America In Class: Winter/Spring 2012-2013 Seminars Announced

The National Humanities Center has announced its Winter/Spring 2012-2013 online seminar schedule.

Each seminar is led by a distinguished scholar who provides a live, interactive experience that focuses on teaching with primary resources. This includes the use of historical documents, literary texts, visual images and audio. 

All seminars emphasize critical analysis, close reading addressing skills of the Common Core State Standards. Participants will be immersed in an engaging, useful and convenient professional development seminar offering new pedagogical approaches and FREE online resources.

Here is list of the seminar offerings:

Winslow Homer's Civil War Art

The Civil War in Global Context

Teaching Through Close Reading: Poetry and Fiction

Teaching Through Close Reading: Historical and Informational Texts

The Struggle for Woman Suffrage

Economic Development of the West in the Late Nineteenth Century

The American Business Revolution: Corporate Consolidation in the Nineteenth Century

Teaching The Great Gatsby: A Common Core Close Reading Seminar

The Business of America and the Consumer Economy of the 1920s

The Causes of the Great Depression

The Causes and Consequences of Indian Removal

The Emergence of Jim Crow

Click here for the NHC's list with links to more information and registration. Hawaii teachers, historians, students and all others and encouraged to register and participate!