Teaching Whittier in the 21st Century |
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Teaching Whittier can be downloaded at no charge from the Whittier Home's Web site. The three-part PDF package provides printable instructional materials, programming, and a walking tour which helps teachers, historical societies, librarians, and museum curators share Whittier's place among writers who shaped history with their pens and their deeds.
In particular, the curriculum is designed to offer a variety of activities, lesson plan supplements, and materials for use in a classroom setting and/or on a site visit. Work sheets, ideas, and projects can be used as building blocks in tandem with a field trip to the Whittier Home, or can stand alone as complimentary curriculum-based materials and information.
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The Teaching Whittier curriculum features a script developed specifically for students, but anyone with an interest in
By placing the curriculum on the Whittier Home Association website for free download, the organization is able to expand its reach beyond the miles to inform and enlighten audiences throughout the world, thus fulfilling its mission to be a non-profit educational organization striving to engage diverse audiences in the life-story of Whittier in his roles as Quaker, Writer, Legislator and an Abolitionist.
About the Whittier Home: Born in Haverhill MA in 1807, Whittier moved with his family – mother Abigail, sister Elizabeth, and Aunt Mercy – to Amesbury MA in 1836 into a three-room cottage across the street from the Quaker Meeting House. From 1836 until his death in 1892, John Greenleaf Whittier lived and wrote most of his poetry and prose here. Built circa 1829, this classic