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Choices: Freedom in Our Lifetime: South Africa's Struggle Instructional VideoChoices: Freedom in Our Lifetime: South Africa's Struggle Instructional Video
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Choices Program, Brown University
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Grade
9th - 10th
Subjects
Social Studies & History
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Instructional Videos
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1290L
Instructional Video

Choices: Freedom in Our Lifetime: South Africa's Struggle

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Scholars Online video curriculum through which students explore the history of South Africa, the development of a race-based society, and the decision by some members of the anti-apartheid movement to use violence to oppose the government's policies.

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Concepts

apartheid

Additional Tags

apartheid and anti-apartheid movements, development of apartheid in south africa

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

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