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Professional Development For Elementary and
Middle School Teachers

 
  Summer Sessions 2004
 
 

 
 
 
 

“This experience has been very meaningful to me as a classroom teacher.  My eyes have been opened-up to presenting different sides of recorded history and developing strategies to select materials that are meaningful for my students.” 

Bill Robbins, Lulu Ross Elementary




July 12th to July 23rd (see itinerary)

Week 1

Social and Cultural Aspects of Colonial America
Resident Historian: Dr. Sharon V. Salinger
See photos of the 2004 Summer Institutes.

Additional Presenters

Date: July 13th, 2004
Topic: Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793
Historian: Janet Tighe
Children's Author: Jim Murphy

Date: July 15th, 2004
Topic: Religion and Society in Colonial America
Historian: Dr. Carla Gardina Pestana
Children's Author: Giulio & Betsy Maestro



Week 2

The American Revolution
Resident Historian: Dr. Thomas J. Humphrey

Additional Presenters

Date: July 20th, 2004
Topic: Benjamin Franklin
Historian: J. A. Leo Lemay
Children's Author: James Cross Giblin

Date: July 22nd, 2004
Topic: The Common Folk of the Revolution
Historian: Dr. Ruth Wallis Herndon
Children's Author: Ann Turner



 

 

 
           

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