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 A FREE Five-Day Summer Seminar PLUS Three School-Year Field Trips
 for 
 Washington, D.C., Public School and Public Charter School TeachersMonday, June 22 – Friday, June 26, 2009
Learn to Use Performance and Museum Teaching Strategies to Bring your Classroom Alive!
 You are invited to participate in a five-day learning adventure that will immerse you in the Civil War history of Washington and the country.By preparing and performing historical speeches, interpreting letters, and “reading” artifacts, images and places, you will develop teachingtechniques that strengthen reading comprehension and critical thinking skills.Over the course of five mornings, you will travel to three historic sites in some of Washington’s most historic neighborhoods. In the afternoons, you will participate in interpretations of important speeches and letters, and learn tools that lead to rigorous visual and experiential learning.
 And during the school year, you and your students get…
•Onefreefieldtrip(includingtransportation)forupto40studentstoeachofthethreeCivilWarConsortiumhistoricsites•Onefreein-classvisitbyateachingartisttosupportyourclassroomwork•SupportinpreparingfortheFrederickDouglassOratoricalCompetition• Accesstoadditionalfreeprofessionaldevelopment,artsandculturalopportunitiesinandaroundD.C•Thechancetobecomea
paid
CivilWarConsortiumfacultyfellowinfuturesummers
In return, we ask you to…
•Developand“fieldtest”alessonplanorunitforpublicationonourwebsite•ContinuetobeapartoftheTeachingFellowscommunity–onlineorinperson-duringtheschoolyear
Essential Questions: 
•HowcanIhelpmystudentsconnectinauthenticwaystothisFederalcitythattheycallhome?•Howcanusingimages,performance,andfieldtripsenhancereadingcomprehensioninmyclassroom? •HowcanspeakingthewordsofgreatpeoplelikeAbrahamLincolnandFrederickDouglasshelpustounderstandtheirpoint ofview,strategy,andimpactuponhistory?
Learning Strategies:
•ExperientialandObject-basedlearning(sitevisitswithguidingquestions)•Dramaticinterpretationfollowedbyreflectivediscussion•Closereadingandinterpretationofprimarysourcetexts•Investigationofvirtualresources
Curriculum and Instruction are Aligned with English/Language Arts & Social StudiesLearning Standards in Grades 5 and 8
 
The Civil War Washington Fellows Consortium
Ford’s Theatre is operated in partnership by the Ford’s Theatre Society and the Ford’s Theatre National Historic Site. After anextensive renovation, the Theatre reopened in February 2009 with a new lobby and upgraded theatrical capacity. In late spring, a redesigned museum opens.Cedar Hill, the Frederick Douglass National Historic Site, is the home where the great orator and abolitionist Frederick Douglass livedat the end of his life. It sits on the one of the highest points in Anacostia, and recently completed a three-year restoration. It overflows with artifacts illustrating the life that Douglass lived there with his family.Tudor Place Historic House and Garden in Georgetown was built by Martha Washington’s granddaughter, Martha Custis Peter, andher husband, Thomas Peter, son of the first Mayor of Georgetown in 1816. The same family lived in the home until 1983, includingthe period of the Civil War, when the home was opened as a boarding house for Union Officers by Britannia Peter Kennon, a Southern sympathizer. The museum and archives holds an extensive collection of rare Civil War artifacts and documents.
Seminar Schedule
Most days will begin at Tudor Place in Georgetown. There is limited free parking on site and a shuttle can be arranged from the Dupont Circle Metro.Continental breakfast and lunch are included each day.
Day One: Tudor Place Historic House and Garden 
•VisittoTudorPlaceHistoricHouseandGarden•OralinterpretationofCivilWarlettersfromtheTudorPlacecollection•School-YearLesson/Unitprojectintroduction
Day Two: The Frederick Douglass National Historic Site 
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Visit to Frederick Douglass’s home
•InterpretiveperformanceofFrederickDouglass’s
What to a Negro is the Fourth of July?
•Introductiontothesite’sannualoratoricalcontest
Day Three: Ford’s Theatre 
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Introduction to Ford’s Theatre, Civil War Washington and Lincoln’s presidency 
•TourofFord’sTheatre,museum,andthehousewhereLincolndied•Performanceof
One Destiny,
byRichardHellesen,followedbydiscussionwiththeactors•
In Search of President Lincoln’s Assassin,
AFord’sTheatre
History on Foot
experience•OratoryworkshopbasedonLincoln’sSecondInauguralAddress
Day Four: Integrating History and Public Speaking 
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Brainstorm and develop School-Year Lesson/Unit projectsDay Five: Lesson/Unit Presentations, School-Year Planning and Funding Opportunities 
•
School-Year Lesson/Unit Presentations
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Guidedworkshopexploringgrantopportunitiestoallowforfieldtripsandteachingartistvisitsbeyondwhatisofferedwiththisprogram
•Reflectontheseminarandplannextsteps
FREDERICKDOUGLASSNATIONALHISTORICSITEFORD’STHEATRENATIONALHISTORICSITE
PleasereturnthisapplicationbyApril1to:JakeFlack,jflack@fords.orgorFAXto(202)347-6269Formoreinformation,callJakeFlackatFord’sat(202)638-2941ext567.
 
I was beginning to wonder if anyone understood what kind of support actual teachers needed. Pleaseconvince other non-profits to follow your model.
 
-D.C. Public Schools Elementary Teacher
I really enjoyed the Institute and find myself reflecting on my experience quite often. I know I will keepin contact with you throughout the year because of the many important resources you offer which willhelp to increase the learning and teaching experiences across DCPS’s core subjects.
- Grade 5 teacher, D.C. Public Schools
This was a very worthwhile way to spend four days of my summer vacation. I am extremely grateful for the effort the representatives of the three sites expended to make my experience memorable, enjoyable,and educational. I am always looking for new and exciting ways to make my students look forward tocoming to my class each day and all of you have aided me in that endeavor. I look forward to many moremeetings with all of you. Thank you for being committed to the children of the District of Columbia.
-Grade 5 teacher, E.L. Haynes Public Charter School, D.C
.
I have to tell you …that I went to another professional development workshop that sounded akin to theCWW Fellows program and was sorely disappointed… There was no in depth look at the content or discussion about how to use alternative methods to encourage student understanding. I have been using some of the strategies we talked about (and the insight gained from other teachers in DC) in my classesregularly… The program has been beneficial in so many ways for me...and we’re not even to the CivilWar yet! Thank you, thank you, a million times, thanks!
- Grade 8 Social Studies teacher, Washington Latin Public Charter School, D.C.
PleasereturnthisapplicationbyApril1to:JakeFlack,jflack@fords.orgorFAXto(202)347-6269Formoreinformation,callJakeFlackatFord’sat(202)638-2941ext567.
2008 Civil War Washington Teacher Fellows Feedback 
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