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"We, the People" Through Primary Documents: A Teacher Workshop Sponsored by the Library of Virginia and the Center for the Constitution
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Library of Virginia
8:30 am-5:00 pm
Open to K-12 Educators
What role did Virginians play in the founding of the United States? What were their contributions to the nation's founding documents: the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights? These and other questions will be explored during the "‘We, the People' Through Primary Documents" workshop. Teachers will spend the morning with Professor John P. Kaminski, historian, founder, and director of the Center for the Study of the American Constitution at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Staff members from the Library of Virginia will demonstrate lesson plans and share resources from the "Shaping the Constitution" Web portal, which makes available digital copies of important documents from the Library of Virginia and the Library of Congress related to America's Founding Era and the United States Constitution. In the afternoon, teachers will learn techniques for teaching the We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution curriculum using primary documents.
There is no charge for accepted participants.
Lunch will be provided. Participants will receive a certificate for eight hours that may be used toward recertification credits. Sessions will take place at the Library of Virginia, 800 E. Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia, 23219-8000.
