Two different, paid, Constitution and American Government-related summer programs for teachers. A great opportunity to gain some teaching skills in knowledge in a great city while also receiving money for your effort!
This interactive site presents diverse scholarship regarding race and pedagogy. The site is an academic resource intended to provide teachers, students, researchers and the interested public with on-site research summaries and citations as well as bibliographies of research and teaching materials.
One of the best history/social studies based museums I've ever seen. Great website with plenty of tools for teaching if you can't make it to Philly to check out the museum itself.
This collection contains more than 2000 unique lesson plans which were written and submitted by teachers from all over the United States and the world. These lesson plans are also included in GEM, which links to over 40,000 online education resources.
A small Amish boy witnesses a murder in Philadelphia's 30th Street Station. The ensuing events lead to a great deal of cultural exchange between the Amish community in Lancaster County, PA, and the police detective assigned to investigate the murder. This film provides a great exploration of cultural differences, especially considering recent events in the Pennsylvania Amish community.
Francie Nolan, avid reader, penny-candy connoisseur, and adroit observer of human nature, has much to ponder in colorful, turn-of-the-century Brooklyn. She grows up with a sweet, tragic father, a severely realistic mother, and an aunt who gives her love too freely--to men, and to a brother who will always be the favored child. Francie learns early the meaning of hunger and the value of a penny. She is her father's child--romantic and hungry for beauty. But she is her mother's child, too--deeply practical and in constant need of truth. Like the Tree of Heaven that grows out of cement or through cellar gratings, resourceful Francie struggles against all odds to survive and thrive.
A great source of information directly from the mouths and minds of Black women in the nineteenth century. It includes diaries and journals, letters, and testimonials of former slaves that were collected in the 1920s and 1930s.
A labor union organizer comes to an embattled mining community brutally and violently dominated and harassed by the mining company. A great movie that can be used in lessons about unions and labor history - specifically challenges people have faced when trying to unionize workplaces. Also could be used for West Viriginia history and coal mining history.
This website has a number of links to different performing arts groups around MA that
are performing plays of a historical nature. Our class is going to a Theater Espresso
play in late October, and my mentor says in general they are very good. I thought this
would be a good site for teachers looking for field trip opportunities, and to do some
different types of teaching.
This movie is the quintessential biographic film. Following the life of Malcolm X
(played terrifically by Denzel Washington), this movie encapsulates not only a life,
but a time of struggle, and a side of the civil rights movement not portrayed by the
non-violent Martin Luther King Jr. This movie is volatile, and can lead to amazing
discussion, though may be difficult to watch for younger kids
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Two different, paid, Constitution and American Government-related summer programs for teachers. A great opportunity to gain some teaching skills in knowledge in a great city while also receiving money for your effort!
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