sorry for the delay:
Susan and Bernadette,
Here is the list of confirmed library visits for the rest of January:
Tomorrow, January 16th - the Lighthouse Program will be bringing 12
students. I'm handling this visit on my own.
Wednesday, January 23rd - Sandburg Middle School, 85 students. Special
arrangements are already being made.
Thursday, January 24th - Farmington Middle School, 60 students. The
group has been halved, so this visit should be a lot easier than
originally planned.
Friday, January 25th - Northview Junior High, 30 students.
Monday, January 28th - Oak Grove Middle School, 25 students.
Tuesday, January 29th - Rockford Middle School, 12 students. Again, I
will be handling this group on my own.
NOTE from SG: there is also a visit (size unknown) on Jan. 30 from Friends School in St. Paul.]
Thursday, January 31st - Fergus Falls Middle School. Awaiting a
response from the teacher with details.
I'm sending out an email to the History Day Support Club as soon as I
finish this one, asking for help with the groups.
Hope that all is well. Please let me know if there is anything else
that I need to do.
Sincerely,
Michelle Los
fyi re History Day over holiday break and beyond:
I am still out of state and I can't check my email remotely. I definitely did not set up any appointment, nor did I say that History Day help would be available. I did tell a teacher from Wabasha (I think?) that the library would be open and they would be welcome to come and do research, but I did make it clear that the HD staff and support would be out of commission until the begin of the new semester.
I am returning to Minnesota on the 31st and will be coming into the office on the 2nd. I'm sure I have a massive backlog of emails - I'll likely spend the first day taking care of that. I will be on campus 9-5 on weekdays until the start of the semester, so I will be available should anyone else show up.
--ML
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SG has contact info for TA's cell phone but that's not likely to be needed. --SG
Heads up - Michelle Los, our History Day coordinator, just called
with info on a group coming next week.
Tuesday Nov. 6
History Day group 45 students from Onamia.
arrival 10 am
departure 2:30 or so.
History Day Research at U of M Libraries is being redesigned.
http://wilson.lib.umn.edu/historyday/
History Day Quick Steps handout for visitors who have come in without advance preparation is now at
http://wilson.lib.umn.edu/historyday/quicksteps.pdf
Minnesota Historical Society also has several great Web pages including
Researching History aimed at History Day students.
Wednesday, Feb 21st
9 a.m.
Red Lake Middle School
12 students
2 teachers, HD staffer
From a note a mentor sent to Franz:
RESCHEDULED from Thurs. Feb 15 NOW SET for TUESDAY FEB 20
So just a heads up in case you have not been notified yet... Washburn is planning a Wilson Library day from 9-2:30 or so on Thursday the 15th. The way it sounds from Mr. Percy is it'll just be his class, so about 30-40 kids tops. Have a good one, Amanda
http://www.nationalhistoryday.org/Themes.htm
excerpt:
During the 2006-2007 school year, National History Day invites students to research topics related to the theme Triumph & Tragedy in History. As is the case each year, the theme is broad enough to encourage investigation of topics ranging from local history to world history, and from ancient time to the recent past.
History Day tour of Wilson on Thursday, February 16th for 8-12 students arriving at 4:20 P.M.
Susan Gangl will be out of the office (for jury duty) that week. I am reserving room 2 for them.
Susan
Group coming to Andersen on Thurs. Tim expects they'll stay at Andersen the entire time.
SG
Susan,
Just wanted to let you know that I'm hosting a visit of 32 students and 5 adults from Richfield Middle School tomorrow from 11:30 to 1:30. They're at MHS first and then coming here. I don't know if you keep stats or whatever, but just wanted to have you in the loop on this visit.
Tim
Just as a reminder, here's the History Day Research Guide to the U Libs (also on the toolbar at the top of the Ref Desk screen). The Web site gives the e-mail link to the History Department's History Day contact, Franz Young. School groups need to contact him to set up a tour of Wilson. SG does not offer tours. Give students and parents the url to the History Day Research Guide to the U Libs. Thanks. SG
History Day
Date: Wednesday 30 November 2005
Time: 09:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. (CST6CDT)
Location: room 2
History Day Highland Park Jr HI
Date: Monday 5 December 2005
Time: 09:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. (CST6CDT)
Location: room 2
History Day - Folwell Middle School
Date: Thursday 8 December 2005
Time: 01:30 p.m. to 03:30 p.m. (CST6CDT)
Location: room2
-- UMCal web access: http://umcal.umn.edu
We might be nearing the end of the Library tour season. One group of 25 high achiever students from the Anishinabe Academy will be coming on Thursday, but I'm still trying to work out the details. The original plan was for them to arrive at 11:30 and stay very briefly - perhaps only a couple of hours. That might change to an afternoon visit (perhaps 1:30 or so). I [Brad J from History Dept] will not be able to lead this tour, but I will have replacements on hand. A mentor is bringing 5-10 students from Central High School (St. Paul) to Wilson tomorrow at 3:30 pm. -- per note from Brad, History Dept. (entered by sg)
Subject: upcoming tours
Date: 24Feb05 2:29pm
We're nearing the end of the library tour season, but we do have some final
tours.
Tomorrow a small group from Fergus Falls is coming - I think about a dozen
or so - from 10am-2pm.
Next week we have a group of 25 students from Anishinabe Academy coming
(details need to be finalized).
A staffer from the History Center is bringing 17 students from Sacred Heart
Academy on Monday, Feb. 28 to find articles. I am not sure what time, but
I believe he indicated in the morning. I am teaching in WI on Mondays, so
I will not be around for this one.
Brad
The sample topics list is on pp. 12-15 of the pdf version of the curriculum book,
2004-2005 theme Communication in History: the Key to Understanding (PDF File) which you can view on the Web in part or in its entirety at:
http://nationalhistoryday.org/02_contest/frameb_02_d.html
Below is a rough cut and paste version of the topics list:
THE FOLLOWING LIST is intended to provide students with examples of the sorts of topics that might work for this year’s History Day theme. Choosing one of the topics below will not increase or decrease a student’s chances of doing well at a History Day contest.
Sample Topics for 2005
Communication in History: The Key to Understanding
Samuel Morse and the “Other” Telegraph Inventors
The Stagecoach: Express Communication on Wheels
The Pony Express: Understanding and Communication across a Country
Helen Keller: The Challenge to Communicate
“Read all about it”: The Invention of the Printing Press
From Oral to Literal: The Invention of Writing
Pop Culture and Language in the TwentiethCentury: Communication in The Amos and Andy Show
Stereotypes and Speech: The Performance of Minstrel Shows
Cartography and Communication: The Mapping of the Pacific Northwest in the Nineteenth Century.
Advertisements in Goody’s Ladies Home Journal: Images of Gender over Time
Jazz and Blues: The Expression of Culture in History
The Harlem Renaissance: Writer and Artists Speak Out!
The Radio Act of 1927
American Presidential Campaigns and Mass Media: How do Americans make Decisions?
Television and Communication: The Vietnam War
Speaking of Freedom and Civil Rights: Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.
From Apartheid to Democracy: Mandela and P. W. Botha.
Social and Political Ideas: Jane Austen and the Novel
Talking Peace: Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begen
Saving Communication: Slavery and the Inventionof Black English Vernacular
Slave Songs: Communicating Freedom
Learning to Speak: Americanization Education and Immigrant Women in New York City’s Lower East Side
Aristotle’s Rhetoric: Communication in Fourth- Century Athens
Rap Music: Creating Social Messages through Music
The History of the Nilo Saharan Languages in Africa
Sign Language: Communication for a Voiceless Culture
Samuel Johnson and the First English Dictionary
New Languages and New Cultures: Immigrant Dialects in the United States
A Shared Language in Jamaica: Patois and the People
Emerging Voices from the Ghetto: The Jewish
Community and the Invention of Yiddish
Women Speak Out: Emma Goldman, the Most Dangerous Woman in America
Declaring their Independence: Senecca Falls, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, and
Women’s Suffrage
Flapper Culture and Style: Cartoons, Photographs, and Text
The First Amendment: Music, Advertising, and/or Politics
Founding Documents: The Language in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution
Labor and Expression: The Strike in Flint Michigan, 1936-1937
Cultural Traditions and History: Native Americans and the Oral Tradition
Traditions and Historical Impact: The Griot Tradition in West Africa
Enemies Sit Down Together: The Bay of Pigs
Voices from the 1930s: Oral Histories from the Federal Writers Project
History and Drama: The Plays of Wole Soyinka
Feminism, Social Change, and Rhetoric: Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem
Voices in Community: Rousseau and the Eighteenth-Century Public Sphere
The Power of Speech: Nazi Germany
Raising Consciousness: Women’s Groups and Communication During the Women’s Movement
The Gutenberg Bible: Keys to Printing
Henry VIII: Arrogant Communications
Thomas Paine: Motivating a Colony
The Kitchen Debate: East Meets West
Communicating Civil Rights while Sitting
Down: Greensboro Sit-ins
Gandhi’s Methods of Peaceful Communication
The Constitutional Convention: How Communication Formed a Nation
The Yalta Conference: The Big Three Create a Cold War
The Work of the UN: Communicating Peace
“Bastille Day spells prison for sixteen suffragettes who picketed the White House,” July 19, 1917. Records of the War Department Genial and Special Staffs, Record Group 165, National Archives and Records Administration.
The Camp David Accords: Peaceful Communications?
Commodore Perry Opens Japan: Westernizing the East
Conspiring to Prevail in World War I: The Zimmermann Telegram
Jane Goodall Communicates with Primates
The Nixon-Kennedy Debates: The First Presidential Debate and its Impact
Lansford Hastings’ Fatal Communication in Western Travel
Communicating Democracy: John Locke
Socratic Method: A Study In Educational Communication
Communicating Civil Rights: Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail
The Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo: Forcing
Communication and Secession
Communication between Two American
Legends: Adams and Jefferson
The Lewis and Clark Expedition: Communication with Native Tribes
Expressing Life on the Frontier: Buffalo Bill
Proclaiming Equality: The Emancipation Proclamation
William Penn and his Treaty with the Indians
The Protests over Vietnam: Communicating Disagreement
Communication with Nature: John Muir and the American Wilderness
Communicating Communism from Afar: Lenin in Exile
Christian Peace: The Treaty of Westphalia, 1648
Stranger in a Strange Land: The Real Robinson Crusoe
The Black Death: How Interpersonal Communications Kept It Killing
Refusing Orders: The Mutiny on the Bounty
The Beginning of Parliamentary Government: The Magna Carta and John I
Guy Fawkes: Communicating Political Dissent
Vanishing: The Absence of Sir Raleigh’s Communications
The First Thanksgiving: Grateful for Friendly Communications
The Underground Railroad: Keeping Ties between Two Worlds
An Unlikely Union: Nixon and Elvis
Satellites: Redefining Communications
Alexander Graham Bell and His Legacy Today
Stonehenge: Druid Communications?
Unbreakable: Navajo Codes in World War II
Communicating With the Id: Freud’s Research
Communicating Social Standards through
Literature: The Works of Dickens and Sinclair
The Energetic Education of Muppets: Jim Henson
Silent, but Deadly… Hilarious: Charlie Chaplin
Walt Disney’s Animation Entertainment
A Study of Legal Communications: Thurgood Marshall
“Blowin’ In the Wind”: Protest Songs of the 1960s
The Freedom Singers: Communicating Civil Rights
Across the Pond: The Transatlantic Cable
Enabling Underwater Navigation and Cartography:
The Development of Sonar
Ancient Communications: Hieroglyphics
Oral Communications: The Ancient Bards of Greece
Hostile Communications: Japan Declares War
The Fatal Influence of Nazi Propaganda in Germany
Communicating Independence: 1776
The Art of Silence: Espionage
Talking with the Enemy: Treasonous Communications
Keeping America in Contact: The USPS
Revolutionizing Business: FedEx and UPS
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: The Photograph
Communicating the West: From Ansel Adams to Georgia O’Keeffe
Braille: Communication for the Blind
Mixing Humor and Politics: Political Cartoons
Communicating to Our Elected Officials: Elections and Lobbying
The Age of McCarthyism: The Power of Propaganda and Censorship
Creating the Phoenician Alphabet
Communicating with a Nation: FDR’s Fireside Chats
Contact with the Western Frontier: The Pony Express
Morse Code and the Telegraph: Communication across the Airwaves
Letters to the Corinthians: The Missions of St. Paul
Sophocles and the Development of Modern Drama
Communicating Women’s Power: Billy Jean King and Margaret Thatcher
Papal Absolution: The Pope Visits Cuba
Communications along the Front in Trench Warfare
Reaching Out For Help: Ho Chi Minh
Keeping Lanes Open: The Berlin Airlift
An Inevitable Reunion: East and West Germany
Subject: Fw: Wilson library visit for Scheid's students
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 09:03:44
Hi Susan,
I'm forwarding you a request from a teacher for two library tours next
month. The groups will be coming from Highland Park Jr. High and will be
accompanied by teacher Judith Scheid and chaperones. On Nov. 9, 32 students
will be here (I will lead that tour) and 15 students will be here on Nov. 17
(a colleague will lead that tour). Both research visits will last from
9am-noon.
Brad