Collloquium II - Good Food and Great Presenters
The 2nd Colloquia of Year 2 was this past weekend at the High Point museum. We had good food and great speakers. We also had fun, and got some goodies. Each teacher received a flash drive loaded with grade-specific materials. We also provided information on the Essential Standards process, concept based learning, and the CIP project. MIche Franken, one of our presenters, was a participant last year. She demonstrated how to use History Alive! to make teaching more interesting and interactive. Great job, Miche.
We also got to see Edith Brady's new baby girl, who is a 6-month-old joy. Finally, some of us got to go shopping. We ate and listened, toured and took notes. We stood and sat and moved around the room. In general, most of us stayed awake after the great lunches. Finally, we cleaned up and headed home, tired but satisfied.
Next meeting: March 19, 2010 at Guilford College.
Favorite History Books
- A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
- America's Hidden History: Untold Tales of the First Pilgrims, Fighting Women, and Forgotten Founders Who Shaped a Nation by Kenneth C Davis
- American Creation by Joseph J Ellis
- American Leviathan: Empire, Nation and Revolutionary Frontier by Patrick Griffin
- Death or Liberty: African Americans and Revolutionary America by Douglas R Egerton
- Explorers, Fortunes and Love Letters: A Window on New Netherland ed. by Martha Dickinson Shattuck
- Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D Levitt and Stephen J Dubner
- From Slavery to Freedom by John Hope Franklin
- Hip Hop HIstory by Blake Harrison and Alex Rappaport
- Plain, Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution by Richard Beeman
- Roanoke: the Abandoned Colony by Karen Ordahl Kupperman
- Rough Crossings: Britian, Slaves and the American Revolution by Simon Schama
- Slavery and the Founders: Race and Liberty in the Age of Jefferson by Paul Finkelman
- The Divided Ground: Indians, Settlers and the Northern Borderland of the American Revolution by Alan Taylor
- The First Salute: A View of the American Revolution by Barbara Tuchman
- The Island at the Center of the World by Russell Shorto
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