Bringing History Life to Your Classroom

October 24, 2009

Meet Academic Content Standards
Support Interdisciplinary Curriculum
Utilize Primary Sources
Learn Innovative Teaching Strategies

Embassy Suites Portland Washington Square
900 SW Washington Square Rd
Tigard, OR 97223

Saturday, October 24, 2009

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