CONTENTS
African-American
Storytelling: "The Jackal and the Dog"
Primary
Source
Teaching
Strategy
Colonial Williamsburg Teaching Resources
Teaching News
Quote of the Month
The
Next
Electronic Field Trip is
Flames of Freedom
February 12, 2004
2003-2004 Teaching
Resources Catalog
2003–2004 Electronic Field
Trip Scholarships
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February
is
African American
History Month!
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TOP STORIES
African-American
Storytelling:
"The Jackal and the Dog"
A simple story can be a teaching tool.The
African-American folk story, "The
Jackal and the Dog," tells the tale
of the different lives led by a dog that
cohabitates with humans and a jackal that
lives in the wild. In the oral storytelling
tradition, it is a tale about life choices
and the responsibility that comes along
with those choices. Learn
about
the story.
Primary
Source: The Fear of Slave Revolt
Today, it is hard to imagine how terribly
violent slavery was. Slaves feared the
violence of masters. Masters feared slave
revolts. This 1770 Virginia Gazette
account of a slave revolt in Hanover County,
Virginia, reveals how easily a small provocation
could ignite the spark of violence. Learn
More!
Teaching
Strategy
The Art of Storytelling
What
do you know about storytelling? How can
you use storytelling to enhance the teaching
and learning of history and the social
sciences in your classroom? Start with
the stories you and your students possess,
and then work with those stories to build
on your skills as storytellers. Emily
Schell, History-Social Science Coordinator
for the San Diego County Office of Education
shares some strategies and applications
for using storytelling in the classroom.
Learn
More!
Colonial
Williamsburg Teaching Resources for Your
Classroom
Colonial
Williamsburg offers a variety of quality
instructional materials dealing with 18th-century
life, including:
—Hands-On
History: Slave's Bag (object kit)
—Slavery: A Colonial Odyssey
(lesson unit)
—Enslaved (videotape and web
content)
—Caesar's Story: 1759 (book)
—"Stories
Under African Skies" (audio cassette)
—A Day in the Life (instructional
video series)
—Aesops' Fables cards
—Eighteenth-century writing implements
Learn More!
Teaching
News
The
Teaching American History Grant
program is a discretionary grant program
funded by the Elementary and Secondary
Education Act. The goal of the program
is to support programs that raise student
achievement by improving teachers' knowledge,
understanding, and appreciation of American
history. The 2004 Teaching American History
grant competition opened on December 23rd
and will close on March 2, 2004.
Learn More!
Quote
of the Month
"The
love of justice and the love of country
plead equally the cause of these people
[slaves], and it is a moral reproach to
us that they should have pleaded it so long
in vain... Yet the hour of emancipation
is advancing, in the march of time. It will
come; and whether brought on by the generous
energy of our own minds; or by the bloody
process of St. Domingo... [it] is a leaf
of our history not yet turned over."
Thomas
Jefferson, April 22, 1820.
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