OUSD Teaching American History Grant II

Calendar > Calendar 2004 - 2005 > Grades 8 & 11 > May 24, 2005

Tuesday, May 24, 2005 Place: Mills College, Bender Room in Carnegie Hall 5000 MacArthur Blvd. (directions.pdf ) Oakland, CA Time: 8:30 AM ? 3:30 PM		Clarence Darrow & William Jennings Bryan at the Scopes Trial
8:30 - 8:45	Coffee and pastries
8:45 ? 9:00	Announcements Reminder of Summer Institutes (TAHG) OUSD - TAHG Summer Institute: June 27 ? July 1, 2005 UC Berkeley History-Social Science Project "Empires in American and World History" July 6-8 and 11-13, 2005. UC Berkeley History-Social Science Project "Building Academic Literacy through History," July 20-22 and 25-27, 2005.
9:00 ? 10:30	Speaker: Charles Postel California State University, Sacramento ?Wm J. Bryan and Clarence Darrow Face History at the Scopes Trial? more information
10:30 -10:45	Discussion ? Connecting the presentation to classroom instruction
10:45 ? 11:00	Break
11:00 ? 1:00	Looking at student work - please bring your class set of student papers written as part of the lesson study process. This will include time for lunch (provided by project). Handouts: Protocol for Looking at Student Work Analyzing student work Draft Rubric for 8th and 11th Grade Biography Prompt Format for Publishing ?Lesson Study? Lesson Plans pdf version Format for Publishing ?Lesson Study? Lesson Plans MS Word Version
1:00 ? 1:30	What did we learn from the student work about the teaching and the use of biography? - Preparing to share with colleagues.
1:30 ? 2:30	Group reports
2:30 ? 2:45	Break
2:45 ? 3:05	Looking towards summer and next spring ? preparing to report our work to other history educators
3:05 ? 3:15	Evaluation