Educators! 

Join us virtually on June 29, 2021, to earn FREE CEUs with an exciting workshop from the Civil War and Reconstruction Governors of Mississippi project (CWRGM)!

Attendees will be introduced to the collection by CWRGM director Dr. Susannah J. Ural before working with veteran educators to analyze a selection of primary source documents and creating a sample activity.

Attendees will earn 0.5 CEUs for the five-hour workshop. A sample agenda can be seen below. The workshop will be capped at twenty-six attendees.

REGISTRATION CAN BE FOUND HERE and will close on Tuesday, June 22, 2021.

Workshop Agenda

Schedule: All times CENTRAL

9:00-9:50am

Intros & background on CWRGM and the history of Civil War & Reconstruction-era Mississippi

10:00-10:50am

Break into small groups & dig into the collection with the help of a veteran educator; there'll be some quiet, some discussion, share findings with your group

11:00-11:50am — Lunch Break

12:00-12:50pm

Analyze documents using National Archives sheets

1:00-1:50pm

Work on own or in small groups; veteran educators and Ural will be available to pop into rooms

Goal: sketch out an activity or lesson plan for using selected document(s) in your classroom

2:00-2:50pm

Share activities and lesson plans with the whole group; discuss ways to use the collection effectively in the classroom at different grade levels

The Civil War and Reconstruction Governors of Mississippi project is a partnership between the University of Southern Mississippi, the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, and the Mississippi Digital Library. Learn more at cwrgm.org. 

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This workshop will be made possible through generous funding provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.