Class started late, so we only got partway through my lecture. I’m doing one class lecture, one class primary sources, for each unit. This class meets 4 days per week. So I wound up finishing on the powerpoint slide that mentions the bad part of the Columbian Exchange.
The one that says “One Fifth of all Humanity Dies.”*
Twenty-seven students’ jaws dropped. Hee hee hee. Pay attention in class, kids. History counts.
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JimDesu
/ January 10, 2007Outstanding!
happycrow
/ January 10, 2007Dude, you need to call us sometime this week, too. We’re in the dark about plan details, iffi they exist.
Maddie
/ January 10, 2007We’re in the dark too – won’t know anything until The Conversation at Oracle happens, but as soon as we have an idea of what we’re actually doing, we’ll pass it along….
Mike
/ January 11, 2007Now that is a great way to get the class to listen up. We usually show videos of US Warplanes blowing things up, but that works too.