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Channel Islands Teacher Briefing
Week of February 7 - 11, 2000
Mission and Rancho Era
The Missions we include in this unit were those whose policies had a direct impact on life out on the Channel Islands, and along the coast. With Camp text already available for each Mission, we are working on adding photographs and illustrations. There are many photographs of all of the Missions available online, and these present an opportunity to master the Internet search engines. A suggested site for photographs, glossary, and music is www.californiamissions.org, but there are many others.
Mission and Rancho Digs
Next week, on Friday February 18th, the Camp is hosting a Missions Dig. This will be a live online project challenging the students to unearth historical facts and details about the Mission period in California. The Dig will be open in the chat room from 9am-12noon. Please send an RSVP to camp@rain.org.
The following week on Thursday February 24th, the camp is hosting the Rancho Dig, and it will include research about Zorro and other important characters and historical figures from the period. The Dig will be open in the chat room from 9am-12noon. Please send an RSVP to camp@rain.org.
Reading
In preparation for Valentines Day, a suggested activity is to have students read the Robert Louis Stevenson love story, and then create one of two letters that might have gone between RLS and Fannie.
First, for the girls, when Fannie sent a letter to Robert one year after having left Europe, it was such an urgent letter that he packed up and set sail in a mater of hours with out leaving word with his family. What could have been in the letter that would have drawn him away from his home an family with such haste ? And to set sail and travel overland for 11,000 miles to reach her ? Have the students compose a possible letter she might have sent. (The original was never read by anyone other than RLS, and it has been lost).
Second, for the boys, Stevenson rushed the 11,000 miles to California, and then spent nearly an entire year waiting for Fannie to agree to marry him. In that time he explored the mountains and seashore around Monterey, visited with artists in San Francisco and at the Bohemian Club, and wrote Fannie letters encouraging her to marry him. Ask the boys to write a love poem and letter, as RLS might have sent to Fannie. It needs to include a poem with words about his experiences in nature - up in the forests in the mountains, or strolling the empty seashore … waiting for her to be free to marry him. It can contain memories about their time in France together, and can refer to the poem already online that he wrote for her.
Once they have completed their writings, select several of the best and ask those students to send them to camp@rain.org by email, including their name, your name, and their grade. If received by Valentines Day, we will post them in a special Valentines section online.
Science
Classrooms can continue to keep their weather records during February. We are now entering the Marine Studies section with tidepools and inter-tidal zones, and will be adding illustrations soon. We are also preparing for the Channel Islands National Park Ranger visits coming up starting in March. If you reserved a date, please check the activity calendar to make sure we are in agreement on the dates she will be visiting your site. Also, when you are ready to jump into the Marine section, send an email to camp@rain.org so we can have your bioluminescent plants sent out as a great hands-on learning activity. The Marine section runs from February through the end of March.
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