Remembering the Alamo: An American Landmark
We are excited to be able to offer you the opportunity to join other K-12 teachers for a one-week workshop at the Alamo, in San Antonio, Texas, a dramatic site symbolic of courage, self-sacrifice, and a monument to American expansionism of the mid-nineteenth century.
At the workshop you will engage in dynamic, in-depth, interdisciplinary study of the Alamo and associated major themes of American history, literature and popular culture. You will study in intimate seminar settings with major scholars, interact with your colleagues in lively conversations, and you will be able to develop classroom teaching activities based on individual inter-disciplinary research conducted in the Alamo Library Archives, the Institute of Texans Cultures, The American History Center and other Texas archives while working in seminars with five nationally recognized Texas scholars.
The "Remembering the Alamo" workshop is a collaboration between the Community College Humanities Association (CCHA) and The Alamo, in San Antonio, Texas, supported by funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The workshop will be held Sunday through Friday, June 21 - 26, 2009 and repeated June 28 - July 3, 2009 with forty (40) participants each week. Teacher participants, selected nationally, will develop individual classroom teaching projects using resources archived at The Alamo and other collections in San Antonio and in Austin, Texas. Each teacher will be asked to share a new lesson design, or teaching module for an existing lesson developed as a result of the workshops. The lesson plans will be collected and placed on a web site where they can be accessed and used by other teachers. Four attendees (two from each week) will be invited to present their teaching modules in concurrent sessions at the CCHA national conference in Chicago in October, 2009.
The workshop will be directed by Carole N. Lester, Ph.D., Dean of Instruction, Academic Enrichment, and Professor of History and Humanities, Richland College (DCCCD), Dallas, Texas. Dr. Lester was Richland's project director for two previous Landmark Workshops at the Alamo and two additional CCHA and National Endowment for the Humanities grant funded projects, "Advancing Humanities through Technology" and "Faces of America"; Karen D. Marcotte, Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, History and Humanities, Palo Alto College, San Antonio, Texas, will serve again as co-facilitator and curriculum mentor for the project. The grant administrator is David A. Berry, executive director of the Community College Humanities Association.
For more information visit the CCHA website www.ccha-assoc.org. If you have additional questions, please contact:
David Berry, (973) 877-3577, or contact
Project Director Dr. Carole Lester, 972-238-6110
