Welcome to H-High-S! The primary purpose of H-High-S is to facilitate an ongoing discussion of curriculum, instructional strategies, and educational resources involved in teaching history, social studies, and related subjects in American secondary schools.
Does anyone have any recommendations for a narrative text for high school students (non-AP, college level)?
Something similar to Tindall and Shi's text, America: A Narrative History but for the younger folks.
TIA!
Jeremy Greene
Chelmsford HS
Summer 2017 Content Institute — Article III of the U.S. Constitution and the Federal Judiciary: Principles & Practice
The James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation offers $24,000 James Madison Graduate Fellowships to individuals desiring to become outstanding teachers of the American Constitution at the secondary school level. Fellowship applicants compete only against other applicants from the states of their legal residence. As funding permits, the Foundation plans to offer one fellowship per state per year.
Primary Source, a professional development center for K-12 teachers, still has a few available spaces in our summer online courses, which are content-rich, graduate-credit bearing programs that last either 4 weeks or 8 weeks. See the full list of options here: https://www.primarysource.org/for-teachers/courses/summer-institutes-2017.
In particular, we welcome participants from around the U.S. to join us for
