Nathan Tidridge

Nathan Tidridge has been teaching Canadian history and government at Waterdown District High School in Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board since 2005. He has taught the Ontario Facing History Elective course, Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity twice, and is excited to continue his participation in the Facing History community.

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Journaling in a Facing History Classroom: Finding Wisdom in Student Voices

Posted by Nathan Tidridge on March 18, 2014

I started journaling when I was a boy canoeing the waters surrounding my family cottage in Muskoka. My journals were filled with maps of all the places I “discov
ered” during my summers up north. As the years went by and I entered high school, the journal’s pages of maps became dotted with anecdotes from my life beyond that lake. It was around this time that I found a copy of The Journey is the Destination: The Journals of Dan Eldon at a local bookstore.

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Topics: Identity, History, Memorial, We and They, Strategies, Genocide and Crimes Against Humanities Course, Lesson Ideas, English Classroom, CHG, Personal history, reflection

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