Dr. Al Scopino

Social Studies

Team 8B

Dr. Scopino is a graduate of the University of New England (AB), Brown University (AM), and the University of Connecticut (PhD). His has taught for over thirty years, the last twenty-nine of which have been at the Captain Nathan Hale Middle School. He believes that social and cultural history are equally as important to understanding our heritage as are the political, economic, and diplomatic areas of life. Therefore, art, architecture, music, religion, literature, race, and ethnicity play a significant role in his teaching. Dr. Sco has also taught at Central Connecticut State University on Saturdays, summers, and intercessions for the past eighteen years. He is thrilled when some of his 8th graders sign up for his college courses years later. In addition to teaching, Dr. Sco enjoys writing in the field of history. His books include the following:

The Progressive Movement: 1900-1917 (Discovery Enterprises, 1997)

World War I: The Great War (Discovery Enterprises, 1998)

The Struggle for Religious Freedom in America (Discovery Enterprises, 1999)

“Critical Essay” to accompany All Quiet on the Western Front (Acclaim Publications, 2001)

“Noble Drew Ali: Popular Religion in the Promised Land” in Portraits of African American Life Since 1865, edited by Nina Mjagkij, (Scholarly Resources, 2003)

American Legislative Leaders in the Northeast, 1911-1994, edited by James Roger Sharpe and Nancy Weatherly Sharp, (Greenwood Press, 2000)

Organizing Black America: Am Encyclopedia of African American Associations, edited by Nina Mjagkij, (Garland Press, 2001)

Healing the Brokenness: A History of 100 Years of Ministry of the Capitol Region Conference of Churches (Wolff, 2000)

His articles and reviews of books have appeared in the following journals: Connecticut History, Louisiana History, The South Carolina Historical Magazine, Religious Studies Review, and Religious Socialism.

Projects and Activities in Social Studies

Escape to Freedom (September)

The Corporate Project (November)

The American Presidency: Triumphant and Democratic (November, State of Connecticut Grant)

Rockin’ in the Fifties (December)

Black History Essays (February)

Women’s History Essays (March)

Term paper (April-May)

“Faces of Culture” (November-June, EastConn Grant)

Field Experiences for Team 8B

Fruitlands (October)

Mystic Village (November)

Wadsworth (December)

Ellis Island (January)

Cap Cod (May)

New Britain Museum of American Art (June)

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