Preparing for African American History Month: Ways of Honoring Heroes
One way to introduce African American History Month is by facilitating a discussion about the ways in which African American achievement has been recognized in the nation’s past.
Archive for 2012 (107 posts)
New Lesson Plans with a Global Perspective
Check out two new lesson plans from the Library of Congress using primary sources from Meeting of Frontiers, a bilingual, multimedia English-Russian digital library.
Teaching Difficult Subjects Using Primary Sources: Our Readers Respond
We were thrilled to see the wonderful responses from the blog post on teaching difficult subjects. A huge thank you to all of those who commented, made teaching suggestions and linked to this post.
Experiencing History from Behind the Scenes: Martha Morris and George Washington
What if after 235 years all that was left to tell the story of your life was a single scrap of paper? That is exactly what happened to a woman named Martha Morris who lived in New York during the Revolutionary War.
Introducing Walter Dean Myers – National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature
The Library appoints each Ambassador for a two-year term to travel around the country the importance of fiction and nonfiction in the lives of young people. Dr. Billington stated that the ambassador will be an award-winning author or illustrator whose position will acknowledge—at the national level—the importance of exceptional authors and illustrators in creating the readers of tomorrow.
Share, Save or Connect with the Library of Congress
The Library of Congress is working to make it easier for you to keep up with what’s new at the Library and to share your favorites with others. At the top of many pages of the Library’s Web site is a toolbar allowing you to share links through sites such as Facebook, Twitter and Google, or to email, print or save the file. Look for the icons labeled Print, Subscribe or Share/Save.
The Library of Congress Teacher Conference Schedule for Early 2012
This post comes to us from our Teacher In Residence, Earnestine Sweeting.