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Summer Seminar 2005 - 11 to 15 July
2005
19th Century Immigration and Industrialization
Books to be used for background and project:
National Standards for History, Revised Edition, 1996 (NH 160); Vermont Educational Standards; Perspectives on Teaching Innovations: Teaching to Think Historically, Susan W. Gillespie (Washington, DC: American Historical Association, 1999);
Additional reading material recommended by speakers and Advisory Board.
19th Century Immigration and Industrialization
Old Chapel
- Monday July 11, 2005 - 8:30 a.m. to 3:30
p.m.
| 8:30
to 9:00 |
Coffee and Pastry |
| 9:00-9:15 |
Introductions and
Welcomes: Dr. Melisse Pinto
Special Guest: Peter Ruscitti |
| 9:15 to 11:00 |
Major Presentation
James Loewen, author of Lies My Teacher Told Me
http://www.uvm.edu/~jloewen/ |
| 11:00 to 11:30 |
Question/Answer Session |
| 11:30 to 11:45 |
Break & set up for lunch |
| 12:00 to 1:00 |
Lunch and discussion |
| 1:00 to 3:15 |
Discussion with James
Loewen |
| 3:15-3:30 |
Peter Mello and Center
for Schools registration Wrap-up |
Tuesday July 12, 2005 - 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
All Day Session at Hildene
| 8:30
to 9:00 |
Coffee and Pastry |
| 9:00-9:15 |
Introductions and
Welcomes |
| 9:15 to 11:00 |
Major Presentation
Michael Dwyer, Otter Valley Union High School
Topic: 19th Century Rutland County Immigration Communities |
| 11:00 to 11:30 |
Question/Answer Session |
| 11:30 |
Break & set up for lunch |
| 11:45 to 12:30 |
Lunch and discussion |
| 12:45 to 1:45 |
Special Presentation
Hildene: Industrialization |
| 2:30 to 3:15 |
David Bain, Middlebury
College author of Empire Express: Building the First
Transcontinental Railroad and four other books, co-produced
PBS American Experience documentary, "Transcontinental
Railroad:
Topic: Railroads and Immigration
http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/ump/majors/english/bookshelf/bain/ |
| 3:15 to 3:30 |
Question/Answer and Wrap-Up |
Wednesday July 13, 2003 - 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
| 8:30
to 9:00-9:15 |
Coffee and Pastry |
| 9:00-9:15 |
Introductions and
Welcomes: Peter Mello
Special Guests: Jan Jones, Castleton Town Library; Chuck Laramie,
author of Thoughts on War
Francis Dechame's web page on
Dorset Community |
| 9:15 to 11:00 |
Major Presentation
Craig Willey, Mill River Union High School
Topic: Teaching about Immigration and Industrialization
through the Use of Issue-based Units |
| 11:00 to 11:25 |
Question/Answer Session |
| 11:25 to 11:45 |
Presenter: Don Wickman,
"Telling the Story with 19th Century Newspapers |
| 11:45-12:00 |
Break for lunch |
| 12:00 to 1:00 |
Lunch and Special
Presentation by Burnham Holmes, Castleton State College, 19th
Century Poetry of Immigration and Industrialization |
| 1:00-2:45 |
Introducer: Alis
Headlam Workshop
for Elementary School Teachers,, Mary Kay Gillen and David
Marr, Castleton Elementary School. All teacher-participants invited.
Elementary school strand for
the year |
| 2:45-3:30 |
Alis Headlam, Literacy
and Writing Elementary |
| 1:00 to 3:30 |
Option: Work in small groups on primary sources and project |
| 3:30 |
Wrap-Up |
Thursday July 14, 2005 - 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
| 8:30
to 9:00 |
Coffee and Pastry |
| 9:00-9:15 |
Introductions and
Welcomes: Prof. Carrie Waara, CSC |
| 9:15 to 11:00 |
Major presentation
Prof. Scott Wong, Williams College. Author: Americans
First: Chinese Americans and the Second World. Co-editor of Privileging
Positions: The Sites of Asian American Studies
Topic: Immigration |
| 11:00 to 11:30 |
Question/Answer Session |
| 11:30 to 11:45 |
Break & set up for lunch |
| 12:00 to 1:00 |
Lunch and discussion |
| 1:00 |
Introductions: Renate
Wheelock, TAH Board Member
Special Guest: Ann Rich Duncan, author of Travel with Johnny
Vic through the Metals of Time |
| 1:15 to 2:00 |
Professor Alan S.
Wheelock,
Skidmore College (retired)
Topic: America's Showcase: 19th Century
Industrial Expositions, 1853-1901 |
| 2:00 to 2:30 |
Question and Answer
Session with Professors Wong and Wheelock |
| 2:30 to 3:30 |
Use of Library to Work
on Individual Project |
| 3:30 |
Wrap-up |
Friday July 15, 2005 - 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
| 8:30 to 9:00 |
Coffee and Pastry |
| 9:00-9:15 |
Introductions and Welcomes:
Prof. Bruce
Burton author of In the Valley of the Shadow: The Story of
David Jones and Jane McCrea |
| 9:15 to 11:00 |
Major presentation Paul Andriscin,
Castleton State College
Topic: Ellis Island and Immigration |
| 11:00 to 11:30 |
Question/Answer Session |
| 11:30 to 11:45 |
Break & set up for lunch |
| 12:00 to 1:00 |
Lunch |
| 1:00 to 3:15 |
Presentation and Trip to Castleton Cemetery, Field Trip
Leaders, Professors Joe Taparauskas and Bill Alsop |
| 3:45-4:45 |
Trip to the Slate
Valley Museum, Garrret Riggs, Host and Narrator |
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