Join Sam as she talks with the C-SPAN education team (Pam McGorry & Tom Grane) about past and present transitions of power in the White House! From exploring the logistics of this transition to analyzing  the media’s role in the formation of presidential power and image, this episode is one you are not going to want to miss. Plus, as always, you'll get ideas/strategies for how to incorporate this topic into your classroom and inspire your students to engage in civic action. 

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If you search the internet for quotes about stories and storytelling, Google will give you about 14,900,000 results in .56 seconds. Writer and anthropologist Mary Catherine Bateson says that "the human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories." Activist, novelist, and poet Margaret Atwood tells the faceless bastardes  they are never "going to kill storytelling because it’s built into the human plan." The list goes on-- presumably with at least 14,899,898 more entries. 

As human beings, we not only love stories, but love to talk about them. 

In this episode, Sam talks a lot about stories with two amazing guests-- Stephen Gianotti and Brendan Wolfe. And though they might be less quotable than Bateson and Atwood,  the three share invaluable ways to use stories, the process of storytelling, and dramatic play in the social studies classroom. 

Links from episode:

Brendan Wolfe: http://brendanwolfe.com/

Finding Bix: The Life and Afterlife of a Jazz Legend: http://brendanwolfe.com/finding-bix

Mr. Jefferson's Telescope: A History of the University of Virginia in 100 Objects: https://brendan-m-wolfe.squarespace.com/mr-jeffersons-telescope

Digital Artifact Analysis: https://sketchfab.com/tags/artifact