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Bob Maloy

Bookcase for Young Writers - 2 views

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    A Google site featuring ideas and strategies for inspiring young writers. This site has been developed to accompany a revised edition of Kids Have All the Write Stuff by Sharon Edwards, Robert W. Maloy and Torrey Trust (University of Massachusetts Press, 2019)
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    A Google site featuring ideas and strategies for inspiring young writers. This site has been developed to accompany a revised edition of Kids Have All the Write Stuff by Sharon Edwards, Robert W. Maloy and Torrey Trust (University of Massachusetts Press, 2019)
Mr Maher

The First Decades of the Massachusetts Bay; or Idleness, Wolves, and a Man Who Shall No... - 6 views

  • In November 1630, John Baker was “whipped for shooteing att fowle on the Sabboth day”; and in June 1631, it was ordered that Phillip Ratliffe should be whipped, have his ears cut off, and be banished “for vttering mallitious and scandulous speeches against the goumt. & the church of Salem.
  • The inattention paid in the official record to women or indigenous land compels us to force open gaps and bring alternative narratives to light. Without this work, John Winthrop’s will be the only story told in textbooks about this country’s colonial history.
  • The Puritan freemen may have the loudest voices in the archive, but theirs are not the only narratives being told.
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  • In fact, deviations from moral norms receive some of the harshest punishments, such as in October 1631, when the court determined that to copulate with another man’s wife was punishable by death.
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    When historians look through more evidence they come to understandings that students never get to see becuase their teachers may only rely on the evidence that is part of the liturgy of the US History narrative canon. In this instance, routine court records will tell us much more about puritan Massachusetts than a John Winthrop sermon.
Tom Daccord

Day in the Life of a Teenage Hobo Project  - 9 views

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    This article provides a case study of  how the CRCD framework shaped the  development of the "Day in the Life of  a Teenage Hobo Project," a multi-day  investigation into the social history of  teenage homelessness during the Great  Depression. Using the framework, Tom  Daccord, a former U.S. history teacher  and current academic technology specialist in Massachusetts, designed a  project that used multiple technologies- search engines, blogs, and podcasting  tools-to help students investigate the  political, economic, and social history  of the Great Depression. 
Mr Maher

Pilgrims and Progress: How Magazines Made Thanksgiving - 4 views

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    This academically rigorous article may be beyond even the highest functioning AP US History students. But all teachers will find this article aiming a question directly at their curriculum - Do you teach a myth as a cultural affirmation? The essay argues that "traveling home to turkey and all the trimmings was "invented", not in 17th century Massachusetts, but in 19th century Philadelphia in the pages of the nation's most widely circulated magazines and in respond to the changing American scene. Two hundred years after the Pilgrims' quit commemorations, Thanksgiving developed a uniform national profile, impelled by its promoters ideas about republican identity, ideas diffused by a publishing industry with increasingly national reach"
Bob Maloy

A U.S. Financial Transaction Tax | Q&A | BillMoyers.com - 3 views

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    Perspective on the financial transaction tax by Robert Pollin, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Bob Maloy

Coming of the American Revolution - 27 views

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    This is an interactive website from the Massachusetts Historical Society.
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    What a great site Bob. Thank you for sharing. I am certain I can use this site for ideas in the classroom!
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    I worked on it this summer. I especially recommend the docs for "non-consumption and non-importation" (the word boycott did not exist yet!). They are very student friendly and can be used in a U.S. history or world history class and can easily connect with boycotts today. Overall, this site could be used as an exemplar for other historical societies to follow: Intro to the whole site, intro to each topic, intro to each subtopic with questions, intro to each document with questions, a facsimile of each document, and a transcription. Fyi and fwiw, the Mass Historical Society will be hosting a Landmarks Institute this summer through NEH so U.S. teachers might want to apply: http://www.masshist.org/education/silver/crossroads-home/
Lisa M Lane

Google to Caption YouTube Videos - NYTimes.com - 7 views

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    YouTube is initially applying the captioning technology only to a few channels, most of them specializing in educational content. They include channels from universities like Stanford, Yale, Duke, Columbia and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, PBS and National Geographic, and Google itself - its corporate videos will be captioned.
David Hilton

resourcesforhistoryteachers - home - 5 views

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    An excellent reference point for teachers and students of History. The resources and sources are organised around grade levels (based on the Massachusetts curriculum) and contain primary sources as well as historical descriptions. Worth joining up!
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    A useful resource for history teachers to find multimedia tools.
David Hilton

Harvard/Radcliffe On-line Historical Reference Shelf: Home Page - 0 views

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    A rather narrow topic but might be useful. Or not.
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    This site provides access to frequently-consulted sources on the history of Harvard and Radcliffe
TK Sand

Primary Research :: Bring History Closer to Home - 10 views

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    Local history research by high school students, using primary documents.
Bob Maloy

Kids Have All the Write Stuff | University of Massachusetts Press - 2 views

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    Open up a world of imagination and learning for children when you encourage the expression of ideas through writing. Kids Have All the Write Stuff: Revised and Updated for a Digital Age shows you how to support children's development as confident writers and communicators, offering hundreds of creative ways to integrate writing into the lives of toddlers, preschoolers,
Joseph Phelan

Resources for History Teachers - 48 views

Jeremy Please do put Bob Maloy in touch with me. He can call or write jphelan@neh.gov or 202-60-6374. As far as the World History resources go, we are a working on it but will not be ready for thi...

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jhbensco

resourcesforhistoryteachers / FrontPage - 1 views

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    This is a massive trove of free resources and information, based on the standards for the Massachusetts History Curriculum. It was created and is maintained by Bob Maloy of UMass Amherst and various students in the school of education.
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