Thank you to all who attended yesterday’s Showcase Event!
Thank you as well to all the participants presenting.
In addition, our tremendous thanks to the panel participants: Matt Stone (Mystic Valley Community Charter School), Colleen Synan (Malden Public Schools), Jessica Traveline (Chelsea Public Schools), Joanna Newton (Braintree Public Schools), Helen Martin (Everett Public Schools), and Kevin Cullen (Medford Public Schools). They did a terrific job of sharing their experience of the Project and its benefits.
Additional photos from the Showcase Event will be posted soon.
Posted in BA Year 3 ,Showcase Tagged: BA Yr3, Showcase event May 15, 2012
You are cordially invited to attend the year-end event for Becoming America: The Defining Role of Immigration, a project federally funded by the Teaching American History grant. The exhibition of educator-created American history projects for Year 3 will be held at Remis Sculpture Court, Aidekman Arts Center at Tufts University in Medford on Monday, May 14, 2011 from 4:00 – 5:00 PM.
The Becoming America project has provided high-quality professional development in selected American history content and analysis to Braintree, Chelsea, Everett, Malden, Medford, and Mystic Valley Regional Charter School elementary, middle and high school teachers responsible for the teaching of American history. Becoming America focused on American immigration history from 1776 – 2009 by highlighting various segments of our country’s history, presented so that students can see the immigrant/disenfranchised group role in the expansion of America (year 1), the enlivening of American ideals (year 2), the plurality of voices in a modernizing democracy (year 3). For more information, visit the TRITEC Becoming America Project pages
Directions to Tufts, project summary, and project partner information can be found on this invitation.
Please share this invitation with your community. We look forward to seeing you at the Showcase Event!
Posted in BA Year 3 ,Showcase Tagged: BA Yr3, Showcase event May 12, 2012
History is fun. Knowing more about the history is even more fun!
That’s the purpose behind a radio/podcast program called “Backstory with the American History Guys.”
The “History Guys” are three University of Virgina professors. Their mission is to dig down to the underlying history of events and issues. In the process they talk to lots of interesting people and make fascinating connections.
With Memorial Day coming up, they are planning an episode devoted to the history and issues of monuments: “Monumental Disagreements.”
Starting May 11, 2012 the program will go weekly. Check it out!
Posted in informational Tagged: BA Yr3, backstory, historical resources, informational, Links May 10, 2012
You are cordially invited to attend the year-end event for Becoming America: The Defining Role of Immigration, a project federally funded by the Teaching American History grant. The exhibition of educator-created American history projects for Year 3 will be held at Remis Sculpture Court, Aidekman Arts Center at Tufts University in Medford on Monday, May 14, 2011 from 4:00 – 5:00 PM.
The Becoming America project has provided high-quality professional development in selected American history content and analysis to Braintree, Chelsea, Everett, Malden, Medford, and Mystic Valley Regional Charter School elementary, middle and high school teachers responsible for the teaching of American history. Becoming America focused on American immigration history from 1776 – 2009 by highlighting various segments of our country’s history, presented so that students can see the immigrant/disenfranchised group role in the expansion of America (year 1), the enlivening of American ideals (year 2), the plurality of voices in a modernizing democracy (year 3). For more information, visit the TRITEC Becoming America Project pages
Directions to Tufts, project summary, and project partner information can be found on this invitation.
Please share this invitation with your community. We look forward to seeing you at the Showcase Event!
Posted in BA Year 3 ,Showcase Tagged: BA Yr1, informational, Showcase event May 4, 2012
This Thursday, May 3, 2012, NARA Northeast in Waltham is hosting a professional development workshop for teachers: Immigration/Migration and American Identity.
The blurb on the NARA site says, “We are a tapestry, quilt, bouquet. The records of where we have been are in the National Archives.”
Registration is online.
The workshop is held at NARA-NE from 6:00pm to 8:00 pm, Thursday, May 3, 2012.
More information at all the offerings for teachers can be found at NARA’s “Resources for Educators” page.
Click here for a full PDF of NARA-NE’s offerings for this spring and summer.
Posted in BA Year 3 ,informational ,Links ,research Tagged: BA Yr3, historical resources, immigration, Links, NARA, primary sources, research, resources April 30, 2012
As you are all aware, 2012 is the 100th anniversary of the Bread and Roses strike in Lawrence and this Saturday, April 28, 2012 is the Bread and Roses Centennial Academic Symposium!
Join friends and colleagues from more than 20 different states and Canada for panel sessions at the Everett Mill, the Essex Art Center, and the Lawrence Heritage State Park (Note: All venues are within easy walking distance from each other). Click here for a printable version of event schedule.
The cost for the event is $25 and includes lunch.
For more information and to register, visit the Lawrence History Center website.
To learn more about the Bread and Roses Strike, visit The Bread and Roses Centennial Exhibit. If you would like to teach your class about the Bread and Roses Strike, check out Becoming America’s Year 2 teacher created project based lessons.
Posted in BA Year 2 ,BA Year 3 ,informational Tagged: "Bread and Roses", BA Yr2, BA Yr3, BAY3, Bread and Roses Centennial, Bread and Roses Centennial Academic Symposium, Bread and Roses Strike, Lawrence History Center, primary sources, strike, symposium April 24, 2012
Becoming America Year 2 Final Event
Welcome back! We hope you enjoyed April Vacation Week!
Becoming America Project Participants are working on their posters for the Spring Showcase Event.
Like posters for National History Day presentations, BA Year 3 posters will present the main points of the lessons along with examples of primary source documents, inquiry-based activities, and student work.
More information about poster-making can be found in Lesson Planning 9 on the BA Wiki.
Additional advice about Showcase Event poster-making can be found in this blog by searching for “showcase.” Here’s a useful entry from BA Year 1.
Looking forward to the Showcase Event, Monday, May 14!
Posted in BA Year 3 ,Showcase Tagged: BA Yr3, lp9_11, Poster, poster board, presentation board, Showcase, Showcase event April 23, 2012
This weekend, April 14-15 2012, marks the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic.
As the movie romance of Jack and Rose reminds us, the Titanic carried immigrant passengers as well.
The third-class decks (“steerage”) accommodated those with lesser means coming to America. They also received different treatment. This was not uncommon. Past BA Blog entry Citizenship for sale? explained similar experiences of immigrants coming to Ellis Island. Indeed, had the Titanic passengers reached their intended destination, they would have disembarked at Ellis Island.
There are a number of commemorations taking place this weekend. A number of resources about the Titanic and immigration are being posted.
For example, check out Language was a barrier for immigrant on sinking Titanic By Shelley Terry.
Or, explore facts about The Titanic – Third Class Passengers on HistoryontheNet.com. This site gives emigrant background.
Yankee Magazine online has reposted an article by a Finish immigrant Elin Hakkarainen Titanic Survivor: Going Down with the Titanic in Third Class.
Another story, from Omaha.com is Nebraska-bound immigrant survived Titanic sinking by Henry J. Cordes.
A search for “titanic and immigrant” yields many other stories and facts. With a little research and imagination, we can construct a timely story about the Titanic and its connection to immigration….
Posted in BA Year 3 ,informational ,Links Tagged: BA Yr3, finish, historical resources, immigrant, immigration, informational, irish, Links, research, resources, titanic April 13, 2012
This Saturday, April 14, 2012, the Pioneer Valley History Network is hosting an all-day conference entitled East Meets Western Mass.: an exploration of our region’s unique history with China at the Great Falls Discovery Center, Turner’s Falls, 9 a.m. to 2:45 p.m.
According to their blog, “The Pioneer Valley has played an interesting and important role in the history of relations between the United States and China. This day-long conference will highlight some of the historical and cultural elements of that relationship. $25 Registration Fee includes the conference, the catered lunch, and the performance of the Chinese Folk Art Workshop at 3 p.m. at the Shea Theater.”
Of particular interest is the presentation A Shoemaker’s Story by Dr. Anthony W. Lee.
The program description of Dr. Lee’s presentation explains, “On a June morning in 1870, seventy-five Chinese immigrants stepped off a train in the New England factory town of North Adams, Massachusetts, imported as strikebreakers by the local shoe manufacturer. They threaded their way through a hostile mob and then –remarkably — their new employer lined them up along the south wall of his factory and had them photographed as the mob fell silent. So begins A Shoemaker’s Story. Anthony Lee seeks to understand the social forces that brought this now-famous photograph into being, and the events and images it subsequently spawned.”
The story of the North Adams, MA shoe strike, and the Chinese workers brought in as strike breakers, was told by Becoming America Project Historian Prof. Patricia Reeve in Year 2. Her Fall Seminar 1, 2010 talk Almond-Eyed Celestials and Coolie Labor: Portrayals of Asian Immigrants in the Massachusetts Press, 1870 to 1910 masterfully demonstrated the interconnections of labor, business, and the Chinese Exclusion Act. You can find more about Dr. Reeve’s talk on the BA Wiki.
Also, historian Kerri Greenidge presented on Neither Immigrant Nor White: 19th Century African American Claims Making and the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 for BA Year 2 as well. There is more information about Chinese-American immigration resources on the BA Blog at this page or use the “Search” box to find additional entries.
Project participant and Everett history instructor Helen Martin went on to create the lesson Settled vs. Unsettled: How did corporations use immigration to defeat union goals? about the North Adams strike.
Thus, this weekend’s conference is timely. We hope you go to Western Mass to check it out!
To find out more about Pioneer Valley History Network’s conference “East Meets Western Mass.: an exploration of our region’s unique history with China” go to their site by clicking here.
Image Credit: Thomas Nast, “The Chinese Puzzled”: From Harper’s Weekly: Vol. 30, 1886. The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. [MTP/HW: Vol. 30: 319]. Available on American Memory, Library of Congress at http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/cic:@field%28DOCID+@lit%28brk7213%29%29
Posted in BA Year 3 ,informational ,Links ,Topic Ideas Tagged: Anthony W. Lee, BA Yr2, BA Yr3, chinese, east meets western mass, fall seminar, fs1_10, fs5_10, fs6_10, historical resources, immigrant, informational, kerri greenidge, Links, martin, north adams, pioneer valley, reeve, resources, shoes April 12, 2012
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