High School Students Take on "the Origins Debate" in Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake

An an analysis and presentation (including classroom video!)  of a summer institute built around a summer school class  where NYC high school students grappled with primary documents and excerpts from Morgan & Berlin as they investigate labor and social relations in the early Chesapeake, while in the afternoon teachers and historians worked with the same articles and other possible materials to structure the next day's class. The analysis will address the relation of secondary and primary sources in the work, tensions between student inquiry and narrative arc and backwards planning, as well as the nature of this historian-teacher collaboration. A document pack, source list, and other classroom materials will be provided to all who attend.