CTAH Workshop: "War as a Turning Point: American Conflicts at Home and Abroad"

Social and Political Change in the 19th Century

The U.S. and the World in the 20th Century

"War as a Turning Point: American Conflicts at Home and Abroad", Focus on Literacy

July 9-13, 2007

Monday, July 9: Defining American Foreign Policy

8:30-9:30 Welcome to the Workshop -- Tom Dublin, Project Director
Focus of the Workshop -- Tim Cooper & Penelope Harper
Pre-Evaluation Survey

9:30-11:30 Literacy: "Reading As Thinking": Part I, Susan Hallenbeck

11:30-12:00 Lunch

12:00-3:00 Emerging American Foreign Policy: American Revolution to the Monroe Doctrine

Tuesday, July 10: Building & Defining the Nation Through War

8:30-11:30 Sectionalism, Nationalism, and War

11:30-12:00 Lunch

12:00-3:00 Wars, Both Splendid & Great: America Emerges on the World Stage

Wednesday, July 11: World War II

8:30-11:30 Literacy: "Reading As Thinking": Part II, Patricia Kuenecke

11:30-12:00 Lunch

12:00-3:00 World War II at Home & Abroad

Thursday, July 12: Cold War Mentalities

8:30-11:30 Literacy Session III: Differentiation-- Rebecca De Bottis

11:30-12:00 Lunch

12:00-3:00 The Cold War: Foreign & Domestic Policy

Friday, July 13: The Post-Cold War Era

8:30-9:30 Library Media Resources: How we can help you raise your scores. Jan Orzel

9:30-11:30 The New World Order
11:30-12:15 Lunch

12:15-2:15 Teaching Wartime Issues with Current Events

2:15-3:00 Wrap-up, peer review planning, and evaluations

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