OUSD Teaching American History Grant III

Summer Institute, UC Berkeley Hosted by the UC Berkeley History-Social Science Project & the UC Berkeley Dept of History. Schedule, Monday, June 22 - Friday, June 26, 2009
Overall Question: What economic concepts, topics, and questions will you bring into your American history curriculum next year?
Monday June 22	Tuesday June 23	Wednesday June 24	Thursday June 25	Friday June 26
AM (8:30-12) Announcements and Introductions Focus on Lesson Study What did you do? How did it work? What did you learn? Speaker: Professor Clayborne Carson Stanford University Martin Luther King Papers Project (4th, 5th, 8th, & 11th grades) “Martin Luther King Jr. and the Social Gospel” Lecture coming soon	AM (8:30-12) Grade level seminars 4th: “Early Efforts to Organize Farmworkers in California” speaker: Heather McCarty, Ohlone College 5th:“Emancipation and Manumission in Post-Revolutionary America” Eva Shepard Wolf, S.F. State University 8th: “Jackson and the Bank” speaker: Robin Einhorn, UC Berkeley 11th: “Causes of the Great Depression” Charles Postel, S.F. State University	AM (8:30-12) Field Trips – a focus on content and pedagogy 4th: Peralta Hacienda House in Oakland w/Alex Saragoza 5th and 8th: De Young Museum of San Francisco w/curator 11th Grade (AM): WPA bus tour w/Gray Brechin California's Living New Deal Project Article: see report online	AM (8:30-12) Grade level seminars 4th: “Women Workers in World War II” Heather McCarty 5th:“"Economic Framework of the Constitution" Robin Einhorn 8th: “Economics of the Civil War” Ariel Ron, UC Berkeley 11th: “The GI Bill” Charles Postel	AM (8:30-12) Speaker: Jason Smith University of New Mexico (4th, 5th, 8th, & 11th grades) “The New Deal and an Economic Approach to History”
Presentation follow-up – identifying argument, use of evidence, and classroom connections.	Presentation follow-up – identifying argument, use of evidence, and classroom connections. Reading Discussion – from “How Students Learn: History in the Classroom” 4th, 5th, & 8th – chapter 3 11th grade – chapter 4 questions.pdf	11th Grade (PM) tour with curator of “Hobos to Street People: Artists' Responses to Homelessness from the New Deal to the Present” at the California Historical Society	Presentation follow-up – identifying argument, use of evidence, and classroom connections. Project Evaluation – Content Assessment follow-up	Looking back and looking ahead - revisiting Robin Einhorn’s October 14, 2008 talk - "Growth, Wealth, and Freedom: The Economic Vantage" What economic concepts, topics, and questions will you bring into your American history curriculum next year?
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PM (1-3:30) Lesson Study work time 4th and 5th grade teachers (focus on writing)	PM (1-3:30) Lesson Study work time	PM (1-3:30) Field Trips Continued	PM (1-3:30) Lesson Study – grade level groups use student work to identify questions and ideas for next year’s work	PM (1-3:30) Mixed grades – • What did we learn about lesson study? • A guide for next year? • What worked for you? Finalize Lesson Study lessons for submission