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Tuesday, November 03, 2009
Chicago History Museum Teacher Workshop

Teacher Workshop: Monumental Lincoln

Saturday, November 21, 9:30 A.M.-12:30 P.M.
Earn 3 CPDUs; $40, advance registration required

Discover how to incorporate public art into your history instruction. Join high school teacher and author James Percoco on a visual journey of Lincoln monuments across the country, comparing the intentions at their unveilings with our responses to them today. See the exhibition Abraham Lincoln Transformed and investigate the Lincoln monument behind the Museum. Fee includes a copy of Percoco's Summers With Lincoln, breakfast refreshments, lesson plans, and numerous additional classroom resources.

Sign up today! To make a reservation, call 312.642.4600 or visit www.chicagohistory.org/education.

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