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Via MOD Bee
Relationships are hard, especially with colonies and royalty involved. But with each breakup comes a new beginning, an independence even.
The tale of 13 colonies that defied taxation and battled their way to nationhood got a Common Core twist Monday, giving about 500 Enochs High juniors a history lesson they won’t forget.
Three social studies teachers worked together on the lesson, delivered in U.S. history classes schoolwide. The lesson started with background information, but not through a lecture, reading the chapter aloud or doing the unit quiz.
Clicking through a series of slides, teacher Janeen Zambo strode around the class asking students to figure out why something happened, what might happen next, and where they could get the information for their homework.[…]
With the background covered, she switched gears. A letter was left in her room, she said, unfolding a paper. Students need to remember their papers, not pass notes, because she reads aloud what gets left behind, she said to stunned silence.
The letter described a failing relationship. The writer needed space. It just wasn’t going to work out. Sympathetic murmurs greeted the harshest lines. As the bell rang, Zambo admitted it was not a classmate’s life they were hearing about, but the birth of a nation.
“We’re going to study the best breakup letter in the history of the world,” was how Zambo ended her first-period U.S. history class.