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Subject: Fall Programs for Teachers About NJ Studies Films
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Dear NJ History List:
The New Jersey Historical Commission is having computer trouble that is
making it difficult for us to advertise a number of programs for teahers
and local history organizations this fall. Below are two news releases
which we hope will interest you and which you will share with teachers you
know. One describes a statewide New Jersey Studies Film Festival sponsored
by the New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance. The other describes a portion
of that festival which the Commission is sponsoring with the Burlington
County Historical Society.
Dick Waldron
Statewide New Jersey Studies Film Festival
The New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance (NJSAA) will sponsor a New
Jersey studies film festival at six locations around the state during
1998-99. The festivalís goals are to introduce teachers to the wealth of
films and videotapes about New Jersey subjects to encourage them to teach
more about New Jersey in their classrooms, and to help those responsible
for developing education activities for organizations to include New Jersey
material in the programs they plan for their members and the public.
The NJSAA is a coalition of teachers at all instructional levels
and the personnel of museums, libraries, and historical organizations. Its
purpose is to stimulate more teaching about New Jersey subjects in the
stateís classrooms and more programs about New Jersey topics for the adult
public in museums, libraries, and historical organizations.
Each segment of the festival will include a showing of at least one
film, and at least one speaker discussing how the film was made, describing
the audience for which it is intended, and presenting ideas about how to
use it in the classroom or with adult audiences. Teachers will be invited
to critique the films, offer suggestions about their classroom uses, and
suggest subjects for future films.
Among the films the festival will feature are selections from "New
Jersey Legacy" and "Around and About New Jersey," two New Jersey history
series which are produced by New Jersey Network and the New Jersey
Historical Commission, for, respectively, high school and elementary
students; the County College of Morrisís recently completed "Chancemanís
Brothers and Sisters: The Origins of the 20th-Century Morris County Black
Community"; and NJNís "The Opportunity of the Century: The New Jersey
State Constitution at 50."
Following is the festivalís schedule. For information about films
and speakers at each site and to register for any festival venue, contact
the people listed below.
Burlington County Historical Society, Tuesday, October 20,
Wednesday, November 18, and Thursday, February 18, 1999, 4:30-7. Sponsored
by the society and the New Jersey Historical Commission, at the societyís
headquarters, 457 High St., Burlington. Includes light supper. Preregister
a week before each session. Free. Information: Richard Waldron, NJHC,
(609) 292-6062, fax 633-8168, email <rwaldron(a)admin.sos.state.nj.us>.
Georgian Court College, Saturday, October 31, 9-3:30. Sponsored by
Georgian Court and Ocean County College. Registration and luncheon: $10.
Information: Professor Claribel Young, Department of History, Georgian
Court College, Lakewood, NJ 08701; (732) 364-2200, extension 375, email
<cyoung(a)georgian.edu>.
Seton Hall University, Saturday, November 7, Media Room, Walsh
Library, 10-3. Registration and luncheon: $10. Information: Professor
Maxine N. Lurie, Department of History, Seton Hall University, South
Orange, NJ 07079; (973) 275-2772, email <luriemax(a)shu.edu>.
Mid-Atlantic Center for the Arts, Sunday, February 28, 4:30,
Carriage House. Information: B. Michael Zuckerman, director, Mid-Atlantic
Center for the Arts, 1048 Washington St., PO Box 340, Cape May, NJ 08204;
(609) 884-5401, fax 884-2006.
Rutgers Institute for High School Teachers, Thursday, March 4,
9-3:30. Registration and luncheon: $10. Information: Lynn Strawbridge,
administrator, Rutgers Institute for High School Teachers, 88 College Ave.,
New Brunswick, NJ 08903-8542; (732) 932-8701, fax 932-8708, email
<rcha(a)rci.rutgers.edu>.
College of Saint Elizabeth, Monday, April 12, 3:30-5:30, Student
Center. Free. Information: Professor Harriet L. Sepinwall, Department of
Education and Interdisciplinary Studies, (973) 290-4351, or Professor
George Sirgiovanni, Department of History, (973) 290-4305.
General information about the festival: Richard Waldron at the NJ
Historical Commission, PO Box 305, Trenton, NJ 08625-0305; (609) 292-6062,
fax 633-8168, email <rwaldron(a)admin.sos.state.nj.us>.
New Jersey History Films in the Classroom:
A Seminar for Teachers
The Burlington County Historical Society and the New Jersey
Historical Commission, Department of State, will present a three-part
seminar for teachers about New Jersey history films for elementary and
secondary classrooms. The seminar will meet at the societyís headquarters,
457 High St., Burlington, from 4:30 to 7 p.m., on Tuesday, October 20,
Wednesday, November 18, and Thursday, February 18. Registration is free,
and each seminar session will include a light supper provided by the
historical society.
The October 20 and November 18 sessions will be primarily for
secondary teachers and will present the films of New Jersey Legacy, a
coproduction of New Jersey Network and the Historical Commission. Two
thirty-minute films will be shown during each session. Together the four
films present a chronological history of New Jersey from the earliest
European settlement through the American Revolution. The titles of the
films, in the order in which they will be shown, are "Fortunes in Furs,"
"The Two New Jerseys," "Royal Rule and Religious Revival," and
"The
Republican Rebellion."
The session on February 18, 1999, will present the videotapes of
Around and About New Jersey, which are intended for the elementary
classroom. Around and About New Jersey is also an NJN/NJHC coproduction.
Each fifteen-minute program focuses on a significant historic site or event
in the stateís history. Topics include agriculture (Howell Living History
Farm, Mercer County), the Underground Railroad (the Still Family picnic),
politics and government (the State House in Trenton), American Indians (the
Indian village at Waterloo), science and invention (Edison National
Historic Site), the American Revolution (Morristown National Historical
Park), early industry (the city of Paterson), and 20th-century immigration
(the town of Roosevelt, New Jersey).
Speakers will discuss how the films were made and offer ideas for
using them in the classroom. Teacher-presenters will be David Mieskens,
East Brunswick Public Schools (October 20); Barbara B. Petrick, Dickinson
High School, Jersey City (November 18); and Ilene Levine, Roosevelt School,
Roosevelt, New Jersey. Teachers who attend the seminar will be invited to
critique the films, present their ideas for using them in teaching, and
suggest topics for other New Jersey history films.
The seminar is a part of a statewide New Jersey Studies Film
festival sponsored by the New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance. Other
festival sites will be at Georgian Court College, Lakewood, on October 31;
Seton Hall University, South Orange, on November 7; the Mid-Atlantic Center
for the Arts, Cape May, on February 28, 1999; Rutgers University, New
Brunswick, on March 4; and the College of Saint Elizabeth, Morristown, on
April 12.
Preregister for one or more of the sessions of the BCHS/NJHC
seminar at least a week before each. Information and registration form, or
information about the statewide film festival: Films, NJ Historical
Commission, PO Box 305, Trenton, NJ 08625-0305; (609) 292-6062, fax
633-8168, email <rwaldron(a)admin.sos.state.nj.us>.