So, today was our final full class work day on your Early Modern State posters. We have seen some great work as we've walked around in class. We know the finished products will dominate.
You will have a little bit of time to finish up some last details in class tomorrow. After that, we'll let you loose to walk around and learn from your colleagues and the work they did. We'll finish tomorrow by doing a short in class writing over these empires.
I was really hoping we'd be making some sort of all-you-can eat buffet stocked with foods from the various states, but, apparently that "lacks academic merit". Psshhh... standards...
Speaking of all you can eat buffets; have you been here? So much goodness - in my heaven there will be entire trays full of hummus and baba ganoush.
Don't forget that we assigned a new homework reading due next Tuesday. The reading is online on our website. Make sure you read the essay that you were assigned. Are you Team Akbar & Elizabeth or are you Team Kangxi & Louis XIV? I feel like this could degenerate into some sort of awesome history based WWE match.
Again, keep an eye and ear out for Humanities Experience opportunities. With Fall sort of arriving, there will be more and more events going on. We'll post ideas here often.
To get our football boys fired up for their games tonight, here's your musical soundtrack for Thursday:
Oxford dictionary says that an education entails an enlightening experience.
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