From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 6:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: October 2002: News from the Learning Page!
Thank you for your interest in the Learning Page of The Library of Congress. We have been busy, busy, busy! Do you need to teach your students just what a primary source is? Do you want examples to share with them? You can find this information, and a good deal more, in "Getting Started" (http://memory.loc.gov/learn/start/) the introductory section of the Learning Page (http://memory.loc.gov/learn/). Keep your eye on this section. Many improvements are in the works! Please join us in our new Community Center (http://memory.loc.gov/learn/community)! We are engaged in talking about "Immigration" this month. Speak up in our Web based Symposium, or join us in live chat (there's one this week - Thursday, Oct. 17). Don't miss this chance to talk with Library of Congress Staff and other educators from across the nation! Let us show you some strategies and techniques for analyzing primary sources about the fall holidays in November. You will soon be able to publish in the Community Center, too. Please share YOUR ideas in the American Memory Newsletter. Do you know that you can now search the Learning Page? Don't overlook that search box on the upper right corner the home page! You can search the entire Library of Congress Web site as well.use the pull down menu to do so. There are a number of new Lessons (http://memory.loc.gov/learn/lessons/) on the site. Among the newest, are two offerings for middle school classes - "Indian Boarding Schools: Civilizing the Native Spirit" and "The Civil War through a Child's Eye." There's a brand new lesson for high school classes, as well - "Two Unreconciled Strivings." Don't miss these exciting offerings from the American Memory collections (http://memory.loc.gov/): The American Revolution and Its Era, Civil War Treasures from the New-York Historical Society, Prairie Settlement: Nebraska Photographs and Family Letters, "Suffering Under a Great Injustice" Ansel Adams's Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar, and Trails to Utah and the Pacific: Diaries and Letters, 1846-1869. Keep an eye on the Features & Activities area of the Learning Page (http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features). The Immigration Feature Presentation will soon have an additional section on Chinese immigrants.with more to come! Be sure to visit The Great American Potluck (http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/immig/ckbk). Help tell the culinary tale of the nation. Contribute a prized family recipe that shows your "roots"! You can expect short reminders of upcoming events, and a full Learning Page Newsletter (like this one) each month. Enjoy. ************************************************************************* NOTE: Gleason Sackmann is the owner and host of this list. All inquiries regarding this list and its contents should be directed to Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. If you want to unsubscribe, click and send (no body or subject: required) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives for K12 Newsletters can be found at: http://www.classroom.com/community/email/archives.jhtml?A0=K12NEWSLETTERS
