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Immersion Weekend – Seminars

Presenting Scholars: Alice Nash, University of Massachusetts and Colin Calloway, Dartmouth College

Deerfield, Massachusetts

20^th Alice Nash- “Indians and Europeans in Colonial New England and New France”

21^st Colin Calloway- “Indians and the United States from the Revolution to the Present”

November 2006

8^th	Book Group 1 session 1 Lambert, Frank The Founding Fathers and the Place of Religion in America	Scanlon Hall Parlor
13^th	Workshop – Maps	Garden Room A, 333 Western Ave.
15^th	Book Group 1 session 2	Parenzo Board Room
21^st	Workshop – Digital Deerfield	Woodward Center Rm. 240
28^th	Workshop –Viet Nam: using oral history in the classroom presented by the Veteran’s Education Project	Scanlon Hall Living Room
30^th	Book Group 2 session 1 Temin, Peter Engines of Enterprise: An Economic History of New England	Scanlon Hall Parlor

December 2006

7^th	Book Group 2 session 2	Scanlon Hall Parlor
12^th	Workshop – Why Didn’t Santa come to New England?	Scanlon Hall Living Room
14^th	Workshop – Civil Rights for the Youngest Learner	Scanlon Hall Living Room

January 2007

4^th	Workshop – Western Massachusetts in the Revolutionary War	Garden Room A, 333 Western Ave.
8^th	Workshop – Civil Rights Movement: using Oral History in the classroom presented by the Veteran’s Education Project	Scanlon Hall Banquet rooms A and B
11^th ^{snow date} ^{Jan. 18th}	Seminar #3– “Shays Rebellion: The American Revolution’s Final Battle” Presenting Scholar: Leonard Richards, University of Massachusetts	Scanlon Hall Banquet Hall
16^th	Workshop – Digital Deerfield	Woodward Center Rm. 240
22^nd	Workshop – Crystal Products of the Frost King Part 1 with Dennis Picard	Garden Room A, 333 Western Ave.
23^rd	Workshop – People of the Book Part 1 Judaism w/ Rabbi Sternberg of the Hatikvah Holocaust Education Center	Scanlon Hall Living Room
30^th	On-line Film Group	Wilson Hall 114

February 2007

3^rd	Workshop – Crystal Products of the Frost King Part 2 Ice Cutting in Suffield, Connecticut Co-sponsored by Suffield Land Conservancy	Sunrise Park, West Suffield, CT
8^th	Workshop – People of the Book Part 2	Scanlon Living Room
13^th	Film Group – Pirates session 1	Scanlon Hall Parlor
15^th	On-line Film Group final session	Scanlon Living Room
27^th	Film Group – Pirates session 2	Scanlon Hall Parlor

March 2007

12^th	Workshop – Periodical Search and Discussion Part 1 - Library Orientation	WSC library
15^th	Workshop – Periodical Search and Discussion Part 2 - Article discussion and exchange	Scanlon Parlor
20^th	Workshop – Debating Freedom	Scanlon Living Room
22^nd	Workshop – Sweatshop Simulation	Scanlon Living Room
27^th	Workshop –People of the Book Part 3	Scanlon Living Room
29^th	Workshop – Periodical Search and Discussion Part 3 - historiography	Scanlon Living Room

April 2007

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	12^th	*Book Group 4 Session 1* A Midwife’s Tale by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich**	Scanlon Hall Parlor
	24^th	*Book Group 4 Session 2* A Midwife’s Tale by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich**	Scanlon Hall Parlor
	26^th	Seminar # 4– “Religion in America: the Second Great Awakening” Presenting Scholar: Robert Cox, University of Massachusetts	Scanlon Hall Banquet Hall

May 2007

1^st	Workshop – Underground Railroad	Scanlon Hall Living Room
8^th	Book Group 3 session 1 DePastino, Todd Citizen Hobo: How a Century of Homelessness Shaped America	TBA
10^th	Workshop – Math and History	Scanlon Hall Living Room
17^th	Workshop – Waterworks	Scanlon Hall Living Room
22^nd	Workshop – Building a Classroom History Toolbox	Scanlon Hall Parlor
24^th	Book Group – Session 2	Scanlon Hall Parlor

July 2007

17^th	Seminar #5 – “In the Shadow of the Dam: the aftermath of the Mill River Flood of 1874” Presenting Scholar: Elizabeth Sharpe	Scanlon Hall Banquet Hall
18^th	Seminar #6 – “ Death in the Haymarket: A story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement, and the Bombing that Divided the Gilded Age America” Presenting Scholar: James Green, University of Massachusetts Boston	Scanlon Hall Banquet Hall
19^th	Seminar #7 – “The Harlem Renaissance” Presenting Scholar: Prof. Jeffrey Ferguson, Amherst College	Scanlon Hall Banquet Hall
20^th	Seminar #8 – “For All These Rights: Business, Labor, and the Shaping of America’s Public-Private Welfare State Presenting Scholar: Prof. Jennifer Klein, Yale University	Scanlon Hall Banquet Hall

August 2007

21^st	Workshop – The Great Depression	TBA
22^nd	Workshop – National Archives	TBA
23^rd	Workshop – Teaching the Constitution	TBA

American Promises – Teaching American History

Workshops for Teachers

All workshops are held at Westfield State College, unless otherwise noted. Workshops run from 3:30-5:30 p.m. Please call the CENTER to register, or for more information 413-572-8150.

Digital Deerfield: An Introduction to Using PVMA's Websites in the Classroom

Let us take you on a brief tour of PVMA's acclaimed websites: American Centuries: View from New England (www.americancenturies.mass.edu ) and Raid on Deerfield: The Many Stories of 1704 (www.1704.deerfield.history.museum). Take some time for your own tour of the sites, and join us for a discussion of how teachers can use sites in their classrooms. Learn to use the "magic lens" for close up views of photographs and transcriptions of historic documents; zoom in and out of maps, up and down, right and left; create your own chronology of artifacts and documents; and dress and undress a character in historic garb. Grades K-12

Addresses Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks for History and Social Science; English Language Arts; Mathematics; Science and Technology

Choosing Sides

What were First Nations’ people’s concerns about the Revolutionary War? What governed their decisions about whose side to fight on or whether to remain neutral? Participants will review materials from various viewpoints and debate different perspectives. Grades 3-12

Addresses Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks for English Language Arts; History and Social Science

Local History in Federal Records

Learn how to create "snapshots" of towns in New England using records of the 19th and 20th centuries located at the National Archives in Waltham. Find a list of businesses, their products, and how much they were worth by using Civil War era tax assessment files. Search Federal court proceedings to learn more about people and businesses in your town. Learn how to use Civil Case Files (including patent infringement cases), Criminal Case Files, and Admiralty Case Files (including Revolutionary War, War of 1812, and Civil War Prize Cases). Search Census records to find out who was living in your town—even in your house, their occupations, their immigration status, if they owned their home, and if the men served in the military. This workshop will be led by a member of the National Archives located in Waltham, Mass. Grades 5-12

Addresses Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks for History and Social Science; English Language Arts

A Midwife’s Tale: the Life of Martha Ballard, based on her Diary, 1785-1812 – Part One of two Book Discussions

From her arrival in Hallowell, Maine in 1778, until her death in 1812, Martha Ballard helped to deliver over 814 babies. The historian, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, used Martha’s diary to research not only Martha’s work as a midwife, but to reconstitute the community in which she lived. Join us as we discuss Ulrich’s Pulitzer-Prize-winning book, as well as the highly acclaimed, two-part PBS series and the award-winning website (www.dohistory.org) it inspired. Grades 8-12

Addresses Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks for English Language Arts; History and Social Science

Pathways to Freedom: The Underground Railroad and the Boston Vigilance Committee – guest speaker, Louise Minks

Drama, deception, courage, danger, collaboration—just some of the words that reflect the personal stories of the activists running the Underground Railroad. Historian Louise Minks leads you through this interactive workshop that lets participants assume identities from a gripping account book from the Boston Vigilance Committee, active from 1850 to the outbreak of the Civil War. Discover and discuss who you were, what your role was, and the conditions of the time period. While the activities are based in Eastern Massachusetts, Western Massachusetts is strongly involved. The actions of the Boston committee illustrate the pattern of the Underground Railroad throughout the east before the Civil War. Original materials for classroom use, appropriate for adaptation for grades 5-12, will be used. Grades 5-12 Addresses Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks for History and Social Science

People of the Book: An Introduction to Judaism, Islam, and Christianity in Early America – Part One: Judaism,- Guest speaker, Rabbi Sternberg, Hatikvah Holocaust Education Center

Rabbi Sternberg will lead a dialogue about the history of Judaism, and provide an introduction to the resources of the Hatikvah Center in Springfield. This not-for-profit organization is dedicated to teaching tolerance and to educating the community about the history and lessons of the Holocaust with the intent to combat prejudice, hate, and racism in today’s society. This is part one of a three-part workshop series. Participants are encouraged to sign up for all three sessions in the series. Grades K-12

Addresses Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks for History and Social Science

People of the Book: An Introduction to Judaism,

Islam, and Christianity in Early America – Part Two: Islam- guest speaker, Rasul Seifullah, imam of the Al-Baqi Islamic Center of Springfield

Part two in the three part series will focus on an introduction to Islam, its history, basic beliefs and practices, and common roots with Judaism and Christianity. Grades K-12

Addresses Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks for History and Social Science

People of the Book: An Introduction to Judaism, Islam, and Christianity in Early America – Part Three: Christianity and the View from New England- guest speaker, Timothy Neumann, Director of PVMA

The political and cultural tension among the three major monotheistic religions is not new. Through the centuries, holy wars, crusades and inquisitions have been waged against/amongst them all. We forget that as Christian (Protestant) Europeans were pushing the Native Americans out of what is now Franklin County in the 1680’s, the Moslem Turks were at the gates of Vienna. These three religions share a deep allegiance to what Christians call the “Old Testament”; all three revere an ancient nomad called Abraham. This workshop will revisit some common roots of these three religions from the viewpoint of Early America. Grades K-12

Addresses Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks for History and Social Science

Western Massachusetts in the American Revolution

What impact did the American Revolution have on area towns? Primary sources can help us discover connections between local life and national events. Grades K-12

Addresses Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks for History and Social Science; English Language Arts

Western Massachusetts and the Great Depression

This “compare/contrast” workshop will set an examination of the western Massachusetts experience of the depression in the 1930s against the backdrop of the “dustbowl dreams” of the west, and the literature of John Steinbeck, photographs of Dorothea Lange, and songs of Woody Guthrie. We will search the National Archives and Records Administration and other digital archives for Works Progress Administration (WPA) photographs of Western Massachusetts towns. Grades 8-12

Addresses Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks for History and Social Science; English Language Arts

Why Didn’t Santa Claus Come to Early New England?

This workshop explores the celebration (and non-celebration) of Christmas in New England from the Colonial period to the early 20^thcentury.

Grades K-12

Addresses Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks for History and Social Science; English Language Arts; Arts

Using oral histories to enhance your social studies curriculum: Example, the Vietnam era (for grades 6-12)

The oral histories of local veterans can greatly enhance your class’s study of the American experience, from the Great Depression and the build-up to WWII to the present. As an example of how to integrate oral histories into your curriculum, we’ll focus on the complex Vietnam era. Led by staff of the Veterans Education Project’s oral history program, this workshop will show you how to locate veterans with meaningful stories to tell, how to prepare students for guest speakers, and how to use oral histories as a teaching tool. Curriculum resources on teaching about the Vietnam War will be demonstrated and distributed. The concluding segment of this workshop will model using guest speakers, with two Vietnam veterans with very different wartime experiences sharing their stories, followed by Q&A and discussion.

Inside stories: Teaching the lessons of the civil rights movement through the oral histories of local activists (Grades 1-12)

The Pioneer Valley is home to men and women who have personal experiences to share that can teach your students some of the important lessons of the civil rights movement, from the 1930s through the 1960s. This workshop, led by Veterans Education Project staff, will introduce you to some local institutions that continue to play a key role in civil rights issues, show you how to locate guest speakers, how to prepare students, and how to use oral histories as a teaching tool. Ray Elliott, a veteran of the WWII segregated Army and the President of the Amherst area NAACP—who experienced discrimination in his native Massachusetts as well as in the Jim Crow south (where he was chased by a racist mob in Mississippi)—will share his oral history and eye-opening lessons, with questions and discussion to follow. We plan to hold breakout sessions for elementary and secondary teachers, and share curriculum resources that complement oral histories on the civil rights movement.