Summary
For a couple days this summer, teacher Jessica Allen dressed in Colonial garb, learned 17th-century dinner-table etiquette and plucked the suckers from tobacco plants.
Allen was one of 24 Virginia teachers selected to attend the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation's 2009 Summer Teacher Institute. The fifth-grade reading and social studies instructor said she loved every minute of the program.See the full content of this document
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Summer Teacher Institute Gives Participants a Taste of Life in the Colonies
"It was just fabulous," said Allen, who works at Suffolk's Oakland Elementary School. "It was very hands-on."
For a week in July, the teachers immer...See the full content of this document
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