July 2008
July 14, 2008 - July 16, 2008
Marking the Bicentennial: Challenges of Latin America, Past & Present
8:30am - 4:00pm
This three-day syposium will enrich secondary history and geography teachers' content understanding and teaching resources to meet the History-Social Science Standards from the Mayan Civilization through the 20th century. UCD faculty and graduate students from the Departments of History, Spanish, and Anthropology will share their expertise and resources to help us understand the complexity of the diverse region's history, geography and cultures. We will examine primary resources, discuss their relevancy for the classroom, and learn strategies to help students analyze them. Participants will collaborate with colleagues from across the Sacramento region and walk away with a collection of visual and text sources and model lessons for their classrooms.
Earn professional development hours. University credit availalbe. Sac City 18-hour Credit Approved!
While this symposium is targeted for secondary teachers, we welcome our colleagues from elementary and post-secondary institutions.
This event is co-sponsored by the Davis Humanities Institute, the UCD Hemispheric Institute of the Americas, and UCD University Outreach and International Programs.
$300. Special conditions apply for partner schools and districts. Please inquire.
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July 21, 2008 - July 23, 2008
Building Thematic Bridges Across the History Curriculum
9:00am to 3:30pm
A team of 6th-, 7th-, and 8th-grade teachers developed this symposium designed to help increase student achievement on the CALIFORNIA STANDARDS TEST (CST) through strategic instruction. Hear from historians and work with teacher leaders to expand your understanding of themes such as government, religion, and commerce that appear in all three grades. Leave with new ways to capitalize on these themes to make instruction more memorable.
DISCOUNTS PROVIDED for teams of 2 or more from one school site.
$300.00 per teacher, $450.00 for a team of two, $600.00 for a team of three from your school.
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July 24, 2008 - July 24, 2008
Historical Book Group
9:00am to 5:00pm
Sacramento State University Student Union
Join your K-16 teaching colleagues for a relaxing and intellectually stimulating day. Historians will lead small groups in seminar style discussions, regarding the issues raised in their book and the implications for teaching history.
An orientation will be held on May 14th from 4:30-6:30 at Sutter Middle School, 715 Riley in Folsom room A-13.
$50.00
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July 30, 2008
We Are California: Stories of Immigration and Change
11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m
This event, brought to you by the California Council for the Humanities (CCH)and our statewide office, the California History-Social Science Project, explores CCH's new interactive website: We Are California.
The workshop will use the site's resources to explore the history and stories of those who have immigrated or migrated to California in "The Era of Great Internal Migrations to California: World War One to World War Two." Workshop participants will consider the experiences of Dust Bowl migrants, Mexicans and Mexican Americans, African Americans, Filipinos, and Japanese Americans in California during this period. The workshop features model lessons, primary sources, current scholarship and lunch.
$30