Learning the history of voting can greatly help students realize how as American citizens we have an amazing right to vote that many had to fight for.

I have always been known for always praising students good work, but after reading the article "Five Reasons to Stop Saying Good Job" by Alfie Koln I realized that there could be some dangers of overly praising students. Koln explains that praising can create a dependency for praise and students with this dependency will grow up to need other peoples acceptance. Koln's theory reminds me of the of the the famous quote, "How would you live your life if no one was watching?"  I feel that educators need to make certain that there students are becoming dependent of the teachers decisions on what is good and bad. The students need figure this out on there own and do what is good with out the teachers constant praise, so when there is no one around watching the students they will still keep doing what is right.