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- Before Rosa Parks: Ida B. Wells
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Ida B. Wells is best known for her activism in the anti-lynching campaign. She moved to Chicago in her 20s and was a major figure in suffrage and women's club movements. ... - Before Rosa Parks: Frances Watkins Harper
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Frances Watkins Harper challenged power structures in the South, talking to free former slaves about voting, land ownership and education. Objectives Students will ... - Emmett Till: A Classroom Sonnet
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A poetry lesson weaves together the past, present and future of Emmett Till's tragic story. Students will empathize with the ... - Developing a Media Portfolio
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Lesson helps students understand how media influence their decisions. Popular media influence the development of self in young people. Teenagers view commercials and popular shows as ... - Tolerance and Genocide
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Lesson uses history of genocide to further notions of personal responsibility. As a world history teacher, I seek to connect the events of the past with the issues of the world ... - Collective Poetry
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Collective poetry is an exercise designed to encourage students to work from a shared pattern in order to join their voices in a collective rhythm. We all have stories. In telling ... - Pre-WWII European Jewish Life Photo Project
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Examine the individuality of Jewish lives affected by or lost in the Holocaust, as well as how their communities were affected, through the finding and analysis of family photographs before and after the Nazi ... - One Survivor Remembers: Twenty Pounds
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This lesson is an excerpt from the teacher’s guide of One Survivor Remembers , a teaching kit built around the incredible life story of Holocaust survivor Gerda Weissmann Klein. ... - One Survivor Remembers: Antisemitism
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This lesson is an excerpt from the accompanying teacher's guide to One Survivor Remembers , a teaching kit built around the incredible life story of Holocaust survivor Gerda Weissmann Klein. ... - Clothing-Based Bias
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In this lesson, students will explore the way clothing can influence our perceptions of one another. "Who you are is more important than what you wear." — Kenneth Cole, ... - Rethinking 'Discovery'
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Morning Girl looks at the themes of exploration and "discovery" from another perspective. Discouraged by images of Columbus greeting indigenous people with hopeful ... - 'Mathematics for Our Past'
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Our students come from upper-middle-class homes and live in a sheltered suburban community with little exposure to anyone significantly different than themselves. Teaching tolerance is difficult when they have ... - New Kids on the Block
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Activity brings home the difficulties teen immigrants have fitting into a new culture. My 7th-grade students were studying teen immigrants and the difficulties they sometimes have ... - From Chaos to Community
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Teacher uses student suggestions to create ideal classroom environment. I was hired to teach 6th grade three days before school started at such a large school that they had formed it ... - Bus Boycott: Historical Documents Highlight Integration Milestone
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This collection of primary resources and corresponding activities sheds light on the endurance of peaceful protesters in Montgomery, Ala., who overturned an unjust law. On December ... - My Rights: Their Rights
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Teach students about the right to safety with a project based on the 1989 Charter of Children's Rights. It isn't very hard to get middle school students thinking about ... - Of Science and Heroes
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Combat stereotypes by creatively combining science and social studies activities. As a teacher, I've watched too many children hit one another because they have to "kill ... - Lessons from Goldilocks
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Teach inclusive, respectful behavior using storybooks lessons and art. The kindergarten students at Blakeburn Elementary School in Coquitlam, British Columbia, have definite opinions ... - Brown v. Board: A New Milestone Decade
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Three ways to encourage students to continue the struggle for equality and justice in the U.S. In A New Milestone Decade advocate Michael R. Wenger asks students to continue the ... - What Responsibilities Accompany Our Rights?
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This lesson looks at an important question students will face as citizens: What responsibilities accompany our basic rights? Overview The lesson begins with a class discussion ... - Brown v. Board: An American Legacy
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Explore the history of school segregation, the Brown case and its relevance in the ongoing struggle for school equity. The Teaching Tolerance magazine article An American ... - Brown v. Board: General Discussion Questions
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Discuss the impact of Brown v. Board and the current state of segregation using articles from Teaching Tolerance magazine's special anniversary section. Explore ... - Brown v. Board: What It Means Today
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Examine the impact of Brown v. Board and the state of school segregation today using interviews with 14 Americans from Teaching Tolerance magazine. Delve more deeply into the ... - Brown v. Board: Where are We Now?
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American schools are resegregating. What's happening in your community? "Where Are We Now?" is an essay from Harvard's Civil Rights Project that reminds us ... - 'And Maybe I Can Change That Too'
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A high school teacher helps his students challenge their own racist beliefs. One of the greatest challenges I faced this past year was trying to find a way to effectively break down ... - Examining Identity and Assimilation
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Examine identity and assimilation with an activity that asks the essential question: Was there ever a part of your identity you had to hide? In the essay, "Magic Carpet", ... - Problems with Christmas Curriculum
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School activities surrounding Christmas can have unintentional negative consequences like reinforcing commercialism, focusing on "good" and "bad" behavior and isolating students who ... - Facing the 'N Word'
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Can racial language in literature be an effective teaching tool? Sometimes teachers can be torn between the desire to teach good literature and the fear of offending students, ... - Family Ties and Fabric Tales
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Exploring family roots and immigration. Lesson Overview After exposure to relevant literature in class, students will research their family history by interviewing their ... - Freedom's Main Line
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Learn how activists in Louisville, Kentucky successfully campaigned against segregated streetcars in 1870-71. Framework In 1865, four million newly emancipated slaves quickly ...
