Encounters and Exchanges in U.S. History A Teaching American History Grant Provided by the U.S. Department of Education Award #: U215X 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, 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. all information on the “Participant Registration” form to:

For More Information Encounters & Exchanges in U.S. History Website: Contact Kara Gleason at or at (781) Review the Encounters & Exchanges in U.S. History Year Two booklet

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