- Terry Jordan
- Orange High School
- 32000 Chagrin Blvd.
- Pepper Pike, Ohio 44124
- Phone: 831-8600 (Ext. 2419)
- Web Page URL: http://www.orange.k12.oh.us/teachers/ohs/TJordan/Pages/
- Email Address: tljordan@adelphia.net
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- Background:
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- I have been a teacher for
thirty-three years -- the last thirty at Orange High School in
Pepper Pike, Ohio. I have taught Advanced Placement United States
History for twenty years. In November of 1996 I began to explore
the idea of creating a Web page primarily for my A.P. United
States History classes. I felt it was very important to begin
the implemention of the resources on the Web into my course because
of the vast amount of information "out there". I did
not know ANYTHING about a Web Page and found Page Mill 3.0 to
be very "user friendly". The whole thing just kind
of "took off", and it has become an integral part of
how I teach the class. To have access to the various history
departments around the country has been an incredible addition
to my course of study in that I am able to see "online"
the requirements colleges have for the early level courses (assignments,
reading material, requirements, etc.). My students are required
to be on the Web to access reading assignments, information for
student presentations, writing assignments, etc. This entire
experience has reinforced the notion that "the more you
know, the more you don't know."
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- Here are just a few observations
about the Page:
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- The Opening Page
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- 1. This page shows
the pictures of ten presidents -- nine of whom I respect the
most (Richard Nixon is the exception). Access the page and "click"
the picture of Nixon to find out why. Nixon and Kennedy are in
juxtapostion because they evoke the greatest amount of personal
emotion (one good and one bad - just like the "yin-yang").
The other eight presidents shown are my favorite. If you "click"
on each picture, you will be taken to a separate page on that
particular president. I have included "links" on the
Web to find out more about the individual (the Handout will show
you some of the "links" for each of these presidents).
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- 2. The picture of the White
House will take you to the President's Page. I have links that
relate to general information, biographies, First Ladies, documents
and election results. I created a page that will take you to
the Presidential Libraries of Herbert Hoover through Bill Clinton
. Also, check out the link to "Presidential Portraits".
I have a lot of work to do on this one.
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- 3. The next area is the Main
Menu. It includes the following categories:
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- A.P. United States History:
This will take you
to the Orange course of study, a bibliography, the A.P. Syllabus
and a history of how my students have performed on the A.P. Examination.
The "Syllabus" is one that I enjoy working on very
much. "Click" on the Unit number and you will go to
the topics of discussion for that particular era in United States
history. I am working on a list of "links" for each
unit of study. Eventually, I am going to categorize them based
upon various subtopics within the unit.
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- The American Century:
I just created this
part of my overall page in July of 2001. It is just in the beginning
stages and there is much to be done.
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- United States History
"Links": I
have included a wealth of links on this page that should be able
to direct students or teachers to various areas of interest.
The areas included on this page thus far are links for Advanced
Placement, Topical History, College Links, General History, Document
Collections, Media Sources, and Teacher/School Home Pages.
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- Education Links: This page displays links to general
education topics of interest.
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- Lesson Plans: There are lesson plan links on this
page along with a couple of my own creation. I really want to
add more of mine when I get the time to properly format them
for the Page.
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- For What It's Worth: There may some things that are just
interesting and do not necessarily relate to United States History.
This is where those topics will be "deposited".
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- Historical Tidbits: The links here could be called "a
little bit of this and a little bit of that." The page includes
some museum links and miscellaneous historical items. I want
to do much more to make this "choice" appealing.
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- Graduation Speech: I just included this because I am
proud of the fact that the Orange Class of 1996 asked me to be
the Commencement speaker. Much of who I am is in the speech.
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- Projects (2002-2003):
One of the reasons
that I created this Web Page was to use it in conjunction with
my three Advanced Placement United States History classes. They
have to access my page to get the directions for the various
assignments listed in this category.
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- General History Links:
These "links"
are useful for general history education topics.
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- Weekly Reading Assignments: I make it a point to put the reading
assignments on this page the Thursday before the week of assignments.
This has proved helpful to those students who may be absent for
an extended period of time. I may even get to the point where
I put the reading assignments on for a two week time period.
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- Sample Unit Test Questions: This page is intended to give the
students a chance to work on practice tests before the examination
on that particular unit. Eventually, I plan to have a 25 question
objective test (with Key) and 15 sample essay questions per unit.
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- Home Page Background:
This is the page that
you are on right now. It is just an explanation of the various
parts of the page. The page was put on the internet in March
of 1997 -- a year later the page had 3400 "hits". The
counter showed 74, 329 "hits" at 7:30 A.M. on February
2, 2003.
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- You can get "tons"
of background textures and icons for your page by just searching
("surfing") the net. The animated "gifs"
are fun.
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