Mary, The Primary Source Librarian | September 27, 2007
If you have been watching the new Ken Burns/Lynn Novick series on PBS called “THE WAR,” you may be wondering how in the world you can incorporate so much material, no matter how fascinating it is, into your teaching. The accompanying PBS website offers a helpful section “For Educators” that I highly recommend: Fourteen lesson [...]
Mary, The Primary Source Librarian | September 19, 2007
Bud the Teacher led me to this funny and poignant podcast from New York Public Radio: “Producer and gumshoe Laura Starecheski brings us along on a hunt that traverses the country, and time. The mystery to unravel? A box of old letters found on the side of the road by Erick Gordon. Git your teeth [...]
Mary, The Primary Source Librarian | September 9, 2007
I think I may already have missed the first episode of the new C-SPAN’s Presidential Library: History Uncovered program, but I certainly intend to watch the next one this Friday, September 14, at 8 p.m. Eastern time. C-SPAN and the National Archives have been combing presidential library collections for the past year in search of [...]
Mary, The Primary Source Librarian | September 2, 2007
Frances Amdahl, my seventh grade English teacher, taught me everything I ever needed (or wanted) to know about grammar. Well, to tell the truth, everything that Mrs. Amdahl taught me was reinforced by my mother, who loved grammar, spelling, and punctuation as much as I did. As unbelievable as that seems to many of my [...]