Lake Champlain History Comes Alive! Workshop

For many years, Flynn teaching artists have collaborated with teachers through its signature Words Come Alive! program to develop techniques in drama and movement to strengthen student comprehension of various curricular topics. In this full-day workshop, participants will have the opportunity to experience these techniques as they are applied to primary sources and history texts of Lake Champlain, in support of the commemoration of Samuel de Champlain’s naming of the lake 400 years ago. These tried-and-true techniques deepen students’ personal connections with history and allow them to view the past from multiple perspectives of ethnicity, gender and loyalties. As a middle school student exclaimed, “It’s like learning history and being a part of history all at the same time.” Participants will receive the 2nd edition of the Words Come Alive! toolkit.

Date: Friday, September 25, 2009 9 am-3 pm

Location: Flynn Center

Leaders: Joan Robinson and Lida Winfield

Cost: Payable by check to Flynn Center on 9/25/

$25 CVEDC Members $35 Non-CVEDC Members

To register: http://cvedc.champlain.edu/

Registration deadline: 9/18/09