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\nCrash Course Theater and Drama\n

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\nForsooth! Here’s a collection that has everything you ever wanted to know about the theater and drama—everyone from Aristotle to Chikamatsu, from Moliere to Shakespeare to Williams. From Banraku to Zaju, every type from comedy to...\n
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\nThe South, the North and the Great Migration: Blues and Literature\n

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\nHere is a complex lesson plan that interweaves the history of the Jim Crow South and the Great Migration with the study of poetry, art, and blues music from the Harlem Renaissance. The plan helps young historians develop a deep...\n
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\nUtopia/Dystopia: The American Dream\n

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\nAmerica was founded by dreamers, and the American dream still resonates in our country today. Track the American dream from its Puritan beginnings to its optimistic descendants with a instructional activity that focuses on speeches...\n
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\nAmerican Sabor Crossword\n

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\nHow much do you know about Latin American music? A crossword puzzle challenges learners to answer 24 questions about the history, genres, performers, and instruments of Latin American music.\n
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\n10 Ideas for Teaching Black History Month\n

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\nCelebrate Black History Month with the help of 10 ideas that delve deep into the history, major events, contributions, famous African Americans, and sheds light on how scholars today can take a proactive stance on current civil rights...\n
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\nAmerican Colonists Protest Song\n

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\nStudents explore the role of protest songs. In this early American history activity, students research the acts passed by the British that angered colonists. Students then listen to protest songs from contemporary American history prior...\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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\n1920s Variety Show\n

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\nTo better understand the cultural achievements of the Harlem Renaissance and become familiar with its major figures, class members examine a painting by Aaron Douglas and a poem by Langston Hughes and compare how the artists develop...\n
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\nOne Land, Many Trails: Challenge Activities (Theme 5)\n

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\nBring history to life through literature. The first in a series of three challenge activities designed to accompany Theme 5: One Land, Many Trails does just that through unique projects connected to historical fiction and nonfiction...\n
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\nModern Minstrelsy: Exploring Racist Stereotypes in Literature and Life\n

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\nSatires may be designed to expose a bias to ridicule but if misunderstood can they reinforce that bias? Langston Hughes poem, “Minstrel Man” opens a discussion of racist stereotypes, the minstrel tradition, and the musical, “The...\n
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\nWhy Do We Remember Revere? Paul Revere's Ride in History and Literature\n

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\nStudents examine primary documents regarding Paul Revere's ride and its role in the Revolutionary War. They consider how Revere's role has been written about by Longfellow and others and discuss the discrepancies between accounts.\n
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\nAmerican Studies\n

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\nEntitled American Studies, this small unit covers various topics related to the study of the United States. Learners warm up by creating a dictionary of democracy, then dive into three different lessons focused on government, famous...\n
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\nFamily Origins and American Cultural Pluralism\n

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\nLearners explore, analyze and discuss family origins, special legacies, and racial/cultural groups in literature and art that exposes them to positive examples in African-American history and culture. They encounter examples from dance,...\n
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\nSocial Realism\n

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\nMany American writers in the late nineteenth century wanted their writing to reflect real life. Individuals watch and discuss a video, read and explore author biographies, write a journal entry and a poem, and complete a multimedia...\n
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\nLetters from the Japanese American Internment\n

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\nStudents examine letters of Japanese-American children during internment in World War II. They discover what it was like in the camps and how they were treated once they were released. They also view photographs of the camps.\n
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\n\"ART ZOO 'Blacks in the Westward Movement', 'What Can You Do with a Portrait', and 'Of Beetles, Worms, and Leaves of Grass'\"\n

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\nStudents study black history, examine portraits and portrait making and create their own portraits, and  investigate their natural environment. This humanities activity provides a text that can be used to teach lessons in black...\n
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\nFrom Page to Stage\n

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\nStudents, utilizing video clips and Web sites, compare specific passages from original texts to moments in Broadway musicals on which they were based, analyzing similarities and differences between them. They adapt literature into a...\n
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\nHarlem Renaissance\n

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\nIndividuals expressed the Harlem Renaissance in diverse forms of art, ranging from poetry to photography to painting. Learners explore pieces using a carefully curated collection from the Oklahoma City Museum of Art. Included lessons ask...\n
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\nDream Big...With Your Eyes Wide Open\n

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\nFor many people, Barack Obama's presidency was the next step in Martin Luther King, Jr's dream of America's future. Explore the dreams of Americans past and present, as well as the young Americans in your class, with a set of activities...\n
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\nGrand Canyon Suite \n

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\nTake a trip to the Grand Canyon! Lesson one explores how Ferde Grofe painted a musical landscape of America when he wrote the Grand Canyon Suite. Learners then examine art that shows the Grand Canyon in lesson two. Finally, lesson three...\n
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\nHarlem Renaissance\n

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\nStudents investigate the African American culture in the 1920's and the Harlem Renaissance. They read and analyze poems written by poets of the Harlem Renaissance, listen to jazz music and identify the characteristics of the music, and...\n
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\nPassing Down Family History Through Oral Tradition: Corridos\n

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\nStudents create and perform Corridos which are oral tradition ballads. In this Passing Down Family History Through Oral Tradition lesson, students interview family members using a predetermined list of questions. In addition, students...\n
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\nTheir Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston\n

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\nZora Neale Hurston's novel Their eyes Were Watching God has been highly praised and severely criticized for its depiction of African American folk culture. A set of primary source materials, including photographs, articles, essays, and...\n
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\nMusic of the Civil War\n

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\nStudents gain insight into the Civil War era by exploring the art, music, and literature of the time.\n
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