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- 8th - 12th
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Students listen and explore how African-American culture relates to learning Spanish as a foreign language. Poetry, music, and history are utilized while learning about Langston Hughes and Nicolas Guillen. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten - 2nd
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Students explore African-American students literature as an integral building block in empowering all students to a better awareness when reading and writing. They use as a productive Social Studies tool for overall understanding of the culture. Full Review »
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- 4th
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Students explore the pioneer experience on the Oregon Trail and compare and contraste modern day travel experiences with those of the 19th century. They synthesize historical data through a creative project. Full Review »
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- 11th
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Students brainstorm a list of characteristics of adolescence. They use selected websites and draw a parallel between the characteristics of adolescence and the characterisitcs of Romanticism, as seen in visual art and literature. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students explain that the United States was a society of diversity as the century closed, both strengthened and weakened by events since the Civil War. They write an essay demonstrating their knowledge of the time period. Full Review »
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- 12th
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Students examine song, film and book references to hoboes and migrant workers. They discuss the portrayals of these sub-classes, compare and contrast the two and then summarize their observations in an essay. Full Review »
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- 1st
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Students develop an awareness of how families meet their needs. They practice with addition and subtraction integrating how families meet needs. Full Review »
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- 5th
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Students experience the "way it was" by studying the art of frontier America, the paintings of the expanding west, and wide-open spaces and landscapes which encouraged the great push westward. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students look at Sandburg's poem in a literary, historical, and biographical context and reflect on them by completing worksheets. They write and reflect upon their own descriptive pieces that use Sandburg's detail and figurative language as a model for evoking a place. Full Review »
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- 6th - 12th
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Students explore the economic, political, racial, and religious roots of Manifest Destiny. They read articles and analyze how the concept influenced the nation's westward expansion. Students discover the motivations and expectations of Americans who settled in the West. Full Review »
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