Learning with Landmarks, Monuments, and Memorials

Alpha Delta Kappa’s International Convention

Educational Symposium July 4-7, 2013

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Name State/Chapter Email Address

Years in Education

Greetings from Tennessee!

Name that Monument

What Is the Difference?

• “Usually, a national historic site [landmark] contains a single historical feature that was directly associated with its subject.”

• “A national monument is intended to preserve at least one nationally significant resource.”

• “The title national memorial is most often used for areas that are primarily commemorative. But they need not be sites or structures historically associated with their subjects. “

http://nationalatlas.gov/articles/government/a_nationalparks.html

National Historic Site [Landmark]

http://www.visit-springfieldillinois.com/Design/Lincoln/pic-LincolnHome-zz.jpg

National Historic Monument

http://www.visitingdc.com/images/statue-of-liberty-history.jpg

National Memorial

http://www.visitingdc.com/memorial/lincoln-memorial-picture.htm

http://www.aviewoncities.com/washington/lincolnmemorial.htm

Think About This…

• Are there landmarks, monuments, and/or memorials in your hometown?

– If so, are they highly visible and easily accessible?

– Are they visited often?

– What is the subject or theme?

• What landmarks, monuments, or memorials have you visited?

– What was your reaction to the object?

– What, if anything, did you learn as a result of your visit?

Why Landmarks, Monuments, & Memorials?

• Provides opportunities for students to practice skills of analysis and interpretation

• Provides opportunities for teachers to – Address multiple learning styles

– Include the arts

– Integrate different subject areas

– Deepen students’ understanding of their community

Uhrmacher and Tinkler (2007): ttp://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/summer07/vol64/num09/A-Monumental-Curriculum.aspx

Questions to Ask

• Referent: Whose Story Does It Tell? – Students need a context for

“experiencing and interpreting monuments.”

– Guiding Questions

– Representation of minorities and women

– Who has NOT been memorialized?

Uhrmacher and Tinkler (2007): ttp://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/summer07/vol64/num09/A-Monumental-Curriculum.aspx

Questions to Ask

• Design: How Does It Tell Its Story?

– Provide an overview of typical sculpture types (portrait and allegorical)

– Whose interpretation does the monument represent?

Uhrmacher and Tinkler (2007): ttp://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/summer07/vol64/num09/A-Monumental-Curriculum.aspx

African Burial Ground

National Monument

New York

Allegorical

African American Monument

Savannah

Portrait

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:African_National_Monument-1.jpg

http://www.ci.savannah.ga.us/cityweb/

Questions to Ask

• Reception: How Does It Affect Us?

– Encounter monument firsthand

– Inspiration?

– Monuments reflect the historical perspective of the time in which they were created.

Uhrmacher and Tinkler (2007): ttp://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/summer07/vol64/num09/A-Monumental-Curriculum.aspx

Virtual Field Trips (VFT)

• Statue of Liberty: http://www.nps.gov/featurecontent/stli/eTour.htm

• Lincoln Memorial: http://www.nps.gov/featurecontent/ncr/linc/interactive/deploy/index.htm#/introduction

• Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History: http://www.mnh.si.edu/panoramas/

• Monticello: http://explorer.monticello.org/

• White House: http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/interactive-tour

A Variety of Approaches

• Historical figures or groups associated with multiple landmarks, monuments, and/or memorials

• Historical events associated with multiple landmarks, monuments, and or memorials

• Landmarks, monuments, and memorials by theme

• International Landmarks

People in History

http://www.biography.com/people/thomas-jefferson-9353715

http://www.aboutfamouspeople.com/article5003.html

http://www.aboutfamouspeople.com/article5003.html

Jefferson Memorial

Monticello

Your Task

Create a Title or Name

Who? What? When? Where?

Sample Student Task

• Assemble the puzzle pieces to reveal a landmark, monument, or memorial.

• Attach the completed picture to the paper provided.

• Complete the Picture Analysis worksheet.

• Be prepared to share your answers with the whole group.

http://geology.com/world/the-united-states-of-america-physical-map.shtml

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8a/Carte_Lewis-Clark_Expedition-en.png

Encounters with Natives

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Carte_Lewis-Clark_Expedition-en.png

http://www.fs.fed.us/projects/lewisandclark/page6/images/map.jpg

Encounters with the Land

http://www.fs.fed.us/projects/lewisandclark/page6/

Lewis and Clark TN Social Studies Curriculum Standards

• 8.3.spi.2 Identify and use the key geographic elements on maps

• 8.3.spi.4 Use various geographic data from maps and globes to determine longitude, latitude, distance, direction

• 8.5.spi.2 Read a timeline and order events of the past • 8.5.spi.3 Differentiate between a primary and

secondary source • 8.5.spi.5 recognize consequences of the westward

expansion of the United States • 8.5.spi.10 interpret maps, timelines, and charts that

illustrate key elements of history (i.e., expansion…)

Trail of Tears • Numerous landmarks,

monuments, and memorials can be found along the Trail of Tears.

• The photo to the right shows one of the more unusual objects, accompanied by an equally unique story.

• Check out the following web site for awesome resources: http://www.nps.gov/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/118trail/118trail.htm

THEMATIC UNITS: Civil Rights

THEMATIC UNITS: Music in Tennessee

National 9/11 Memorial, New York

http://0.tqn.com/d/architecture/1/0/j/z/National-9-11-Memorial-Night.jpg

http://www.nycinsiderguide.com/Ground-Zero-Memorial.html#axzz1pWWOx4cR

The World Remembers 9/11

New Zealand

Israel

Ireland China

Oak Ridge, TN

Remembering 9/11 The links listed below provide information and/or pictures of 9/11 Memorials found around the world, providing an international lens into the importance of commemorating events that reach beyond the borders of occurrence. • China:

http://inventorspot.com/articles/chinas_911_nirvana_rose_memorial_tribute_life_and_loss

• France: http://untappedcities.com/2011/09/10/911-memorial-in-paris-the-french-will-never-forget/

• Germany: http://www.dw.de/dw/article/0,,15371880,00.html • Ireland: http://www.irishcentral.com/IrishAmerica/Remembering-from-Afar---911-

Memorials-in-Ireland--130712978.html • Israel: http://www.bermanpost.com/2011/09/israeli-911-memorial.html • Italy: http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM2932 • London: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/sep/5/remnants-of-twin-

towers-find-role-in-london-911-me/ • New Zealand: http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM2VYH • Oak Ridge, TN: http://www.wtcsteel.org/steel_history.htm

Closing Thoughts…

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

Joseph Joubert

There is nothing that strengthens a nation like reading of a nation's own history, whether that history is recorded in books or embodied in customs, institutions and monuments.

Joseph Anderson

Julie Mitchell, Ed.D. TN Alpha Theta

Lake Forest Middle School

610 Kile Lake Road Cleveland, TN 37323 423-478-8821

jmitchell@bradleyschools.org

Photo Credits • Slide 2

– Statue of Liberty: http://www.visitingdc.com/images/statue-of-liberty-history.jpg

– Lincoln Memorial: http://www.aviewoncities.com/washington/lincolnmemorial.htm

– Mount Rushmore: http://www.destination360.com/north-america/us/south-dakota/images/s/mount-rushmore.jpg

• Slide 3 – Parthenon: http://www.news.cherryhillseminary.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Nashville-

Parthenon.jpg

– Secret City: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oak-ridge-commemorative-walk1.jpg

– Red Clay Eternal Flame: http://www.tnhistoryforkids.org/places/red_clay

– Dolly Parton: http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/image:Dolly-Parton-statue.jpg

– Lorraine Motel: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Martin_Luther_King_was_shot_here_Small_Web_view.jpg

Photo Credits (cont.)

• Slide 25 – Lorraine Motel:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Martin_Luther_King_was_shot_here_Small_Web_view.jpg

– Civil Rights Memorial, Montgomery: http://www.cityprofile.com/alabama/civil-rights-memorial.html

– MLK Memorial, DC: http://dc.about.com/od/monumentphotos/ss/MLKMemorialPhotos.htm

– Rosa Parks’ Bus, Detroit: http://www.preservationnation.org/travel-and-sites/save-americas-treasures/success-stories/rosa-parks-bus.html

• Slide 26 – Sergei Rachmaninoff: http://english.turkcebilgi.com/Sergei+Rachmaninoff

– Dolly Parton: http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Image:Dolly-Parton-statue.jpg

– Elvis Presley: http://blog.reserve123.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/elvis-statue.jpg

– W.C. Handy: http://www.soulofamerica.com/index.php?id=6586,0,0,1,0,0