Using New Old Tools: African-American Periodicals & Literature in Social Studies

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Details February 2, 2016through February 23, 2016

Description

You may still register for the series to receive access to the past recordings and to particpate in future webinar sessions. If you have any questions, please contact Ashante Horton at ashante@ncss.org.

Webinar Series: Using New-Old Tools: African-American Periodical and Literature in Social Studies
Tuesdays, February 2, 9, 16, 23, 2016
7:00pm ET / 4:00pm PT

Anchored in both the Common Core and C3 Framework for cross-curricular approaches in ELA and Social Studies, this four-part series will be one of explication, modeling, and conversation between presenters and participants. It is designed for teachers to develop a new learning pathway into exploring nineteenth-century America, gain a rich resource stream of primary sources, and takeaway four exemplar units for immediately use in their classrooms.

The selected literature---both fiction and informational--capture the concerns, aspirations, and frustrations of the period, and the periodicals capture the facts and events as they unfolded. Each session will focus on the content of the exemplars will be literature from the nineteenth century, such as Mark Twain, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony with African-American periodicals of the period, such as The Douglass' Monthly, The Elevator, The North Star, and The Colored American.

Webinar Sessions:

• February 2: How Can 19th Century African American Periodicals Inform Literacy Learning?
  This session will introduce the 19th century African-American periodical as a viable and interesting resource/research tool for 21st century students, allowing them to discover how the African-American periodical is at once similar and yet unique in this period and its importance in understanding this era. We will illustrate how using these periodicals with literary excerpts can enhance student literacy learning, engendering critical thinking and inquiry.;
• February 9: Mark Twain and Frederick Douglass: How Newspapers and Fiction Informed and Influenced Its New American Audience
  We will illustrate how Mark Twain's short story, "A True Story" and an excerpt from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn explore fictionally what Douglass and Samuel Cornish reported factually; as well as explore the emerging American audience's reactions to these news reports and events.;
• February 16: The Declaration of Sentiments and Frederick Douglass and Samuel Cornish: Voice, Freedom, and Expression
  Discuss how the women's movement in the United States intersects from the African-American periodical with regard to goals and principles. We will also dialogue about the impact of the Declaration of Sentiments-both positive and negative-on the women and African-American men-as recounted in the periodicals.; and
• February 23: The Civil War and The Douglass' Monthly: The Definition of American Defined
  In this session, we seek to understand the nature and ultimate purpose of the African-American periodical, such as The Douglass' Monthly in asserting freedmen as American citizens, and will discuss how the periodical influenced African-American men to enlist.

Presenter: Jocelyn A. Chadwick, Ph.D., taught English for more than 30 years. She is a consultant for school districts and NBC News Education Nation's ParentToolkit, and lectures at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Chadwick is the author of The Jim Dilemma: Reading Race in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Common Core: Paradigmatic Shifts, Teaching Literature in the Context of Literacy Instruction. She was recently elected Vice-President for National Council of Teachers of English.

Fee: $60 members/$120 non-members
For interested in individual sessions, please contact Ashante Horton, ashante@ncss.org or 301-850-7456.

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