Level II Program

Level II Summer Institute June 2008

Content Expert Speaker Background
Video of the Content Expert Presentation

Topic:
Defining Moments in Chicago History

How did historical events in Chicago from the 1850s through the 1950s provide the model for its future growth and prosperity?

Unit Plan by Cindy Buher - Revolutionary War
Videotape of Lesson Plan Implementation
Lesson Reflection (Document)

Revolutionary War Lesson Ideas (Document)
Revolutionary War Critical Content (Document)
Revolutionary War Understanding by Design guidelines
Revolutionary War Timeline Activity (Timeline 1764-1789)(Handout) – online Library of Congress (Document)
The Declaration of Independence: Differentiated Lesson Plan (Document)
Declaration of Independence Activity (Declaration of Independence) – online Library of Congress (Document)
Constitution Activity (Constitution) – online Library of Congress (Document)
Bill of Rights Lesson – online Library of Congress (Document)
Founding Fathers Lesson– online Library of Congress (Document)
Revolutionary War Quotes (Quotations) – Celebrate Freedom (Document)
Revolutionary War Songs (Song Titles) – If you Lived at the Time… (Document)
List of URLs for online lessons (Document)
Revolutionary War Letter (Document)


      Cindy Buher Classroom

Lesson Plan by Tony Romeo - Discovering Your New World (Document)
Videotape of Lesson Plan Implementation
Lesson Reflection (Document)


     Tony Romeo Classroom

Lesson Plan by David Manuell - Abraham Lincoln and the Writ of Habeas Corpus (Document)
Videotape of Lesson Plan Implementation
Lesson Reflection (Document)


      David Manuell Classroom

Level II Winter Institute January 2009

Pre-reading and research:
“Lincoln's Sword: The Presidency and the Power of Words” by Douglas Wilson The Library of Congress Webcast “Lincoln's Sword: The Presidency and the Power of Words”, http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=4034

Unit Plan by - David Hollander
Was Abraham Lincoln an Abolitionist?
7th & 8th Grade U.S. History

Lesson Proposal Overview Was Abraham Lincoln an Abolitionist? (Document)
Lincoln's Letter to Hodges 1864 - Primary (Document)
Lincoln Quotes on Slavery (Document)
Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation July 1862 - Primary (Document)
The Life of Charles Sumner (Document)
The Life of Elijah Parish Lovejoy (Document)
The Life of Frederick Douglass (Document)
The Life of John Brown (Document)
The Life of William Lloyd Garrison (Document)
U.S.Constitution 5th Amendment (Document)
Abraham Lincoln to Horace Greeley 1862 - Primary Document (Document)
A Lincoln bill to Abolish Slavery in DC 1849 - Primary Document (Document)
What is an Abolitionist Worksheet (Document)
Written Document Analysis Worksheet - Adapted from NARA (Document)
Videotape of Lesson Plan Implementation
Lesson Reflection (Document)


    David Hollander Classroom

Unit Plan by Scot Mortensen
Understanding the Proclamation Through Visuals
Kindergarten to 3th Grade (4th and 5th for a Modified Instruction Program)

Lesson Plan Overview Understanding the Proclamation Through Visuals? (Document)
Picture Pages for Primary Source Worksheets (Document)
Primary Source Picture Worksheets (Document)
What is a Primary Source PowerPoint for a Modified Instruction Classroom 16MB
Emancipation Proclamation Link Books (Document)
Works Cited (Document)
Videotape of Lesson Plan Implementation
Lesson Reflection

Unit Plan by Kate Wolicki
Lincoln Who? Separating Myth from History using Primary Sources
Grades 4th - 6th

Lesson Plan Title: Lincoln Who? Separating Myth from History using Primary Sources (Document)
Images Cited (Document)
Worksheets
The Lincoln of Myth (Publication Documents)
Lincoln’s Writing
Lincoln’s Education
Lincoln in Pictures
Emancipation
Videotape of Lesson Plan Implementation
Lesson Reflection (Document)


   Kate Wolicki Classroom

Unit Plan by Donald Andre
The Emancipation Proclamation: The Nation’s Blessing or the Nation’s Burden?
Fifth Grade Teacher
Unit Plan - The Emancipation Proclamation: The Nation’s Blessing or the Nation’s Burden? 4th to 6th Grade (Document)
Videotape of Lesson Plan Implementation

Level II Summer Institute 2010

Unit Plan by Mary Ellen Daneels
Lesson Plans by Mary Ellen Daneels - The “Opportunity Cost” of Suffrage
Videotape of Lesson Plan Implementation

Unit Plan by Barbara Laimins
Lesson Plans by Barbara Laimins - The Art of Persuasion and the Suffragettes
Videotape of Lesson Plan Implementation

Level II Institute May, 2011

Lesson Plans by Sandra Cheatam - Aviation Pioneers: African Americans Who Paved the Way in Flight
Videotape of Lesson Plan Implementation

Lesson Plans by Michelle Keim - Using the Tuskegee Airmen to Build Character Concepts
Videotape of Lesson Plan Implementation

Lesson Plans by Heather Schram - Taking Flight: Tracking the events of African Americans in Aviation History
Videotape of Lesson Plan Implementation

Lesson Plans by Tiffany Kinsey - Fight or Flight Understanding the Preamble As It Relates to the Plight of the Tuskegee Airmen
Videotape of Lesson Plan Implementation

Lesson Plans by Lennie Jones - Seventy Years After Bessie Coleman, First African American Pilot, Earns Her Pilot’s License
Videotape of Lesson Plan Implementation

Lesson Plans by Phyliis Salewa Crowe - A Sign of the Times: Saluting the Tuskegee Airmen and their Path to Victory
Videotape of Lesson Plan Implementation

Lesson Plans by Britta Dahlberg - The Perseverance
Videotape of Lesson Plan Implementation

Lesson Plans by Chrstina Stevens - American Aviation
Videotape of Lesson Plan Implementation

Level II Institute April, 2011

Lesson Plans by Mimi Sprague - Camp Life in the Civil War

Level II Institute October 15, 2011