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Teaching handouts and notes

Physical Description: 5 folders

Series Scope and Content Summary

Includes teaching notes, lesson plans, bibliographies and handouts; material related to the Social and Negro History course taught at Contra Costa College; and Jordan's notes on the 1966 California Reading Association of the International Reading Association conference.

Arrangement

Arranged alphabetically by function.
 

Bibliographies 1963-1968

Box 1:1

Bibliography "Cultural diversity" compiled in the office of the Interagency School Project 1963-06-11

Box 1:1

Bibliography "The American Negro" Berkeley Public library 1964-02

Box 1:1

Bibliography "x 402 Unwritten history: The Negro in the American society (June 15-26, 1964)," Letters and Science Extension University of California Berkeley [two copies] 1964-06-15 —1964-06-26

Box 1:1

Bibliography "Books in the McClymonds Library by and about negroes," McClymonds High School 1968-03-04

Box 1:1

Bibliography of books by and about the American Negro, James Madison Jr. High School Community Discussion Groups [two copies] circa 1960s

 

California Reading Association conference 1966

Box 1:2

Notes on reading conference by Gladys Meriwether Jordan California Reading Association of the International Reading Association 1966-10-28

 

Contra Costa materials circa 1960s

Box 1:3

The beginning of the peculiar institution of slavery in America during the colonial period circa 1960s

Box 1:3

Biographical reports of outstanding (but little known) Negroes [eleven copies] circa 1960s

Box 1:3

Black history circa 1960s

Box 1:3

Black history outline circa 1960s

Box 1:3

Divisions circa 1960s

Box 1:3

Introduction of the plan for the future circa 1960s

Box 1:3

Genetic race differences pamphlet circa 1960s

Box 1:3

List of Negro history reference books circa 1960s

Box 1:3

Major Topics for discussion circa 1960s

Box 1:3

Map (Africa) circa 1960s

Box 1:3

My objectives [two copies] circa 1960s

Box 1:3

The Negro in the United States the origin of a myth circa 1960s

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Objectives circa 1960s

Box 1:3

Origin of slavery – African background circa 1960s

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Purpose of the social and Negro history class circa 1960s

Box 1:3

Reconstruction and the Nation circa 1960s

Box 1:3

United States and Negro history desk copy circa 1960s

Box 1:3

Newspaper clipping "The profession and the media" circa 1960s

Box 1:3

Assorted notes circa 1960s

Box 1:3

Assorted notes circa 1960s

 

Teaching handouts circa 1960s

Box 1:4

Social and Negro history circa 1960s

Box 1:4

Black history alphabet of slavery [two copies] circa 1960s

Box 1:4

The origin and progress of Negro spirituals circa 1960s

Box 1:4

Notes taken from Echoes of African in Folk Songs of the Americas circa 1960s

Box 1:4

Music influenced by African music circa 1960s

Box 1:4

Your unit on African and Negro history circa 1960s

Box 1:4

African civilization before Columbus circa 1960s

Box 1:4

An instructional strategy and teaching ideas for a unit on the Negro in U.S. history circa 1960s

Box 1:4

Death of a dropout circa 1960s

Box 1:4

Guidelines for covering civil disturbances circa 1960s

Box 1:4

Negro history department circa 1960s

 

Teaching notes circa 1960s

Box 1:5

Black curriculum: Some factors circa 1960s

Box 1:5

Education system ghetto schools circa 1960s

Box 1:5

"If we must die" circa 1960s

Box 1:5

Referred to "Algiers incident" circa 1960s

Box 1:5

Students for a Democratic Society notes circa 1960s

Box 1:5

Assorted notes circa 1960s

Box 1:5

Assorted notes circa 1960s

Box 1:5

Assorted notes circa 1960s

 

Student letters

Physical Description: 2 folders

Series Scope and Content Summary

Includes a letter of correspondence and student thank you letters from Jordan's classes at Santa Fe Elementary and Emery High School.

Arrangement

Arranged chronologically.
 

Letters from parents 1960

Box 1:6

Letter to Gladys Jordan from Helen Parker re: Elite Ladies Club ball 1960-04-09

 

Student thank you letters 1965-1967

Box 1:7

Santa Fe Elementary 1965-02-08

Box 1:7

Santa Fe Elementary 1965-03-30

Box 1:7

Santa Fe Elementary 1966-01-07

Box 1:7

Emery High School 1967-07-20

Box 1:7

Emery High School 1967-07-20

Box 1:7

Emery High School 1967-07-20

Box 1:7

Emery High School 1967-07-20

Box 1:7

Emery High School 1967-07-20

Box 1:7

Emery High School 1967-07-20

Box 1:7

Emery High School 1967-07-20

Box 1:7

Emery High School 1967-07-20

Box 1:7

Emery High School 1967-07-20

Box 1:7

Emery High School 1967-07-20

Box 1:7

Emery High School 1967-07-20

Box 1:7

Emery High School 1967-07-20

Box 1:7

Emery High School 1967-07-20

Box 1:7

Emery High School 1967-07-20

Box 1:7

Emery High School 1967-07-20

Box 1:7

Emery High School 1967-07-20

Box 1:7

Emery High School 1967-07-20

Box 1:7

Emery High School 1967-07-20

Box 1:7

Emery High School 1967-07-20

Box 1:7

Emery High School 1967-07-20

Box 1:7

Emery High School 1967-07-20

Box 1:7

Emery High School 1967-07-20

Box 1:7

Emery High School 1967-07-20

Box 1:7

Emery High School 1967-07-20

Box 1:7

Emery High School 1967-07-20

Box 1:7

Emery High School 1967-07-20

Box 1:7

Emery High School 1967-07-20

Box 1:7

Emery High School 1967-07-20

Box 1:7

Emery High School 1967-07-20

Box 1:7

Student letter 1967-07-31

Box 1:7

Student letter circa 1960s

 

Assorted materials

Physical Description: 1 folder

Series Scope and Content Summary

Includes notes on quotations, brochures, attendance bulletins, and ephemera related to Jordan's activities as an educator.

Arrangement

Arranged chronologically.
Box 1:8

Attendance bulletin, Emery High School 1967-006-08

Box 1:8

Christmas Pageant "The Star in the East" at Longfellow School auditorium invitation 1960-12-18

Box 1:8

References on counseling minority youth: A four part series prepared by the Division of Instruction 1964-06

Box 1:8

Kahlil Gibran's (speaking about children) 1964-06

Box 1:8

"Education by capsule and hypodermic" circa 1960s

Box 1:8

Human relations in the intermediate grades brochure circa 1960s

Box 1:8

"If we must die" circa 1960s

Box 1:8

An open letter to a discouraged youngster circa 1960s