- Writing Persuasive Letters About Immigration Reform [1]
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Latino workers from Central and South America, as well as Mexico, have long been part of the workforce in the United States. In response to calls for immigration reform, President G. W. Bush proposed a new ... - Classroom Community Building [2]
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Activities for all grades to build community in your class this year. Early Grades • At Kensington Avenue School in Springfield, Mass., teachers build community every day ... - Confronting the -isms [3]
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Social justice lesson Teaching social justice requires helping students confront their personal biases because studies show that tolerance training can backfire if not accompanied ... - Juliette Hampton Morgan: Being a Cultural Anthropologist [4]
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Students learn the importance of being an ally through the story of Juliette Hampton Morgan, a white woman who lived in Montgomery, Alabama, during segregation. "Always remember ... - Juliette Hampton Morgan: Becoming an Ally [5]
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Students learn the importance of being an ally through the story of Juliette Hampton Morgan, a white woman who lived in Montgomery, Alabama, during segregation. "Neutrality ... - Compassionate Communities [6]
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Compassion lesson Thomas Aquinas is credited with saying, "I would rather feel compassion than know the meaning of it." As an English teacher, it is my ... - Journaling History: Sacagawea and York [7]
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As you read about Sacagawea and York, write a journal entry that imagines Sacagawea or York's first-person account. Objectives Students will understand first-person ... - The Numbers Behind Poverty [8]
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This activity, developed from materials found on Poverty USA , will help students gain added perspective on poverty when considering the mathematical realities of what it means to live in poverty. ... - Word Origins [9]
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I designed a game called Origins that exposes the history and prejudice of many words or expressions commonly used in the United States. It started out as a short quiz and has grown ... - The Business of Controversial Topics [10]
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Activity exchange for grades 9-12 to explore ways of discussing controversial topics. During my rookie year of teaching, several of my high school students secretly tacked up a small ... - One Survivor Remembers: A Call to Action [11]
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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. ... - Juliette Hampton Morgan: Discussing the Story [12]
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Students learn the importance of being an ally through the story of Juliette Hampton Morgan, a white woman who lived in Montgomery, Alabama, during segregation. Objectives ... - Juliette Hampton Morgan: A White Woman Who Understood [13]
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Students learn the importance of being an ally through the story of Juliette Hampton Morgan, a white woman who lived in Montgomery, Alabama, during segregation. Healthy racial ... - Violence Prevention [14]
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Teaching Tolerance offers an extended classroom discussion with Internet resources. As a follow-up to National Youth Violence Prevention Week or an activity for Malcolm X's birthday (May 19), the activity ... - Cooperative Comics [15]
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Comic books are visual literature. This simple cooperative group activity allows students to identify confrontational issues within their own school and then imagine solutions. ... - Borders and Boundaries [16]
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Photocopy or create a large map of the school, including the school grounds and the cafeteria. Then have students identify places that cliques or self-segregating groups gather. ... - Civil Rights and Americans with Disabilities [17]
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Classroom activities examining the Civil Rights Act and ADA. Despite its frequent omission from textbooks, the struggle for equity and inclusion for people with disabilities ... - Before Rosa Parks: Susie King Taylor [18]
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Georgia native Susie King Taylor was a teacher who traveled with the Union troops during the Civil War. The story of this unsung hero and her accomplishments as a young teenager gives new meaning to the term ... - Before Rosa Parks: Ida B. Wells [19]
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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 [20]
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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 [21]
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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 [22]
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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 [23]
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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 ... - Holocaust Art Education Project [24]
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Holocaust study encourages discussion about what it means to be a responsible citizen. The Respect ... - Pre-WWII European Jewish Life Photo Project [25]
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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 [26]
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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 [27]
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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. ... - Strong Women and Gentle Men [28]
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This activity is designed for use with our free curriculum kit, Mighty Times: The Children's March , designed for the middle and upper grades. This activity is based on ... - The Children's March: Viewing the Film [29]
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This activity is designed for use with our free curriculum kit, Mighty Times: The Children's March , designed for the middle and upper grades. Question and answer activity ... - Holocaust Education: Pink Triangles [30]
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Speaker shows significance of symbol while giving a face to gay "category." The guest speaker came to teach a lesson on World War II not found in our text. After ...
