與麥迪遜總統的交談
麥迪遜總統（身著服裝）將招待客人並談論任何人感興趣的美國早期歷史的任何方面（特別是建國和憲法）。
Bil Lewis
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1 現場會議
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課堂經歷
This is the students' opportunity to just talk about history with someone from history. I have a whole set of topics and poems and readings and skits that I use in the longer classes I teach. We will certainly do some of those. But if there's a student who's particularly interested in a certain topic (say, Madison's relationship with Hamilton), we can spend an entire session on it. Anything in Madison's life is a possible topic, from the Electoral College to the American Colonial Society. Classes are generally loud and highly interactive.
學習目標
Whatever general topics the students are interested in, we shall cover in depth. We talk a lot about Power and Money, asking how it works and what it is. We often talk about war and commerce, the near-obsession with having a "Pure Republican Form of Government" that would protect everyone's rights--if only everybody agreed with us. Assumption, Discrimination, the Residence, The First Bank of the United States. Washington's six Frigates. Dolley Madison. Betsy Patterson Bonaparte. Harriet Martineau. Paul Jennings. James Madison Hemmings.
The students will come away with a good understanding of the issues, along with an appreciation of the human beings involved. The Madisons, Jeffersons, Hamiltons, Washingtons, Jennings will have faces and personalities, concerns, biases, blindness, nobility, love.
其他詳情
父母的引導和規範
We may discuss Slavery, depending upon what the students want to talk about. As clarified below, we only discuss it in fairly abstract terms.
外部資源
學習者無需使用標準 Outschool 工具以外的任何應用程式或網站。
來源
We will refer to the Constitution and Bill of Rights several times during the class.
教師專業知識和證書
The primary subjects I have taught in High School are Math and Science. However, when your school has four teachers and four classes, you get the opportunity to teach everything.
Teaching in costume as Madison is an outcome of a skit I was asked to do a few years back. This was with Professor Laurence Lessig of Harvard--one of my heroes. It worked so well that I was inspired to study and realized I had an affinity for this gentleman. As I immersed myself into the 18th century, I realized that I could teach the best High School History class ever. Some 60 biographies later, I started teaching at Massachusetts High Schools and performing at Libraries.
As a enthusiastic member of the Massachusetts Historical Society, I have had the unbelievable opportunity to spend time with some of the greatest historians of our age. One thing about coming to academic seminars in costume is that you become interesting and get time to talk to them. Thus I am confident of my accuracy.
The Historians whom I have had the honor of spending time with include Dr. Annette Gordon-Reed (who advised me on presenting the Hemmings), Dr. Robert Allison (Suffolk University), Dr. Cathrine Allgor (Mass Historical Society--THE expert on Dolley), Dr. Henry Louis Gates (Harvard). I have read them, listened to them, talked to them, asked advice and direction from them. They have seen me perform.
Slavery will be discussed in fairly abstract terms--we'll read Federalist 54, Ephesians 6:5, Madison's various attempts to end slavery & the irony of his not freeing his own slaves. Students will be reading bits of Paul Jennings' biography, and possibly Phyllis Wheatley, Madison Hemmings, Paul Cuffe, and Olaudah Equiano.
There will be no "play acting" of slavery of any sort, no use of insulting terminology.
I have taught this class in various forms several dozen times.
We are laughing, we are yelling, we are debating, we are studying the real stuff, and nobody ever falls asleep.評論
一次性直播課程
US$12
每班單堂課
55 分鐘
有2 位學習者完成此課程
即時視訊會議
年齡: 13-18
2-12 每班學員人數
