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'Looking Quite Like Soldiers!' curriculum collection

 Collection
Identifier: AMN 1095

Collection Overview

The collection includes a notebook containing the award-winning curriculum Looking Quite Like Soldiers!: Reliving the History of the 54th Massachussetts Volunteers; a penant of Timilty Middle School; and photographs of student reenactors and staff members on June 20, 1997.

Dates

  • Creation: 1995-1997

Creator

Access Restrictions

No restrictions.

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Historical Note

Looking Quite Like Soliders! was developed by Jonathon Cooper-Wiele, Sarah Lahr, Maurice Nobles, Jr., and Mary Rerisi-Patota, educators at James P. Timilty Middle School in Boston, Massachusetts. The curriculum provides an interdisciplinary, thematic curriculum that explores the historical context for African American participation in the Civil War and the all-black 54th Massachusetts Volunteers, a famed Union regiment. Lesson plans incorporate excerpts from letters of James Henry Gooding, maps of Camp Meigs and Boston, and secondary sources.

This curriculum was awarded the 1996 Steppingstone Prize, which celebrates innovative curriculum units that enhance the public school curriculum and have demonstrable results.

Extent

0.25 linear feet (1 archival box)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

Looking Quite Like Soliders!, winner of the 1996 Steppingstone Prize, was developed by educators at James P. Timilty Middle School in Boston, Massachusetts. The curriculum provides an interdisciplinary, thematic curriculum that explores the historical context for African American participation in the Civil War and the all-black 54th Massachusetts Volunteers, a famed Union regiment. Lesson plans incorporate excerpts from letters of James Henry Gooding, maps of Camp Meigs and Boston, and secondary sources.

The collection includes a notebook containing the award-winning curriculum Looking Quite Like Soldiers!: Reliving the History of the 54th Massachussetts Volunteers; a penant of Timilty Middle School; and photographs of student reenactors and staff members, 1997.

Collection Arrangement

1. Curriculum Notebook, School Penant, and Photographs, 1995-1997

Processing Information

Processed by Amanda Ross, May 2010

Encoded by Amanda Ross, May 2010

Funding from the Council on Library and Information Resources supported the collection processing and encoding of this finding aid.

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Finding Aid & Administrative Information

Title
Inventory of the 'Looking Quite Like Soldiers!' Curriculum, 1995 - 1997 AMN 1095
Status
Completed
Author
Finding aid prepared by Processed by: Amanda Ross; machine-readable finding aid created by: Amanda Ross
Description rules
Dacs
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin
Language of description note
Description is in English
Sponsor
Funding from the Council on Library and Information Resources supported the collection processing and encoding of this finding aid.

Repository Details

Repository Details

Part of the Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture Repository

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