SAMPLE GRANT

The following is an actual grant application from 2009-10 that meets the majority of our criteria for funding for an Enrichment Grant:

Question 1 – Summary of Project:

History Alive! The Salem Community Primary Source Project is an oral history project that will ultimately result in a primary source collection detailing and preserving the memories of Salem residents. Through this project, students will have the opportunity to be historians, conducting authentic research, evaluating primary sources, and examine their local history. The people of Salem have witnessed momentous historical events over their lifetimes; this project seeks to capture and preserve those memories to keep them alive for the benefit of future generations of students, scholars, and interested parties.

Question 2 – Describe your project in greater detail:

US History II students (40 students) will participate in this project as a course requirement addressing the framework standards – “the reading of primary source documents is a key feature of the two-year set of U.S. history standards.”. History Alive! The Salem Community Primary Source Project will allow students to analyze primary source documents as well as develop their own primary sources. Students will demonstrate mastery of other skills and concepts, such as: interpreting and constructing timelines, showing connections between historical events and ideas, distinguishing historical fact from opinion, and interpreting the past within its own historical context, rather than in terms of present-day norms.