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GREAT AMERICAN DREAMING

Help your students bring immigration history and politics to life.
Immigration issues dominate the news just now, and they present a great opportunity for a curriculum or service project. Your students can bring back powerful interviews if they venture into their communities to talk to the immigrants they know about their experiences.

WKCD learned this, when we coached and then published such work by New York City students in our photo essay book, Forty-Cent Tip: Stories of New York City Immigrant Workers (Next Generation Press, 2006).

Now we are offering you a look at our coaching guidelines˜and a chance to be published online˜in the hope that you will try the project, too.

WKCD offers the following resources to help with your project:

A manual for teachers and students.
A complimentary copy of the WKCD book Forty-Cent Tip˜or a classroom set, at cost, as long as supplies last.

To get the details, download the manual, and order a complimentary copy of the book, please go to: http://www.whatkidscando.org/featurestories/2008/01_great_american/index.html

If you already have immigrant stories collected by your students that you'd like to see and perhaps publish online, please send them to info@whatkidscando.org.

GILDER LEHRMAN INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN HISTORY ANNOUNCES SUMMER SEMINARS FOR TEACHERS
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History is seeking applicants for thirty-two, one-week teacher enrichment seminars across the U.S. and England for teachers. Public, parochial, independent school teachers and National Park Service employees are eligible to apply. Each seminar is limited to thirty participants. Historians from universities including Stanford, Columbia, Yale, and the University of Virginia will lead seminars on topics ranging from the Colonial Era, the U.S. Constitution, and the Underground Railroad to the Great Depression, the Cold War, and the Civil Rights Movement. Applications must be postmarked or submitted electronically by February 15, 2008. For information on how to apply, visit www.gilderlehrman.org.

Jan Mar

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