Three Compliments

Today my students complemented me in three different ways. We have not met for a couple of weeks because of the Veterans' Day holiday, and one of them said she felt like it had been a long time since we last met. A second expressed surprise that we were so close to the end of the semester (one more meeting after today). The third said he was worried about taking a three-hour class but that each day he felt like it flies by.

Wikipedia and History

Ask students to research how current events affect Wikipedia's coverage of historical events compared to how those events are covered in a text as well as primary sources from the time.