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2004
April
- April 28: Opening event, Gunston Hall
- Tour home
- View and discuss primary sources
- Ira Berlin speaks on slavery and emancipation
- Teachers receive books for summer workshop: The New American History, edited by Eric Foner, and Portraits of America, volumes 1 and 2, edited by Stephen Oates and Charles Errico, Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts, Sam Wineburg, as well as the books for the book groups
- Assignment: Read articles and primary documents on slavery & emanicipation prior to the workshop.
- April 30: Post reflections about the workshop on the online forum
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May
- Read A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812
- May 29: Post reflection (of 1 to 2 pages) on A Midwife's Tale on the forum
June
- June 2: Book discussion groups meet with NVCC Professor Charles Errico and Project Coordinator Linda Driscoll at the Burke Media Center (pizza and drinks provided)
- Teachers read essays from The New American History and Portraits of America in preperation for the summer institute
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July
- Summer Institute
will take place at NVCC
Alexandria campus from 9:00 am to 4:30 pm Monday-Friday (free parking
and lunch are provided)
- July 12:
- Linda Driscoll,
Project Coordinator, will introduce the requirements for receiving
three graduate credits from GMU, which includes writing a lesson
plan and a curriculum unit that will contain classroom materials,
teacher resources organized around a content theme, primary sources,
and engaging teacher strategies.
- “Production of Historical Knowledge,” with GMU Professor
T. Mills Kelly
- Production of Historical Knowledge Workshop Website
- “Constitution and Early Republic” with GMU Professor
Rosemarie Zagarri
- Readings:
- “Models of Wisdom in the Teaching of History,”
by Sam Wineburg with Suzanne M. Wilson. (This reading
is located in Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts,
Chapter 7.)
- “’Ourselves and Our Daughters Forever’:
Women and the Constitution, 1787-1876,” by Linda K. Kerber,
from One Woman, One Vote: Rediscovering the Women’s
Suffrage Movement, ed. Marjorie Spruill Wheeler.
- July 13:
- July 14:
- “Civil War and Reconstruction” with GMU Professor
Jane Censer
- Links Discussed in the Civil War Workshop
- “Interwar Years” with GMU Professor
Michael O'Malley
- Readings:
- “The Holy Cause of Liberty and Independence,” and “The Best
Government on God’s Footstool,” from What They Fought For:
1861-1865 by James McPherson.
- “Henry Ford: Symbol of an Age,” by Roderick Nash and “Flapper,
Freudians, and All That Jazz,” by Sara M. Evans. (These 2
readings are located in Portrait of America, Volume 2,
Chapters 14 and 15.)
- “America Since 1945,” by William H. Chafe. (This
reading is located in The New American History, Chapter
7.)
- July 15:
- “Civil Rights” with GMU Professor
Suzanne Smith
- “Cold War America” with NVCC Professor
Charles Errico
- Readings:
- “A Marble House Divided: The Lincoln Memorial, the Civil
Rights Movement, and the Politics of Memory, 1939-1963,”
by Scott A. Sandage, from The Journal of American History,
Vol. 80, No. 1(Jun., 1993), 135-137.
- “I Have Never Been a Quitter’: A Portrait of Richard
Nixon,” by Otto Friederich and “Harry Truman: ‘One
Tough Son-of-a-Bitch of a Man’”, by David McCullough.
(These 2 readings are located in Portrait of America,
Volume 2, Chapters 27 and 22.)
- July 16:
- National Archives Site Visit (bus from NVCC)
- Readings: There are no readings assigned for this
day.
- During and after Summer Institute teachers will:
- Write response paper to workshops, post on website, and respond
to other postings
- Begin to conduct primary research, communicate with scholars,
and write lesson plans based on Summer Institute content
- Participate in online discussions with cohort teachers, master
teachers, and project director
- July 21: Post
reflections on the seminar on online forum
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September
- September: Read April 1865: the Month that Saved America
- September 24: Post reflections on April 1685 on online forum
- September 29: 4:15pm-6pm, book discussion groups meet at Burke Media Center with NVCC Professor Charles Errico and Project Coordinator Linda Driscoll (sandwiches and drinks provided)
- September: Read Stories of Scottsboro and readings assigned for the October workshop
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October
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November
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2005
January
- January 12: Workshop at the Black History Resource
Center (all day)
- January 14: Post reflections on the January workshop on the online forum
- January: Read an American Requium
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February
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March
- March 11: Draft of Curriculum Unit due
- March 16: (all day) Smithsonian NMAH Site Visit (Metro)
- March 18: Post reflections on wokshop on the online forum and receive reading assingees for Lyceum workshop
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April
- April 6: Lyceum workshop
- April 8: Post reflections on the workshop on the online forum
- April 12: Final draft of curriculum unit due
- April 27: Gadsby's Tavern
(all day event)
- Closing reception for the first year cohort
- Present extended curriculum unit
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