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Civil Rights Video Essay
Students investigate a decade of American history when the civil rights movement was a focus of national attention. They create a video essay about a person or event that played an important role in shaping the civil rights movement.
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Civil Rights Video Essay
Students research an event or a person from a decade in American history when the civil rights movement was an important focus. They create a multimedia project based on the research.
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Rights and Responsibilities: Grass Born to Be Stepped On
Students research an event in history in which rights and responsibilities are involved. They create a movie of the information they find.
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Rights and Responsibilities in History
Pupils research rights and responsibilities in historic themes using primary source documents. They produce an iMovie including appropriate images and sounds.
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Billie Holiday's Song "Strange Fruit"
Pupils analyze a variety of primary source materials related to lynching (news articles, letters written to or written by prominent Americans, pamphlets, broadsides, etc.) in order to assess the effectiveness of the anti-lynching...
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Context Clues: The Meaning Is There!
Learning how to use context clues is helpful for both reading comprehension skills and to determine the meaning of unfamiliar vocabulary words. As they read ten sentences with underlined words, learners choose the most...
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It Can't Happen Here or Can It?: Peer Pressure, Prejudice and Intolerance
Students study the Holocaust and explore peer pressure, prejudice and intolerance.
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It Can't Happen Here or Can It?: Peer Pressure, Prejudice and Intolerance
Students examine the pressures of group-pressured behavior. For this teaching tolerance lesson, students read literature and view videos regarding negative group behavior. Students answer comprehension questions and participate in a survey.