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Social Studies teacher, supervisor twenty-eight years. U.S. History, A.P. Economics, American Government, A.P. American Government & Politics, Law in American Society, Personal Economics.
Chaired various professional development committees including Master Learning, Response to Nation at Risk, Curriculum Development, Social Studies electives.
Served on Elected Teachers Council.
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A More Perfect Union: America Becomes a Nation Viewing Guide
This detailed viewing guide to the film, A More Perfect Union: America Becomes a Nation, keeps students on task and involved in the story of the Constitutional Convention of 1787. Madison, Washington, Franklin, and many others become real personalities as compromise and principled reasoning rule the day. The Founding Fathers will forever be imprinted in the hearts and minds of your students.
9th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Civics, Government, U.S. History
The Autobiography of Miss Jane :Pittman - Student Viewer Guide
Find here a scene by scene, detailed viewing guide to the Emmy award winning film. Students stay engaged and interact with the major themes of the film. Unique film in that it covers, fictionally, but historically accurate, post Civil War/Civil Rights eras of U.S. History. A sure fire vehicle to raise student consciousness about the role of race in America.
8th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
U.S. History
Boston Legal The Case of Patrice Kelley
Patrice Kelley's daughter, Hannah, was bludgeoned to death by Sean Harmon. However, Harmon was found "not guilty by reason of insanity". To avenge the death of her daughter, Patrice Kelley walked into Harmon's office and fatally shot him. She has now procured Alan Shore as her defense attorney and plans to plea temporary insanity. Your students will find this one compelling and provocative as they role play the role of juror. Video available. See SamuelGomberg@aol.com for details.
9th - 12th
Criminal Justice - Law, Psychology
The Grapes of Wrath Viewing Guide
(Videos available for the dilemmas contained herein, see SamuelGomberg@aol.com for details) This is a seven page comprehensive viewing guide for the classic film, The Grapes of Wrath. Engage your students with an interactive viewing guide that guides, instructs and prompts thinking as the film unfolds. Used for nearly four decades now across the country.
9th - 12th
U.S. History
Twenty-One U.S. History Discussions
With one package containing twenty-one discussion templates topically ranging over a typical U.S. History course, student to student interaction and excitement guaranteed. Moderately priced so as to encourage as wide a distribution within the middle to high school social studies/history teacher community. The individual products available elsewhere here, but offered as a package for $25.00. As they say, if sold separately costs would be considerably higher. U.S. History units covered includ
8th - 11th, Adult Education, Higher Education
U.S. History
The Vigilantes
Set in the 1860s Gold Rush period, the Vigilantes of Montana took the law into their own hands as they captured and hanged the notorious Henry Plummer, a bandit who murdered and terriorized more than a few people in his lifetime. This dilemma asks students to judge the Vigilantes and their extra-legal activity. Lesson plan and discussion questions included.
8th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Criminal Justice - Law, U.S. History
A Soldier at Valley Forge Dilemma
After surviving the harsh winter of 1777, should a soldier re-enlist and continue to serve in the Continental Army of George Washington? Lesson plan and discussion questions included.
8th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
U.S. History
Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
When is it ethically appropriate for a person to leak classified information to the press? Is it ever all right to break the law? When? Under what circumstances? A great whistleblower case study with a smart lesson plan to boot.
9th - 12th
Character Education, Civics, Criminal Justice - Law
West Wing Take This Sabbath Day Death Penalty
After the Supreme Court refuses to stay the execution of a Federal prisoner, Simon Cruz, convicted of killing two drug kingpins, President Bartlet must decide whether or not to commute his sentence. The President philosophically opposes capital punishment, but feels as president his options may be limited.
Video available. See SamuelGomberg@aol.com for details.
8th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Government
Advisory Group - Grey's Anatomy Davies and Dr. Milton's Dilemmas
When an unexploded bazooka shell is stabilized inside the chest cavity of a patient, what is the obligation of those attending, to themselves, the patient, the relevant families and the community at large?
The surgeons, paramedics, and support staff of the television series, Grey's Anatomy, face ethical questions of life and death as World War II history buffs reenactment goes awry. Video of excerpts from this episode available at SamuelGomberg@aol.com.
9th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Character Education
Neo Nazi and the Freedom of Speech
Neo-Nazi, Dennis Newland, arrives at a synagogue in a Jewish neighborhood. He begins speaking on a public sidewalk praising Adolf Hitler and defaming Jews. A crowd gathers and a scuffle ensues. One onlooker, a Holocaust survivor, is thrown to the ground. A real Supreme Court case study testing the limits of the free speech clause of the First Amendment. A sure fire discussion starter. Great for U.S. Constitution/Bill of Rights curriculum.
9th - 12th
Civics, Government, Other (Social Studies)
The Pullman Boycott Disobey Court Orders?
In 1893, the Pullman Palace Car Company laid off over half its workers. Many of the employees belonged to the American Railway Union. The Union asked its members to refuse to handle Pullman cars on any railroad. A strike ensued and a court order followed. The dilemma polls students about the striker decision to obey or disobey the court order. Detailed lesson plan and questions for discussion included.
8th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
U.S. History
Boston Legal The Iraq War - The Case of Cassie Elliot
Can a person sue the Army for fraudulent recruiting practices and inappropriate assignment of combat duty during the Iraq War? Cassie Elliot on behalf of her fallen brother want the Army to account for his death as he attempted to disarm an IED -- improvised explosive device. Jeff Elliot received no training in the disarming of IEDs and had his tour of duty extended involuntarily under the Stop Loss policy. Video available. See SamuelGomberg@aol.com for details.
8th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Government, U.S. History
Advisory Group Series - Dick's Dilemma
An answer to the question, what do I do on Monday for advisory? Dick and three friends take his father's car to a restaurant. After eating Dick reluctantly gives Frank the keys to warm up the car as he settles the check. Frank decides to back the car out. A car screeches by narrowly missing Frank and the two friends. However, in pulling forward to avoid being hit, Frank causes Dick's father's car to scrape an adjoining car in the lot. His father's car escapes damage. Because Frank has had
8th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Character Education, Criminal Justice - Law
Boston Legal Guantanamo Bay Benyam Kallah
The Case of Benyam Kallah asks the following question. Can a person, mistakenly detained and imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, sue the United States?
Allan Shore believes this case is probably not winnable but definitely worth the effort. The Supreme Court will later rule on a similar case and block the government from further action where defendants are denied basic constitutional safeguards. Video available. See SamuelGomberg@aol.com for details.
8th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Criminal Justice - Law
West Wing President Bartlet and Qumar
Qumar's Foreign Defense Minister, Abdul Shareef, is scheduled to meet with the President in the Oval Office. Shareef funds terrorism throughout the world as he commits genocide against his own people. President Bartlet is confronted with the option of assassinating Shareef. Leo McCarry lobbies the President to take out Shareef for the greater good. Video available. See SamuelGomberg@aol.com for details. 20 pages of text including transcripts.
8th - 12th
Government, U.S. History
West Wing Children's Suffrage
A group of middle schoolers, touring the White House, convince the Director of Communications, to hear their case for lowering voter age requirements. Excerpted from a West Wing episode, video available at SamuelGomberg@aol.com. Contact for details.
5th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Character Education, Civics, Government
Saving Private Ryan Discussion Guide
Based on the final minutes of Saving Private Ryan, students are encouraged to think about what it means to live a life of integrity and substance. Captain Miller leads a platoon charged with finding and returning safely to his family, Private James Ryan. He enjoins Private Ryan to "earn this", whispered as his dying words in the aftermath of battle. Students will never forget this discussion or the ending of this film. Social studies teachers will find these materials truly inspirational. W
8th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Character Education, Civics, U.S. History
Elementary/Middle School Patrick's Dilemma - The Trouble With Truth
Patrick and six of his friends visit the local fishing area with Dave, their camp counselor. Dave has made arrangements with a fisherman to take the children out for a ride on his boat. Captain Conner explains to the children that he must leave for a while and his rules are no one is allowed on the boat without his supervision. The children break the rules and proceed to board. Should Patrick tell Dave and Captain Conner about boarding the boat? Video available. See SamuelGomberg@aol.com f
1st - 6th
Character Education, English Language Arts
Boston Legal Ryan Myerson
Allan Shore is at it again. His client, Ryan Myerson arranged for a nurse to administer a morphine drip for his dying wife. The District Attorney has brought charges of assisted suicide. Your students will sit as jurors as the prosecution and defense attorneys make their respective cases. Video available. See SamuelGomberg@aol.com for details.
8th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Criminal Justice - Law
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About the store
Experience
Social Studies teacher, supervisor twenty-eight years. U.S. History, A.P. Economics, American Government, A.P. American Government & Politics, Law in American Society, Personal Economics.
Chaired various professional development committees including Master Learning, Response to Nation at Risk, Curriculum Development, Social Studies electives.
Served on Elected Teachers Council.
Teaching style
At the risk of being overly simplistic, I would humbly suggest that the word development encapsulates what I hold to be the essence of what attracted me to education as a career in the first place and what has nourished and informed my teaching to this day.
For the majority of my career I have tried to share with as many colleagues as possible my developmentally informed educational teaching style. Specifically I have tried to glean from the research and theory of Jean Piaget and Lawrence Kohlberg insights into how best to stimulate, nourish and foster every student’s personal growth in a variety of ways. I have worked hard to develop student cognitive reasoning as they advance from Piaget’s concrete operational stage to formal operational thinking and their moral reasoning through Kohlberg's stages of moral development. I have learned and tried to share with others, the insight that without a sound grounding in these adolescent stages of development, the best lessons of history, literature, philosophy, government, economics and most complex disciplines can never be fully appreciated and confronted, much less mastered. How can a student understand the majesty of our democracy as eloquently penned by Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence, that “governments are instituted among men deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed†without a solid intellectual base grounded in the Piaget and Kohlberg typologies.
My own education history
Carnegie Mellon University Doctorate History/Education 1988
University of Northern Illinois Administrative Certification Principal/Asst. Superintendent
Department Chair Certification
University of Chicago (summer) 1978
University of Wisconsin-Madison M.A
Political Science
University of Wisconsin-Madison
B.A. Political Science
Additional biographical information
Have had dissertation translated by Israeli Ministry of Education for training of teachers. Similar treatment in Japan at Institute of Moralogy, Kashiwa
Presenter at NCSS, ASCD, PDK, NMSA, AME for over thirty years.
Conducted workshops in/at Israel, Japan, UCLA, Harvard University, University of Akron
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