher" could almost serve as a guide to the city of a certain time, a city that has been lost forever, but still somehow exists: dark, enigmatic, grown up. Follow in Holden's footsteps by clicking on the Interactive Map of his experiences in New York City.

MOSCOW - Fifty years ago Saturday, U.S. pilot Francis Gary Powers was shot down while flying a U-2 spy plane over the Soviet Union, a dramatic episode of the Cold War that pushed the rival superpowers closer to confrontation. "In order to understand the world today, you must understand how we got here, and we got here through the Cold War," the pilot's 44-year-old son, Francis Gary Powers Jr., said Friday. "And then we have to understand how this period of time developed and expanded and how close we came to nuclear war.

A curriculum in a pdf file from Teaching Tolerance. Civil discourse is discourse that supports, rather than undermines, the societal good. It demands that democratic participants respect each other, even when that respect is hard to give or to earn.

In the third chapter from her series "Chaplain Turner's War," Moni Basu takes on tough challenges of narrative journalism: reporting events after the fact and portraying both the grave and the mundane aspects of military conflict. 

Bock reconstructs the story of customs inspectors in Port Angeles, Wash., a small remote city on the Olympic Peninsula. The officials detained-then chased and caught-Ahmed Ressam, an Algerian who'd tried to enter the U.S. from Canada with the makings of a bomb. 

Last summer Ohio mourned its fallen marines. In a single week, 16 from Brook Park's 3/25 were killed, 48 by the tour's end. While we filled our prayers with their names and the streets for their funerals, the rest of 3/25 kept fighting.

This piece mixes humor and gravity in telling the story of a man who narrowly escaped from the Marriott World Trade Center, a hotel that collapsed when the Twin Towers came down on 9/11. Its humor, we think, works only because the main character, Frank Razzano, himself finds humor in his tale. In fact we found the tone refreshing. And because Razzano views his escape also with a kind of reverence, the narrative is, in the end, moving.

Coverage of the war in Iraq, now in its fifth year, always runs the risk of reader fatigue. Daily headlines swim in the wake of militaries and militias. But with "Anguish in the Ruins of Mutanabi Street," Sudarsan Raghavan manages to connect the reader to lives in the midst of the maelstrom by focusing on a place relatively free of sectarianism, large enough to encompass Sunni literature and Shiite posters. He lets us see a piece of Iraq's possible future laid waste.

Finkel shows his knack, once again, for crafting newspaper stories with a writerly, particularly human point of view. He doesn't just write technically compelling scenes; he lets his readers in on irony, wryness, attitude

An anti-profile, Jeffrey Fleishman's "Viewing Life from the Roof," is a series of snapshots from the life of Alia Qotb, who lives on an anonymous rooftop in Cairo. In  language that floats between poetry and prose, Fleishman recounts vignettes from a woman nearing 70, born in the basement of the building she now lives on top of-in a hut without running water or a toilet.

In "Ramadi Nights," author Neil Shea offers up nocturnal desert patrols, pre-dawn home raids, and the dislocated daydreams of servicemen he meets while embedded in the Iraqi province of Al Anb

He wanted to smell fresh dirt. That was one of Kepple's goals when the Iowa National Guard's 1133rd Transportation Company returned to Mason City two weeks ago. Some soldiers talked about heading to Las Vegas. Others requested a hot steak and a cold beer. A few, married quickly before they left, looked forward to a honeymoon. Kepple wanted to plant another crop.