Today’s post is a pure brag about my teen students. I gave them the following assignment, which they had a week to complete:

Read the linked History.com article, Six Reasons Why the Ottoman Empire Fell. Choose one of the topics and:

• Research and prepare a presentation of your learning for class. Open choice of format: Google slides, Flipgrid, poem, puppet show, collage, the sky’s the limit!
• Find at least three additional sources, cite and annotate them and submit them in Classroom as a separate document.

Here are samples of the work they created:

Military Aspects (bibliography)

Rivalry with Russia (bibliography)

Lack of Advancement (bibliography)

When I am ready to tear my hair out with frustration about their adolescent behavior, I will return to this snapshot of their excellence, not only academically but as spectacular human beings.