After spending time with a group of people, do you feel energized and ready for anything or do you want to hide in the corner with a good book?
Author: D. Sader
Average
A writer once said, “You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” If this is true, which five people would you like to spend your time with?
Genie
A genie has granted your wish to build your perfect space for reading and writing. What’s it like?
6:00AM
6:00AM: the best hour of the day, or too close to your 3:00AM bedtime?
Happily Ever After
“And they lived happily ever after.” Think about this line for a few minutes. Are you living happily ever after? If not, what will it take for you to get there?
Tomorrow
The world is ending tomorrow! Tell us about your last dinner – the food, your dining companions, the setting, the conversation.
A Call
You receive a call from an unexpected person. Who is it, and what is the conversation about? Go!
What else is blogging to you?
Blogging is about expressing, sharing, connecting?and what else is blogging to you?
Emergency Car Kit
Have a look at an emergency car kit. How does the value of each item on this list depend on the type of accident you are in or have arrived at?
What additional items would you add to the list?
Where in the vehicle should these items be located?
Do you have ICE contacts in your phone? Or an ICE app on your home screen? Maybe you’d want an emergency phone charger.
Write a post about about what should be in your emergency car kit.
(Add links/images, too. Perhaps you could add an Amazon Emergency Car Kit Widget to your blog.)
Religious Conflict and the Search for Historical Explanations
http://www.canadianmysteries.ca
A critical thinking challenge for students, ages 16-18
Early in the morning of February 4, 1880, five members of an Irish immigrant family were murdered in rural southwestern Ontario, allegedly by an armed band of vigilantes from the community. No one was ever convicted of these crimes. While “Who did it?” is the most obvious question here, in an important sense the real mystery is why these crimes happened at all and how we should understand them now.
In this MysteryQuest, you are invited to take on the role of advisor to a team of historians beginning research on the Donnelly massacre of 1880 in Biddulph Township. You have been asked to examine selected primary and secondary documents for evidence to support one of the key theories about the reasons behind the massacre: it was the result of religious hatred among Irish immigrants who settled the township in the nineteenth century. First, you will be introduced to the idea of causal explanations in history. Then, you will be introduced to the Donnelly massacre and to the three main theories for the conflict. Working individually or with a partner you will examine five historical documents, looking for evidence of religious conflict. You will then prepare a 250-word report for the historians that summarizes the evidence and offers your own conclusion about whether there is enough evidence of religious conflict to proceed with a more detailed search for evidence of this explanation.