Adapting Project HISTORY

Friday, August 27, 2010: 8:30 am to 3:00 pm

Proctor High School

 

8:30 am

 

Coffee/Danish

9:00 am

 

DVD:  An Empire of Reason

This film was developed as a reenactment of the convention held to ratify the Constitution in New York State.  The use of blending modern day media (circa late 1980’s) and TV personalities and journalists provides for a program that is bound to capture the interest of your students while imparting a great deal of accurate historical content on the issues that confronted the convention and also the issues facing the new nation, and the sharp divisions among the federalists and anti-federalists.

9:55 am

Discussion of An Empire of Reason

10:15 am

BREAK

10:30 am

“How Was the Presidency Created?”: A Classroom Simulation from J. Carroll with D. Challenger, The  Presidency Under Our Constitution (Syracuse, NY: Project LEGAL, Inc.: 1989)*

Distribution of books and teacher guides

Individual Preparation of Delegates’ Roles  

Enactment by the Participants of the Classroom Simulation and De-Briefing

 

12:00 p.m.

 

LUNCH

 

1:00 p.m.

 

Evaluation with Bob Peterson

 

1:30 p.m.

 

Planning for September Release Day; Overview of Products developed by last year’s Project HISTORY teachers and a review of this year’s requirements

2:30  pm

Evaluation of this week’s workshops

Teacher Technology Survey

Workshop Evaluation

3:00 pm

ADJOURN

 

*Permission is given by James Carroll to Adapting Project HISTORY teacher participants to reproduce lessons from his texts, The  Presidency Under Our Constitution and The Ratification Debates for use in their classrooms with their own students.

 

Wednesday August 25

Thursday August 26