Summer Institute, UC Berkeley
Schedule, Monday, June 16 - Friday, June 20, 2003

Monday
June 16

Wednesday
June 18

AM (8:30-12)

Speaker:
Charles Wollenberg,
Vista College

"Confessions of a Historical Consultant"

Readings & audio files

Comparing Historical Thinking Standards - grades 5, 8 and 11

Working with the common assignment - what would be an examplary paper?

Professional Readings:

• Charlotte Crabtree, Gary B. Nash, Paul Gagnon, Scott Waugh, eds. Lessons from History: Essential Understandings & Historical perspectives Students Should Acquire, Los Angeles: National Center for History in the Schools, 1992
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• The Core Ideas of "Lessons from History - ERIC Digest
  
  
• Who Owns History?: Rethinking the Past in a Changing World by Eric Foner
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AM (8:30-12)

Speaker:
Richard Candida Smith, UC Berkeley
link

"Using Oral History in Teaching"

Readings & audio files

Working with primary sources

Document Based Questioning
(AP Resources)

Library Research Using Primary Sources

Guide to Understanding Historical Letters - DRAFT Questions compiled by Grade 5 teachers from OUSD American History Grant (2002) for classroom use when using primary source documents.

AM (8:30-12)

Speaker:
Clarence Walker, UC Davis
link

"Alternative Parents, Thomas Jefferson & Sally Hemmings: Rethinking the Racial Origins of the American Republic"

Readings & audio files

Working with biography - different versions of Jefferson on slavery

AM (8:30-12)

Speaker:
David Henkin, UC Berkeley
link

"Opposing Slavery: The World of Antebellum Reform"

Readings & audio files

Working with primary & secondary resources - developing a lesson plan.

AM (8:30-12)

Speaker:
Leon Litwack, UC Berkeley
link

"Sounds of Fury: From Civil Rights Movement to the Present"

Readings & Resources

Summarizing the week -- content, theme and methodology

A metaphor and a visual

PM (1-3:30)

Working with the common assignment reading and analyzing student work. Implications for teaching and learning.

PM (1-3:30)

Lesson Study meeting time for autumn lesson study.

PM (1-3:30)

Spring 2004 Conference Discussion

PM (1-3:30)

Lesson Study and Library time.

Link to UC Berkeley Library

PM (1-3:30)

Evaluation