History Connected

Year One Offerings

School Day Seminars

Natural Rights and Constitutions
With Alan Rogers, Boston College, Roger Desrosiers, Boston University School of Education, and Patricia Fontaine, University of Massachusetts Lowell
NOVEMBER 16, 2009 – READING MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL DISTANCE LEARNING LAB

This seminar will focus on the United States Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the Massachusetts Constitution. Case studies of court cases, both current and historic will highlight the continuing significance of these founding documents. Key topics to be addressed include: the foundations of the Constitution, slavery and the Constitution, citizenship, and the first amendment. Classroom connections and teaching ideas will incorporate the “We the People” curriculum, the award-winning Africans in America and Slavery and the Making of America documentaries, and the Primary Source Making Freedom series.

The Right to Vote: Examining Political Participation and Voting Rights in America
With Alex Keyssar, Harvard University and Sheila Kirschbaum, Tsongas Industrial History Center
DECEMBER 15, 2009 - READING MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL DISTANCE LEARNING LAB

Alex Keyssar, professor of history and social policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government will base this interactive lecture on his book, The Right to Vote: the Contested History of Democracy in the United States, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Topics in this study of suffrage will include: the expansion and contraction of the vote in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, connections between enfranchisement and financial status, the women’s suffrage movement, immigrants, class, and voting rights, and African Americans and the right to vote. Classroom connections will examine political participation of those not eligible for the vote as educational specialists from the Tsongas Industrial History Center discuss the nineteenth century movement for a ten-hour day.

Presenting History: Technological Applications for Student Presentations
Presented by John Wren, University of Massachusetts Lowell
January 11 or 12, 2010 - READING MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL LIBRARY MEDIA CENTER COMPUTER LAB

Microsoft Photostory provides a free and easy way to incorporate technology into classroom projects and presentations. Using photographs, audio, and music teachers will begin to create their own movie for use in the classroom. Photostory can be used to create digital stories and documentaries, music videos, visual book reviews, and historical narratives, providing students with skills in technology, presentations, visual literacy, and historical writing, key elements of the Framework of 21st Century Learning.

The Growth of Slavery in the 19th Century and the Local Response
With Cynthia Lynn Lyerly, Boston College, Marcia Estabrook, Young Audiences of Massachusetts, and Sheila Kirschbaum, Tsongas Industrial History Center
FEBRUARY 2, 2010 - READING MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL DISTANCE LEARNING LAB

This seminar will examine the growth and institutionalization of chattel slavery in the American South. In an interactive lecture, Dr. Cynthia Lynn Lyerly will discuss the impact of the cotton gin, the growth of the cotton belt, and the legal and cultural codes that were associated with southern slavery. A performance by Marcia Estabrook will provide a
local perspective, as she tells the story of William and Ellen Craft, who escaped from slavery in Georgia and provided anti-slavery lectures in Boston prior to moving to England to avoid the Fugitive Slave Law. Educational specialists from the Tsongas Industrial History Center will use primary sources and classroom teaching ideas to study the local abolitionist movement and the ways that Massachusetts textile industries benefited from the institution of southern slavery.

Topics in Modern Immigration and Labor: Comparing Old and New
With Marilynn Johnson, Boston College and Museum Educators from the Tsongas Industrial History Center
MARCH 18, 2010 - TSONGAS INDUSTRIAL HISTORY CENTER, LOWELL

A comparative perspective on immigration can provide important understandings and insights into the new wave of immigration into the United States. In looking at different time periods in the history of American immigration and migration, Dr. Marilynn Johnson will lead a thoughtful discussion utilizing contemporary research about the immigrants of today along-side historical research about immigration to America in past eras. The factory rooms, oral histories, primary sources, and artifacts at the Tsongas Industrial History Center will make our study come alive as we tour museum exhibits and take part in the interdisciplinary “Yankees and Immigrants” program.

The Progressive Era: Reforms and Results
With Ed O’Donnell, College of the Holy Cross and Museum Educators from Lawrence Heritage State Park
APRIL 13, 2010 - LAWRENCE HERITAGE STATE PARK

The period 1900-1920 was marked by a wide-ranging effort by many Americans to rein in the excesses and abuses that accompanied the industrial boom of the Gilded Age. This spirit of reform (Progressivism) brought about significant changes in politics, business regulation, labor law, women’s rights, and social welfare policies. Yet there were limits to this reform, most notably in the area of race relations. Through a multimedia presentation, including over fifty unique visuals, Professor O’Donnell will examine the ideas and motivations of these reform movements and assesses their success and enduring legacies. A museum and walking tour at Lawrence Heritage State park will provide connections between elements of progressivism and the 1912 Bread and Roses strike.

Examining the New Deal
With Patrick Maney, Boston College and Patricia Fontaine, University of Massachusetts Lowell
MAY 6, 2010 - READING MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL DISTANCE LEARNING LAB

What groups were included in and excluded from New Deal programs? How did the Depression and the New Deal change the relationship between the American people and the federal government? Was the New Deal an effective response to the Depression? Professor Patrick Maney will answer these questions and more in an interactive lecture that keeps Franklin D. Roosevelt’s presence at the forefront. Classroom and interdisciplinary connections will be made through an examination of photographs, documents, film, radio, art, and literature related to 1930s America.

History Book Discussion Study Groups

Led by Professor Robert Forrant, University of Massachusetts Lowell
LOWELL HIGH SCHOOL SESSIONS: DECEMBER 2, 2009, JANUARY 6, FEBRUARY 3, MARCH 3, APRIL 7, 2010, 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
READING MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL SESSIONS: DECEMBER 16, 2009, JANUARY 27, FEBRUARY 24, MARCH 24, APRIL 28, 2010, 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Participating teachers will meet for five two-hour history book discussion study groups to deepen their content knowledge of the designated historical periods and theme studied that year. The study groups will provide an opportunity to read and discuss five historical works related to the program year’s theme. Instructional strategies to incorporate the content into the classroom will be provided and discussed.

Book Titles
A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution by Carol Berkin
(Supplemented with articles by Alfred F. Young and Woody Holton)

Sarah's Long Walk: The Free Blacks of Boston and How Their Struggle for Equality Changed America by Paul Kendrick and Stephen Kendrick

Bread and Roses: Mills, Migrants, and the Struggle for the American Dream by Bruce Watson

On the Laps of Gods: The Red Summer of 1919 and the Struggle for Justice That Remade a Nation by Robert Whitaker

Boston Against Busing: Race, Class, and Ethnicity in the 1960s and 1970s by Ronald F. Formisano
Books are provided for all participants.

As a result of participation in the school-day seminars and the History Book Discussion Study Group, teachers are required to develop a work product such as a 3 – 5 day lesson plan or a multi-media project. Graduate credit and/or PDPs will be provided. A sharing conference in fall 2010 will provide the opportunity for teachers to share their newly created lessons and curriculum projects.

Primary Source Summer Institute

Making Equality: Individuals, Social Movements and the Law
With presentations by leading academic historians, independent scholars and “lead teachers”
JULY 12 - 16, 2010 AT READING MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL, ORIENTATION & FOLLOW UP DAY TBA

Primary Source summer institutes provide a rich introduction to a course topic. During a summer institute participants interact with an array of scholars from the area's top colleges and universities, and seasoned teachers with expertise and teaching experience on the institute's subject. Readings assigned prior to the institute elevate participants' capacity to engage vigorously with content and provide shared background knowledge among students.
The Making Equality: Individuals, Social Movements and the Law
Summer Institute will include topics such as:

Equality, The Constitution, and the Courts
Teaching the 14th Amendment
Leadership and Participation in the Black Civil Rights Movement
Native Americans, Tribal Law and the Federal Government
Cesar Chavez, Immigrant Identity and the Farmworkers' Campaign for Equality

Site visit possibilities include the Boston Women's Heritage Trail and the Schlesinger Library

As a result of participation in the Primary Source Summer Institute, teachers are required to develop a work product such as a 3 – 5 day lesson plan, an in-depth book review, or a film guide. Graduate credit and/or PDPs will be provided. A sharing conference in fall 2010 will provide the opportunity for teachers to share their newly created lessons and curriculum projects.


	History Connected Wiki			Year One Offerings History Connected Year One brochure School Day Seminars Natural Rights and Constitutions With Alan Rogers, Boston College, Roger Desrosiers, Boston University School of Education, and Patricia Fontaine, University of Massachusetts Lowell NOVEMBER 16, 2009 – READING MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL DISTANCE LEARNING LAB This seminar will focus on the United States Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the Massachusetts Constitution. Case studies of court cases, both current and historic will highlight the continuing significance of these founding documents. Key topics to be addressed include: the foundations of the Constitution, slavery and the Constitution, citizenship, and the first amendment. Classroom connections and teaching ideas will incorporate the “We the People” curriculum, the award-winning Africans in America and Slavery and the Making of America documentaries, and the Primary Source Making Freedom series. The Right to Vote: Examining Political Participation and Voting Rights in America With Alex Keyssar, Harvard University and Sheila Kirschbaum, Tsongas Industrial History Center DECEMBER 15, 2009 - READING MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL DISTANCE LEARNING LAB Alex Keyssar, professor of history and social policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government will base this interactive lecture on his book, The Right to Vote: the Contested History of Democracy in the United States, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Topics in this study of suffrage will include: the expansion and contraction of the vote in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, connections between enfranchisement and financial status, the women’s suffrage movement, immigrants, class, and voting rights, and African Americans and the right to vote. Classroom connections will examine political participation of those not eligible for the vote as educational specialists from the Tsongas Industrial History Center discuss the nineteenth century movement for a ten-hour day. Presenting History: Technological Applications for Student Presentations Presented by John Wren, University of Massachusetts Lowell January 11 or 12, 2010 - READING MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL LIBRARY MEDIA CENTER COMPUTER LAB Microsoft Photostory provides a free and easy way to incorporate technology into classroom projects and presentations. Using photographs, audio, and music teachers will begin to create their own movie for use in the classroom. Photostory can be used to create digital stories and documentaries, music videos, visual book reviews, and historical narratives, providing students with skills in technology, presentations, visual literacy, and historical writing, key elements of the Framework of 21st Century Learning. The Growth of Slavery in the 19th Century and the Local Response With Cynthia Lynn Lyerly, Boston College, Marcia Estabrook, Young Audiences of Massachusetts, and Sheila Kirschbaum, Tsongas Industrial History Center FEBRUARY 2, 2010 - READING MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL DISTANCE LEARNING LAB This seminar will examine the growth and institutionalization of chattel slavery in the American South. In an interactive lecture, Dr. Cynthia Lynn Lyerly will discuss the impact of the cotton gin, the growth of the cotton belt, and the legal and cultural codes that were associated with southern slavery. A performance by Marcia Estabrook will provide a local perspective, as she tells the story of William and Ellen Craft, who escaped from slavery in Georgia and provided anti-slavery lectures in Boston prior to moving to England to avoid the Fugitive Slave Law. Educational specialists from the Tsongas Industrial History Center will use primary sources and classroom teaching ideas to study the local abolitionist movement and the ways that Massachusetts textile industries benefited from the institution of southern slavery. Topics in Modern Immigration and Labor: Comparing Old and New With Marilynn Johnson, Boston College and Museum Educators from the Tsongas Industrial History Center MARCH 18, 2010 - TSONGAS INDUSTRIAL HISTORY CENTER, LOWELL A comparative perspective on immigration can provide important understandings and insights into the new wave of immigration into the United States. In looking at different time periods in the history of American immigration and migration, Dr. Marilynn Johnson will lead a thoughtful discussion utilizing contemporary research about the immigrants of today along-side historical research about immigration to America in past eras. The factory rooms, oral histories, primary sources, and artifacts at the Tsongas Industrial History Center will make our study come alive as we tour museum exhibits and take part in the interdisciplinary “Yankees and Immigrants” program. The Progressive Era: Reforms and Results With Ed O’Donnell, College of the Holy Cross and Museum Educators from Lawrence Heritage State Park APRIL 13, 2010 - LAWRENCE HERITAGE STATE PARK The period 1900-1920 was marked by a wide-ranging effort by many Americans to rein in the excesses and abuses that accompanied the industrial boom of the Gilded Age. This spirit of reform (Progressivism) brought about significant changes in politics, business regulation, labor law, women’s rights, and social welfare policies. Yet there were limits to this reform, most notably in the area of race relations. Through a multimedia presentation, including over fifty unique visuals, Professor O’Donnell will examine the ideas and motivations of these reform movements and assesses their success and enduring legacies. A museum and walking tour at Lawrence Heritage State park will provide connections between elements of progressivism and the 1912 Bread and Roses strike. Examining the New Deal With Patrick Maney, Boston College and Patricia Fontaine, University of Massachusetts Lowell MAY 6, 2010 - READING MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL DISTANCE LEARNING LAB What groups were included in and excluded from New Deal programs? How did the Depression and the New Deal change the relationship between the American people and the federal government? Was the New Deal an effective response to the Depression? Professor Patrick Maney will answer these questions and more in an interactive lecture that keeps Franklin D. Roosevelt’s presence at the forefront. Classroom and interdisciplinary connections will be made through an examination of photographs, documents, film, radio, art, and literature related to 1930s America. History Book Discussion Study Groups Led by Professor Robert Forrant, University of Massachusetts Lowell LOWELL HIGH SCHOOL SESSIONS: DECEMBER 2, 2009, JANUARY 6, FEBRUARY 3, MARCH 3, APRIL 7, 2010, 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM READING MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL SESSIONS: DECEMBER 16, 2009, JANUARY 27, FEBRUARY 24, MARCH 24, APRIL 28, 2010, 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM Participating teachers will meet for five two-hour history book discussion study groups to deepen their content knowledge of the designated historical periods and theme studied that year. The study groups will provide an opportunity to read and discuss five historical works related to the program year’s theme. Instructional strategies to incorporate the content into the classroom will be provided and discussed. Book Titles A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution by Carol Berkin (Supplemented with articles by Alfred F. Young and Woody Holton) Sarah's Long Walk: The Free Blacks of Boston and How Their Struggle for Equality Changed America by Paul Kendrick and Stephen Kendrick Bread and Roses: Mills, Migrants, and the Struggle for the American Dream by Bruce Watson On the Laps of Gods: The Red Summer of 1919 and the Struggle for Justice That Remade a Nation by Robert Whitaker Boston Against Busing: Race, Class, and Ethnicity in the 1960s and 1970s by Ronald F. Formisano Books are provided for all participants. As a result of participation in the school-day seminars and the History Book Discussion Study Group, teachers are required to develop a work product such as a 3 – 5 day lesson plan or a multi-media project. Graduate credit and/or PDPs will be provided. A sharing conference in fall 2010 will provide the opportunity for teachers to share their newly created lessons and curriculum projects. Primary Source Summer Institute Making Equality: Individuals, Social Movements and the Law With presentations by leading academic historians, independent scholars and “lead teachers” JULY 12 - 16, 2010 AT READING MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL, ORIENTATION & FOLLOW UP DAY TBA Primary Source summer institutes provide a rich introduction to a course topic. During a summer institute participants interact with an array of scholars from the area's top colleges and universities, and seasoned teachers with expertise and teaching experience on the institute's subject. Readings assigned prior to the institute elevate participants' capacity to engage vigorously with content and provide shared background knowledge among students. The Making Equality: Individuals, Social Movements and the Law Summer Institute will include topics such as: Equality, The Constitution, and the Courts Teaching the 14th Amendment Leadership and Participation in the Black Civil Rights Movement Native Americans, Tribal Law and the Federal Government Cesar Chavez, Immigrant Identity and the Farmworkers' Campaign for Equality Site visit possibilities include the Boston Women's Heritage Trail and the Schlesinger Library As a result of participation in the Primary Source Summer Institute, teachers are required to develop a work product such as a 3 – 5 day lesson plan, an in-depth book review, or a film guide. Graduate credit and/or PDPs will be provided. A sharing conference in fall 2010 will provide the opportunity for teachers to share their newly created lessons and curriculum projects.