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Summer Institute Logistics 2012

LODGING

Connecting to the Past has arranged and will pay for the lodging while in MIchigan.

We will be staying at:

600 Town Center Drive 
Dearborn, Michigan, 48126-2793 
 
phone: 313-593-1234 
 

 TRANSPORTATION

Connecting to the Past has arranged and paid for transportation to and from Dearborn. We will travel via Lakefront Lines.

Particpants will be responsble for their own transportation to Wooster on Monday to meet the bus and on Thursday and Friday to get to meetings at the Tri-County ESC in Wooster.

MEALS

Connecting to the Past will provide participants with a stipend to cover meals or provide the meals to them, as the case may be.

The Schedule of Events indicates when meals are "on your own," which is the time to  use your stipend.

For lunches on your own at Greenfield Village and the Henry Ford Museum, see the Schedule of Events for links to information about the multiple dining options in both museums.

Monday night is a dine on your own time. On Monday, the bus will provide transport across the street 0.2 mile to the Fairlane Towncenter and back again at set times TBD.

CLICK HERE for map of area disucssed below.

Restaurants in Fairlane Towncenter Mall
 
Bravo
Fudruckers
Starter's Bar & Grill
P. F. Chang's Chinese Bistro
China Town
 
Information about these HERE  
 
 
Fast Food / Food Court in the Mall
 
Subway
Kerby's Koney Island
Gold Sushi
Great Steak & Potato Co.
Kyoto Japanese Cuisine
Sbarra
Taco Bell
Shawarma Middle Eastern Express
 
and 11 others; for more information see HERE 
 
Restaurants within the Hotel
 Giulio & Sons (general breakfast & lunch; Italian in the evening)
Perks (coffee & pastries)
Archimedes (casual dining)
 
More Information HERE  
 
Restaurants around the Towncenter: 
 
A & W Restaurants
210 Town Center Dr
American
 
Friday's
720 Town Center Dr
American
 
Benihana
18601 Hubbard Dr
Japanese Steak

 

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Chronicling America Podasts


Narratives of Slavery: Analyzing Primary Sources

In this 5 minute video teachinghistory.org  (you can also read a transcript), historian Richard Follett analyzes two narratives of slavery: an investigative report written by Frederick Law Olmsted in 1853 for the New York Times and Solomon Northrup's book Twelve Years A Slave. He discusses each document separately and then compares their very different perspectives on slavery in Louisiana's sugar growing parishes. Follett models several historical thinking skills, including: close reading;attention to key source information, including who wrote each account, when, and for what purpose; and exploring how to make sense of multiple perspectives and conflicting accounts. Note that the Primary Source Activity Assignment related to the The Slave Trade seminar is on organized on the theme, Point of View.
 

 

 
 

 

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