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Welcome to Mr. Arnold's Classes Online.

Teddy Roosevelt and John Muir in 1903

Littleton High School
56 King Street
Littleton, MA 01460

This site is intended to help students be successful in class, help parents find out what their child is learning, and also to provide a home for local history.

Homework assignments and quiz and/or test dates can be found on the Google calendar for your particular class. Under the Classes tab, you will find your class listed in the column on the left of the page.

The Many Gifts of History

(what have you given to history?)

  • History helps us understand people & societies.
  • Any time we try to know why something happened we have to look for factors that took shape earlier.
  • There are lessons to be learned from our past mistakes & successes.
  • Studying the stories of individuals and situations in the past allows a student of history to test his or her own moral sense, to hone it against some of the real complexities individuals have faced in difficult settings. People who have weathered adversity not just in some work of fiction, but in real, historical circumstances can provide inspiration.
  • Provides identity.
  • Essential for good citizenship.
  • One realizes that not all problems have solutions (or at least perfect solutions).
  • To question the stereotypes of others.

Source: Peter N. Stearns, American Historical Association.