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History teaches everything including the future - Lamartine
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If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development - Aristotle
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History remembers only the brilliant failures and the brilliant successes - Randolph S. Bourne
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The supreme purpose of history is a better world - Herbert Hoover
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No historian should be trusted implicitly - G. Kitson Clark
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History repeats itself because no one was listening the first time - Anonymous
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Life must be lived forward, but it can only be understood backward - Soren Kierkegaard
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History is often not what actually happened but what is recorded as such - Henry L. Stimson
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History is a vast early warning system - Norman Cousins
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Camels Team
Visit our team site to find team news, upcoming field trip information, permission slips, team slideshows, presentations, and access to the other team classes.
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Class Blog
During the year, students will be required to investigate and debate a topic we are coverning in class. It might be a historical or contemporary topic.
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Social Studies Department
The ASFMS Social Studies Department site contains links to our 6th - 8th grade history curriculum.
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Teacher Study Tours
I've been fortunate to travel to China ( 2006 and 2011), Korea ( 2008 and 2009), and Japan ( 2009). I took many pictures and video and have made them available online.
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Students As Town Planners
This unit of study culminates in students researching their town's comprehensive plan and making suggestions on how to improve their community.
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Presentations and Publications
This section includes articles I've written on curriculum, presentations I've made, in addition to editorials in local papers.