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Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Way to Go, Mark!

Mark Griffin, Year 1 participant and Grimsley High social studies teacher, was featured in a story in the October 31 edition of the "News and Record. " 

Mark's students participated in the Kid's Voting project, and were wonderful examples of students getting involved in activities related to being good citizens. Mark is a former policeman who spends much of his time teaching civic responsibility and participation in his Civics & Economics classes.  

We are glad to see Mark receive some long overdue recognition for his work! You go, Mark!



Favorite History Books

  • A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
  • America's Hidden History: Untold Tales of the First Pilgrims, Fighting Women, and Forgotten Founders Who Shaped a Nation by Kenneth C Davis
  • American Creation by Joseph J Ellis
  • American Leviathan: Empire, Nation and Revolutionary Frontier by Patrick Griffin
  • Death or Liberty: African Americans and Revolutionary America by Douglas R Egerton
  • Explorers, Fortunes and Love Letters: A Window on New Netherland ed. by Martha Dickinson Shattuck
  • Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D Levitt and Stephen J Dubner
  • From Slavery to Freedom by John Hope Franklin
  • Hip Hop HIstory by Blake Harrison and Alex Rappaport
  • Plain, Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution by Richard Beeman
  • Roanoke: the Abandoned Colony by Karen Ordahl Kupperman
  • Rough Crossings: Britian, Slaves and the American Revolution by Simon Schama
  • Slavery and the Founders: Race and Liberty in the Age of Jefferson by Paul Finkelman
  • The Divided Ground: Indians, Settlers and the Northern Borderland of the American Revolution by Alan Taylor
  • The First Salute: A View of the American Revolution by Barbara Tuchman
  • The Island at the Center of the World by Russell Shorto

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