VISIONS OF LIBERTY AND EQUALITY:
RESOURCES
Reading for the 10/4/11 Enchanted Circle Theater Seminar - Excerpts from How I Found America: Collected Stories of Anzia Yesierska, originally published 1920-1923
Workers, Industrialization, and the Struggle for Equality: The View
from Lowell
Presentation given by Gary Fitzsimons, former Lowell National Park Historian (9/24/10)
- Annotated Photo Album
- How to read documents, artifacts, and photographs
- Living History Template
- Enchanted Circle Theater - Templates for Creative Curriculum Projects
- Resources for Primary Sources and Online Resources
- Time-line Theater: Creative Education Template
Websites for Women's History by Barbara Lindquist
Ideas for Using Portraits in the Classroom by Barbara Lindquist
Suggested Lesson Plans and Other Ideas - This is a list of classroom activities, suggested by Lead Educator Barbara Lindquist, for the following books Escape of Oney Judge, A Midwife's Tale, and A Colonial Quaker Girl: The Diary of Sally Wister .
Activities and websites for Women's Suffrage
CENTER Resources for Women's History Month
Creative Curriculum Projects - suggestions for creative curriculum projects that can be developed into classroom presentations and easily adapted to any curriculum theme or content
Integrating the Arts with History
Reader's Theater - Reader’s Theater, a valuable tool for any classroom, is another way to enhance comprehension of text, as well as create interest in and enthusiasm for learning. It allows students to take virtually any piece of literature or historical text, analyze it, and adapt it into a script.
Using Oral Histories in the Classroom
VLE3 Book Groups 1 and 2: The books read were (1) Immigrant America: A Portrait, (2) How Tia Lola Came to Visit/Stay, and (3) All the Way to America: The Story of A Big Italian Family and a Little Shovel.
Book Group Overview | Lesson Plans for Immigration
The Making of Multi-Cultural America: The History & Future of American Immigration - This is a presentation by Edward T. O'Donnell, historian, author and speaker (from Ellis Island trip)
Sex Wars Presentation - This presentation provides a slideshow of images that give context to the book Sex Wars by Marge Piercy, who delivered a workshop to VLE participants.
Portuguese Immigration in New Bedford - Links and information about the Whaling Industry in New Bedford Ma and the Portugese Immigration (follow-up to Oct 2011 trip to the New Bedford Whaling Museum and the New Bedford National Park)
Between the Canals Teacher Guide
Immigration Activities - suggestions include time lines, scrapbooks, interviews, a family newspaper, writing a reader’s theater script, constructing family trees, a classroom museum project, having students imagine themselves as immigrants, etc.
Island of Hope, Island of Fear - View for free the award-winning documentary on immigration. It is 28 minutes long and details the Ellis Island experience, including the reasons why immigrants came to the United States. This film is appropriate for upper elementary students or for background information for teachers. It includes clips that could be shared with a wide range of ages.
Statue of Liberty Webcams - The webcams have been placed at various locations on the statue and can be accessed online in real time. The pictures are truly amazing, especially at night. It gives students a chance to see the statue and skyline of NYC up close and personal.
Honor History, Envision the Future - article from the Ellis Island Foundation on the 125th anniversary of the statue's dedication
Adapting Documents to the Classroom - information on preparing and modifying primary source documents so that students can read and analyze them in the history classroom
Geography Seminar
- Google Earth for Educators - For those unfamiliar with Google Earth, this website offers many tutorials and information on how to incorporate this into your classroom at all levels.
- Immigration/Geography Activities - list of classroom activities that relate to immigration, using maps and computers. Several of them are National Geographic activities. All connect to the MA Frameworks for Grades 1-5 for geography and history. These activities can help you extend the theme of immigration through writing and the use of maps and primary sources.
- Mapping: Lessons Plans and Book Suggestions - contains lesson plans that use mapping in the social studies’ classroom along with a list of books on Google Earth and mapping for children.
- Immigration/Geography Resources - a list with a mixture of books and websites that relate to geography, maps, and exercises connected to immigrant communities.
- New England Map 1677 - This early map of New England, probably by John Foster, was published in The Present State of New-England by William Hubbard (London, 1677).
- William Wood's 1634 Map of Plymouth - Wood's Map of "The South Part of New England, as it is Planted this yeare, 1634" was published in his New England's Prospect, in London.
Immigration Resource Highlights - 1. Ellis Island: The Immigrations' Experience (Jackdaws Photo Collection), 2. CENTER Immigration Kit, 3. immigration DVDs
Community Survival Guide - classroom activity for students to create a welcome book for newcomers to the community. It could be expanded to include a mapping activity.
3/13/12 Assessment Workshop Handout: Differentiation Rubric
Books on Asian Immigration to America and Related Topics
Using Graphic Novels with Children and Teens - guide for teacher and librarians that provides some excellent rationale for using graphic novels as well as a fairly extensive list of these novels.
Tap into the World of Comics: Strategies for Using Comics in the Classroom - this 73-page resource is filled with information, suggestions, lesson plans.