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Posted by: Stephen Wesson
I wanted to share some ideas for using the unique primary sources at the Library of Congress to choose a topic that's a little off the beaten path.
Posted in: Lesson Ideas, Teaching Tools
Posted by: Stephen Wesson
It is a librarian’s dream to be in the most fabulous library in the world, spending every day just wallowing in the collections, meeting experts, and pursuing scholarly interests. My library dream has been fulfilled by being selected as the Library of Congress Teacher in Residence for the 2013-14 year.
Posted in: News and Events
Posted by: Stephen Wesson
This month teachers have two new opportunities to join the discussion about great books and other primary sources.
Posted in: News and Events
Posted by: Stephen Wesson
Sharing ideas is a critical part of all great teaching, and now the Library of Congress has a new tool for exchanging ideas with the nation’s K-12 teachers: @TeachingLC, its new Twitter feed for educators.
Posted in: News and Events, Teaching Tools
Posted by: Stephen Wesson
But writing poetry—writing a stream of words, with letters of various sizes, with exclamation points and question marks—allows me to capture my emotions better than neatly composed prose does.
Posted in: News and Events
Posted by: Stephen Wesson
Part of the power of teaching with primary sources comes from their immediacy—eyewitness accounts of historic events can have an emotional impact that secondary sources might lack. This is especially true of primary sources relating to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
Posted in: Contemporary United States (1945-present), Lesson Ideas, Teaching Tools
Posted by: Stephen Wesson
This Constitution Day, we can look back at some of the processes laid out in the Constitution and use a new tool from the Library of Congress, Congress.gov, to see how they're being used today.
Posted in: Teaching Tools