3. The magazine:
* Quarterly
* For a public history audience; suitable for
high school students
* Sources embedded in articles
* 50 back issues: hundreds of articles
* In each issue:
Photo essay
Features: 2,500 words
Departments: < 1,000 words
* Teacher discounted subscription rate: $15
* E-version available
5. • “Breaking the Myth of the Unmanaged Landscape” by
Tobias Glaza with Paul Grant-Costa, Connecticut
Explored (Spring 2012, Vol. 12, No 2)—ecological
interpretation
• “Who Should Rule at Home? Native American Politics
and Indian-White Relations” by P. Richard Metcalf, The
Journal of American History, Vol 61, No. 3 (Dec.
1974)—political interpretation
• Excerpt from The Pequot War by Alfred Cave (Umass
Press, 1996)—economic interpretation
• “’Why Should You Be so Furious?’: The Violence of the
Pequot War” Journal of American History (Dec. 1998)
• “Exploring and Uncovering the Pequot War,” by Kevin
McBride and Laurie Lamarre, Connecticut Explored (Fall
2013, Vol 11, No. 4)
9. African American Connecticut Explored
(Wesleyan University Press, 2014)
L to R: Elizabeth Normen, Dr. Katherine Harris, Dr. Frank
Mitchell, Dr. Stacey Close, Olivia White
10. INQUIRY:
Did U.S. Rep. Joe
Courtney get it right
when he took 2012’s
“Lincoln” director
Steven Spielberg to
task for portraying two
representatives from
Connecticut voting
against the 13th
amendment
abolishing slavery?”
11. 8th Grade Ebenezer Bassett and Rebecca Primus Inquiry
(Reconstruction)
Is the history of race relations in America a story of progress?
12. 8th Grade Ebenezer Bassett and Rebecca Primus Inquiry (Reconstruction)
Is the history of race relations in America a story of progress?
FRAMEWORK INDICATOR: CHANGE, CONTINUITY AND CONTEXT
HIST 8.2: Classify series of historical events as examples of change and/or continuity.
Also,HIST 8.3-8.5 Perspectives and ECON8.1 Economics: Economic Decision Making; ECON8.6
The Global Economy
STAGING the QUESTION: Snapshot in Time
View and analyze 10 images from late 18th century to 1870
Supporting Question 1: How were members of the African Diaspora civically engaged in local,
national, and international contexts?
3 sources and formative performance task
Supporting Question 2: Did race relations improve as a result of the Civil War and
Reconstruction?
3 sources and formative performance task
Supporting Question 3: What historic and contemporary examples of change and continuity in
race relations exist?
3 sources and formative performance task
Summative Performance Task and Suggestions for Taking Informed Action