Updates:
Monday,
September 4th, 2006 - Mr. Borneman
Although I will no longer be teaching the World Civ. Honors
course, since the Oxnard Union High School District has seen
fit to refuse to allow use of advanced texts for Honors
courses (thank you, Judy Warner), I will continue to
maintain this portion of the site for general reference for
other teachers to use. While I am at it, allow me to
share a quote which expresses my own, personal educational
philosophy. (Background note: this quote was brought
to my attention by one of my outstanding students - thank
you, Aminah!)
" Instruction in world
history in the so-called high schools is even today in a
very sorry condition. Few teachers understand that the aim
of studying history can never be to learn historical dates
and events by heart and recite them by rote; that what
matters is not whether the child knows exactly when this or
that battle was fought, when a general was born, or even
when a monarch (usually a very insignificant one) came into
the crown of his forefathers. No, by the living God, this
is very unimportant.
To 'learn' history means to seek and find the forces
which are the causes leading to those effects which we
subsequently perceive as historical events.
The art of reading as of learning is this: to retain
the essential , to forget the non-essential."
I hope those of you with a
passion for history share such sentiments. At least,
if you do share such views, you can take comfort in knowing
that such sentiments have been shared by one of the great
figures of the 20th century in his auto-biographical work
"My Struggle". I cannot vouch that I share ANY other
sentiments of that monster, but as far as social science
educational philosophy goes, at least as portrayed in this
quote, we are in solidarity.
Thursday, December 22nd, 2005 - Mr. Borneman
Thanks to the incredible dedication and hard work of Andrew
Carrillo, tons more slides have been scanned and today I
added them in. Images and art pages for Units I - IV
are virtually completed from the side collection.
Cheers to Andrew (and to myself) for making these pages come
active with the thumbnails!
Wednesday,
November 16th, 2005 - Mr. Borneman
Further work has been completed on the Chinese art and
architecture section. It is virtually complete, though
there are some small minor additions which will be made next
year.
Sunday,
November 13th, 2005 - Mr. Borneman
Just restored the clickable images for the Egyptian Old
Kingdom, thanks to Andrew Carrillo's scanning work.
Also added Stonehenge and Hammurabi's stele (Amorite
Babylonia), both completely new pages. Images for more
Asian art are incoming.
Wednesday,
August 31, 2005 - Mr. Borneman
Syllabi for the first semester are up. The Paper Chain
Game is up. Revised class rules are up. There
are still a few more smaller touches that need to be
finished. By next time I hope to have a full list of
music used in the course up. And I hope to add
Decathlon to the menubar.
Thursday,
December 30, 2004 - Mr. Borneman
Several more additional images put in to supplement the
Chinese Art portion of the page. Re-arrangement of the
menubar items will come eventually.
Saturday, June 19th, 2004 - Mr. Borneman
It's official: World Civ. 2H and English 2H
will no longer be linked. Consequently, the summer
readings requirement has been dropped. Likewise, I
have attempted to remove most of the links on the site to
English 2H things, but if there are any remaining, let me
know and I'll try to nab 'em! Small modifications
going in this week, such as putting in links to the State
Standards on the menubar.
Friday,
May 7, 2004 - Mr. Borneman
Text for
art up
through WWI
from Gardiner's is complete. Again, as
mentioned before, scanning of larger images (other than the
thumbnails) is not complete and will be some time in coming.
High Tea pictures
are in as well.
Sunday,
February 22, 2004 - Mr. Borneman
Syllabi for Units V and VI are up.
Instructions for the Victorian High Tea are up. Text
for artists up through the Baroque and Age of the
Enlightenment is complete. Many more images remain to
be scanned in and added however.
Tuesday, December 9, 2003 - Mr. Borneman
Syllabus is updated for
unit IV. Art by Period has been updated for China
(prior to 1644), The Americas (not including the Incas),
Islamic, Byzantine, Romanesque, and Gothic Architecture.
Individual artists have NOT been updated. Journey
to the West Readings are now up. Some Unit VI
images of the Victorian High Tea are up.
Friday,
October 17, 2003 - Mr. Borneman
Syllabi are updated for Units I
- III. Projects have been updated as well. Text
for images has been placed for most of units I - III.
Friday,
August 15, 2003 -
Mr. Borneman
Have added class rules to the site.
These will have to be downloaded by students and signed.
Right now they are in MicrosoftWord but can be copied and
pasted on Notepad or any other format and will be accepted.
Will be revising syllabi soon.
Sunday,
August 3, 2003 - Mr. Borneman
Stumbling my way through Front Page - but have been making
small but steady changes, thanks to Clay's tutelage.
Stay tuned. Currently working on fixing spelling
glitches and adding a few photos to the already
existing pages. Also adding some explanatory
text to some of the slides.
Sunday, March 24, 2002 - Erik
Long time, no update. Brand new message board
(which is now the old back-up board as of 8/03) is up so its
working now, however all your old messages aren't there anymore. Also, there is no panic
chat for the time being, but I'll get to work on that too.
Saturday, November 3, 2001 - Erik
Hows everyone doing? Hope everything went well with the Greek plays and the test.
Anyways, the first week of the next unit readings are up and running. O - go see Monsters Inc, I can't stress
this enough. Don't do your World Civ reading this weekend and go see it. If Mr. Borneman
asks why you didn't do your World Civ reading, you just tell him it was cause you were
having to much fun watching Monsters Inc. Go see it...now!
Sunday, October 8, 2001 - Erik
See everyone - tada! Told you I was going to redesign the site. Some things still aren't
operational, like the Music and Timeline - but all these
things will come in due time. The Class section is also up and
will soon have a lot of cool stuff on it. For now though, get back to studying. Peace.
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