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Msss Curriculum Connection Series - Lesson Number: 06, Geoff Wingard
Msss Curriculum Connection Series - Lesson Number: 06, Geoff Wingard
Maine Song and Story Sampler: Curriculum Connections Series
Political events can impact citizens across borders and through time. Folklore is powerful because it provides a vehicle for cross-cultural connections.
Msss Curriculum Connection Series - Lesson Number: 03, Geoff Wingard
Msss Curriculum Connection Series - Lesson Number: 03, Geoff Wingard
Maine Song and Story Sampler: Curriculum Connections Series
Students are social actors. As young citizens they can make their voices heard and promote ideas, causes and issues they hold dear. In this exercise students will have the opportunity to see how historic and imaginary characters have promoted their ideals (or the ideals ascribed to them).
Msss Curriculum Connection Series - Lesson Number: 05, Geoff Wingard
Msss Curriculum Connection Series - Lesson Number: 05, Geoff Wingard
Maine Song and Story Sampler: Curriculum Connections Series
Citizens participate in government, exercise their rights and fulfill their responsibilities in formal and informal ways. The history of citizen governance in Maine is robust. Maine’s people have articulated the republican virtues of local governance, citizen advocacy and educated participation for nearly two centuries. Maine’s democratic tradition spans generations and has crossed regional and class boundaries. In this exercise students will have the opportunity to learn how citizens in Maine’s working class communities have seized the opportunity to make change and fulfilled their obligations as community leaders.
Msss Curriculum Connection Series - Lesson Number: 04, Geoff Wingard
Msss Curriculum Connection Series - Lesson Number: 04, Geoff Wingard
Maine Song and Story Sampler: Curriculum Connections Series
Citizens participate in government, exercise their rights and fulfill their responsibilities in formal and informal ways. An important part of civics education is the study of citizens’ motivations and the types of expressions these motives have given rise to in public discourse. The Maine folklore tradition celebrates the various ways that Maine citizens, particularly Maine’s poor and working-class population, have made their voices heard in the public forum.
Msss Curriculum Connection Series - Lesson Number: 02, Geoff Wingard
Msss Curriculum Connection Series - Lesson Number: 02, Geoff Wingard
Maine Song and Story Sampler: Curriculum Connections Series
Citizens participate in government, exercise their rights and fulfill their responsibilities in formal and informal ways. The history of citizen governance in Maine is robust. Maine’s people have articulated the republican virtues of local governance, citizen advocacy and educated participation for nearly two centuries. Maine’s democratic tradition spans generations and has crossed regional and class boundaries. In this exercise students will have the opportunity to learn how citizens in Maine’s working class communities have seized the opportunity to make change and fulfilled their obligations as community leaders.
Msss Curriculum Connection Series - Lesson Number: 08, Geoff Wingard
Msss Curriculum Connection Series - Lesson Number: 08, Geoff Wingard
Maine Song and Story Sampler: Curriculum Connections Series
Citizens participate in markets in formal and informal ways. Public commercial transactions and private economic exchanges have historically been important to Maine’s economic viability. Students should be aware of the diversity of economic activity in Maine.
Msss Curriculum Connection Series - Lesson Number: 10, Geoff Wingard
Msss Curriculum Connection Series - Lesson Number: 10, Geoff Wingard
Maine Song and Story Sampler: Curriculum Connections Series
Maine’s diverse geography has created a diverse folkloric tradition. Students should be able to identify characteristics of Maine regional diversity in its folklore.
Msss Curriculum Connection Series - Lesson Number: 09, Geoff Wingard
Msss Curriculum Connection Series - Lesson Number: 09, Geoff Wingard
Maine Song and Story Sampler: Curriculum Connections Series
Maine’s physical environment is comprised of diverse regions, micro-climes and landforms. This diversity is reflected in various economic, social and cultural developments across the region.
Msss Curriculum Connection Series - Lesson Number: 11, Geoff Wingard
Msss Curriculum Connection Series - Lesson Number: 11, Geoff Wingard
Maine Song and Story Sampler: Curriculum Connections Series
Historical analysis is an essential component of folklore studies. Folklore is best understood in historical context. Furthermore, the process of change and evolution – central to the development of folksongs and stories – can only be assessed in light of other social/cultural changes.
Msss Curriculum Connection Series - Lesson Number: 07, Geoff Wingard
Msss Curriculum Connection Series - Lesson Number: 07, Geoff Wingard
Maine Song and Story Sampler: Curriculum Connections Series
Maine’s economy has historically been based upon resource extraction and use. Furthermore, Maine’s has historically contained only a very small middle class. Most Mainers could reasonably be described as working class while a small population of upper class elites (known variously as Great Proprietors, owners or sports) has provided structure and capital to Maine industry.
Msss Curriculum Connection Series - Lesson Number: 12, Geoff Wingard
Msss Curriculum Connection Series - Lesson Number: 12, Geoff Wingard
Maine Song and Story Sampler: Curriculum Connections Series
Students are the historical actors of the future. Their actions, attitudes and artifacts are the stuff future historians will collect and analyze in order to understand our time. Although we may not consider our lives “historic” to historians of the future they may be. Likewise, the actions, attitudes and artifacts collected in the Maine Song and Story Sampler may not have been considered historic by their creators, but are worthy of our consideration today. In this exercise students will have the opportunity to analyze one artifact from the MS&SS website from the perspective of a professional archivist to determine its …
Msss Curriculum Connection Series - Lesson Number: 13, Geoff Wingard
Msss Curriculum Connection Series - Lesson Number: 13, Geoff Wingard
Maine Song and Story Sampler: Curriculum Connections Series
The study of folklore is a useful pedagogical tool across the Social Studies. As students develop skills and expertise in historical methods, civics, economics, geography and history they can draw upon Maine’s rich folk tradition to illustrate social phenomena. The Maine Song and Story Sampler has been designed to allow citizens access to Maine’s rich folk tradition.
Msss Curriculum Connection Series - Lesson Number: 01, Geoff Wingard
Msss Curriculum Connection Series - Lesson Number: 01, Geoff Wingard
Maine Song and Story Sampler: Curriculum Connections Series
Contemporary social issues are not divorced from the past and arise from specific historical, economic and cultural conditions. In this exercise students will have the opportunity to develop a position on an issue of current concern in their community with an understanding of its cultural context and relevance.