Summertime!

 Teaching Montana History is going on hiatus for summer break--unless something time sensitive comes along that is so good I can't bear not to share it.

If you are changing schools, please re-subscribe using your new address! We'd hate to lose touch.

We still have spots available in our summer workshops in Helena, Missoula, and Billings. Travel scholarships are available. 

Finally: I'm issuing one last call to complete our annual survey and to share your favorite lesson and/or teaching strategy. (Need more incentive? If you thoroughly share information about resources or strategies, I'll enter you into a drawing to receive a $100 gas card.)

Summer Reading

I asked some friends and colleagues for recommendations for summer reading, and here's what they said. Many of them are available through the Montana Historical Society Museum Store. We'll see how many of these I get through this summer: 

Nonfiction 

• Land of Beginnings: The Archaeology of Montana's First Peoples, Douglas H. MacDonald
• Black Robes Enter Coyote’s World: Chief Charlo and Father De Smet in the Rocky Mountains. Sally Thompson
• The Crazies: The Cattleman, the Wind Prospector, and a War Out West, Amy Gamerman
• By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land, Rebecca Nagle
• Fifty-Six Counties: A Montana Journey, Russell Rowland
• Everything You Wanted to Know about Indians but Were Afraid to Ask, Anton Treuer

Fiction

• The Boxcar Librarian, Brianna Labuskes
•  Firekeeper's Daughter, Angeline Boulley
• The Marrow Thieves, Cherie Dimaline
• The Lost Journals of Sacajawea, Debra Magpie Earling

Pedagogy/Lesson Planning

• The Reading Strategies Book 2.0: Your Research-Based Guide to Developing Skilled Readers, Jennifer Serravallo
• Teaching Critically about Lewis and Clark: Challenging Dominant Narratives in K-12 Curriculum, Alison Schmitke and Leilani Sabzalian and Jeff Edmundson
• The Social Studies FIELD Guide: Strategies & Tools to Captivate Students, Cultivate Critical Thinking, and Create Engaged Citizens, Joe Schmidt and Glenn Wiebe

If you've got a great recommendation, send it along! And enjoy your summer!