Wonder: Character Analysis of Via 08/27/2013 58 Comments Please post a comment to this blog entry that answers the following questions: A character trait that you associate with Via. An example of Via demonstrating that trait in the story. Feel free to make multiple posts. Picture Here is a Tagul of Via's character traits! 58 Comments Wonder: Character Analysis of Julian 08/27/2013 52 Comments Please post a comment to this blog entry that answers the following questions: A character trait that you associate with Julian. An example of Julian demonstrating that trait in the story. Feel free to make multiple posts. Picture This is a Tagul of Julian's character traits. 52 Comments The 27 Most Important Events in U.S. History 08/25/2013 0 Comments In order to meet the following objective: "Explain why significant events in U.S. political history are important today", I am having my students identify the 27 most important events in U.S. History and do a few things with them. As a class, we will visit a website that has a pretty solid list of U.S. historical events that seem to be important here. Each student will select one event that they feel they would enjoy researching and learning more about. Once they have a good understanding of the event, students will create a Google Presentation slide on our shared Google Presentation. Then, they will add their information to our shared timeline using our shared Google Spreadsheet (thanks to Timeline JS). (There are lots of important points to be made regarding what can be typed into each field.) The information they will need is the date (or range of dates) that their event happened, the title of the event, an explanation of the event, a picture from Google Images, the URL where the image was taken, a caption explaining the image After they've entered their data, they need to embed the following code on their ePortfolio and reflect on their learning: