Monday, April 7, 2014

I started each class off my reminding the students of the main points of the Treaty of Versailles and showed them a picture that made it explicit that the peace was built on quicksand, meaning that it would only last for 20 years before Hitler would rise to power.  Afterwards, I had the students get into groups and we made our own revised Treaties of Versailles.  I had the students research some positive aspects of the treaty and some negative aspects of it.  From there, I had the students keep the positive aspects in their new treaty and rectify the negative aspects of the treaty.  The treaties turned out fantastic.  After an afternoon run and some supper, I got to do what every full-blooded American man wanted to do: watch the NCAA National Championship.  It was even in English.  It was nice to have that taste of home of watching sporting events that the rest of my fellow Americans have the ability to keep up with.