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| Mr. G. Jacobs |
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 ``To live without knowledge of what happenned before you were born is to live as a child.''
- Cicero -
Cicero's famed quotation is a pretty good summation for why I have chosen to teach young people about the past. Unless we know how we are linked with our past - whether as American citizens or as humans who share the planet with 6 billion other people - we are going to have a lot of difficulty understanding what is happenning today. The world we inhabit is highly complicated, and history offers a window into seeing how it has been created. The past also offers us lessons that can help us decide the many choices we face today, whether it involves choosing our leaders, engaging in foreign conflicts or determining what laws we want to live under. It's my belief - frankly borrowed from the ancient Greek philosopher Plato - that we must be active and involved citizens who must serve the interests of our republic. Hopefully the study of history can help us see that we can make our own future, if we choose to.
But enough pontificating. If you are one of my students, this site will link you to a variety of sites that will help you in your study of history and in your preparation for tests and quizzes. The links to regentsprep.org and historyteacher.net will be particularly useful to students in my junior U.S. History class and in my senior Advanced Placement U.S. History class. Links that will be used in my freshmen U.S. History class will be added over time, or announced in class. In addition, I plan on changing my photograph so that I do not look like I just woke up. That does not mean, however, that I will be using any image of myself dressed as Ozzy Osbourne instead.
Another reminder: students in my freshmen and junior U.S. History classes can e-mail me at spocaj@aol.com.
Overall, my site is somewhat spartan right not, but I plan on expanding it slowly over the rest of the 2003-2004 school year.
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