Teachers who have participated in UCBHSSP professional development series or summer institutes can find resources here. Please email ucbhssp@berkeley.edu for more information about this page.

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Primary Source Sets

Corroborating Multiple Primary Sources Activities

Source Set: How did women in the American colonies support colonial protests against England?

Source Set: How did attitudes about race affect the rights of individuals?

Recent Conference Presentations

Capuchino High School teacher Kate Ferro and Donna Leary recently presented "Keep It or Junk It: Examining Evidence for Relevance" at the California Council for History Education and California World History Association annual conferences. The "Keep It or Junk It" process helps teach students how to select and analyze evidence. See below for the classroom strategies presented at these conferences.

Lesson 1: Examples of choosing and analyzing evidence for writing.

Lesson 2: Can the Industrial Revolution by Considered Progress to the Working Class of Great Britain?

World History Scholar Series: Religion and Boundaries: Conflicts in World History February 27, 2010: Religion and Power in Ancient Rome April 24, 2010: Religion in the Modern Middle Eastern World See below for teacher resouces from these events.

On February 27, 2010, the UCBHSSP held the first World History Scholar Series Seminar focusing on Religion and Boundaries: Conflicts in World History.

UC Berkeley Professor Carlos Noreña presented his talk, Religion and Power in the Roman World, followed by classroom applications presented by Fran Sheppard (Albany Middle School) and Alison Waterman (Orinda Intermediate School).

Following are the documents presented at the workshop:

Professor Noreña's powerpoint: Religion and Power in the Roman World
Classroom Applications Powerpoint
Primary Source Investigation Worksheet
Roman Artifact Notes Worksheet
Aeneid Graphic Organizer

On April 24, 2010, the UCBHSSP held the second World History Scholar Series focusing on Religion in the Modern Middle Eastern World.

San Francisco State University Professor Maziar Behrooz presented his talk, The Place of Islam and Islamic Civilization in World History, followed by classroom applications by Kate Ferro (Capuchino High School).

Following are the document presented at the workshop:

Historical Background on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Powerpoint
Classroom Applications Powerpint
Blank Unit Plan (for teachers)
Blank Unit Map (for students)
Passage Organization Cause & Effect (includes key)
Primary Source Excerpts for Exploring the Settlement Issue
Primary Source Investigation Worksheet for One Document (Blank)
Primary Source Analysis for Multiple Documents (Blank)
Looking at Primary Sources for Evidence Chart (includes blank)
Writing Frame (blank)
Writing Prompt and Evaluation of a Thesis