Hamilton History Lesson

As much as I try to give myself at least a couple of weeks off before planning the next year’s curriculum, somehow I just can’t resist. Right now I’m all about my 8th grade history curriculum.

This year I’m even more motivated for a couple of reasons.

• I’m teaching modern American history during an election year.
• I may be able to incorporate the hit Broadway musical Hamilton into my curriculum!

I’m so excited to think about how engaged my students are going to be with the completely modern and current curriculum that they’ll be facing next year!

Towards that end, I’ve already started doing a little curriculum research.

Hamilton History Lesson

Hamilton: The Revolution by Lin-Manuel Miranda is at the very tippy-top of my summer reading list. I hit that Amazon One-Click button so fast it made my head spin!

Of course, I also had to get the Original Broadway Cast Recording of the musical (am I the last person on earth to purchase this album?)

The other book I’ll be reading this summer is I Am Malala. This will be one of our 8th grade class readers and I am actually going to see Malala speak in Seattle in July.

So many great books out there! And I can justify reading all of them as curriculum preparation!

What are you reading this summer? Let me know in the comments!