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Encounters and Exchanges in U.S. Encounters and Exchanges in U.S. HistoryHistory
A Teaching American History GrantA Teaching American History GrantProvided by the U.S. Department of EducationProvided by the U.S. Department of Education
Award #: U215X060073Award #: U215X060073
Kara Gleason
Project Director
September 2007
Grant Details
Three year grant from the U.S. Department of Education for $998,084
Intended audience: History teachers of grades 3 – 5 &
8 – 11 Four school districts:
– Danvers– Lowell– North Reading– Reading
All workshops are held in Reading unless otherwise noted
Yearly Theme
Year Two: U.S. Expansion and Connections to the World in Antebellum America,
1800 – 1861 To align with the MA Curriculum Frameworks
specific workshops for grades 3 & 5 focus on MA History and the Colonial & Revolutionary Eras
Year Two Offerings – School Day Workshops
Capturing History Two-day workshop, 11/1
& 12/14 Participants will create
photo books & an audio-visual slideshow
13 PDPs with completed work products
Year Two Offerings – School Day Workshops
Using WebQuests in the American History Classroom
Two-day workshop, 1/7/08 & 2/8/08 Training on how to design & create
WebQuests for use by students All WebQuests will be uploaded &
available for editing online 13 PDPs with completed WebQuest
Year Two Offerings – School Day Workshops
Historical Field Trips: Strategies & Standards
Two-day workshop, 3/10/08 & 5/1/08 Learn skills and strategies for conducting local
field trips Travel to the Orchard House & Sleepy Hollow
Cemetery in Concord, MA Travel to Salem Maritime National Historic Park 13 PDPs with lesson plan project
Year Two Offerings – School Day Workshops
Encounters & Exchanges in U.S. History Annual Conference
• Friday April 18, 2008
• Features:• A keynote address by a leading historian• Breakout workshops by “lead teachers,”
museum educators, and professors
History Book Discussion Study Groups
For Elementary Teachers Meet once a month from Nov. – May in either
Lowell or Reading, 3:45 p.m. – 5:45 p.m. Read & discuss 5 books. Related work product, including lesson plans
or reading guide, is required 1 Graduate Credit/PDPs
Elementary Group, Year Two Book Titles
Setting the World Ablaze:
Washington, Adams, Jefferson & the American
Revolution
by John Ferling
Elementary Group, Year Two Book Titles
Revolutionary Mothers: Women
in the Struggle for America’s Independence
by Carol Berkin
Elementary Group, Year Two Book Titles
Black Jacks: African American
Seamen in the Age of Sail
by W. Jeffrey Bolster
Elementary Group, Year Two Book Titles
March
by Geraldine Brooks
Elementary Group, Year Two Book Titles
Little Women [abridged]
By Louisa May Alcott
&
“Salem & the East Indies Trade: Seaport
on the World”
Cobblestone Magazine
History Book Discussion Study Groups
For Middle/High School Teachers Meet once a month from Nov. to May in
each district from 3:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Read and discuss 5 books Related work product including lesson
plans or in-depth book review is required 1 Graduate Credit/PDPs
Middle/High School Group, Year Two Book Titles
Fall River Outrage: Life, Murder, and Justice in Early Industrial New
England
by David Richard Kasserman
Middle/High School Group, Year Two Book Titles
Black Jacks: African American
Seamen in the Age of Sail
by W. Jeffrey Bolster
Middle/High School Group, Year Two Book Titles
Historians at Work: Does the Frontier Experience Make
America Exceptional?
Edited by Richard W. Etulain
Middle/High School Group, Year Two Book Titles
The Approaching Fury: Voices of the Storm, 1820-
1861
by Stephen B. Oates
Middle/High School Group, Year Two Book Titles
Mine Eyes Have Seen
by Ann Rinaldi
Primary Source Summer Institutes
For Elementary Teachers Massachusetts History, 1620 – 1846 for
Elementary Teachers July 14 – 16, 2008 Includes content, instructional strategies, and
field trip to the Boston Freedom Trail & African-American Heritage Trail
All participants are required to complete a lesson plan assignment
2 Graduate Credits/PDPs available
Primary Source Summer Institutes
For Middle/High School Teachers U.S. Expansion and Connections to the World in
Antebellum America July 28 – August 1, 2008 & Nov. TBA, 2008 Includes content, instructional strategies, and
field trip to the Peabody Essex Museum All participants are required to complete a lesson
plan assignment 3 Graduate Credits/PDPs available
Honorarium
Essentially a stipend– Full-time participants receive $750– Part-time participants receive $375
– Full-time = 3 workshops/institutes, 1 must be either the Book Discussion Group or Primary Source Summer Institute
– Part-time = 2 workshops/institutes, 1 must be either the Book Discussion Group or Primary Source Summer Institute
– Lowell teachers are paid according to contract.
To Sign Up
Complete the form on the last page of the Encounters & Exchanges in U.S. History booklet. Pass it in to your district liaison.
Email all information on the “Participant Registration” form to: [email protected]
For More Information
Encounters & Exchanges in U.S. History Website: http://gse.uml.edu/rtah
Contact Kara Gleason at [email protected] or at
(781) 670-2892 Review the Encounters & Exchanges in U.S.
History Year Two booklet
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