American History Teachers' Collaborative
Focus Workshop
Leaders of a New Nation
Saturday,
September 19th, 2009
Agenda
| 8:00 - 8:30 | Welcome and breakfast
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| 8:30 – 10:30 | H.W. Brands, How Benjamin Franklin Invented America |
| 10:30 - 10:45 | Break |
| 10:45 – 11:30 | Session 1: Choice between discussion with H.W. Brands, a documentary clip from Founding Brothers, and time to explore websites |
| 11:30 - 12:30 | Lunch |
| 12:30 – 2:00 | Sarah Purcell, Federal Politics and Federal Style: Early Republican Politics and Material Culture |
| 2:00 - 2:15 | Break |
| 2:15 - 3:00 | Session 2: same choices as above |
| 3:00 - 3:15 | Break |
| 3:15 - 4:15 | Clip from The Crossing |