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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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- 5th - 6th
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Students become familiar with the sacrifices that the migrants endured crossing the plains to the west. They experience some of the problem solving that the pioneers faced and pay the natural consequences of their choices. 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 - 10th
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Students begin the lesson by discussing the causes and effects of the movement west. Using primary sources, they develop their own definition for manifest destiny. In groups, they view examples of paintings and read poems on the topic. They compare and contrast how the idea of manifest destiny is shown through the two mediums. Full Review »
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- 8th
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Students examine how to read and interpret maps using the scales, legends, and the compass rose. They locate landforms, and major waterways that were associated with the Oregon Trail and County. They investigate the concept of Manifest Destiny. Finally, they complete a homework assignment. Full Review »
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- 6th - 9th
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Students view a video and then discuss how the lives of Native Americans, namely the Nez Perce, Coeur d'Alene, and Cayuse peoples, changed after christian missionaries settled in the Pacific Northwest of America. The lesson includes a vocabulary list. Full Review »
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- 4th - 6th
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Students research and examine the lives and culture of western mountain guides during the early to mid 1800s. Students write reports about a guide they research, do a simulation of the guide by keeping a journal, managing money and resources, and recreate a Mountain Rendezvous. Full Review »
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- 10th - 11th
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Students view a picture from the Vancouver National Historic Reserve and discuss the people in the picture. They locate Cromwell's Map and discuss the villages located close to Fort Vancouver. Students read information regarding the role of women in this time and society. They discuss the benefits and drawbacks of intermarriage for native women and trappers. Students discuss the lives of settler women when coming to the area. Full Review »
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- 4th
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Students explore the various trails that settlers took West from Missouri. They examine the reasons that people took these trails as well as the kind of people who made the journeys. They examine the Oregon, the Mormon, the Santa Fe and the California Trails Full Review »
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- 11th
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Students are introduced to the concept of Orientalism. Using primary source documents, they examine how Japanese immigration affected the United States. They write a paper stating their opinion if Orientalism still exists between the United States and Japan. Full Review »
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