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- Portfolio Activity for “Suspending Hope”
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This activity is to accompany the Teaching Tolerance article " Suspending Hope ." Schools in Maryland and Connecticut are rethinking suspension policies. Promoting ... - Portfolio Activity for “The Poverty Myth”
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This activity is to accompany the Teaching Tolerance article " The Poverty Myth ." Low income should not mean low expectations. Reflection What personal ... - Portfolio Activity for “Identity"
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This activity is to accompany the Teaching Tolerance article " Identity ." Spanish classes are the perfect place for teachers to work in lessons that break down ... - Portfolio Activity for “From Awareness to Action”
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This activity is to accompany the Teaching Tolerance article " From Awareness to Action ." Young people make great political activists. How can you get them involved ... - Portfolio Activity for “Weighing In”
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The activity is to accompany the Teaching Tolerance article " Weighing In ." As the number of obese and overweight children grows, so does size bias. Reflection ... - Portfolio Activity for “Out of Bounds”
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This activity is to accompany the Teaching Tolerance article " Out of Bounds ." Sports rivalries can energize school spirit. But keeping events respectful takes a ... - Portfolio Activity for “Possession Obsession”
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This activity is to accompany the Teaching Tolerance article " Possession Obsession ." Almost one-third of teen relationships involve abuse. Help students learn to ... - Poverty and Unemployment: Exploring the Connections
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This lesson is the second in a series of lessons called “ Issues of Poverty .” Students explore the causes of poverty in the United States and the structural factors that perpetuate it. Students will examine ... - Our Groups of Friends
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Activity Exchange
In this activity, students examine the diversity of their groups of friends. First, on a labeled color-coded chart , students write under each of their names the name of an adult ... - What Is Poverty?
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This lesson is the first in a series of lessons called “ Issues of Poverty .” Students explore the causes of poverty in the United States and the factors that perpetuate it. The four lessons aim to challenge ... - Explore the History of ‘Loving’
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The Augusta Films documentary The Loving Story recounts an important and often-overlooked element of the struggle to end racial ... - The 26th Amendment
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This is the fifth and final lesson in a series called “ Expanding Voting Rights .” The overall goal of the series is for students to explore the complicated history of voting rights in the United States. ... - Women’s Suffrage
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This lesson is the fourth in a series called Expanding Voting Rights . The overall goal of the series is for students to explore the complicated history of voting rights in the United States. Two ... - The Voting Rights Act, 1965 and beyond
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This lesson is the third in a series called Expanding Voting Rights . The overall goal of the series is for students to explore the complicated history of voting rights in this country. Two characteristics ... - African Americans Face and Fight Obstacles to Voting
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In this lesson students learn about the Reconstruction Amendments (13th, 14th and 15th) that abolished slavery, guaranteed African American citizenship and secured men the right to vote. ... - Expanding Voting Rights
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One of the cornerstones of American democracy is the right to vote. Yet the history of voting rights in the United States is complicated. Although the original Constitution explained who could run for national ... - The Early Republic
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In this introductory lesson, students examine voting rights in the early years of the United States and the causes and effects of the first major expansion of voting rights, which took place in the late 1700s ... - Food Deserts: Causes, Consequences and Solutions
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Increases in obesity and diet-related diseases are major health problems in the United States. During the last 20 years there has been a dramatic increase in the nation’s obesity rates, correlating with ... - The Mountaintop
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Taking place on April 3, 1968, “The Mountaintop” by Katori Hall is a gripping reimagining of events the night before the assassination of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther ... - Los Héroes y las Heroínas
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Activity Exchange
Through songs, stories and paintings, students explore how and why communities tell stories about heroes and heroines. This helps students develop a greater understanding of actions ... - Debating Corporal Punishment
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Activity Exchange
In 2011, 20 states permitted corporal punishment in public schools. Many students who live outside those states find it hard to believe that corporal punishment still exists. This ... - Bullying and LGBT Students
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Activity Exchange
The purpose of this activity is to discuss the bullying of LGBT students. It uses the Mexican tradition of El Paseo to begin that discussion. First, students form two concentric ... - Using Photographs to Teach Social Justice: Showcasing Your Understanding
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This is the final lesson in the Using Photographs to Teach Social Justice series. Preceding lessons explored a variety of social justice issues through the lens of photographers and their pictures. This ... - America’s Civil Rights Movement: A Time for Justice
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Film Kit
In A Time for Justice, four-time Academy Award-winning filmmaker Charles Guggenheim captured the spirit of the civil rights ... - Using Photographs to Teach Social Justice: Advertisements Promoting Activism
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The photo shows two students collecting signatures to protest the treatment of women at the university. This lesson is part of the Using Photographs to Teach Social Justice series. ... - Writing for Change
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Raising Awareness of Difference, Power and Discrimination Language is a paradoxical tool – we use it consciously to shape our thoughts and experiences, yet patterns and structures in ... - Sergio
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Teaching Tolerance is proud to present this teacher’s guide designed to support and supplement the HBO documentary Sergio . The ... - Prom Night in Mississippi
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The new documentary Prom Night in Mississippi takes us to Charleston, Miss. - where high school students held their ... - Using Photographs to Teach Social Justice: Legal Action: The Supreme Court
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In this lesson, students analyze a photograph of Mildred Jeter Loving and Richard Loving—the interracial couple that took the case of their marriage all the way to the Supreme Court—as a springboard for ... - Using Photographs to Teach Social Justice: Confronting Unjust Practices
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In this lesson, students analyze a photograph from the freedom riders’ protest. This lesson is part of the Using Photographs to Teach Social Justice series. Objectives ...
