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		<title>Seventh Graders Research Immigration Stories</title>
		<link>http://www.bcdsmashup.org/2010/05/seventh-graders-research-immigration-stories/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 13:52:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The seventh grade concluded a six-week long project on immigration with the Cultural Heritage Project (CHP) Festival on May 19.  A capstone project in the grade’s U.S. history curriculum, the CHP challenges each student to research a country, focusing on why and how its people emigrated to the U.S.  (Many students choose countries of their family’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Students Become Teachers</title>
		<link>http://www.bcdsmashup.org/2010/05/students-become-teachers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 12:42:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seniors have spent a lot of time with teachers over their many years at Beaver. Perhaps they have thought at one time or another that they could do just as good a job of leading a class as their teachers. A few students in Alex Gould&#8217;s senior elective Modern Controversies got to see just how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cultural Heritage Project Gets Underway</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 15:55:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seventh graders have begun working on the culminating project of their school year, the Cultural Heritage Project (CHP), and they are using a wiki to keep themselves organized.
Students are asked to choose a country and a culture to explore then research the reasons that people from that culture came to America. Were the pushed out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Skype With South Korea</title>
		<link>http://www.bcdsmashup.org/2010/03/skype-with-south-korea/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 15:48:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This year, Global History and Social Studies Chair Kader Adjou&#8217;s classes have participated in Skype video conversations with students in Afghanistan, Israel, and now South Korea.
On Thursday, March 11, Beaver students talked with students at Taegu Foreign Language High School in Seoul, South Korea. The conversation touched on South Korean perspectives on North Korea, U.S. presence in South Korea, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. History Online Textbook</title>
		<link>http://www.bcdsmashup.org/2010/03/us-history-online-textbook/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:08:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Final exams usually conjure up images of students sitting at their desks, pencils in hand, darkening bubbles or writing in a blue book. Students in Melissa Catarra&#8217;s 10th grade U.S. history course were instead given a final assignment which asked them to examine the events they studied from different perspectives.
Here is one part of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Students Skype With Israel</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:22:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Students in the upper school history elective “Political and Social Changes” held a Skype discussion with four Israeli students and their teacher on February 11. The Israeli group is from the Ironi Hey High School in Haifa, a public high school enrolling 1600 students from grades 7 to 12.
Organized by Beaver’s Kader Adjout (Global History [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Skyping with Afghanistan</title>
		<link>http://www.bcdsmashup.org/2009/11/skyping-with-afghanistan/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bcdsmashup.org/2009/11/skyping-with-afghanistan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:37:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global History and Social Studies Department Chair Kader Adjout has been using technology in his Middle East senior elective to connect his class with students from Afghanistan. He uses a private social network (a Ning) to work with teachers and students in Afghanistan, and his students post to a blog which receives responses from the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Traveling to the Arabian Peninsula?</title>
		<link>http://www.bcdsmashup.org/2009/10/traveling-to-the-arabian-peninsula/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bcdsmashup.org/2009/10/traveling-to-the-arabian-peninsula/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:16:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As part of the revised history curriculum this year, students in Mike Adamowicz&#8217;s 8th grade history class recently completed a unit studying the history, culture, and environment of the Arabian Peninsula. They were given several opportunities and ways to demonstrate their knowledge of the material. Here are two examples of student work from his class.
Book [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Discussing a &#8220;New&#8221; Cold War</title>
		<link>http://www.bcdsmashup.org/2009/10/discussing-a-new-cold-war/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bcdsmashup.org/2009/10/discussing-a-new-cold-war/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:32:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rodney Yeoh&#8217;s 11th grade world history classes have been studying the Cold War. In addition to textbooks, Mr. Yeoh regularly brings in materials from the web to supplement the discussions. In a recent blog post, he asks students to comment on a New York Times article about a &#8220;new&#8221; Cold War. The post and a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. in the Middle East</title>
		<link>http://www.bcdsmashup.org/2009/10/u-s-in-the-middle-east/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bcdsmashup.org/2009/10/u-s-in-the-middle-east/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:47:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[History Department Chair Kader Adjout teaches an elective called &#8220;The Middle East.&#8221; In a recent blog post, he asks students to respond to a brief, but not simple, prompt: &#8220;What should the U.S. role in the Middle East be?&#8221; Here are a few student responses.
Sheyda &#8216;10
The United States should keep promoting democracy and freedom in [...]]]></description>
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