Palmetto Special

Using site visitations, dramatizations, interviews, visuals, and historic photographs and illustrations, this series explores South Carolina history.

Grades 6-12

Using site visitations, dramatizations, interviews, visuals, and historic photographs and illustrations, this series explores South Carolina history. Produced by Daniel H. Pipes, the series not only teaches students the history of South Carolina, but helps them appreciate their state. (From our Streamline collection)

About Palmetto Special

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This overview acquaints students and teachers with The Palmetto Special series and how to utilize the SC History content in the classroom.

Agricultural Depression | Palmetto Special

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Grades: 4 5 8

The opening and closing wraparounds take place by an old abandoned tenant farm house in Pickens County near Clemson University. Here the host establishes the location and story line. The Reenactment...

Andrew Pickens, the Wizard Owl | Palmetto Special

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Grades: 4 8

The television lesson includes a segment on each man designed to give an insight into his character. Andrew Pickens had been parolled by the British in Charleston when that city was captured in May...

Burning of Columbia | Palmetto Special

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Grades: 4 8

The host ties the reenactment together at various intervals in the story in various spots around Columbia that are particularly associated with Sherman's invasion, such as the area across the Congaree...

Carolina Indians | Palmetto Special

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8

The lesson consists of the host and three students visiting Keowee-Toxaway State Park in Pickens County. The story of the Cherokee is told there through drawings and artifacts in a series of display...

Carolina Style | Palmetto Special

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Grades: 3 4 5

This lesson is a brief survey of the art, architecture, literature and theatre of South Carolina. It opens with a series of skits where "comedic characters" "put down" South Carolina's interest in...

Charles Town | Palmetto Special

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8

A dramatic sequence is included in this wraparound. It is an analogy to the eight Lords Proprietors receiving the grant of Carolina from King Charles II. Five people gather for lunch to discuss a...

Charlesfort | Palmetto Special

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Grades: 4 8

This episode goes from Columbia to Parris Island in Beaufort County. Parris Island today is the home of a large Marine Corps training base. There is a monument there, similar in the design to one...

Denmark Vesey's Plot | Palmetto Special

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Grades: 4 8

The program begins with Vesey discussing the condition of slavery with an acquaintance who is a slave Later, at a meeting, details of the plot are worked out with co-conspirators including Peter Poyas...

Dr. Ron McNair Speaking at USC Commencement | Palmetto Special

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Grades: 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

As Dr Ron McNair spoke at a University of South Carolina commencement exercise, he said, "the road between South Carolina and space flight is not a very simple one, nor is it one filled with...

Field to Factory | Palmetto Special

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Grades: 5 8

This program is based on an oral history conducted by the New Jersey Multi-Ethnic Oral History Project. The subject is a black woman who moved with her family from South Carolina to New Jersey in the...

Fort Sumter | Palmetto Special

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Grades: 4 8

REENACTMENT: Four of the principals at Fort Sumter discuss in retrospect events that led to the "firing of the first shot of the Civil War." These people are: Major Robert Anderson; Commander of the...

Francis Marion, the Swamp Fox | Palmetto Special

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Grades: 4 8

Francis Marion was involved in a number of skirmishes that caught the enemy off guard, forced them to reckon with him, thus allowing other patriot forces to conduct their missions with greater success...

Governor Robert Johnson | Palmetto Special

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Grades: 3 4 5

REENACTMENT: The reenactment begins with Simpson, an aide to Governor Robert Johnson, lamenting the death of the Governor. Through flashbacks we see Simpson and Johnson at crucial times during the...

Gullah Culture

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Grades: 4 8

Ron and Natalie Daise of Beaufort, South Carolina, share Negro Spirituals during their Gullah-based performance. This was excerpted from the full show, Gullah Culture.

Gullah Culture

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Grades: 4 8

This is an excerpt from the full episode, Gullah Culture. Ron Daise shares the story, "Bring My Clock Back."

Gullah Culture | The Palmetto Special

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Grades: 4 8

With bridges from the islands to the mainland, the advent of radio and television, and the simple passage of time, this unique culture and language has been eroding. Ron and Natalie Daise of Beaufort...

Industrialization

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Grades: 5 8

A dramatic scene follows with William Gregg discussing the virtues of a diversified economy in South Carolina with friends of his. Then he happens upon a young man playing hooky at a pond near the...

Industrialization | Palmetto Special

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Grades: 5 8

The lesson begins at the Wilson Tennis Ball factory in Fountain Inn. Here we see a montage in the process of making tennis balls The host then mentions that there are many other products made in the...

James F. Byrnes | Palmetto Special

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Grades: 5 6 8

This lesson consists of film and videotapes taken from events in Mr. Byrnes' career. We are fortunate in this program that we can actually see and hear Mr. Byrnes himself. The news films were...

Jehu Jones | Palmetto Special

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Grades: 3 4 5

The lesson contains scenes with two of Jones' more prominent guests, portrait painter, Samuel F B Morse (later to gain fame with the telegraph and the Morse code) and famed British actor, William Kean...

John C. Calhoun | Palmetto Special

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Grades: 4 8

"The Palmetto Special" goes to John C. Calhoun's old homeplace, Fort Hill on the Clemson campus. Four students, who also appear in the dramatic portion, tour the mansion and grounds. The conclusion of...

Kings Mountain Bicentennial | Palmetto Special

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Grades: 4 8

This program on the Battle of Kings Mountain follows a documentary format. It centers around the Bicentennial Celebration in September and October of 1980. The activities that were covered as a part...

Reconstruction | Palmetto Special

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Grades: 4 8

The Reconstruction period will perhaps always be one of the most controversial in South Carolina's history. In this lesson we use a number of vignettes tied together, by the host, to present various...

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