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 August - September 2008

Grant Details Three year grant from the U.S. Department of Education for $998,084. Intended audience: History teachers of grades 3 – 11. Four school districts: Danvers, Lowell, North Reading, Reading Goals: Improve teachers’ content knowledge in U.S. history. Develop accessible U.S. history curricula for students.

Yearly Theme Year Three: Immigration, Migration, and Race Relations in U.S. History (17 th – 21 st Centuries)

Year Three Offerings – School Day Workshops Capturing History: Podcasting and Wikis Two-day workshop, 10/21/08 & 12/16/08. Participants will create their own podcast and wikispace. Classroom applications will be introduced and discussed. Participants receive digital voice recorder and professional wikispace account. 13 PDPs, Suitable for Grades 3 – 11.

Year Three Offerings – School Day Workshops Writing for History for Elementary Teachers Two-day workshop, 11/25/08 & 1/6/09. Historian’s interactive lecture will guide the pedagogical aspects. Practical tools and strategies to link writing and history. 13 PDPs, Suitable for Grades 3 – 5 (Open to all).

Year Three Offerings – School Day Workshops Using Document Based Questions in the U.S. History Classroom Two-day workshop, 2/3/09 & 5/5/09. Learn skills and strategies to plan and implement DBQs in the U.S. history classroom. Participants will receive the DBQ Project U.S. History Teacher’s Resource Binder. 13 PDPs, Suitable for Grades 6 – 11 (open to all).

Year Three Offerings – School Day Workshops The Cold War Period: The U.S. on the World Stage, Primary Source Seminar Three-day workshop, 11/17/08, 12/5/08, 1/13/09. How did the Cold War cast its shadow around the world and what impact did it have on the lives of average Americans? Explore some of the lesser-known global dimensions of the clash of the superpowers. 27 PDPs/1 Graduate Credit, Suitable for Grades 6 – 11.

Year Three Offerings – School Day Workshops Encounters & Exchanges in U.S. History Annual Conference Friday April 17, 2009 Features: A keynote address by a leading historian. Breakout workshops by “lead teachers,” museum educators, and professors. Suitable for Grades 3 – 11.

History Book Discussion Study Groups For Elementary Teachers Meet once a month from Jan. – 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, Suitable for Grades 3 – 5.

History Book Discussion Study Groups For Middle/High School Teachers Meet once a month from Jan. to May in either Danvers, Lowell, or Reading from 3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Read and discuss 5 books. Related work product including lesson plans or in-depth book review is required. 1 Graduate Credit/PDPs, Suitable for Grades 6 – 11.

Primary Source Film Discussion Series Through a Different Lens: Immigration and Migration in U.S. History Film Series Four afternoon seminar, 9/25, 10/16, 11/6, 12/11. Prince Among Slaves (2008) The Long Walk: Tears of the Navajo (2007) Sacco and Vanzetti (2007) Made in L.A. (2008) Participants will receive a copy of each of the films. 10 PDPs available, Suitable for Grades 3 – 11.

Primary Source Summer Institute Immigration, Migration, and Race Relations July 13 – 17, 2009 (tentative) at Coolidge Middle School, Reading, Orientation and Follow-Up Day TBA. Topics Include: Themes in four centuries of U.S. immigration history. Immigration, citizenship and the politics of race in the 19 th century. Immigration, emigration and American identity in the 19 th and 20 th centuries. U.S. immigration since American race relations on the world stage. All participants are required to complete a lesson plan assignment. 3 Graduate Credits/PDPs available, Suitable for Grades 3 – 11.

Honorarium Full-time participants receive $1,000. Part-time participants receive $550. 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. Additional stipend of $250 for the Film Discussion Series. Additional stipend of $300 for attending both Book Discussion Group and Primary Source Summer Institute. **Lowell teachers are paid according to contract.

To Sign Up all information on the “Participant Registration” form to: Pass the form in to your District Liaison or send it through interoffice mail to Kara Gleason, RMHS (if in Reading).

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 Three booklet.

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Elementary Group, Year Three Book Titles Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War by Nathaniel Philbrick

Elementary Group, Year Three Book Titles Friends of Liberty: A Tale of Three Patriots, Two Revolutions, and the Betrayal that Divided a Nation: Thomas Jefferson, Thaddeus Kosciuszko, and Agrippa Hull by Gary B. Nash & Graham Russell Gao Hodges

Elementary Group, Year Three Book Titles Sarah’s Long Walk: The Free Blacks of Boston and How Their Struggle for Equality Changed America by Stephen Kendrick & Paul Kendrick

Elementary Group, Year Three Book Titles Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie: The Oregon Trail Diary of Hattie Campbell by Kritiana Gregory

Elementary Group, Year Three Book Titles Immigrants I & II Cobblestone Magazine

Middle/High School Group, Year Three Book Titles How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob Riis

Middle/High School Group, Year Three Book Titles Driven Out: The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans by Jean Pfaelzer

Middle/High School Group, Year Three Book Titles Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age by Kevin Boyle

Middle/High School Group, Year Three Book Titles Historians at Work: What Did the Internment of Japanese Americans Mean? Edited by Alice Yang Murrey

Middle/High School Group, Year Three Book Titles With These Hands: The Hidden World of Migrant Farmworkers Today by Daniel Rothenberg