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The Humanities Council has awarded a grant to the Historical Society of Cheshire County for a teacher workshop titled Living Through the Great Depression and World War II.
The workshop will be held Monday, June 27 to Wednesday, June 29 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Historical Society at
246 Main St. in Keene.
The first day of the workshop will focus on the Great Depression. Margaret Orelup, Keene State College, will address the causes of the Depression; its effects on the nation economically, culturally and politically; and how individuals survived this dark time with an emphasis on local history. Tom Haynes, Education Director at the Historical Society, will lead a session on local impacts of the Depression using primary materials and artifacts from the Society's collections.
The second and third days of the workshop will focus on World War II. Paul Vincent, Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Keene State College, will examine the main causes of the war, the mobilization effort in the United States to support the war, and how the home front effort helped win the war. Historian Lawrence Douglas will lead a session on the war's impact in New Hampshire and present a film titled The War at Home: World War II New Hampshire produced by Accompany. The World War II portion of the workshop will include a panel discussion featuring oral histories from Monadnock-area residents sharing personal accounts of their experiences during the war. An Historical Society volunteer who was a teenager in Germany during the war will also share memories of a home front experience from that perspective.
Over the course of the three-day workshop participants will conduct their own research project using resources from the Historical Society's library and archives.
Each participant will receive a packet of information on resources available through the Historical Society's library and archives, and teachers completing the three-day workshop will receive 21 hours of professional development credit.
For more information, contact Project Director Tom Haynes at 352-1895 or by e-mail.
The Humanities Council has awarded a grant to the Institute for Art-Based Literacy in partnership with the Center for the Advancement of Art-Based Literacy at UNH for a teacher workshop, exhibit, and lecture focusing on teaching literacy skills through art.
Our Stories in Pictures and Words: Immigration Now and Then presents an exhibit of student art and writing created by both immigrant and native children as they reconstructed their own or their ancestors' experiences immigrating to America. The young artists and writers presenting their work are refugee and immigrant students from Webster Elementary School's English Language Learners (ELL) Magnet Program, grades 3-5, in Manchester and third grade students from the Moharimet School in Madbury.
Using Image-Making Within The Writing Process, an art-based approach to literacy learning developed by Beth Olshansky at the Center for the Advancement of Art-Based Literacy, students constructed collage images from hand-painted papers they created to tell their family stories. The exhibit shares powerful excerpts from students' art and writing which detail similarities of experience now and then.
The exhibit will be on display from May 2 through August 5 at UNH Manchester's Gallery at 400 Commercial Street on the 2nd floor. The exhibit will be open Monday through Friday from
8 a.m. to 6 p.m. and is free and open to the public.
On Saturday, May 14 Beth Olshansky will give a lecture titled Supporting English Language Learners Through an Art-Based Approach to Literacy Learning at UNH Manchester. Olshansky designed her teaching method around the fact that pictures serve as a universal language for thinking and expressing ideas. Olshansky will introduce two dynamic art-and-literature-based approaches to literacy learning through video documentation in two ELL Magnet classrooms. She will also share the findings from a four-year federally-funded research study.
The project includes a two-day experiential workshop for teachers of ELL on June 2 and 3 that will bring participants through the process of creating their own immigration story. The workshop will provide ELL teachers with the skills and knowledge needed to replicate the immigration unit of study exemplified in the exhibit with their students.
For more information on this project, visit the Institute for Art-Based Literacy's website or call 862-3691.
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