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Stronger historical writing skills
• Keener sense of what an argument is and how to form and support one.
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Practice in public speaking
• Interaction with age-mates in another country and continent
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Perspective-taking
• Understanding of the many applications of technology for learning, re- search, writing, collaboration, discussion and debate
In the US, the program will be interwoven within the Core Knowledge History curriculum and will build off of the existing materials that students use. Supple- mental readings and trade books that compliment the current curriculum will be used within the program. The program is designed to run throughout the school year so that the debate and discussion with the British school happens in May or June. The full-year schedule allows us to more easily integrate the program within the competing demands of the school’s curriculum and to accommodate a field trip to local Colonial Bronx places of interest as well as a visit from a professional historian, and of course, the culminating events with the English school. The amount of instructional time spent on this program is anticipated to be 1 1/2 hours per month, beginning in September and continuing through April. In May the instructional hours will increase to 3 hours per month to prepare for the debate with a British school. LPM will facilitate the program, provide all teaching materials and will create additional materials that align to each school’s current program in history so that the program enhances the existing instructional plan.
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