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America's Fort:  Fort Ticonderoga

Forgetting History?  Forget the Future.
Excuses for not Teaching History
History Disclaimer
History Mythbusting I
History Mythbusting II
History Mythbusting III
History Mythbusting IV
History Mythbusting V

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The theme for the 2019 Fort Ticonderoga Teacher Institute was
World Wars: Historical Comparison of
the French & Indian War and World War I
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All of my thoughts, studies and reflections
​are collected on this page,
​along with lots and lots of photos from the week-long institute.
If you are interested in applying to a place-based
​teacher institute, read my thoughts here:
​11 Ways to Make Your Teacher Institute Application Better
26 Ways to Make Your Teacher Institute Experience Better
5 Things to Look For at a Teacher Institute
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Application, Acceptance, and Anticipation

America's Fort
Teacher Accepted to Visit America's Fort
Fort Ticonderoga:  Titles in the Schedule
Fort Ticonderoga:  Facilitators
Fort Ticonderoga:  Guns at Night
Fort Ticonderoga:  Carillon Boat Tour
Near Ticonderoga:  Benedict Arnold's Sunken Gunship
Fort Ticonderoga:  Preparatory Reading
​Fort Ticonderoga:  Mount Defiance
Fort Ticonderoga:  Stephen Pell
Fort Ticonderoga:  In the Area
Ticonderoga's Story in Podcast Form
Reading about Champlain, the French and Indian War, & WWI
Fort Ticonderoga:  Historic Trades
Fort Ticonderoga:  Bateau Experience
Fort Ticonderoga:  Packing List
Historical Comparison of the French & Indian War and World
​War I
Fort Ticonderoga:  Documents
Fort Ticonderoga:  Artifacts
Fort Ticonderoga:  Big Objectives
Thinking Historically

Older, possibly Related Posts

Revolutionary Tradition:  40 Years
The Christmas Truce
Washington Meets Truman
Follow Up to Our Truman Field Trip

A few of the entries about my summer residency at George Washington's Mount Vernon deal directly with Washington's involvement as a leader in the British army before and during the French and Indian War.
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Integrated Activity Planning

Intended for direct use with students, these are lesson sets curated and created to address the French and Indian War:
The Champs
The Neutral Zone
Prologue to the Revolution
Join or Die
​Braddock's March
Siege, Surrender, and Massacre
Fort "Carry On"
Spitfire
​Capture of Fort Ticonderoga
​Knox, Knox
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Preparatory Reading

Two books were chosen for all participants to read prior to attending the teacher institute
​in hopes that the subject matter at hand will not be too foreign to us when we arrive.

French and Indian War

The War that Made America:  Tale Less Told
The War that Made America:  Indians
The War that Made America:  Selfish Motives
The War that Made America:  Assimilation
The War that Made America:  The First World War
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World War I

The First World War:  Wet and Muddy
The First World War:  Meet Franz Ferdinand
The First World War:  Shackled to a Corpse
The First World War:  A Modern War
The First World War:  Into Africa
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The War that Made America:  To Abatis and Beyond
The War that Made America:  Montcalm's Cross
The War that Made America:  Native Methods
The War that Made America:  The Master of Life
The War that Made America:  You Should See the Other Guy
The War that Made America:  The End (for Now)
The War that Made America:  PBS Miniseries
The War that Made America:  History DNA
The First World War:  The Ottoman Influence
The First World War:  Bestial Fury
The First World War:  Economic Warfare
The First World War:  Broken Rules of War
The First World War:  Conditions in Battle and at Home
The First World War:  Politics and the Will to Live
The First World War:  Adapting Technology
The First World War:  The End (for Now)

To continue building my own knowledge base, I continue to read about the founding era:
Revolutionary Reading
​More Revolutionary Reading
Still More Revolutionary Reading
​Even More Revolutionary Reading
"Colonial" Reading
​More Colonial Reading
Did Somebody Say Revolutionary Reading?
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2019 Summer Teacher Institute

The actual week-long experience is reported here, along with a whole bunch of photographic evidence.
Fort Ticonderoga Teacher Institute:  Flights to Vermont
Journey to Fort Ticonderoga:  Case Street Cemetery
Encountering Fort Ticonderoga
Approaching Fort Ticonderoga
Fort Ticonderoga:  First Looks
Fort Ticonderoga:  Inspecting the Troops
Ticonderoga Exhibits
Fort Ticonderoga and the Great War
Fort Ticonderoga:  Fire!
There Really Were Indians in the French and Indian War
Fort Ticonderoga:  The British Are Coming
Fort Ticonderoga:  The British (Really) Are Coming
Fort Ticonderoga:  Atop Mount Defiance
The Heights of Carillon
The Heights of Carillon:  Montcalm's Cross
Fort Ticonderoga:  Historical Accuracy
Fort Ticonderoga:  The King's Garden
Fort Ticonderoga:  Cruisin'
La Chute Falls, Ticonderoga, New York
Fort Ticonderoga:  Handling the Merchandise
Crown Point, New York
Champlain Memorial, Lighthouse, and Bridge
Fort Ticonderoga:  The Full Bateau Experience
Fort Ticonderoga:  Guns by Night
Fort Ticonderoga:  Historical Trades
Fort Ticonderoga 360
Bye, Ti
Fort Ticonderoga:  Wrap Up
FTTI FYI
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Follow Up

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Photo credit: Wendy Berkelman, fellow institute attender and Missouri educator
One of my responsibilities to the institute at Fort Ticonderoga was to attend.  Another responsibility was to develop an original lesson plan to share with educators.  My lesson plan uses primary resources introduced during the institute, including David Perry's first-hand account of the Battle of Carillon, as well as Daniel Dwight's powder horn.  One anchors a portion of the lesson that focuses on the experience of the battle, while the other anchors a short introduction and study of the design of the fortress and the thought processes that go into preparing for battle.  Here is the lesson that was accepted by Fort Ticonderoga:
The Geometry of Strategy
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Beyond the Institute

Lest We Forget
Lake Champlain:  It's Not Champy, but It's Definitely Something
National WWI Memorial
Fort Ticonderoga:  Stephen Pell
Fort Ticonderoga:  Hut Hike

​*Of course, Fort Ticonderoga is only
part of the Revolutionary story.
Other activity sets may be found
​on the Cultivating America page.
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Other Teacher institutes Attended

Colonial Williamsburg
Crystal Bridges
George Washington's Mount Vernon

The Hoggatteer Revolution

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