Monthly Archives: February 2023
Our Trip to the Valentine
We loved sharing this experience with you! Consider searching The Valentine’s online collections database as you work on your multigenre project. The museum’s collection includes 1.6 million objects related to Richmond history. You can find helpful tips for searching the … Continue reading
Including Out-of-Classroom Experiences into Teaching
Hi Class! I’m not sure about you all, but I have so many thoughts about our trip to the Valentine Museum yesterday! I absolutely loved how the museum was set up by themes rather than a timeline. This made me … Continue reading
Detailed Lesson Planning: Effective or not? Should teachers be required to turn their plans in for approval?
Hello Class! This week’s class session was both informative and interesting. I’m not sure about all of you, but I thought watching a teacher conduct a lesson was extremely helpful as it provided me with various ideas and strategies. Adapting … Continue reading
Segregation, A Thing of the Past?
Hello class! This weeks class session was especially interesting to me, due to the many different and extremely rare primary sources we were allowed to look at. Once the vastness of the archives were explained to us I knew that … Continue reading
Primary Sources: Privacy and Integrity
Salut mes amis, Last class was enlightening for me in more ways than one. I had no idea that Richmond had a rare book/archives collection (an extensive one at that!) It was incredible to take a peek into the lives … Continue reading
Do You Know Georgia Gilmore?
I consider myself a lifelong learner, but I find studying history incredibly humbling because there is so much I don’t know. Imagine my surprise when last week at the Youth Media Awards the American Library Association named Sweet Justice: Georgia … Continue reading
Does your knowledge match up?
Hey guys, happy Thursday! I have been doing some hard reflection since the last class, and my reflection hovers around what we don’t learn in school. I remember vividly the paragraph on Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus boycotts and how … Continue reading
Class Reflection/Rosa Parks
Our reading this week from the Richmond’s Unhealed History book, chapters 7-9 was interesting through the different graphs and maps showing how Richmond has changed over the years. These three chapters were once again filled with difficult reading. The treatment … Continue reading