Reconstruction
The WPA Slave Narratives: Teaching with Oral Histories
Submitted by Steven Lapham on Fri, 08/14/2009 - 2:26pm--Paul Horton
Describes an online a selection of written narratives given by formerly enslaved, elderly African Americans (in the 1930s under the Works Progress Administration) and how to interpret these historical documents with middle school readers.
This URL downloads all 16 pages of Middle Level Learning as a pdf of about 0.8 MB:
* http://members.ncss.org/mll/13/mll13.pdf
The Great Irish Famine (and Immigration to USA)
Submitted by Steven Lapham on Fri, 08/14/2009 - 1:20pm--Maureen Murphy, Alan Singer, Maureen McCann Miletta, and Judity Y. Singer
Historical background, historical fiction, and primary source text about the Irish exodus to America. A theme issue of MLL.
- URL To come. Steve will scan.
Pullout: Speaking in the First Person: Notable Women in History
Submitted by Steven Lapham on Thu, 08/13/2009 - 12:18pm--Tracy Rock and Barbara Levin
Each student selects a notable woman, researches her biography, tells her story in the first person, then answers questions from classmates. Short bios given for Elizabeth Cady Stanton; Sojourner Truth; Harriet Tubman; and Mary Walker, M.D.
A Bill to Relieve Certain Legal Disabilities of Women (Teaching with Documents)
Submitted by Jennifer Bauduy on Wed, 07/29/2009 - 10:10am--Lee Ann Potter
After a long struggle, Belva A. Lockwood became the first woman admitted to the Bar of the Supreme Court.
The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands (Teaching with Documents)
Submitted by Jennifer Bauduy on Mon, 07/27/2009 - 9:50amBy Kahlil Chism
The Freedmen’s Bureau was one of few agencies established to improve the lives of former slaves. Four documents highlight for students the bureau’s efforts to help African Americans acquire land, secure jobs, legalize marriages, and pursue education.
* http://publications.socialstudies.org/se/7001/700119.pdf
