• Learn how connect gravestone art to cultural attitudes and beliefs
• Learn how to use a cemetery and the census as historical evidence
• Learn how to develop learning tasks
• Lear how to develop character sketches with students

• “The power of history, the power of story” with Natalie Kinsey-Warnock
• Investigating community history in the cemetery and census
• The Literacy Design Collaborative Model    
• Writer's Workshop: Developing Characters
• Optional evening art: Making Cranky Boxes    

    Learning Goals:

• Learn how to connect architectural details to cultural attitudes and beliefs
• Learn how to use architecture and maps as historical evidence
• Learn how to develop good questions

• Reading the architectural landscape   
• Maps from the past
• Writer's Workshop: Developing Descriptive Settings  
• Developing strong inquiry questions
• Field Study with Vermont Folklorist, Jane Beck

    Learning Goals:

• Learn about historical resources available at a historical society and town office
• Learn how to identify and date historic photographs

• Reading Historical Photographs with Kids
• Developing context at the town office and historical society           
• Writer's Workshop:  Finding the story of your person 

    Learning Goals

• Learn how to synthesize primary sources
• Learn how to support student thinking
• Explore ways to tell stories with kids

• Moth Storytelling and other ways to tell stories with kids