Ms. Kathleen Menake's World History Honors freshman and Dr. Sue Clinton's Honors English freshman joined together to participate in a distance learning project through videoconference about the Victorian Age.  Both teachers covered the Victorian Age and supplemented their curriculum by participating in a program live from the 1885 Ballantine House at the Newark Museum. This interdisciplinary project took our students on a tour of a real Victorian town house and we learned about daily life during this era and how the Victorian era influences daily life today.

Seniors from the CITVC class also participated because many of them had both Ms. Menake and Dr. Clinton when they were freshman and they remembered our lessons on the Age of Queen Victoria!

The Ballantine House was built in 1885 for Jeannette and Jon Ballantine, a celebrated Newark beer-brewing family. It is part of the Newark Museum and two floors are open to the public.

CITVC used the following Web Pages in preparation for this videoconference:

The Victorian Web
The Ballantine House, Victorian Elegance in Brick City
The Ballantine House
Christmas in the Ballantine House: Feasting with Family and Friends

Other Journal Pages:

Journals From Current CITVC Class Go Back to Journals - Main Page 9/11: 10 Years Later 70th Anniversary of the Attack on Pearl Harbor NNER Conference: The Classroom Beyond Music for Everyone JFK Assassination Pillars of Islam The Road Trip Crazies from Habitat for Humanity German School from Nuremburg, Germany Genetic Counseling: The Faces of Genetic Disease Students from University of Copenhagen, Denmark  Global Economics of Cotton Arab Spring The Anatomy of the Brain Parties and Platforms of Democrats and Republicans German School from Nuremburg, Germany (Spring 2012 VC 1) German School from Nuremburg, Germany (Spring 2012 VC 2) The Japanese Earthquake: One Year Later United Nations in Your World

Journals From Former CITVC Classes Go Back to Journals - Main Page (10-11) In-Depth: Autopsy (10-11) Border Crossings: Mexico/U.S. (10-11) CARE International (10-11) The Cartel: A Conversation with Bob Bowden (10-11) Windows on the World - China: Xinjiang Province (10-11) Liberator of Dachau Concentration Camp (10-11) Deepwater Horizon: Exploring the Aftermath of BP's Oil Spill (10-11) The Economics of Corn (10-11) Forensic Psychology (10-11) A Conversation with Gerda Weissmann Klein (10-11) German school from Nuremberg, Germany, February 24, 2011 (10-11) German school from Nuremberg, Germany, March 22, 2011 (10-11) Students Rebuild: Live from Haiti (10-11) Cape Henlopen VC Workshop (10-11) Pillars of Islam (10-11) Videoconference Event for Stand Up, Speak Out, Lend A Hand (10-11) Legalization of Marijuana (10-11) How Accurate is Eyewitness Memory? (10-11) Careers in Nursing (10-11) Guest speaker: Soldier who served in Iraq (10-11) Sudan Referendum (10-11) Surgical Suite: Total Knee Replacement (10-11) UN in Your World (10-11) Veterans Day: Honoring Those Who Served (09-10) Barcelona, Spain (09-10) Domestic Violence (09-10) India (09-10) South Africa (09-10) Darfur (09-10) Ghana (09-10) Morocco (09-10) US' Role in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan (09-10) The Atomic Age: Nuclear Weapons (09-10) World AIDS Day 2009 (09-10) The Atomic Age: Nuclear Weapons (09-10) Germany (09-10) Northern Ireland (09-10) Poverty (09-10) Pearl Harbor (09-10) Haiti (09-10) The Crisis in Haiti: What can YOU do to help?‏ (09-10) Cambodia (09-10) NASA DLN: Rocket Science (09-10) Live In Haiti (09-10) Newark Museum (09-10) Earth Day (09-10) Live from Jerusalem (09-10) High School from British Columbia, Canada (09-10) Focus on Youth - A Conversation with Students from Ghana‏ (08-09) Barack Obama's Inauguration (08-09) AIG Videoconference (08-09) 'Gitmo' & Its Aftermath (08-09) Germany (08-09) Northern Ireland (08-09) Afghanistan (08-09) Turkey (08-09) Russia