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The 2012 ~ 2013 School Year!
Welcome to Mr.
Wingren's Social Studies Classroom. Here you will find information for and
about my classes, as well as a way to contact me.
As the new school year begins, I look forward to getting to know all
of my students. I am confident we will create a healthy learning environment
for everyone and I know that we will all learn from one another.
For my students : You will find information about your class,
including dates for papers and projects and tests. You will find resources
to use for studying including a way to contact me. This website should be
your resource for any missed material. I will post notes and any handouts on
this site for you to print out so we will always be connected.
For Parents: This website was designed so my students can take their
social studies experience beyond the four walls of our classroom and move it
into their homes. This can be a great way for you to keep up with what is
going on in class and what assignments your child is working on. Also, I
hope this will provide a means for you to feel free to contact me and keep
an open dialogue.
MHS Teachers With Howard Zinn, During his Visit to the High School! (Left to Right: Mr. Manos, Ms. Stein, Dr. Zinn, Mr. Wingren)
With Method-Man in Denver
Quotes From Students - Submit your own for extra credit!
"You can't teach hustle" ~William S. Wingren (My Dad)
"You're not special" ~Mr. Manos (Thanks Volcy & Heather)
"The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers." -Brian Greene author of The Elegant Universe (Thanks Emily)
"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies" ~Groucho Marx (thanks sara)
"Be ashamed to die, unless you have won some victory for humanity" -Horace Mann.
"The fisherman know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason to remain ashore" -Vincent Van Gogh
"America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, human rights invented America" - Jimmy Carter.
"It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong" -Voltaire
"Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn" - Ben Franklin.
If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. -John F. Kennedy
"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding" - Albert Einstein
If you are walking down the right path, and you are willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress. -Barack Obama
"Most people see things the way they are and ask why, I see things that never were and ask why not" -RFK's Eulogy.
"Whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking, I consider chaos a gift" - Septima Poinsette Clark
"The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice" -Mark Twain
"I never wanted to Practice Safe History" -Howard Zinn
"We learn from history that we do not learn from history" -George Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel
"The history of the present King is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states" -Declaration of Independence (1776)
"Good Poets Borrow, Great Poets Steal" -T.S. Elliot
"Patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels" -Mark Twain
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones" -Albert Einstein
"War is a strange game. The only winning move is not to play"
"You've
got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was"
--Irish Proverb
"the tiniest acts of protest in which we engage may become the invisible roots of social change" -Howard Zinn
"Fellow
citizens, we cannot escape history"
-Abraham Lincoln
"Your
children are not safe, because we live in a country where we value
bombs and missiles more than we do textbooks and teachers" -Michael
Moore (9.24.02)
"Make visible what, without you, might perhaps have never been seen" -Robert Bresson
"Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action" -George Washington
"There is no such thing as inevitable war. If war must come, it will come from the failure of human wisdom" -Andrew Bonar Law
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" -Benjamin Franklin
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny" -Martin Luther King, Jr.
"You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it" -Malcolm X
Feel Free to Submit your Own!
