Learning Ventures
Gary Parker Schoales B.A. The College of William and Mary and M.A. Boston College has taught American and European history for forty years in public and private schools in the United States and Europe. He is the author of Justice and Dissent: Ready-to-Use Materials for Recreating Five Great Trials in American History, Great American Cities: Boston in the Colonial Period, Disillusioned America: The 1970s, America’s Turn to the Right: The 1980s, Rulers, Rebels and Rogues, Despots, Diplomats and Dreamers, Treason on Trial: America History, and Treason on Trial: European History.
He has made numerous presentations for the European Council of International Schools and the National Council for the Social Studies. His resources focus on active learning lessons which challenge students by allowing them to:
- Practice general skills including research and writing
- Practice cooperative learning
- Develop problem-solving skills
- Engage in synthesizing skills
- Develop empathic skills
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A City on a Hill Making a Book about Puritan Boston
$8.00A City on a Hill Making a Book about Puritan Boston An activity combining process and content “Salem, where we landed, pleased us not,” wrote Thomas Dudley, describing the arrival of John Winthrop’s fleet of seventeen ships in June,...$8.00 -
Making a Book about Washington D.C. During the Civil War
$8.00Making a Book about Washington D.C. During the Civil War An activity that combines process and content In 1861, Washington was a dusty, muddy city of a little over 50,000 inhabitants. Most Congressman and even the President fled the city at...$8.00 -
The Roaring 20s: Making a Book about Chicago
$8.00Making a book about Chicago is an activity that engages students in both process and content. Of all the large cities in the country in the 1920s, Chicago was the most open to doing something new. It was the first northern city that really...$8.00 -
Making a Book about St. Louis and Westward Expansion
$8.00“Millions of men are marching at once towards the same horizon: their language; their religion; their manners differ; their object is the same. Fortune has been promised to them somewhere in the West, and to the West they go to find it.”...$8.00 -
Making a Book about Philadelphia during the Revolution
$8.00This activity combines process and content allowing students to use the included thirty-two well-researched pages to create their own personal book about the colonial city of Philadelphia and its citizens as they struggled through the events of the...$8.00