I'm Baaaaaack!

While it was hard to tear myself away from a sleeping baby this morning, it is really good to be back for the duration. I dropped in for a few afternoons the week before Spring Break to help with Production happenings, but other than that have really soaked up some quality time with my family. It's been a really intense month, but completely fantastic.

We jumped right back into social studies this morning and, as I told the girls, will be moving forward in history to the 20th century and taking a look at US hegemony and globalization. We will begin this week with a look at the Spanish-American War and America's entrance onto the global stage. Using the same lenses as our survey of the Early Modern period we will examine the ideas and ideologies, economic drivers, social movements, and technologies that surrounded this conflict and it's aftermath and that set the stage for what became known (beware the hubris!) as the American century.

I will also be introducing the next set of projects the girls will be working on to document their learning. These will fuse our past work with GAOC and find them connecting the dots between current global events and their recent historical causes in the 20th century. They will be bringing their video skills to their blogs, creating a set of dynamic "vlogs" and podcasts about the past and present of US engagement with world.

In closing, I just can't help but share one more picture of Logan. Enjoy!