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
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