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Pbs Learning Media: Booker T. Washington: Orator, Teacher, and Advisor Lesson PlanPbs Learning Media: Booker T. Washington: Orator, Teacher, and Advisor Lesson Plan
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3rd - 8th
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Pbs Learning Media: Booker T. Washington: Orator, Teacher, and Advisor

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Through two primary source activities and watching a short video, students will learn about Booker T. Washington's commitment to African American education, and assess his ideas about how to achieve equality for African Americans in the years after the Civil War.

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Concepts

jim crow laws, booker t. washington

Additional Tags

14th amendment, atlanta compromise, civil rights movement, emancipation proclamation, tuskegee

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

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Worksheet

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Booker T. Washington: Orator, Teacher, and Advisor

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Pbs Learning Media: Amelia Earhart: Aviator, Record Breaker, and Activist

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Pbs Learning Media: George Washington Carver: Scientist, Inventor, and Teacher

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Booker Washington- Mini Biography

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Slave, educator, orator, philosopher. Booker T. Washington is the subject of a mini-biography that provides an overview of the life and achievements of this remarkable man.
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