OUSD | De Tocqueville's Ghost : American History Project

AGENDA

I.	Coffee & pastries
II.	Introduction
III.	Content Strand: Kick-off presentation Speaker: Jon Gjerde, Department of History University of California, Berkeley link American Democracy, Citizenship & Education Slides shown by J. Gjerda pdf file The speaker has written several books on immigration history including The Minds of the West and Major Problems in American Immigration and Ethnic History. A sample of his course on immigration history can be found at this site The Repeopling of America
IV.	Overview of grant goals & plans for 2003 - 2004 school year
V.	Classroom Practice Strand: Video: An Introduction to Lesson Study
VI.	Lunch - provided by project
VII.	Literacy Strand: "Reading Writing & History" What makes a good piece of historical writing?
Resources	Internet resources based on handouts from Jon Gjerde's talk: Common Sense by Thomas Paine - full text of the work from Bartleby.com. Thomas Paine - American Writers Series - CSpan Companion to TV series: includes transcripts, links, video clips and background information on Thomas Paine and several other writers including James Madison & Thomas Jefferson. Excerpts from the original U.S. naturalization law of March 26, 1790 (1 Stat 103-104) provided the first rules to be followed by all of the United States in the granting of national citizenship. This act established a uniform rule for naturalization by setting the residence requirement at two years. (see also Background History of the United States Naturalization Process). George Bancroft - The Office of the People in Art , Government and Religion Text of an Oration Delivered Before the Adelphi Society of Williams College, in August 1835. ThomasNast.com (HarpWeek, LLC)-A web site dedicated to Thomas Nast and his political cartoons that were featured in Harper's Weekly. Immigrant and Ethnic America (HarpWeek, LLC)-Includes political cartoons by Thomas Nast and articles that appeared in Harper's Weekly. Topics include: culture; labor; anti-Chinese movement; politics; China and the world; ethnic comparisons; and immigration in different regions of the United States. Thomas Nast Virtual Exhitbition : Biography, timeline and cartoon portfolio from Ohio State Libraries. Cartoons of Thomas Nast: Reconstruction, Chinese Immigration, Native Americans, Gilded Era