TE 818 Introduction
My name is Shanna Robinson and I am a fortyish year old Social Studies educator born and raised in Lansing, Michigan. I am a proud product of the Lansing School District and my mother has been a history teacher for over forty years. In my family, we have an adage, “History is in our nature,” so much so, that my nieces and nephews, while not my mother’s biological relatives, even say so. For me, however, History IS in my nature; learned through osmosis in the womb and ingrained in my DNA. Social studies, history is just so natural to me that I remember not even studying and just knowing the answers. Concurrently, I have never wanted to be anything except an educator. Again, this is thanks to my mother and the days before digital or electronic grading. When I learned my alphabet and could distinguish the letters from one another, my mother would have me grade papers (maybe that’s why I hate it now!) I was a frequent visitor at Everett High Sc...