National Humanities Center
Teaching The Great Gatsby: A Common Core Close Reading Seminar
The 41 slides in a professional development seminar model how to use close reading techniques to examine the many layers of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. In addition to passages from the novel, slides provide biographical...
National Education Association
Racial Justice in Education Resource Guide
Strive for racial justice within your classroom community with help from an 80-page resource guide. Five modules move scholars through thoughtful, and reflective grand conversations to making a plan, then taking action. Learners write...
Intersectional Black Panther Party History Project, IPHP
Teaching the History of the Black Panther Party: 5 Essential FAQ’s
What are the facts about the Black Panther Party? Was it, as J. Edgar Hoover contended, a terrorist organization and a threat to national security? Or a group of indviduals bound together by a desire to protect and nurture their...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Open Course Ware: Current Events and Social Issues
This course outline offers resources for studying controversial social issues of both the present and past.
PBS
Pbs: p.o.v. Flag Wars (Economic Competition Between Two Social Classes)
A case study in different points of view about the process of gentrification. Explore what happens when new residents move into an older African-American neighborhood. Where realtors and buyers see run-down homes in need of...
University of Virginia
U of Virginia: Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Study
Participants in the Tuskegee Syphilis Study were never told that they had syphilis. Instead, the doctors and scientists said they had "bad blood." Find out what took place during this study, and the social and political consequences...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
This collection uses primary sources to explore Invisible Man written by Ralph Ellison.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: African American Soldiers in World War I
A collection that uses primary sources to explore the experiences of African American Soldiers in World War I.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
This collection uses primary sources to explore The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
This collection uses primary sources to explore Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: Blackface Minstrelsy in Modern America
This collection uses primary sources to explore blackface minstrelsy in modern America.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source: Beyond Busing: School Desegregation in Boston
This collection uses primary sources to explore school desegregation in Boston.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Fannie Lou Hamer Civil Rights Movement in Rural Mississippi
A collection that uses primary sources to explore Fannie Lou Hamer and the civil rights movement in rural Mississippi.
Scholastic
Scholastic History Mystery: Civil Rights Movement 1: Coretta Scott King
Students try to guess the mystery subject Carlotta Facts, the History Mystery Museum's professor, is studying. They read the clues, do some online and offline research, and then attempt to identify the game's mystery person, Coretta...
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Us History: Civil Rights Movement
Students develop and express claims through discussions and writing which examine actions and interactions during the Regan administration and their impact on the Civil Rights Movement.