Jump start your year with our teacher workshops! To help launch the 2012 theme, Revolution, Reaction, Reform in History, we are presenting a series of workshops structured to develop sample topics and provide you a plethora of primary source documents. The goals of the workshop are practical. We want you to leave with
lessons ideas and classroom samples.
Monday June 13, 9:00AM - 3:30PM
Workshop Topic: The American Labor Movement
Presentation Category: Exhibits
9:00 - 11:30 AM
Skinner Building, Room 0200
From the very first stirrings of the American labor movement in the early nineteenth century to the present day, organized labor in the United States has staked its claim for legitimacy by portraying itself as an essentially American institution. Conversely, the opponents of organized labor have sought to define union activity as un-American and illegitimate. Using both visual and textual primary sources, this workshop will examine US labor history through this lens of the contested relationship between organized labor and the language of Americanism. Time permitting, we will then use sources from multiple perspectives surrounding one labor reform to create a sample exhibit, ready to present to your students in the fall.
Workshop Topic: You Say You Want a Revolution!
Presentation Category: Performance
1:00 - 3:30 PM
Skinner Building, Room 0200
As you investigate this year’s theme think of it in broad terms, as the distinction among revolutions, reactions and reforms may be blurred. Never be too literal. Revolutions and reforms are often reactions to particular situations or events, which may inspire other reactions. According to the American Heritage Dictionary, the word revolution means “the overthrow of one government and its replacement with another” or a “sudden or momentous change in a situation.” Whether revolutionary or gradual, such changes often inspire opposition, as some people seek to slow or even reverse them. Keeping the theme in mind, highlighted topics from the French Revolution and the American Revolution will be presented. As a group we will take a step by step approach in how to support students turning research into an award winning script! Examples of past national winners will be our guide.
Tuesday June 14, 7:45AM - 5:00PM
National Archives: The Researchers Best Friend!
7:45 AM - 5:00 PM
National Archives Building, Washington D.C.
You can’t come to the NHD National Contest without spending a full day at the National Archives planning for the next year’s theme! The National Archives Education Team has planned a full day of interactive activities connected with Revolution, Reaction, Reform in History AND they will showcase all the new and exciting resources available at NARA.
MEET THE BUSES IN FRONT OF COLE FIELD HOUSE AT 7:45 AM!
You must be pre-registered for the teacher workshop at the National Archives in order to attend.
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