Educating Our Eagles - Issue Nine

NEH LANDMARK SERIES
This summer, Mount Everett English teacher Kevin Wolgemuth
participated in a two-week Institute run by the National
Endowment for the Humanities. Under the direction of professors,
experts and Indigenous community leaders from throughout New
England, twenty K-12 educators from across the country examined
historical documents, maps, oral traditions and artifacts through
several perspectives including archaeological, cultural, literary,
topographical/geographical and political. Focusing particularly
on Mourt's Relation, an obscure 1622 English collection of
writings recounting the early years at Plymouth, teachers engaged
in extensive close readings and discussions toward decolonizing
historical narratives. Tours included visits to Mayflower II,
Plymouth, Provincetown and local areas to "walk the steps" and
first encounters of Indigenous peoples and English settlers.
KEVIN WOLGEMUTH
EDUCATING OUR EAGLES
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