Homeschool Days

Especially for Homeschoolers: Programs at the Maryland Historical Society

Dear Homeschool Families - 

This is a very exciting time for MdHS - we are currently commemorating the sesquicentennial of the Civil War with our exhibit Divided Voices, Maryland in the Civil War and are gearing up for the bicentennial celebration of the War of 1812. There will be many educational opportunities available surrounding these two anniversaries.  One such program will be -

The Price of Freedom: 1812. 

Riots in Baltimore; Maryland privateers on the high seas; an American invasion of Canada: Students from the Baltimore School for the Arts will dramatize these pivotal events in the War of 1812 in original performances inspired by archival research conducted at the Maryland Historical Society.

There will be four performances of these dramatic scenes, three at Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine and one at MdHS. I would like to extend a special invitation to our Homeschool partners to attend any of these free events.  This would be a great way to kick off the study of the War of 1812 and to introduce the special events starting city-wide this summer.   

Fort McHenry Performances

Saturday, April 21 at 2pm

Monday, April 23 and Tuesday, April 24 at 10am

MdHS Performance

Friday, April 27 at 6pm followed by a meet and greet reception with the students

I would also encourage our Homechool partners to look forward to a new resource being developed by the MdHS Education Department, our Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) webpage.  The TPS webpage will be a resource for teachers to find interesting lesson plans, document-based questions, and digitized primary sources from our extensive archival collections.  This website will launch Spring 2012 and will be an effective enrichment tool for your lessons. 

Unfortunately, due to staffing cut backs, we are not able to offer any specialized Homeschool programming this year.  We are committed to continuing to serve the Homeschool community in Maryland and confident that we will reinstate specialized Homeschool programming in the future.  In the meantime, we would be happy to work with individual Homeschool groups to book any of our standard school programs.  Please see our onsite and outreach program offerings on the School Tours, History Workshops, or In the Classroom pages and feel free to contact the Education Department with any questions or concerns.  

Thanks,

Kristin Schenning

Director of Education

Maryland Historical Society