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Hi Mary,
Thanks for sharing your experiences with lesson testing.
There are many ways to develop lessons and your team is an example of how
folks can get creative within their personal work situations and find ways
to use AM materials. What's better is that we get to put up two great
examples of AM being used in classrooms!
And thanks again to both Gail and Mary for posting this on the main list.
Class of '99, feel free to mention URLs or your lesson experiences here for
alums to see. I bet they are curious!
Judy
At 08:07 PM 03/15/2000 -0800, you wrote:
>Hi Judy
>
>I'll piggyback on my partner Gail's note by saying I have finished my
>lesson and piloted the first section of it today. I'll follow with section
>2 and 3 tomorrow and Friday. The fourth grade staff development lesson went
>very well today. The teachers were excited to learn about the LOC online
>and to be involved in a lesson using some primary source documents with a
>literary work and a poetry project. Many of them felt it would work
>particularly well at the beginning of the next school year. Introducing the
>different types of primary source documents with personal documents and
>artifacts seemed to be a hit and a good way for students to learn more
>about each other as well as how a historian gathers information.
>
>The graphics of the Nashua River and a quote from the Conservation
>documents fit extremely well with Lynne Cherry's "A River Ran Wild".
>Tomorrow with the fifth grade teachers, I am using the Great Northern
>Plains Collection with a piece called "The American Family Farm", and with
>the sixth grade teachers on Friday, we'll match up more river documents and
>graphics with "The River" by Gary Paulsen.
>
>After working as historians to interpret the primary source documents and
>draw some conclusions, the students read the literary work and create 5W
>poems that link the documents and the stories. A sample of the 5W poetry
>can be seen on my site. You may view my lessons at my web site
><http://www.calweb.com/~jmritter/ctc1.htm>. Judy will place it on the LOC
>site later. We haven't figured out how to load two lessons from one team
>without displacing each other's work.
>
>This last drive to create and present the lesson has had its challenges,
>but I've thoroughly enjoyed the process and the presentation to the
>teachers. Hopefully, I'll get some reports back on some of the poetry when
>I make classroom visitations in the next two months.
>
>In late May, my husband and I make our move to Ogden, Utah. It's been an
>exciting year for me, and I look forward to hearing about the 2000 Fellows
>and the lessons they create during their time at the Library of Congress.
>
>Hope to hear from more of you soon.
>Mary
>
>>"Judith K. Graves" wrote:
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>>> Poster: "Judith K. Graves" <jgrav@LOC.GOV>
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>>> Hi '99 Fellows,
>>>
>>> We're starting to think about getting our website chock full of '99
>>> Fellows' lessons so our '00 Fellows will have the largest selection
>>> possible of models to give them inspiration and spur their creativity. I
>>> know that y'all are in the throes of trying to field test your lessons
with
>>> your students. That's a huge task as it is - and I'm here to try to make
>>> the next step - getting your lesson online - as painless as possible.
>>>
>>> Would each team let me know by next week (Feb. 22) how you are doing and
>>> what kind of help you will need to get your lesson web-ready. It's not
too
>>> early to think about all of this. With 25 teams to support, we want to
get
>>> an idea of what we need to do to get these available for the summer.
>>>
>>> Remember, we are in a partnership to provide these materials to educators
>>> via our website. You need to tell us how we can work together to make
>>> these lessons available. I'd be happy to work with you to get it
web-ready.
>>>
>>> Fantastic web skills were not part of the criteria to become a Fellow, and
>>> they are not needed to get the lesson online. We can provide the skills
>>> and talent to get the lessons through the next phase. The important thing
>>> is to have good models that speak to the participants of the institute.
>>>
>>> We can work via fax and email to get first a draft online in the test
>>> region of the LC website in May, then a polished version by June. (If
your
>>> field test takes place during this time, let us know so we can accommodate
>>> your schedule.)
>>>
>>> Hope all is going well with everyone. I'm starting to get hungry for the
>>> sight of crocus and cherry blossoms.
>>> Judy
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>>> Judith K. Graves
>>> Educational Services
>>> National Digital Library Program
>>> Library of Congress
>>> Washington, D.C. 20540-1320
>>> jgrav@loc.gov (V)202/707-2562 (F) 202/252-3173
>>> http://learning.loc.gov/learn/
>
>
>_________________________________
>Mary A. Ritter, TLCG Coach
>Technology Literacy Challenge Grant
>Elk Grove Unified School District
>TLCG OFFICE: Mack Elementary School
>4701 Brookfield Drive
>Sacramento, CA 95823
>maritter@edcenter.egusd.k12.ca.us
>jmritter@calweb.com (home)
>916-391-2264 (work)
>916-933-1488 (home)
>
>>From WagonWheels to CyberSpace: <http://www.calweb.com/~jmritter/>
>1999 Library of Congress American Memory Fellow <http://www.loc.gov>
>NASA Classroom of the Future: 2001 Master Teacher Cadre ,
<http://www.cotf.edu>
>Elk Grove Unified School District: <http://www.egusd.k12.ca.us>
>
>"Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste
>the fruit and resign yourself to the influence of each..." Henry David
Thoreau
>
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Judith K. Graves
Educational Services
National Digital Library Program
Library of Congress
Washington, D.C. 20540-1320
jgrav@loc.gov (V)202/707-2562 (F) 202/252-3173
http://learning.loc.gov/learn/
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