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Welcome to World History with Mr. Goldberg.

The word "history" is Greek and one translation of the word into English is "to learn by inquiry."

This means that history is not a noun -- a set of dates and facts that you memorize (though it is helpful to know what you are talking about) -- but rather a VERB. It is active. It's something you do. You ask questions.

As an early assignment, I would like each of you to ask some questions.

I'll be keeping a blog that records what I've learned each day, called (creatively enough) What I Learned Today and I encourage you to do the same. Well, you don't have to blog if you don't want to, but at least think about something cool you learned every day. The world is an amazing place to learn about.