NAME:
Mr. Bair
SCHOOL:
Bosque School
CLASS:
9th Grade Ancient World History and Student Government
SCHOOL PHONE:
898-6388 #120
David Bair teaches ninth grade Ancient World History and the Student
Government class. He has taught United States and World History as well as
Advanced Placement World History for the past 15 years. He has also taught
Fine and Advertising Arts as well as a Humanities block. David is a National
Board Certified teacher and holds a bachelor’s degree in Secondary Social
Studies and Fine Arts. In the past nine years he has traveled with his
students throughout Europe as a historical guide and mentor. He helps
facilitate the student leadership program for Operation Smile, which is an
international organization that benefits medical treatment of children and
adults with facial deformities. Recently, David had an opportunity to travel
with a Bosque student to Kolkotta, India, on an Operation Smile Medical
Mission. This fall he will be working with the international program in Ho Chi
Minh City, Vietnam. He enjoys playing guitar, hiking, backpacking,
fly-fishing, and spending time with his wife and two children.
Why do we study history? This question sits at the foundation of this course.
“History opens… the immense range of approaches people have taken to
political, economic, and social life, to personal integrity and salvation, to
cultural creativity,” and it is the viewpoint that it is important “to know
how people lived and what they thought at least as much as what they did” that
drives this course. In 9th grade, we study early human development and the
ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, Rome, India, and China.
