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EGUSD teachers at Williamsburg


"Men , their rights and nothing more.Women, their rights and nothing less."

- Susan B. Anthony

Events for 2009-2010
Grant #2 - Founding Documents in American History: A Passport to Liberty

October 27, 2009 - Cohort #3, MLC #2 @ Elizabeth Pinkerton Middle School

January 26, 2010 - Cohort #3, MLC #3 @ Elizabeth Pinkerton Middle School

May 4, 2010 - Cohort #3, MLC #4 @ Trigg Center - Room 117

Grant #3 - The American Citizen: A Study of Liberty and Rights

Mastering History Project - Coursework Begins January of 2010

Talking History Project
The Constitution and American Liberty Lecture and Book study series
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Date

Topic

Scholar

September 17, 2009

Founders

Dr. Erika Gasser, CSUS

October 15, 2009

Thomas Jefferson, Race, and the Constitution

Dr. Clarence Walker, UC Davis

November 12, 2009

Women and American Citizenship

Dr. Ellen Hartigan-O’Conner, UC Davis

December 3, 2009

Squaring the Circles:  The Native Encounter with English Colonizers

Dr. Alan Taylor, UC Davis

January 14, 2010

Civil War and Constitutional Transformations

Dr. Robin Einhorn, UC Berkeley

March 11, 2010

Brown v. The Board of Education

Dr. Shirley Ann Wilson Moore, CSUS

April 15, 2010

Roe v. Wade

Dr. Rebecca Kluchin, CSUS

Doing History Project
The American Citizen: A Study of Liberty and Rights Doing History Workshop Series
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Date

Topic

History Organization

September 25-26, 2009

The DBQ Project Method

Document Based Question (DBQ) Project

November 6-7, 2009

Constitutional Court Cases

The National Archives and Records Administration

February 19-20, 2010

The DBQ Project: Assessment and effective use

Document Based Question (DBQ) Project

April 23-24, 2010

Principles of Democracy

The Constitutional Rights Foundation

May 14, 2010

Deadline for DBQ Lesson Submission

Living History
The American Citizen: A Study of Liberty and Rights Living History Colloquia and Summer Institute Series
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Date

Topic

History Organization

October 23-24, 2009

From Civil War to Civil Rights: Testing American Democracy

The Constitutional Rights Foundation

December 4-5, 2009

Black Americans and Japanese Internment

The National Archives and Records Administration

February 26-27, 2010

“Stony the Road We Trod…”

Out of the Box Consultant Services

April 16-17, 2010

Japanese Internment and Constitutional Rights

California Museum of History, Women, and the Arts

Summer Institute
June 8-14, 2010

A Study of the Civil Rights Movement

Birmingham Civil Rights Institute

 

   
For questions or additional information on EGUSD's Teach American History Grant, contact Don Azevada
Note: Image of soldiers in TAH logo was copied with permission from the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.