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Summer Institute 2004: Massachusetts Towns in American History
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Welcome to the MSP / BSHL Summer Institute!

Lead Teacher: Christine Baron, Baron Education Consulting.
Christine can be contacted at christine@baroneducationconsulting.net

Coordinator: Joanne Riley, Acting Director, The Massachusetts Studies Project.
Joanne can be reached at k12.msp@umb.edu or 617-287-7654

Mon 8/2

Tues 8/3

Wed 8/4

Thurs 8/5

Fri 8/6

8:30 am

Historical Grounding: English Settlement (Christine Baron)

Historical Grounding:
Colonial Era. (Christine Baron)

Historical Grounding: Revolutionary War (Christine Baron)

Dedham Historical Society (DIRECTIONS, PARKING, etc)

Ron Frazier, Director,
Sandy Waxman, Archivist: Dedham Archives and Library Resources

Historical Grounding: Constitutional Era - Jonathan Chu, UMB Dept. of History

10:00

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10:15

Templates: Demos and Activities (Joanne Riley)

Templates: Demos and Activities

MAPS.PPT

Templates: Demos and Activities (Joanne Riley)

Jan Eakins, Director, Fairbanks House: Reading the Landscape

Walking Tour: Dedham Center, Village Cemetery (CB, JE)

Templates: Demos and Activities (Joanne Riley)

Project Plan Presentations
(CB, JR)

11:00

Exhibit, Tour, Overview of
Mass State Archives / Comm Museum Resources

Margaret Adlum: Library Resources. Marilyn Day: Healey Library Curriculum Resource Center

Noon

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1:00 pm

Ron Adams, Teacher: Localizing the Curriculum: Through A Teacher's Eyes

Bonnie Hurd Smith, Biographer: Primary Sources in the Classroom: Letters of Judith Sargent Murray

Donna Hooper, Town Clerk, Lexington and Mary Gillespie, Lexington Historical Society: Town Hall Resources for Educators

Fairbanks House Visit

Lecture: Jan Eakins,Vernacular Architecture; John Ferry The Colonial Kitchen, Paul Levesque School Visitors in an Historic House

Christine Baron:
Field Trips and the Frameworks

2:30

Discussion

Discussion

Discussion

Discussion

3:00 pm

Dismissal

Dismissal

Dismissal

Dismissal from Dedham

Till Next Time!

Institute funded by
The Massachusetts Historical Records Advisory Board, Office of the Secretary of the State and The Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities

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