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BEYOND THE TEXTBOOK: EXPLORING AMERICAN HISTORY Newark Public Schools Teaching American History Grant Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History/Woestman

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BEYOND THE TEXTBOOK:EXPLORING AMERICAN HISTORY

Newark Public Schools Teaching American History GrantGilder Lehrman Institute of American History/Woestman

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Schedule (3 Cohorts)

Analyzing Visual Images Teaching and Learning Strategies for

Visual Images Including ELL and Special Needs

Using Historical Quotes Analyzing Memoirs and Diaries Analyzing Posters Block Scheduling

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“Freedom to the Slave”

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Analyzing Primary Sources

Political Cartoons

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Using Historical Quotes

“In giving freedom to the slave,

we assure freedom to the free –

honorable alike in what we give

and what we receive

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Analyzing Diaries & Memoirs Varina Howell Davis

Chosen by Professor Carol Berkin Part of her research for Civil War Wives

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Varina Howell Davis Quote

Groups in Southern Society What Happened to Them After the Civil War

Women

Children

Men

African Americans

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Exodusters

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Analyzing Primary Sources

Poster Analysis Worksheet

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Block Scheduling

Alternate 3 distinct activities Combine with physical movement Divide videos Journaling (reflective practice) One Model

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Essential Questions - NPS

Which ones do you teach?

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ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

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Words and Writing

Reconstruction Exodusters 13th Amendment Slaves Confederacy freedom Union Abraham Lincoln Varina Howell Davis

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54th Massachusetts

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Terror in the Reconstruction South

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Thank-you!

Kelly Woestman [email protected] Facebook: Kelly Woestman