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The History Place - Irish Potato Famine - 0 views

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    • jbdrury
      jbdrury on 02 Oct 09
       
      As this is a privately-owned website, I thought it important to provide a little info on its managers. This is taken from the Home Page information: " The History Place contains many examples of man's inhumanity to man as well as notable examples of humans rising to the occasion to fight tyranny and preserve freedom, and overall, reaffirms, in the words of the American Declaration of Independence, that all human beings have "certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness."
    • jbdrury
      jbdrury on 02 Oct 09
       
      Although I don't doubt the veracity of much of the information on this site, I think it is important to keep in mind who is providing the information. Also from the home page: " The History Place is a private, independent, Internet-only publication based in the Boston area that is not affiliated with any political group or organization. The Web site presents a fact-based, common sense approach in the presentation of the history of humanity, with great care given to accuracy....The site was founded and is owned and published by Philip Gavin"
    • jbdrury
      jbdrury on 02 Oct 09
       
      This account of the Potato Famine has multiple pages to flip through; I have started here as this is the page detailing the Irish flight to America.
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  • Coffin Ships
  • The first coffin ships headed for Quebec, Canad
  • Up to half of the men that survived the journey to Canada walked across the border to begin their new lives in America. They had no desire to live under the Union Jack flag in sparsely populated British North America
  • They viewed the United States with its anti-British tradition and its bustling young cities as the true land of opportunity
  • American ships were held to higher standards than British ships by the U.S. Passenger Acts, a set of laws passed by Congress regulating the number of passengers ships coming to America could carry as well as their minimal accommodations. Congress reacted to the surge of Irish immigration by tightening the laws, reducing the number of passengers allowed per ship, thereby increasing fares. America, congressmen had complained, was becoming Europe's "poor house."
  • During the trans-Atlantic voyage, British ships were only required to supply 7 lbs. of food per week per passenger
    • jbdrury
      jbdrury on 02 Oct 09
       
      Each page has a few of these contemporary images that could be used in the classroom.
  • Before boarding, they had been given the once-over by doctors on shore who usually rejected no one for the trip, even those seemingly on the verge of death
  • The poorest of the poor never made it to North Americ
  • Despite the dangers, the Irish knew that once they landed on Britain's shores they would not starve to death. Unlike Ireland, food handouts were freely available throughout the country
  • The cheap lodging houses were also used by scores of Irish waiting to embark on ships heading for North America. Three out of four Irish sailing for North America departed from the seaport at Liverpool. Normally they had to sleep over for a night or two until their ship was ready to sail. Many of these emigrants contracted typhus in the rundown, lice-infested lodging houses, then boarded ships, only to spend weeks suffering from burning fever out at sea.
  • jbdrury on 02 Oct 09
     
    The History Place is a privately-run website that provides content to educators on a wide variety of historical subject. I have included this section on the Irish Potato Famine, as it was one of the more compelling narratives I found on the internet.
Margit Nahra

Creating the United States -  Exhibitions - myLOC.gov (Library of Congress) - 9 views

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shared by Margit Nahra on 16 Sep 10 - Cached
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      Margit Nahra on 16 Sep 10
       
      Great source for lesson plans, primary sources, bibliographies and web casts to supplement teaching about the documents governing the United States.
    • Margit Nahra
      Margit Nahra on 16 Sep 10
       
      The drafts featured on this site would be great to illustrate the points of compromise negotiated by the Founding Fathers and to get students to think about how the documents and ultimately, our country's governing principles, might have turned out differently.
    • Margit Nahra
      Margit Nahra on 16 Sep 10
       
      This site also features helpful teacher training materials for how to evaluate and utilize primary sources.
  • Margit Nahra on 05 Oct 10
     
    This site uses primary sources to document the source and evolution of key phrases and concepts in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
Laura Wood

Civics Lesson Plans - 22 views

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  • Laura Wood on 01 Dec 09
     
    AWESOME civics and citizenship lesson plans. High school level but very cool. Lots of stuff where you apply Rousseau's theories to paintings from the 60's etc. Lots of multimedia type fun stuff. Love them. A part of the "Youth Leadership Initiative"
  • ehutchins on 20 Oct 11
     
    Unfortunately, the four that I clicked on are dead links now. This site has not been updated.
Margit Nahra

Creating the Declaration of Independence Interactive -  Exhibitions - myLOC.g... - 1 views

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      Margit Nahra on 16 Sep 10
       
      Seeing the strikeouts and marginalia on the rough drafts of some of these documents brings the process of their creation to life in a way that merely reading about it cannot.
  • Adrea Lawrence on 04 Oct 10
     
    Tags?
Lindsay Andreas

Historical Tweets » Columbus Twitters Trouble on the High Seas - 0 views

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    • Lindsay Andreas
      Lindsay Andreas on 25 Sep 09
       
      I wouldn't use this one, for example.
  • Lincoln Asks Twitter Followers for Speechwriting Help
    • Lindsay Andreas
      Lindsay Andreas on 25 Sep 09
       
      My favorite one! For example, you could use it to explain the Gettysburgh Address, I never learned what four scores and seven years ago actually meant until recently, a score is 20 years, thus 87 years, 87 years from when? The Declaration of Independence. This could be a fun transition into comparing the DOI and the G. Address, because Lincoln had the DOI in mind when he wrote it.
  • Lindsay Andreas on 25 Sep 09
     
    This is a bit of a comical website but I think it could be a fun way to seem cool to the students, while actually teaching them, covert learning. If your kids are into twitter, you can post these on the board or pass out copies in the beginning of class for a warm-up. I wouldn't have them view the actual site because the comments get a little inappropriate. You would certainly need to use discretion. Sometimes teachers need to seem like real people and if I was in high school, I would think a teacher that used this was cool.
Anissa Madrill

US Constitution Web Portal - 0 views

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  • Anissa Madrill on 03 Mar 12
     
    for teachers and students grades 4 to 12!  Tons of resources from the founding fathers to lesson plans.
Anissa Madrill

Congress for Kids - Interactive, Fun-filled Experiences About the Federal Government - 0 views

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  • Anissa Madrill on 03 Mar 12
     
    Great site for kids to learn about American Government
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