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Goals

ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PROGRAM:

The Elementary School sessions provide participants with the opportunity to explore and experience daily life in eighteenth-century Virginia. During the week teachers will:

  • Identify and analyze significant seventeenth- and eighteenth-century economic, political, and social events that led to independence.
  • Explore how Native American, European, and African interactions shaped and defined the American character.
  • Use primary sources to explore daily life in colonial Virginia.
    • · Investigate the lifestyles of various social levels in eighteenth-century America, including the gentry, middling sort, tradespeople, merchants, soldiers, women, and slaves.
  • Use technology resources, including satellite broadcasts and the Internet, to learn about the events leading to the American Revolution.


MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOL PROGRAM:

The Middle/High School sessions investigate seventeenth- and eighteenth-century political ideas and events that led to the American Revolution and development of our United States Constitution. During the week, teachers will:

  • Identify and analyze significant events that led to independence and continue to shape and define our nation today.
  • Investigate how British economic, political, and social institutions in Virginia were valued and adapted after the American Revolution.
  • Explore the challenges facing our founding fathers as they developed the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
  • Examine and compare eighteenth-century and twenty-first-century rights and responsibilities of citizenship.
  • Use primary sources and technology resources to learn about events leading to the American Revolution and their effects on the daily lives of individuals from various social levels.