The Civil War . In the Classroom . Using the Series. When The Civil War, originally premiered in September 1990, the response was phenomenal and the series became a national viewing event. The film interweaves thousands of photographs and paintings with the words of those who lived through the war that shattered a union and shaped a nation: politicians, generals, common soldiers, slaves and free slaves, the famous and the forgotten, male and female. The series has also become incredibly popular with secondary school teachers and is considered by many educators as the definitive film history of the war. This Classroom section was designed for educators who wish to use the film and Web resources to enrich their teaching of the Civil War. The Civil War may be taped off-air and used for up to a year following broadcast, or you may choose to purchase it. You’ll find the complete broadcast schedule here. The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. Social Studies Links. NOTES. APProgram - WV Center for Professional Development.
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West Virginia Department of Education. Michael Yell on Using DVDs/Video Segments in the History Classroom. Jul 13 2011 One may hear a thousand words or read a thousand volumes, and, at the end of the process, be very much where [he or she] was as regards knowledge. Something more than merely admitting it into the mind is necessary, if it is to remain there. It must not be passively received but actively and actually entered into, embraced, mastered. The mind must go to meet what comes to it from without. —John Henry Newman (1801-1890) History instruction cries out for engaging thoughtful strategies to help our students embrace the content.
. [. . . As history teachers, we want our students to question and to inquire into historical events, ideas, and people, and we also want to impart historical information. Some will give students worksheets to fill out while viewing, but that is hardly involving them. The Interactive Viewing Guide Key points for use of the guide include what the guide looks like, questioning, student notetaking while viewing the video, and discussion. . [. . . Thomas Hart Benton — The Sources of Country Music. Activity 1. Becoming Country In Activity 1, students will identify the sources of folk music based on their own observations and compare their findings to the thoughts of the artist. To prepare for this activity, you will need Internet access. If the Internet is not available, use sections of PBS Thomas Hart Benton as well as sections of the oral history interview with Thomas Hart Benton from the Truman library. If you use the oral history interview, pass out the primary document worksheet.
Step 1: Project an image of The Sources of Country Music on the board and give students a copy of it. Step 2: Divide the class into pairs or small groups of 3 or 4 students. Where do you see music played in the painting? Allow students 10–15 minutes to complete this exercise. Step 3: Elicit responses to the questions and write them on the board. (5 min) What steps does Benton follow to create the mural?
Activity 2. Any number of activities can be included here depending on the interests of students. My Blackboard. Check Browser | Help | Log In CONCORD UNIVERSITY Entry Page Welcome. Course List View course information Enroll in courses that allow self-registration Log In Log in to the Blackboard Learning System. World Economic Systems. iPad Apps for High School. Before and Beyond the Constitution: What Should a President do? “… the executive authority, with few exceptions, is to be vested in a single magistrate.
This will scarcely, however, be considered as a point upon which any comparison can be grounded; for if, in this particular, there be a resemblance to the king of Great Britain, there is not less a resemblance to the … khan of Tartary, to the Man of the Seven Mountains....” —Alexander Hamilton in The Federalist Papers 69 on the EDSITEment-reviewed website Avalon Project at the Yale Law School “if you adopt this government, you will incline to an arbitrary and odious aristocracy or monarchy…” —Anti-Federalist Paper Cato #5 Executive Power on the Constitution Society website, a link from the EDSITEment resource Internet Public Library At the time the Founders were shaping the future of a new country, John Adams suggested the President should be addressed as "His Excellency.
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Go Social Studies Go! A Model of Christian Charity --- by Gov. John Winthrop, 1630. Introduction John Beardsley This is Winthrop’s most famous thesis, written on board the Arbella, 1630. We love to imagine the occasion when he personally spoke this oration to some large portion of the Winthrop fleet passengers during or just before their passage. In an age not long past, when the Puritan founders were still respected by the educational establishment, this was required reading in many courses of American history and literature. However, it was often abridged to just the first and last few paragraphs. This left the overture of the piece sounding unkind and fatalistic, and the finale rather sternly zealous. A common misrepresentation of the Puritan character. Winthrop’s genius was logical reasoning combined with a sympathetic nature.
Winthrop’s intent was to prepare the people for planting a new society in a perilous environment, but his practical wisdom is timeless. Redacted and introduced by John Beardsley, Editor in Chief, the Winthrop Society Quarterly. 1st Reason. American Memory from the Library of Congress - Home Page. EDSITEment’s Persian Wars Resource Pages.