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WORKSHOPS & INSTITUTES 2007-2008
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Spotlight on Quebec:

QUEBEC 1608-2008

French-speaking people from three countries will shine a spotlight on Quebec City in 2008, as historians, descendants, and well-wishers from France, the U.S., and Canada gather to commemorate and celebrate the 1608 founding of what is now the capital of the province of Quebec, and to focus attention on some of the individuals associated with its origin 400 years ago – notably, French cartographer and Quebec's first governor Samuel de Champlain.

Celebration organizers intend the events throughout this milestone year to showcase Quebec City’s place on the national and international stage, highlighting Quebec City as the founding site of permanent French culture in North America, and as the former capital of the fur trade-based empire of New France which once reached from the Gulf of St. Lawrence to the Great Lakes and from Hudson Bay to the Gulf of Mexico.

SUMMER 2008: Two Teachers' Institutes will examine Quebec history and Champlain's contribution.

For Teachers of French: June 22-July 2,2008
For K-12 Professionals: July 6-11, 2008

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CURRICULUM RESOURCES

• Resources for Elementary and Middle Level Frameworks - Canada - outline of resources organized by State frameworks.
  
  
• On-Line Canadian Lesson Plans/Units
  Hyperlinks to internet-published Canadian studies lessons and units Canadian
  
  
• Field Trip to Canada - without leaving the classroom - outline and examples of reproducible exhibit stations to create an Introduction to Canada unit
  
  
• Culture Focus: Acadia , Acadians--Elements of Canadian and U.S.Acadian culture, time line, who's who, curriculum connections, units on-line, web links, books.
  
  NEW resource for understanding and experiencing fracophone culture in northern Maine, Voici The Valley
  
  
• Explanatory Maps of Saint Croix & Acadia English and French text, and printable graphics in pdf format.

TEACHER RESOURCES

• Canadian Children's Literature: A Genre Approach to Reading Your Way Through Canada - PowerPoint presentation
  
  
• Public Policy Journal - scholarly articles about current issues in Canadian-American relations. Useful as teacher background, or for A.P. courses
  
  
• Lending Library - K-12 teaching resources loaned to you via the U.S.Post; call (207) 581-4225 or e-mail Betsy Arntzen to find out what is available
  
  
• K-12 Canadian Resources in the Learning Materials Center at UMaine's Fogler Library - available through interlibrary loan
  
  
• Canada Valise (photo top right) - a suitcase of resources sent classroom to classroom
  
  
• Traveling Classroom Exhibit: Three Arctic Visits (photo at right) - a trunk of resources from the Hudson Museum

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Summer 2008...

Summer Institute for K-12 Professionals Quebec 1608-2008

July 6, 2008 - July11, 2008

"Samuel de Champlain and the
Meeting of Two Worlds: 1601-1701"

This Institute will begin and end in Montreal, and will take place on the road in the Province of Quebec.

Click for details, itinerary, and an application

For more info:
Betsy Arntzen (207)581-4225
barntzen@umit.maine.edu
Institute is produced by the Northeast National Resource Center on Canada, with support from Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada, and from US DOE Title VI.

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Summer Institute for Teachers of French
June 22, 2008 - July 2, 2008

"Samuel de Champlain: Fondateur de la ville de Québec et explorateur de la Nouvelle-France"

This Institute will take place on the road in the Province of Quebec, and will be conducted entirely in French.

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For more info:
Dr. Raymond Pelleter, Associate Director
Canadian-American Center
154 College Ave.
Orono, ME 04473
(207) 581-4227

• Student web tour Self-study web tour to learn the Provinces/Territories -Their name, their shape, their flag. Appropriate for Elementary and Middle School.
  
  
• Acadian Story, We Are Here To Stay Five-part story about Maine 's Acadian history. Appropriate for Elementary and Middle School.
  
  
• Canadian Studies Web Sites  Hyperlinks to web sites, organized by study topics. Appropriate for High School.

LINKS to Resources

• K-12 Study Canada - teacher resources, text book Canada: Northern Neighbor, Summer Teachers Institutes
  
  
• Center for the Study of Canada -
  Annual Teaching Canada Magazine, text book O Canada, teacher backgrounder Introducing Canada, and other titles for teachers
  
  
• @ Canada - A Teacher's Guide - an educational tool produced by the Canadian Embassy for teachers interested in developing students' analytical skills in comparative culture study
  
  
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  Canadian-American Center Homepage

Last updated: 24 April, 2008