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Almost 120 eighth grade students enter my classroom everyday. Getting them excited about history is my job! This is not easy, but challenging their thinking and making them the investigators has been beneficial. I have found that through analyzing primary and secondary documents, the students have started to take ownership of their learning and have begun to enjoy opening the envelope to the past. They have begun to understand the value in not taking another's word for fact, but finding the facts, investigating the information, and finally coming to a conclusion about what is important. I currently use a very inexpensive document projector that is constantly going in and out of focus, cannot project the whole image, and does not even have it's own light source. This is really painful when trying to display the actual historical writings of John Smith, images of patriot propaganda, and the Declaration of Independence.

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Almost 120 eighth grade students enter my classroom everyday. Getting them excited about history is my job! This is not easy, but challenging their thinking and making them the investigators has been beneficial. I have found that through analyzing primary and secondary documents, the students have started to take ownership of their learning and have begun to enjoy opening the envelope to the past. They have begun to understand the value in not taking another's word for fact, but finding the facts, investigating the information, and finally coming to a conclusion about what is important. I currently use a very inexpensive document projector that is constantly going in and out of focus, cannot project the whole image, and does not even have it's own light source. This is really painful when trying to display the actual historical writings of John Smith, images of patriot propaganda, and the Declaration of Independence.

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