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Zahrah’s Hijab

As a young Muslim girl, Zahrah wore her hijab to school on what is considered to be the most important day of the week in Islam—Friday. Not everyone at Zahrah's school understands her religious traditions, but a visit from her mom changes this.

Sean McCollum

Grade Level

K-2 3-5

Topic

Religion

Subject

Civics

July 9, 2014

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Literature

Old Joe and the Carpenter: An Appalachian Tale of Building Bridges

Are material possessions more important than friendship? Should you act on the impulse to get back when someone hurts you? Will you let pride get in the way of your friendship? This tale about bridges brings these questions to the fore..

Pleasant L. DeSpain

Grade Level

K-2 3-5

Topic

Bullying & Bias

Subject

Civics

Geography

July 9, 2014

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Notes on Situation in Birmingham, Alabama 5/12/1963

President John F. Kennedy made these notes on May 12, 1963, in response to multiple bombings and subsequent rioting in Birmingham, Ala.

John F. Kennedy

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

Topic

Civil Rights Movement Rights & Activism

Subject

Civics

History

Geography

July 9, 2014

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Literature

i will be chosen

i will be chosen is an anthem for all middle schoolers who knows what it feels like to be left out. Now, they’ll know what it feels like to be included and to win, in more ways than one.

ramesh kathanadhi

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

Topic

Bullying & Bias

July 9, 2014

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Literature

How the World Came to Be

These creation myths, from two different cultures, consider how the world came to be.

Anita Ganeri

Grade Level

K-2 3-5

Topic

Religion

July 9, 2014

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Literature

Only One Me

This poem's speaker describes being bullied and feeling depressed and skipping school to avoid the harassment. Spiraling downhill emotionally, the speaker ultimately comes to accept and appreciate his/her unique identities.

Sean Mauricette (aka SUBLIMINAL)

Grade Level

6-8

Topic

Bullying & Bias

July 8, 2014

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July 8, 2014

Season of Terror

Before Freedom Summer began, Charles Moore and Henry Dee were the first victims of the project's white-supremacist backlash.

Topic

Rights & Activism

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Family Restaurant

In this film, the debates surrounding same-sex marriage are illustrated when a ketchup bottle wants to be with a mustard bottle. Picky, the toothpick dispenser, resists such an idea because it flies in the face of tradition.

Andrea James

Grade Level

K-2 3-5

Topic

Gender & Sexual Identity

July 8, 2014

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Multimedia

Gender Spectrum

Young people speak out against fitting every person into one of two narrowly conceived gender categories.

Debra Chasnoff

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

Topic

Gender & Sexual Identity

July 8, 2014

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StoryCorps: In the Wrong Body

“You said that you were in the wrong body, that you should be a man.”

Les, Scot, Thea and Amanda GrantSmith

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

Topic

Gender & Sexual Identity

July 8, 2014

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