Session #1

Williamsburg –website’s objectives

Jamestown – national geographic issue

Mount Vernon – Slavery, Gardens, Soil

Assignment for journal: Explore http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/jamestown/ or  http://www.apva.org/history/index.html

In your journal write or draw a response to something you learned on the website.  Responses can be poems, letters, lists, anything that represents a reaction to what you experienced on the site

Session #2

Lincoln Memorial/Arlington National Cemetery – Civil War Episodes/Read speeches

Kennedy – Websites, speeches, and video

FDR  - Websites, study of CCC

Jefferson –readings and letters, declaration of independence

Assignment for journal: Visit Smithsonian Website at  http://www.si.edu/museums/

Create a list of five things that you would like to see from any of the museums that will open when we visit.

Session #3

Korean War - video

Vietnam War – Story Core Stories

World War II – Story Core, Stories of my grandfather and family

Iwo Jima   - reading and possible film  http://www.military.com/NewContent/0,13190,NI_Iwo_Jima2,00.html

Assignment for journal: see above link.

On the Road

Capitol Hill/Supreme Court /Library of Congress