National Council for History Education

1. National Council for History Education • Reading the Past: • Literature and Literacy in History • Kansas City, MO • March 22-24, 2012 menu

2. Building LiteracyHistory Through the Eyes of Franklin and Douglass Deborah L. Johns American History Grant Freedom Project – Rockford, Illinois menu

3. Teaching History Thinking chronologically vrs. Thinking historically

4. Using Literature to Help Build Historical Thinking

5. Teaching History Using Autobiography Confession Memoir Autobiography

6. My Tree of Life

7. Tree CookieProject

8. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin “The life of a nobody who became a somebody” “A poor boy who made it good.. And advised other to do the same" William F. Andrews University of Kansas

9. Reading #1 • Our humble family early embraced the Reformation. Our forefathers continued Protestants through the reign of Mary, when they were sometimes in danger of persecution on account of their zeal against popery.

10. The Reformation

11. Making Connections • 17th Century American History • 18th Century American History • 19th Century American History • 20th Century American History • 21st Century American History

12. Reading #2 • A question was once, somehow or other, started between Collins and me of the propriety of educating the female sex in learning, and of their ability for study

13. Women’s Rights

14. Making Connections • 17th Century American History • 18th Century American History • 19th Century American History • 20th Century American History • 21st Century American History

15. Reading #3 My brother had, in 1720 or ‘21, begun to print a newspaper. It was the second that appeared in America and was called The New England Courant……

16. Franklin the Printer

17. Making Connections • 17th Century American History • 18th Century American History • 19th Century American History • 20th Century American History • 21st Century American History

18. Benjamin’s Reading List • Plutarch Parallel Lives 46-120 A.D. • Daniel DeFoeEssay on Projects 1697 • Robinson Crusoe • MolFlander • Samuel Richardson – Pamela – or Virtue • Rewarded • Cotton Mather – Essays to Do Good • The Spectator

19. The List (cont.) • James Greenwood – English Grammar • John Locke – On Human Understanding • Antoine Arnauld and Pierre Nicole Logic or the Art of Thinking • 1711 • Xenophon – The Memorable Things of • Socrates (trans. 1711) John Bunyan – Pilgrim’s Progress 1678

20. The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass • It was as once deeply impressed upon my mind , that if Mr. Douglass could be persuaded to consecrate his time and talents to the promotion of the anti-slavery enterprise, a powerful impetus would be given to it, and a stunning blow at the same time inflicted on northern prejudice against a colored complexion. Wm. Lloyd Garrison

21. Reading #1 • I have no accurate knowledge of my age….

22. Discussion Questions #1 • 1.For what three reasons, according to Frederick, would his master not want him to find out his age? • 2.Why would Peter, Isaac, Rich, and Jake have been so highly respected by other slaves on the plantation?

23. Inquiry Projects Why Inquiry? Students identify and choose Ex. English History /Literature Women’s Suffrage/ America and the World Evolution of Print Technology - Communication

24. Reading #2 Colonel Lloyd kept three to four hundred slaves on his home plantation, and owned a large number more on the neighboring farms that belonged to him.

25. Discussion Questions #2 • 1. Why were slaves who committed “high misdemeanors” sent to the slave auctions to be sold? • 2.Do you think the name of this • overseer was Mr. Severe? • 3. Write a summary paragraph of one of the two passages in this reading

26. Reading #3 My feet have been so cracked with frost that the pen with which I am writing might be laid in the gashes.

27. Writing your Narrative Write a narrative of your life using your “Tree of Life” organizer

28. National History Standards Culture and Cultural Diversity Time, Continuity, and Change People, Places and Environments

29. Common Core Standards • English Language Arts Standards • History/Social Studies

30. Deborah L. Johns NBCT Washington Academy Rockford, Illinois 61103 deb.johns@rps205.com windows to the past.wikispaces.com