This three-day hands-on workshop will provide the opportunity to explore the Library’s online primary source collections and build teaching skills necessary for leading your students to become more visually literate and develop critical thinking skills! Whether this is your first time exploring the Library of Congress or you would like to refresh skills learned in previous workshops, this TPS Level 1 Fall Institute will work for you!
WHEN? |
October 9, 16, & 23 9:00 am to 3:00 pm Saturdays (Lunch is provided.) |
WHERE? |
Waynesburg University, Main Campus Hanna Hall Computer Lab |
WHO? |
Teachers and Librarians in Greene, Washington and Fayette counties |
COST? |
FREE |
CREDIT? |
Earn 18 PDE Act 48 activity hours |
QUESTIONS? |
Sue Wise, Associate Director 724.852.3377 swise@waynesburg.edu |
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Henry Hintermeister, The Foundation of American Government. c.1925 From Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/93504023
Imagination and vision played critical roles in the creative act of forming a self-governing United States of America. The collections of the Library of Congress are unquestionably the world’s best source for documenting that process. America’s search for a plan of national government was a slow, difficult process. Compromise, cooperation, and creativity were required as the Americans moved from being colonials in a patriarchal monarchy to citizen-leaders in a representative republic of federal states. Most of this process took place in the midst of a long, revolutionary war. Not only were these “the times that try men’s souls,” in the words of Thomas Paine, they were also the times that tested Americans’ intellects and practical political skills in creating a strong, national, republican government.
Road to the Constitution An opinion begins to prevail that a general convention for revising the articles of Confederation would be expedient. --John Jay to George Washington, March 16, 1786
Convention and Ratification For we are sent hither to consult not contend, with each other; and Declaration of a fix’d Opinion, and of determined Resolutions never to change it, neither enlighten nor convince us. --Benjamin Franklin, Speech in Congress, June 11, 1787
Constitution Legacy Ours is a Constitution intended to endure for ages to come, and consequently, to be adapted to the various crises of human affairs. --Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall, 1819
Visit the Creating the Constitution complete online exhibit at: http://myloc.gov/Exhibitions/creatingtheus/
Constitution/Pages/default.aspx.
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Do you know enough to become a naturalized citizen? Take the Naturalization Self-Test to find out!
http://www.uscis.gov/citizenshiptest
Statue of Liberty, New York harbor.
Created/Published c1905.
Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/det.4a12750
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