History eNews from Emerging America - November 17, 2022

EMERGING AMERICA HISTORY eNEWS Vol. 9, Issue 11 for November 17, 2022

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IN THIS ISSUE

• Events @ Emerging America 
• News
• New at the Library of Congress
• Disability History Resources & Updates
• Other Professional Development Events
• Other Resources
• Feature preview: “Language-Aware Lessons for Multilingual Learners.” (Excerpt below.) 

 

Language-Aware Lessons for Multilingual Learners

See three new lessons in the Emerging America Teaching Resources library. 

A sit-down strike at a Woolworth luncheon counter in Greensboro, North Carolina. (1960). Library of Congress. https://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/wwii/jb_wwii_king_3_e.html From the language-scaffolded mini-unit, “Is it ever okay to break the law?”

 

EVENTS @ EMERGING AMERICA - Info & Registration.

Mark your calendars for these Emerging America courses and workshops. Contact rcairn@collaborative.org.

HISTORY AND CIVICS EDUCATION COURSES

PDPs / OR optional grad credit available from Westfield State University.  

• Accessing Inquiry for Students with Disabilities through Primary Sources

  • January 13 to February 22, 2023 - Webinar January 18, 4:00-5:15pm Eastern - Register for Accessing Inquiry for Students with Disability. Instructor: Rich Cairn, Emerging America.
  • Sample the Reform to Equal Rights: K-12 Disability History Curriculum, to be published by Emerging America in February, 2023.
  • Meets Massachusetts license renewal requirement for 15 hours of PD on teaching students with disabilities.  
  • Special fee of $100 thanks to a Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) Eastern Region mini-grant. 

 

• America and World Fascism: From the Spanish Civil War to Nuremberg and Beyond – Teaching Human Rights Today

  • March 2 to April 15, 2023 - Webinars March 9, 16 & 30 and April 6 - 4:00-5:15pm Eastern - Register for America and World Fascism 
  • Instructors: Peter N. Carroll, Stanford, University and Sebastiaan Faber, Oberlin College, facilitated by Rich Cairn, Emerging America
  • Special fee of $50 thanks to the Puffin Foundation.

 

• Accessing Inquiry for English Learner through Primary Sources

  • March 3 to April 14, 2023 - Webinar March 8, 4:00-5:15pm. Register for Accessing Inquiry for English Learners.
  • Instructor: Alison Noyes. Meets Massachusetts license renewal requirement for 15 hours of PD on teaching English Learners.  
  • Special fee of $100 thanks to a Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) Eastern Region mini-grant. 

 

EMERGING AMERICA WEBINARS & CONFERENCES

• National Council for the Social Studies Conference - December 2-4, 2022 - Philadelphia - Info on NCSS Conference. Stay updated on Emerging America offerings at the conference. 
• Live sessions
  • How to Integrate Disability History into the Curriculum: We Can and We Must - Rich Cairn
    • December 2 - 10:05-10:35am - Marriott Franklin 11 (4th floor) 
  • “A Rosetta Stone” to Translate History Activities with Primary Sources - Casey Cullen and Alison Noyes
    • December 2 - 3:10-3:40pm - Marriott Franklin 12 (4th floor) 
• Posters 
  • Teaching Disability History through Primary Sources 
  • Are Multilingual Students on Your Educating for American Democracy Roadmap? 
    • Friday, December 2 - 10:00-11:00am 
  • Social Studies and History Methods That Include –– and Strengthen –– English learners
    • Saturday, December 3 - 11:30am - 12:30pm

See list of accessible recordings of previous short webinars, presentations, and more.

NEWS

• Join Rural Lives in Context - a project of the National Council for History Education. Travel and project stipends. Info on Rural project. 
• New tools for students to reach out to state legislators in civics projects. 1) Letter to Legislators. 2) Quick Reference Guide (under Civics Resources). Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (MA DESE). 
• Massachusetts Department of Elementary & Secondary Education (DESE) offers Genocide Education Grants. 
• DESE Financial Literacy grants. 
• Mass Council for the Social Studies call for workshop proposals through the year. What could you share with fellow social studies teachers? 
• Re-imagining Migration seeks schools to participate in a survey of the experiences of secondary level immigrant-origin students. 
• Private i History Detectives K-5 inquiry-based curriculum is launched at iCivics! Formerly known as History’s Mysteries, created by Laurie Risler and Kelley Brown. 

  

• Next issue of History eNews is December 22. Submit items to rcairn@collaborative.org by December 14.

 

NEW AT THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

• 6,000 new items in the National Jukebox! (1900-1922)  
• Library of Congress seeks applicants for the 2023 Junior Fellows Program, summer internship virtual and onsite - May 22 to July 28. 
• Readers Theater activity kit, written by 2021 Junior Fellow. 

 

TPS Teachers Network - Teachers with interest in working with primary sources are welcome to join this network. Featured this week - (log in to see DISCUSSIONS; no log-in needed for ALBUMS):

• DISCUSSION: Sand Creek Massacre
• DISCUSSION: Does the Library of Congress have resources about my small home town? 

You may link directly to these resources. 

• ALBUM: Ruby Bridges - discrimination and segregation in the early 1960s
• ALBUM: Industrial and Technology Revolutions 
• ALBUM: Rise of Empire 
• ALBUM: Costumes
• ALBUM: Backyard History-Richmond, Virginia
• ALBUM: Slavery in Rhode Island
• ALBUM: Sojourner Truth and the Meaning of Literacy 

 

Library of Congress Teacher Blog http://blogs.loc.gov/teachers/

• “Vote!” Election Day Pages in Historic Newspapers 
• Cops and Guinea Pigs: Treasures Found in Chronicling America
• Candy Day: A Phantom Holiday?
• “Perfect” Primary Sources Combinations
• Opium Use in the 19th Century
• Supporting Students with Dyslexia: Free Resources from the National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled 

 

DISABILITY HISTORY RESOURCES & UPDATES

• Primer on Digital Usability & Accessibility - Kid Citizen. 
• Mark your calendars! February 20, 22, & 24 9-11:30am Eastern - Disability History virtual workshop - Massachusetts Historical Society, Emerging America, and Keene State College. Registration will open after January 1.  
• Librarians, reading specialists, educators, and school psychologists are now on the list of authorities who can certify the eligibility of applicants with dyslexia and other reading disabilities for services of the National Library Service (NLS). Info on the NLS for professionals. 
• The Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature has thousands of children’s books online. Search the collection for portrayals of disability. 
• Recording: Judy Heumann’s Being Heumann and Rolling Warrior - Facing History & Ourselves. 
• ”Mass. Locked Up People With Mental Illness For Decades. Now Advocates Want Their Stories Told” - Sept. 2021 - WBUR. 
• Students at the Gann Academy researched and shared the stories of 296 former inmates of state schools buried anonymously in the MetFern Cemetery. 
• How I Realized I was Disabled - Eliza Young - U.S. Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSER). 
• My College Experience - Bridget Brown - OSER. 
• Confronting Ableism on the Way to Justice - Keith Jones - Learning for Justice. 

  

 

EVENTS

Events are online unless noted. “Hybrid” events are both virtual and in-person.

• November 29 - 6-7pm - Revolutionary Samuel Adams. Massachusetts Historical Society. Info on Sam Adams webinar. 
• November 30 - 6:45pm - UC Berkeley History-Social Science Project online - Help ELL students access complex texts in history. Info on UC ELL series. 
• December 5, 3:30-4:30pm - Civics Project Virtual Support Forum: Stage 3 in Action: Engage Students in the Research Process - Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. Led by veteran teachers. Info on Civics Project forum. 
• December 8 - 10am-3pm - All Community Read: Teaching Rolling Warrior and Being Heumann - Facing History & Ourselves. Info on community read. 
• December 13 - 3pm - webinar - Geography and Map Virtual Orientation: The Boundaries of Afghanistan during the Great Game - Library of Congress. Info on Afghanistan webinar. 
• January 21 - SOURCES Conference at the University of Central Florida https://www.sourcesconference.com/ 
• January 30 - April 10 - Virtual Seminar: Taiwan - Five College Center for East Asian Studies - Info on seminar on Taiwan. 
• January-March - Virtual Seminars: China, Japan, & Korea - Five College Center for East Asian Studies. Info on seminar on East Asia. 
• March 6-10 - Info on Civic Learning Week. 

 

SUMMER - it's not too early to plan!

• Gilder Lehrman. 
• American Revolution Institute. 
• Mt Vernon. 

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RESOURCES

• What is Native Sovereignty and Why Is It Important? Grade 3 lesson from iCivics: Private i History Detectives. 
• This Land Is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving - National Council for History Education. 
• Four Ways Educators Can Use the Right Question Institute’s “Teaching with Primary Sources” Hub. 
• Brain Movers - 47 plug and play primary source activities from two geeky teachers. 
• UnErasing LGBTQ History and Identities: Podcast for Teachers. Real-world advice and reasonable, practical strategies on how you can create LGBTQ-inclusive classrooms. 
• Books on Voting Rights. 
• Different: A Story of the Spanish Civil War. 
• Maryland Humanities - new primary source- based Inquiry Kits. 
• The Rural Experience in America - resources - National Council for History Education. 
• Iowa Historical Society Primary Source Sets. 
• Legal Timelines in American History - Street Law. 
• Dark Testament: A Century of Black Writers on Justice - American Writers Museum. 
• National History Day 2023: Frontiers in History - U.S. House of Representatives. 
• American Indian Boarding Schools: Multiple Perspectives - Unladylike 2020. PBS Learning Media. 

 

FEATURE: Language-Aware Lessons for Multilingual Learners

These lessons were developed by the English Learner Collaborations project of the Massachusetts Council for the Social Studies with support from a Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources grant. Lessons illustrate application of English Language Development (ELD) teaching resources to history and social studies content. 

Contact Alison Noyes at Emerging America for further information: anoyes@collaborative.org. 

• Colonial Daily Life. - Grade 3
  • Explore primary sources to learn about daily life in Colonial Massachusetts. 
• Does the First Amendment say you can? - Grade 8
  • Explore the First Amendment free speech rights of students through analysis of Supreme Court decisions.
• Is it ever okay to break the law? - High School 
  • Explore primary sources connected to the Civil Rights movement.

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