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\nTeaching 'The New Jim Crow'\n

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\nMichelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow is the anchor text in a 10-lesson unit that looks at some of the issues of race and justice in American society and how issues have changed over time. High schoolers look at the history of race and...\n
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\nBecoming Us: Education\n

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\nThe Becoming Us: Education module examines the history of the fight for racial justice and educational equity today. The first case study looks at the re-segregation of American schools, while the second explores the resistance to school...\n
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\nBecoming Us: Policy\n

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\nStudying the laws and policies enacted to restrict or reform immigration, including or excluding certain groups of people, is essential to understanding the complicated history of immigration in our nation's democracy. Three case studies...\n
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\nCrash Course: Media Literacy\n

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\nViewers take a Crash Course in Media Literacy. They watch 12 videos that take them through media history, the positive and negative effects of media, and regulations and policies affecting media producers. The series aims to help viewers...\n
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\nBecoming Us: Belonging\n

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\nThe Becoming Us: Belonging module examines how the American ideal of shared identity has been challenged by fear and insecurity. The first of three case studies focus on the deportation of Mexican American citizens during the Great...\n
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\nA Black History Scavenger Hunt\n

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\nScavenger hunts provide students with an opportunity to develop their internet skills while they learn about famous African Americans. Included are four scavenger hunts, one each for grades 1-4, 5-6, 7-8, and 9-12. Researchers search the...\n
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\nCenter for Civic Education: Black History Month\n

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\nSix lesson plans in the Black History Month collection introduce middle and high schoolers to nonviolent actions as a means to resist oppression and encourage reform. Lessons look at the Children’s March, music, and citizenship schools...\n
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\nFreedom Is Coming: Songs of Freedom, Resistance, and the Underground Railroad\n

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\nYoung historians examine song lyrics and slave narratives to uncover the realities of life for enslaved people. The six-lesson unit looks at the way enslaved people used music to provide hope, as well as to fight against oppression....\n
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\nTeaching Jazz as American Culture\n

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\nJazz and the City, Jazz and the Civil Rights Movement, Jazz and Gender, Jazz and Literature, Jazz and the Arts, Jazz and Film. Here's a packet of unit plans organized around themes that reflect American culture. Each unit examines how...\n
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\nStudent Page: Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture\n

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\nHistory sleuths read articles for and against Uncle Tom's Cabin, examine visual images, print responses, and multi-media tomitudes to better understand the impact of Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel on American culture prior to...\n
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\nThe Art and Culture of the Afro-American\n

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\nYour high schoolers will examine the community in which they live and discuss with the class. Using the Internet, they identify the importance of African-American art and how it relates to the African-American culture. Individually, they...\n
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\nAmerican Cultures: merit badge\n

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\nIn this American cultures worksheet, students fill out short answer questions using their workbook about different American cultures in order to get a merit badge. Students complete 5 questions total.\n
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\nAfrican American Music: Let’s Sing and Play Clapping Games\n

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\nTwo lessons focus on making a beat. Using popular African American music of its time, scholars listen and analyze the rhythm then recreate it with hands drums, and cups. \n
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\nEnd of Unit Assessment: On-Demand Opinion and Evidence Paragraph about the Importance of Sports in American Culture\n

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\nGame on! Pupils take their end-of-unit assessment, writing an opinion paragraph about the importance of sports in American culture. To support their opinions, they use evidence from the informational articles they've read throughout the...\n
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\nAmerican Culture: Will/Going To\n

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\nIn this American Culture worksheet, students choose the correct form of either \"will\" or \"going to\" in order to answer questions commonly used in American culture.\n
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\nAmerican Culture (will/going to)\n

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\nIn this grammar worksheet, students answer 8 American Culture questions. They should include either \"will\" or \"going to\" in their answers.\n
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\nLangston Hughes- Mini Biography\n

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\nWhen delving into such writings as \"I Too Sing America\" or \"The Negro Speaks of Rivers\" by poet, novelist, and playwright Langston Hughes, don't forget to provide this important historical background information on the Harlem...\n
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\nThe American Musical\n

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\nGeneral music students learn about the history of popular American music by creating and performing a one-act musical. After researching and creating an American Musical timeline, class members write a song with lyrics using Jam Studio,...\n
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\nBuilding Background Knowledge: Why Are Sports Important in American Culture?\n

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\nWhat makes sports so special to many Americans? Scholars ponder the question as they participate in a gallery walk, immersing themselves in images and texts about sports. Pupils also complete a vocabulary strategies anchor chart to...\n
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\nA Look Through My Antonia's Eyes\n

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\nThoroughly delve into My Antonia by Willa Cather with a plethora of activities. Engage scholars with videos and web sites in this week-long unit that explains the historical context and creates pioneers in the field of research. An...\n
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\nSouth American Cultures\n

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\nStudents examine South American festivals. In this cultural diversity instructional activity, students research Spanish cultural festivals and determine their purpose. Students write and conduct a survey about cultural festivals.\n
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\nCulture - Unit on Culture & Globalization\n

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\nStudents examine the spread of American culture throughout the world. They read an article, discuss items made by foreign-owned companies, complete handouts, read and discuss a case study, and conduct a role-play about a U.S.-Canada...\n
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\nDr. Martin Luther King Jr.: Follow the Dream: Celebrating Diversity\n

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\nThe teachings of tolerance and diversity are necessary and poignant at all times of the year and for every grade level. This lesson focuses on Dr. King's message and how it has impacted African/American culture. Students will complete a...\n
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\nPost-Modernism and Mass Culture\n

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\nStudents examine the suggestion that the subjective experience of everyday life and sense of identity has changed in America in recent years. For this post-modernism and mass culture lesson, students engage in 4 multi-step exercises that...\n
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