McCormick Freedom Museum 4th Annual Teacher Resource Fair

Description

From the McCormick Freedom Museum website:

"Middle and high school educators and administrators are invited to meet with over 30 exhibitors who provide free educational resources for the classroom and beyond. Multiple organizations, including the Freedom Museum, will feature resources designed to inspire youth civic engagement."

Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
McCormick Freedom Museum
Target Audience
"Middle and high school educators and administrators"
Start Date
Cost
Free
Duration
Four hours

History of Photography

Description

From the Center for Interactive Learning and Collaboration website:

"Learn about key American photographers and photographic processes and styles, as well as how photography from 1839 to the present day relates to American history. Receive digital images, image guides, and other materials to make connections between photography's history and levels of language arts, science, social studies, and visual art."

Program provided by the Amon Carter Museum.

Contact name
Nancy Strickland
Sponsoring Organization
Amon Carter Museum
Phone number
817-989-5038
Target Audience
K-12
Start Date
Cost
$10 for individuals; $200 for a group of up to 35 educators in a point-to-point connection
Duration
Two hours

Chicago History Museum: Teacher Workshop

Description

From the Chicago History Museum website:

"Discover how to incorporate public art into your history instruction. Join James Percoco on a visual journey to see Abraham Lincoln monuments across the country. Percoco compares their meanings when they were unveiled with how we respond to them now, as well as shares tips for analyzing public art with students. See the exhibition 'Abraham Lincoln Transformed' and investigate the Lincoln monument behind the Museum. Fee includes a copy of Percoco's Summers with Lincoln, breakfast refreshments, and classroom resource materials."

Sponsoring Organization
Chicago History Museum
Phone number
312-642-4600
Target Audience
PreK-12
Start Date
Cost
$40
Course Credit
"3 CPDUs."
Duration
Three hours

Chicago History Museum: Student Workshop

Description

From the Chicago History Museum website:

"In this workshop, middle- and high-school students play the role of historians. Facilitated by teacher and author of Summers with Lincoln James Percoco, students investigate the meanings and legacies of Abraham Lincoln in public art. Students explore the exhibition 'Abraham Lincoln Transformed,' analyze the monument in the museum's backyard, and work with a local artist to formulate a creative response to the statue."

Phone number
312-642-4600
Target Audience
"Middle- and high-school students"
Start Date
Course Credit
Free
Duration
Two and a half hours

Chicago History Museum: Educator Open House

Description

From the Chicago History Museum website:

"Tour the Museum's two new exhibitions, 'Abraham Lincoln Transformed' and 'Benito Juárez and the Making of Modern Mexico.' Meet the curators, plan your field trip, and receive classroom resource materials. Enjoy light refreshments and raffle drawings."

Sponsoring Organization
Chicago History Museum
Phone number
312-642-4600
Target Audience
PreK-12
Start Date
Cost
Free
Course Credit
"Earn 1 CPDU for each hour."
Duration
Three hours

I Sing the Nation Electric: How Poetry Makes America

Description

From the Newberry Library website:

"This course approaches poetry as a force that shapes ideas of citizenship and cultural identity. We will examine the form and content of familiar and less familiar poems from the period of the American Revolution to the present, including works by Longfellow, Whitman, William Carlos Williams, Allen Ginsberg, Adrienne Rich, and Joy Harjo."

Contact email
Sponsoring Organization
Newberry Library
Phone number
312-255-3700
Target Audience
General public
Start Date
Cost
$180
Duration
Seven weeks
End Date

Debating the Constitution: The Federalist Papers and Anti-Federalist Essays

Description

From the Newberry Library website:

"One of the most remarkable debates in history took place in 1787-1788, when American essayists debated the merits of the Constitution drafted in Philadelphia. We will discuss several of the renowned Federalist Papers that supported the Constitution, along with essays of anti-Federalists, whose criticisms helped shape how the Constitution was ultimately implemented and interpreted."

Contact email
Sponsoring Organization
Newberry Library
Phone number
312-255-3700
Target Audience
General public
Start Date
Cost
$155
Duration
Five weeks
End Date

It Didn't All Go Up in Flames: Researching Pre-Fire Chicago

Description

From the Newberry Library website:

"Many researchers mistakenly believe that the Great Fire of 1871 destroyed all record of early Chicago. This seminar belies that common misconception by introducing participants to the wide variety of rich resources available for exploring pre-fire Chicago. Using a thematic approach, we will explore maps, city directories, railroad guides, newspapers, diaries, church records, sheet music, and much more. We will also discuss relevant holdings at local institutions and search strategies for further research."

Contact email
Sponsoring Organization
Newberry Library
Phone number
312-255-3700
Target Audience
General public
Start Date
Cost
$95
Duration
Two weeks
End Date

A People's History of Chicago, 1880-1960

Description

From the Newberry Library website:

"This course will explore the social history of Chicago in the years between the Great Fire of 1871 and the modern Civil Rights Movement. Our core texts will be works of historical fiction, including selections from Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie, Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, and Richard Wright's Native Son. Using these as windows into the city's vibrant past, we will investigate the changing texture of everyday life amidst vast social, political, and economic change."

Contact email
Sponsoring Organization
Newberry Library
Phone number
312-255-3700
Target Audience
General public
Start Date
Cost
$170
Duration
Six weeks
End Date

Reading the Plan of Chicago: Daniel Burnham's Civic Vision

Description

From the Newberry Library website:

"The Plan of Chicago (1909) was based on the conviction of its principle writer, Daniel Burnham, that citizens can intervene in the rush of unplanned urban growth to re-direct Chicago's physical structure, creating conditions conducive to humane and prosperous living. We will read and discuss the text, diagrams, and illustrations of the Plan itself, to learn about an important epoch in Chicago's history and to reflect on the challenge it poses to our experience of living in Chicago a century later."

Contact email
Sponsoring Organization
Newberry Library
Phone number
312-255-3700
Target Audience
General public
Start Date
Cost
$140
Duration
Four weeks
End Date