8:00 a.m.

Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:30 a.m.

Introduction and Welcome

Liberty and Freedom: A Master and Slave’s Perspective

Meet Peyton Randolph, the first President of the Continental Congress, and Lydia Broadnax, an enslaved woman, and hear their perspectives on liberty, freedom, and education.

9:15 a.m.

Break

9:30 a.m.

Daily Life of Free and Enslaved African Americans

By using primary sources, investigate the lives of African Americans in eighteenth-century Virginia. Discover how they were affected by legislation and court cases.  Participate in activities to understand how and why Africans resisted and survived the institution of slavery.

10:30 a.m.

Break

10:45 a.m.

Concurrent Session 1

Daily Life in Colonial America

What was it like to live in Colonial America? Investigate the lives of children from different levels of society, the gentry class, middling sort, and slaves.  Each participant will receive A Day in the Life series, an award winning 3-disc DVD/CD-ROM set which includes lesson plans and on-line interactives including a digital role playing game.

Bringing History to Life with Biographies

Use primary sources, including facsimile artifacts, to discover the many individuals who made up the town of Williamsburg.  Investigate the lives of the gentry, tradesmen, merchants, free blacks, and slaves.

11:45 a.m.

Break

12:00 p.m.

Lunch – Multiple Cultures, Multiple Expressions: Eighteenth-Century Dance

Discover how the performing arts involve students in a variety of ways to learn about the social, political, and economic life of the eighteenth century.

1:00 p.m.

Concurrent Session 2 – Please choose different session from session 1

2:00 p.m.

Break

2:15 p.m.

Point Counter Point

Discuss the rolls and responsibilities of a citizen through the eyes of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lydia Broadnax, slave to George Wythe who was later granted her freedom.

3:15 p.m.

Questions, Summarization, Conclusion

REGISTRATION FORM

Bringing History to Life in Your Classroom
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REGISTRATION DEADLINE: October 16, 2009

Please email the following information to ekrapf@cwf.org by October 16, 2009. If you have any questions, or need assistance, call (757) 565-8417.

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