I have been staring at the schedule for my upcoming visit to America's Fort since it was delivered to my inbox on Wednesday. It is a full schedule with some intriguing topics. In addition to lectures, discussions, and workshops, participants will tour the fort and museum facilities, jaunt to Mount Defiance, take a boat cruise on Lake Champlain, and experience the 30-foot bateau (flat-bottomed rowing boat) firsthand.
I confess to being overwhelmed by the topics in the schedule. Just when I think you know most of the answers, a schedule like this comes into play and challenges me. That just means I have the opportunity for lots of growth, this summer.
I confess to being overwhelmed by the topics in the schedule. Just when I think you know most of the answers, a schedule like this comes into play and challenges me. That just means I have the opportunity for lots of growth, this summer.
Day OneIntroductions and “Ticonderoga: A Key to the Continent” Day Two1758 Geography of the Champlain Valley from atop Mount Defiance Introduction to 1758 at Ticonderoga Tour of the “Great Wars” exhibition “Two World Wars: Bringing the Seven Years’ War and the Great War” Introduction to Using Documents and Objects with Students 1758 Artillery Demonstration “Why did the leaders decide to fight?” "Master of that Eminence: Engineering the Defeat of Abercromby’s Army in 1758” Day Three“Fighting the Wars in Europe: Armies, Campaigns, Battles, Culture, and Technologies” “The Pell Story” Boat cruise on Lake Champlain aboard the Carillon “How did soldiers and civilians experience and remember the wars?” Working with Documents: French & Indian War Soldier Journals Introduction to Ticonderoga’s Online Data Base Using the Data Base with Students “Ticonderoga Trivia Tuesday” | Day Four“Global Wars, Global Combats: The Wars around the World” “The Stuff of History: Hands-On Examination of Collections Items” “How did non-Europeans from New York to India experience and understand the wars?” Stephen Pell’s Great War Working with Stephen Pell’s Wartime Letters  Day Five“The Ends of the Wars, the Failures of the Peaces, and the Remakings of the World” “The Plattsburgh Movement” How the Fort Ticonderoga Teacher Institute Changed my Classroom “How do wars remake the societies that fight them?” The 1758 Campaign from the Water: Bateau Experience “Guns by Night” Day SixVideo resources and closing activities Historic Trades Immersion (shoemaking, tailoring, maritime carpentry, animal husbandry) Project Sharing and Institute Wrap-Up |
