Modules+Schedule+&+Readings


 * = Modules Resources = ||  ||

Modules notes sheets*
|| **Notes sheets for each module** ||
 * [[file:Modules YR2 Grid .pdf]] || **Overview of all modules with readings and instructors** ||


 * [[file:2011—2012 Graduate Module Grid.pdf]] || **Complete outline of our course with frameworks standards** ||


 * ===[[file:Snack Schedule.pdf]]=== || ===Snack Schedule=== ||

= Modules Schedule & Readings =

__**November 3, 4-7 pm: (Westwood High School, Room A-105)**__
// Freedom and Citizenship in the New Nation & Throughout the 19th Century // __**Reading:**__ //The Story of American Freedom// (Eric Foner), Chapters 3-5 (pgs. 47-113)
 * Instructors:** Pat Reeve (Suffolk University) & Dan Frio (Advisory Teacher)

__November 17, 2011, 4-7 pm: (Westwood High School, Room A-105)__
//Freedom in Theory & Practice: the Puzzle of Race// //The Cherokee Trail of Tears//

__**Readings:**__ //The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears (Green/Perdue), chapters 1, 5 & 6)// Available in Google Docs Extract from Andrew Jackson’s Seventh Annual Message to Congress, December 7, 1835 Indian Removal Act of 1830 Map: Indian Removal Routes
 * Instructors:** Pam Ellis, Esq. (tribal law expert) & Dan Frio (Advisory Teacher)
 * //Secondary Source://**
 * //Primary Sources//**

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 * //Optional Context Reading://**

__December 1, 2011, 4-7 pm: (Westwood High School, Room A-105)__
//Freedom in Theory and Practice: the Puzzles of Status and Access// //The law of coverture and woman's status// //Dorr's Rebellion for universal male suffrage//

__**Readings:**__ //Ballots and Bibles: Ethnic Politics and the Catholic Church in Providence (Sterne), Chapter 1 (p. 13-35) & Chapter 3 (P. 60-80)//
 * Instructor:** Evelyn Sterne (University of Rhode Island)
 * Secondary Source:**

//**Additional Readings:**// //Please explore the resources listed on this page about Understanding by Design and writing essential questions--be prepared to bring some of these thoughts to class.// //UBD Resources//

__December 15, 2011, 4-7 pm: (Westwood High School, Room A-105)__
// The Price of Freedom: Abolitionism, Anthony Burns, & the Dred Scott Decision //

__**Readings:**__ //The Black Hearts of Men (Stauffer),// Chapter 1, pp. 8-44 (photocopied & distributed in class) Narrative of William Wells Brown by William Wells Brown (1849) [|(http://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/brownw/brown.html)]
 * Instructor:** Kerri Greenidge
 * Secondary Source:**
 * Primary Source:**


 * Please look at the Final Project Outline and Final Project Resources pages to begin thinking about your final projects

**__January 12, 2012, 4-7 pm: (Westwood High School, Room A-105)__**
//Re-imagining Freedom for All: Antebellum Women's Rights Movement//

__**Readings:**__ //(Kathryn Kish Sklar) Women's Rights Emerges within the Antislavery Movement: 1830-1870, A Brief History with Documents (Bedford/St. Martin's, 2000), pps. 1-39. (39 pages)//
 * Instructor:** Pat Reeve
 * Secondary Source: (Book)**

Primary Source Excerpts (6 pages)
 * Primary Source:**

Ronald Waters, "Womens' Reform Movement," TeachingHistory.org @http://teachinghistory.org/history-content/beyond-the-textbook/24124 (4 pages)
 * Optional Context Readings:**


 * Historical Thinking Skills Readings**

**Historical Thinking Skills Readings**

**__February 2, 2012, 4-7 pm: (Westwood High School, Room A-105)__**
//Sectional Imaginings of Popular Sovereignty & the Right of Dissent: Bleeding Kansas, Harper's Ferry, & Secession//


 * Instructor:** Zoe Trodd

__**Readings:**__ //Excerpt from "Writ in Blood" pp 1-29, (Trodd)//
 * Secondary Source:**

Excerpt from: //The Tribunal Responses to John Brown and the Harper's Ferry Raid, pp. 2-29// (Trodd)
 * Primary Source:**

Link here for readings
(also in photocopied packet)

PBS articles on John Brown: __@http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p1550.html__ __@http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2940.html__
 * Optional Context Readings:**

**__February 16, 2012, 4-7 pm: (Westwood High School, Room A-105)__**
//Redefining Freedom in Wartime: Lincoln, Emancipation, & Race//


 * Instructor:** Christian Samito

__**Readings:**__ //Radical and the Republican (Oakes), pp. xiii-xxii & 264-275) **(Book)**//
 * Secondary Source:**

Primary source excerpts (also in photocopied packet)
 * Primary Source:**

Please be prepared to discuss the question "Was the Civil War inevitable" with the documents given out on February 2. Link here to these materials
 * Lesson--Causes of the Civil War:**

**__March 1, 2012, 4-7 pm: (Westwood High School, Room A-105)__**
//Contested Freedoms: Reconstruction and Jim Crow//


 * Instructor:** Heather Cox Richardson

__**Readings:**__ //**None**//
 * Secondary Source:**

Primary Source exerpts (also in photocopied packet)
 * Primary Source:**

**//__ Assignment: __//**
===// Bring in one primary source you use in your teaching that is related to anything covered in our course. Be prepared to share with others how you use it (include a copy of the source and a brief written summary—we will share all of these with the entire class) //===

**__March 10, 2012, 9 am -3:30 pm: (MA Historical Society)__**
//Massachusetts and the Civil War in 1861//

Click here for directions to Massachusetts Historical Society


 * Instructors:**Kathleen Barker, Barbara Berenson, & Jayne Gordon

__**Readings:**__ //Becoming American Under Fire (Samito), chapters 3 & 5 **(Book)**//
 * Secondary Source:**

None
 * Primary Source:**

Please take some time to explore the MA Historical Society's site on the Civil War //Looking at the Civil War: Massachusetts Finds Her Voice//
 * Context Readings**:

**__March 15, 2012, 4-7 pm: (Westwood High School, Room A-105)__**
//Contested Visions of Freedom: The Ideas and Lives of Ida B. Wells, Booker T. Washington, and W.E.B. Du Bois//


 * Instructor:** Kerri Greenidge

__**Readings:**__ //A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration,// **Chapter 8 ("Of Ballots and Bi-Racialism")** (in photocopied packet or link below)
 * Secondary Source:**

The Souls of Black Folk, by W.E.B. Dubois (1903), Chapter 3 ("Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others") ( in photocopied packet or link below)
 * Primary Source:**

Link here for readings

**__April 12, 2012, 4-7 pm: (Westwood High School, Room A-105)__**
//Bread is Freedom, Freedom Bread: Workers' Struggles for Democracy and the Problem of Race//


 * Instructor:** Pat Reeve

__**Readings:**__ //"The Politics of "More": The Labor Question and the Idea of Economic Liberty in Industrial America, pp. 17-36// (in photocopied packet or link below)
 * Secondary Source:**

Primary Source packet ( in photocopied packet or link below)
 * Primary Source:**


 * Optional Context Readings** on the Gilded Age (included in link below)

Link here for readings