Year Two (2008-09)

FOCUS: The Agrarian South and the Industrializing North (1800's)

TAH GRANT EVENTS: Colloquia & Workshops - Throughout each grant year, participants will attend nine days of content-rich colloquia. Our goals embedded in the grant are to increase teacher content knowledge and to increase student knowledge. Colloquia occur during the fall, winter and summer months. Presentations are conducted by noted scholars in the field of history and history education. Teachers will collaborate, investigate teaching strategies, and conduct historical research. Our two-day spring workshop will enable teachers to get hands-on experience while working with our local and regional resources. Teachers will become familiar with all that our region has to offer, ultimately helping our students better understand where they live.

Book Club The purpose of our history book club is to help teachers become more familiar with our American history. Participants will be reading a variety of content-rich books. We plan to meet every few weeks in a variety of settings to conduct a salon (a meeting of intellectuals). Plans include regular face-to-face meetings at various sites between our participants throughout the three counties. Additional discussions will occur with CSUF professors who will help plan discussion topics and will oversee a few meetings related to the reading. This will be scholarship at its finest. First Book: Historical Thinking by Sam Wineburg: Completed Second Book: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs: Completed Third Book: Giants by John Stauffer: Completed Fourth Book: The Associates by Richard Rayner Online at http://blackboard.csufresno.edu/ and click “Blackboard User Login” Call CSU Fresno Blackboard Help Desk at (559) 278-7373 if you need help. *Wednesday, May 20th at 4:00 p.m. In person at Denny’s Restaurant, 2568 S. East St., Fresno 93706. (Jensen and 99)