Re: (TFT) Americans and history, Duh!

["Jim Dirmaier" <jdirm@hotmail.com>]

We may all joke about it but here is a TRUE story of what happened in my 
classroom last year when I asked a simple historical question to get the day 
rolling (note: high school level students, ages 15-18)

> From time to time I like to quiz my students on history. Last year on 
December 7th I asked what the historical significance of that day was. One 
girl in the back of the room exclaimed " I know, I know: its' Arbor day!" 
Confused I said: "Arbor day isn't until the Spring." By then another student 
had solved the dilema by answering: "December 7th is when the Japanese 
attacked Hawaii."
This caused the first student to give the defensive reply of: "Yeah, and 
they sank all the ships in the arbor!"

Jim-


> Who says we're hysterically illiterate?
>
> I've read the Red Book of Westmarch.  I know our history!
>
> FRODO LIVES!!!
>
> [Stan, I was very entertained by your history.]
>
> JPB
>
>
> > From: stan rydzewski <srydzews@ix.netcom.com>
> > Subject: Re: (TFT) Americans and history, Duh!
> > Date: Mon, 04 Oct 1999 09:34:31 -0400
> >
> > grabowski wrote:
> > >
> > > Seth stated,
> > >
> > > <<<Americans are historical illiterates>>>
> > >
> > > Now don't generalize, Seth.  Remember the United States won a
> > > war against Great Britain to keep ourselves that way.
> >
> > Yeah!  We didn't fight all those guys in the war of 1912 for
> > nothing!  I mean, if it weren't for Franklin Roosevelt and the
> > Toughriders charging down San Juan hill at those limeys, we'd
> > be speaking Gaelic today!  And what about Captain John Paul
> > Jones?  Before he became pope, he was a famous captain in our
> > navy--sunk some British battleship called the Derriere.  As he
> > said when asked to surrender the Batogne, his famous frigate:
> > "Nuts!  I've barely begun the fight, and now the trick is to
> > make the other poor dumb bastard die for his country!"
> >
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------
> > Stan  "Remember the What-amo?" Rydzewski
> >
> > (Sorry for the off-topic-ness; I couldn't help myself.)
>
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