History in Your Neighborhood: Teaching with Local Historical Places

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History in Your NeighborhoodTeaching with Local
Historical Places
A Teachers Guide to African American Historic
Places in South Carolina

• Presenters
• Chanda Robinson, S.C. Department of Education
• Harmonica Hart, Kelly Mill Middle School

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Session Agenda

• Justification for A Teachers Guide to African
  American Historic Places in South Carolina
• II. Resource Book Organization and Use
• First Tab Pages 2 8
• Second Tab Pages 9 74
• Third Tab Pages 75 - 116
• Fourth Tab Pages 117 - 130
• Fifth Tab Pages 131 172
• III. Lesson Plan Sample
• IV. Teaching Activity Sample
• V. Teacher Review the Resource Book
• VI. Comments and Questions

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Justification

• By the 1989 1990 school year, each public
  school of the State must instruct students in the
  history of the black people African Americans
  as a regular part of it history and social
  studies courses. The State Board of Education
  shall establish regulations for the adoption of
  history and social studies textbooks, which
  incorporate black African American history and
  shall, through the State Department of Education,
  assist the school districts in developing and
  locating suitable printed materials and other
  aids for instruction in black African American
  history.
• (S.C. Code Ann. 59-29-55)
• South Carolina State legislature mandate, 1984

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First Tab

• How to Use this Book
• Page 5
• Historical Preservation Programs
• Page 5
• How to Interpret Entries
• Page 5

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Second Tab

• Historical Sites by County
• Pages 8 74

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Third Tab

• Teaching Activities (TA)
• Pages 75 84
• Lesson Plans (LP)
• Pages 85 116

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Fourth Tab

• Places to Visit
• Pages 117 126
• Internet Resources
• Pages 127 130

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Fifth Tab

• Indices
• Standard Indicator Pages 131 154
• Time Period Pages155 158
• Alphabetical Pages 159 164
• Subject Pages 165 169
• Compact Disc
• Compact Disc Resource Guide Page 171
• Images Page 172 174

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Lesson Plan LP-MTP-1 Pages 115-116 and
Teaching Activity TA-CRM-3 Page 80
Williams, L. Fall 2007. Historically Speaking,
Vol. 46, p. 4.
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Suggested Methods for Using A Teachers Guide to
African American Historic Places in South Carolina

1. Supplemental materials for established lesson
   plan
2. Substitute/Emergency plans
3. National History Day or African American Scholars
   Competitions
4. National Register Nominations as enrichment
   activities for advanced students

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Contact Information

• Mrs. Chanda Robinson
• Education Associate Social Studies
• African American Studies
• South Carolina
• Department of Education
• 1429 Senate Street, RM 801-E
• Columbia, SC 29201
• crobinson_at_ed.sc.gov
• 803-734-8537

• Ms. Harmonica R. Hart
• 8th grade Social Studies Instructor
• Kelly Mill Middle School
• 1141 Kelly Mill Road
• Blythewood, SC 29016
• hhart_at_kmm.richland2.org
• 803-691-7210, ext. 3108