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From: Herczog_Michelle Herczog_Michelle@lacoe.edu
Subject: National Teach-In on Veterans History
National Teach-In on Veterans History
History Channel Webcast:
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
9:00 Pacific Time
HISTORY™, together with the Veterans History Project of the Library of Congress, will host a National Teach-In on Veterans History on Wednesday, October 21st, 2009 at 12pm EST. Educators and students nationwide can tune-in and view this LIVE webcast online atwww.veterans.com.
The webcast will be broadcast live from the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. A panel of educators and veterans will answer questions from students via video, email, and a live audience. The teach-in will focus on the histories and stories of veterans, and will provide information on how communities nationwide can help preserve the stories of veterans and possibly submit them to the Library of Congress’ Veterans History Project. This event is part of the Take A Veteran to School Day initiative created by HISTORY.
The panel features Robert Patrick, Director of the Veterans History Project, Terry Shima, WWII veteran and Executive Director of the Japanese American Veterans Assoc., Prof. Darlene Iskra, a US Navy veteran of Desert Storm and the first female commander of a US Navy ship, and Jonathan Bickel, a teacher from Eastern Lebanon County High School and part of a teaching-team on veterans history at his school. Dr. Libby O'Connell, Chief Historian for HISTORY, will moderate.
This fall, HISTORY will air a 5-part special series presentation entitled WWII in HD premiering on November 15th. Each school or teacher that signs up for the October 21st webcast will receive a colorful WWII in HD poster and a field kit developed by the Veterans History Project of the Library of Congress. (These will mail in early October and are available while supplies last, so sign up now!)
To register for this webcast and the Take a Veteran to School program, visit:http://www.veterans.com
If you have any additional questions or feedback, contactveterans@aetn.com
There is no registration fee -- HISTORY has fully funded this event.
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Friday, October 9, 2009
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Veterans Day Resources
From: Jack Bareilles [mailto:jbareilles@nohum.k12.ca.us]
Dear CA TAH, GLI and CISC folks,
Here is an edited version of what I sent my teachers yesterday about Veterans Day. Please feel free to share with your teachers--and feel free to send anything back my way to share with everyone else.
Jack
With Veterans Day one week away, here are a number of resources you can use in your classrooms on Monday to teach about Veterans Day.
* History Channel has created a Veterans Day minisite at www.veterans.com.
The site includes teacher resources, an image gallery, over 40 video clips (including numerous eyewitness accounts of WW II, Korea, Vietnam, Desert Storm and Iraq) and the 22 minute documentary, "The Story of Veterans Day."
You can stream this documentary and the other video clips directly into your classroom.
* How we treat our veterans when they come home has been an issue since before the US Revolution. Just this year the Congress debated a new GI Bill. The most famous GI Bill was passed by Congress, almost as an afterthought during 1944. There are a number of fabulous resources appropriate for high school and middle school students on the PBS Newshour with Jim Lehrer website. You can see the original Newshour broadcast from July 4, 2000 which tells the story of the GI Bill (it's about five or six minutes long). There is also a longer video of a roundtable discussion with historians Doris Kearns Goodwin, the late Stephen Ambrose, Michael Beschloss, and Haynes Johnson. The discussion is appropriate for background info for teachers and could be used with high school students--especially if you've spent a little time with them in advance.
You can find both videos at:
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/military/july-dec00/gibill_7-4.html
or do a Google search for: the gi bill of rights+ the newshour
* Attached are a a lesson plan and an overhead about the GI bill which gives the key points of the bill and its effects.
* Travis Holt, a young Iraq veteran who presented last week with Gayle Olson Raymer to my TAH group has sent us a copy of his rules of engagement from Iraq.
Dear CA TAH, GLI and CISC folks,
Here is an edited version of what I sent my teachers yesterday about Veterans Day. Please feel free to share with your teachers--and feel free to send anything back my way to share with everyone else.
Jack
With Veterans Day one week away, here are a number of resources you can use in your classrooms on Monday to teach about Veterans Day.
* History Channel has created a Veterans Day minisite at www.veterans.com.
The site includes teacher resources, an image gallery, over 40 video clips (including numerous eyewitness accounts of WW II, Korea, Vietnam, Desert Storm and Iraq) and the 22 minute documentary, "The Story of Veterans Day."
You can stream this documentary and the other video clips directly into your classroom.
* How we treat our veterans when they come home has been an issue since before the US Revolution. Just this year the Congress debated a new GI Bill. The most famous GI Bill was passed by Congress, almost as an afterthought during 1944. There are a number of fabulous resources appropriate for high school and middle school students on the PBS Newshour with Jim Lehrer website. You can see the original Newshour broadcast from July 4, 2000 which tells the story of the GI Bill (it's about five or six minutes long). There is also a longer video of a roundtable discussion with historians Doris Kearns Goodwin, the late Stephen Ambrose, Michael Beschloss, and Haynes Johnson. The discussion is appropriate for background info for teachers and could be used with high school students--especially if you've spent a little time with them in advance.
You can find both videos at:
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/military/july-dec00/gibill_7-4.html
or do a Google search for: the gi bill of rights+ the newshour
* Attached are a a lesson plan and an overhead about the GI bill which gives the key points of the bill and its effects.
* Travis Holt, a young Iraq veteran who presented last week with Gayle Olson Raymer to my TAH group has sent us a copy of his rules of engagement from Iraq.
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