My favorite assignment in the 2022-2023 school year was the Persian recipe. This assignment was in history as a learning check for the Persia unit. I liked this learning check as it helped me use my knowledge in a way that was creative and fun.
The assignment was simple. You write a ‘recipe’ where the ingredients are things that made the Persian Empire successful. I think it wasn’t only fun, but gave me a good challenge in exercising multiple parts of historic thinking. The recipe I used was invented by me. It is titled “Persia Glop”and includes many delicious ingredients. Such as holy relic M&Ms, liberation salt, and hierarchy candy corn. We are yet to do the final part, in this part we make an elevator pitch to the class, so we can present our recipe in a concise way. This was my favorite assignment only by a bit, slightly beating the electric house assignment from science. In conclusion, this was a fun activity that I enjoyed greatly.
Cyrus,
I love that you embraced the Empire Recipe! Your recognition that this learning experience was an opportunity for creativity as well as historical thinking is absolutely accurate. Your elevator pitch turned out well too!
It is also important to note that we did not necessarily have a “Persia unit”, but instead just used what the Persians did to look at the influence and impact that people in power can have, as well as how, what historians have called “empires”, come to be. You were positively engaged in thinking about all of this, Cyrus!
Thank you for reflecting on social studies,
~Mr. Harris