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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