For the 2023-2024 school year, students in Madera South High School’s historical literacy course plan to conduct oral history interviews with Madera County indigenous people.

Over 100 8th graders are on a mission to tell the story of the War Between the States, but they want to do it through

The Madera Method historians, in Mrs. Shelton’s historical literacy course at Madera South High School, are seeking community submissions to aid in our current project

The 2021-2022 California Conquest research project, the first Madera Method project by Madera South High School students, was an ambitious undertaking spearheaded by eager third-year

The Emmett Till Project 2021-22 In August 2021, the 8th-grade classes in Eastin-Arcola and La Vina Schools began another Jim Crow project. It was a

The Journalistic Record Project 2020-21 Madera was founded and first populated by whites. The first recorded African-American resident of Madera was Dexter Hunt, a 31-year-old

The Journal of Gabriel Bibbard Moore Project 2019-2020 “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by

The Rebel Clerk Project 2010 Harry St. John Dixon was elected County Clerk of Fresno County, California in 1869. As a lawyer, he became Fresno’s

The Sheriffs Project 2018-19 In 2019-20, five 8th grade classes in four schools– Dixieland, Eastin-Arcola, Howard, and Lavina– researched the history of criminal activity in

“Gillum Baley: Fresno County’s Frontier Judge” was researched and written in the 1995-96 school year by students in Bill Coate’s 5th-grade class at Bullard T.A.L.E.N.T.

“Anatomy of a Frontier Town: Maynard Dixon’s Fresno” was researched and written in the 1995-96 school year by students from Bullard T.A.L.E.N.T. School, Bill Coate’s

The Lippincott Project was researched and written in the summer of 1994 by students from Sisk Elementary School in Salida School District. 1846 has been

“John Willson Laird: His Life and Legacy,” was written in the 1993-94 school year by students at Salida Middle School, Bill Coate’s sixth-grade class (Salida,

Harry St. John Dixon came home from the Civil War completely demoralized. Not only had the Confederacy lost the struggle, but the social fabric of

Madera Method Wagon Train 1993-94 In 1993, the Madera Method added a new domension to its projects. In addition to performing research from primary sources,

The Borden Chinese Project 1991-92 The Borden Chinese project was conducted in the 1991-92 school year by 6th-grade students in James Monroe School (Madera, California).

The Civil War Diary Project 1991-1992 “The Civil War Diary of Samuel James Corbett” was researched in the 1991-92 school year by students from the

The Mace Project 1990-91 The Mace Project was conducted in the 1990-91 school year by students from the following classes at Thomas Jefferson Junior High

The McAlister Family 1989-1990 The McAlister Family Project was researched in the 1989-90 school year by students at Madera High School, Lorenzo Abeyta’s American Studies

The Texas Revolution Project 1989-90 The Texas Revolution project was conducted in the 1989-90 school year by students from the following schools: Berenda Elementary, Raul

The Preciado Project 1989-90 The Preciado Project was completed in the 1989-90 school year by students from Centro De Estudios Del Instituto Sonorense De Ingles,

The California Hundred Project 1988-1989 “The California Hundred” project was conducted in the 1988-89 school year. The following schools participated: Berenda School, Raul Lozano’s 8th-grade

The Daulton Project 1988-89 The Daulton Project was conducted in the 1988-89 school year. Students from the following schools worked on the project: Central Elementary

The Mordecai Project 1987-88 The Mordecai project was conducted in the 1987-88 school year. Students from the following schools worked on the project: James Monroe

The William P. Huff Project 1986-87 “The Gold Rush Diary of William P. Huff” was researched in the 1986-87 school year by students from the

The Hardeman Project 1985-86 The Hardeman Project was conducted in the 1985-86 school year. by students in Bill Coate’s 6th-grade class at James Monroe School

The Minturn Project 1984-85 The Minturn Project was conducted in the 1984-85 school year by students in Bill Coate’s sixth-grade class at Howard School. Abby