Agenda

 

Participant Binders

• Biographies of the Nation Focus (for Instructional Plan Development)
• Declaration of Independence
• Love and Marriage and Adams Questions
• Billy Smith's Timeline
• Revolution Pie Chart
• United States Constitution (Preamble and Article I, Section 8) 

 

Handouts

 

• MEA Handouts Complete Set

 

Thursday, Oct. 21, 2010

8:00 Continental Breakfast

8:30 Welcome and Introductions (Bob, Jim, and Danice, TAH Staff)

• Introduction Powerpoint

9:00 Assessment (Phyllis Ault, EdNW)

10:10 The Coming of the American Revolution: White Men, White Women (Billy Smith, MSU)

• Danice's ROUGH notes
• Broadside: Outlaw English goods (1770 from Sons and Daughters of Liberty)
• Non-Consumption and Non-Importation Primary Sources
• Youtube: Abigail Adams was Brilliant 

11:00 The Constitution and America’s Indians (Walter Fleming, MSU)

• Danice's ROUGH Notes 
• Federal Indian Policy Part I
• Federal Indian Policy Part II
• Federal Indian Policy Part III
• Federal Indian Policy Part IV
• Federal Indian Policy Part V 
• Treaty with the Delawares, 1778 

12:00 Lunch and Assessment Discussion

12:45 Whose Freedom?  Whose Liberty?: African Americans and Native Americans in the Revolutionary Era (Billy Smith, MSU)

• Danice's ROUGH notes
• Black Loyalists: Thomas Peters Biography 
• Thomas Peters in London
• Petition of Thomas Peters 

1:30 Break

1:45 Thinking Like a Historian: Articles of Confederation Lesson Activity (Danice Toyias, MCHCE)

• Articles of Confederation: Preamble and Conclusion
• Transcript on the Articles of Confederation 

3:00 Project Expectations and Paperwork

3:30 Adjourn

 

Friday, October 22, 2010

8:00 Continental Breakfast

8:30 Book Study Introductions, Expectations and Planning and Book Study Model (Break in between) (Jim Bruggeman, MCHCE and Robert Rydell, MSU)

10:55 The New Nation and Many Nations (Walter Fleming, MSU)

11:45 Lunch

12:30 The U.S. Constitution: Fulfillment or Betrayal of Revolutionary Ideals? (Billy Smith, MSU) Teaching with Biography PPT or Teaching with Biography PDF

1:55 Taking it to the Classroom—Instructional Plan Development (Danice Toyias, MCHCE)  

• Lansdowne Lesson PDF and Lansdowne Slides  PDF Version *Updated Lansdowne Lesson (2012)
• Instructional Plan Powerpoint 

3:00 Wrap Up and Colloquium Feedback

3:30 Adjourn

 

Extra: Franklin and Moraley by Billy Smith (MSU)