Basement. Absolutely. Maureen mcguirl, thank you of our fellows and being with us this summer. Appreciate it. For more information about Education Resources, including lesson plans and our go her fellowship program, classroom. Rg every year, cspan awards fellow and highseveral middle School Teachers who have demonstrated innovative methods cspan programsg in their 250e67g. They join cspans Education Team in washington, d. C. For four weeks in july to teaching materials. They also help lead cspans summer educators conference. Three 2019 teacher fellows is middle School Teacher lowe of sumter, South Carolina. Our 2019 one of cspan teacher fellows. At middle school in sumter, South Carolina. Your s a little bit about students. My students come from a very rural area, impoverished backgrounds. Very on the edge of Sumter County in South Carolina. Like haped a little bit oklahoma. Our school comes from the so were completely away from the city. We have about 400 kid, grades k small schoola v
Zachariah lowe of sumter South Carolina. Zach lowe is a teacher at middle school in sumter, South Carolina. Tell us a little bit about your students. My students come from a very rural, very impoverished backgrounds. Were very on the edge of Sumter County in South Carolina. Its kind of shaped a little bit like oklahoma, so our school comes from the panhandle, so we are completely away from the nearest city. And we have about 400 kids, grades k through 8, so a very small school as well, but the kids are determined to grow. They are determined to learn and just great personalities and desire to try and make their communities a better place. Your focus as a teacher is state history. South carolina state history. What prompted you to apply to be a teacher fellow . What did you think you would learn . Actually i came to cspans educator conference about four years ago. It was my first real big professional development experience. It was right after my first year of teaching, and its kind of
Hi. Im jessica, and it is a pleasure to be here today with the Honors College students and the university of South Carolinas 421 course with the south made exhibiting South Carolinas industrial past. I want to start with a quote. This quote comes from a very prominent american historian. A guy named ed ayres who wrote, while the coal mines and textile mills have become a visible and memorable part of southern history, the souths largest industry has remained virtually ignored. Lumbering is often written off as if little consequence and little dramatic interest. Yet, lumbering more often than any other industry captures the full scope of economic change in the new south. Its limitations as well as its impact. And we are about i dont know, a third of the way through the semester and i think you guys are already convinced of this. But, i thought it might be interesting to share with you a little bit more about how we got to this place. So, about five or six years ago the National Park Ser
And it is a pleasure to be here today with the Honors College students in the university of south. Here today with the Honors College students at the university of South Carolina for 21 course exiting South Carolinas industrial patch. I want to start with a quote. This quote comes from a very prominent american historian. A guy named ed harris, who wrote, while the coal mines and textile mills have become a visible and memorable part of southern history, the south as an industry has remained virtually. Lumbering is often written off as of little plants and little dramatic interest. Yet lumbering, more often than any other in the, captures the scope of economic change in the new south. Its limitations as well as his impact. We are about a third of the way through the semester and i think you guys are already convinced of this. But i thought it might be interesting to share with you a little bit more about how we got to this place. So about five or six years ago, the National Park Servic
And it is a pleasure to be here today with the Honors College students in the university of south. 421 course what the south made exhibiting South Carolinas industrial i want to start with a quote this quote comes from a very prominent american historian a guy named ed ayres who while the coal mines and textile mills have become a visible and memorable part of southern history, the souths largest industry remained virtually ignored. Lumbering is often written off as of little consequence, and little dramatic interest, yet lumbering more often than any other industry, captures the full scope of economic change in the new south, its limitations as well as its impact and about, i dont know, a third of the way through the semester. And i think you guys are already kind of convinced of this, but i thought it might be interesting to share with you a little bit more about how we got to this place. So. About five or six years ago, the National Park reached out to uscs department of history and