Humanitas Unit first aftermath

In the brief time since the lessons described in the previous post, three teachers have come to me asking for copies of the Style Manual. This is the kind of grass-roots, bottom up proliferation we want to see happen.

Partnering with Humanitas Honors English/World History Team

Well, that was exciting! We just finished the Research Instruction component of this great collaborative unit that was designed by Aljean Ivory, Diana Lee, and Karen Magee.

I was just about ready to share two major resources with content-area teachers and their classes: the DMHS Research Process, and the DMHS Style Manual (not available on the Internet for copyright reasons).

And right at the point where I was looking for someone to collaborate with, all three of them came to see me after spending a day off-campus planning their Humanitas Unit on the Industrial Revolution. They wanted to know if I could quickly get them 200 copies of the DMHS Style Manual that I had just described to the English department.

They had decided they wanted me to teach the Research Process as part of this unit. Here's the Industrial Revolution Research Project assignment that Mrs. Lee gave in her Humanitas/Honors English 10A.

She also made extensive use of the DMHS Style Manual in her adaptation of the Research Project Steps.

Here are the PowerPoints of the three lessons I taught:

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