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Teaching the 2020 Election: What Will You Do on Wednesday?
As Election Day approaches, educators should prepare to support students no matter the result.
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Teaching Digital Literacy This Election Season
As disinformation about the 2020 election continues to spread, these resources can help you teach students about evaluating sources, recognizing "fake news" and becoming critical consumers of online information.
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Teach This: The Voting Rights Act
Pair an excerpt from ‘One Person, No Vote: How Not All Voters Are Treated Equally’ with a clip from a documentary about Congressman John Lewis to lead a conversation with students about the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
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Nonviolence and Self-Defense
Episode 5, Season 3 Armed resistance and nonviolent direct action co-existed throughout the civil rights era. In this episode, three historians confront some comfortable assumptions about nonviolence and self-defense
October 13, 2020
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Why Local Elections Matter
In this lesson, students explore the ways that decisions by local government affect their lives. They’ll review research and data about a few recent local elections to push back against the myth that a single vote doesn’t count. They’ll learn how laws in their state encourage or suppress voter engagement. And in an extension activity, eligible students learn how to register to vote.
October 8, 2020
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The Truth About Voting
In this lesson, students will learn some common myths about voting today, think through who these myths might benefit, learn why these myths are incorrect and consider how people might ensure every eligible citizen has a chance to vote. In an extension activity, students learn how to register to vote.
October 8, 2020
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The True History of Voting Rights
In this lesson, students learn about the expansion and restriction of voting rights in the United States, examine court rulings, discuss voter disengagement, and explore a voting rights timeline. Students will also learn how to register to vote.
October 8, 2020
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Teaching the Hard History of Indigenous Slavery
TT’s newest film, ‘The Forgotten Slavery of Our Ancestors,’ offers a classroom-ready introduction to the history of Indigenous enslavement in what is now the United States.
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Take 10 Minutes to Register Future Voters Today
Taking students through the voter registration process only takes 10 minutes, but it’s one of the most effective ways high school educators can amplify student perspectives this year.
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Teach This: Is Voting a Privilege or a Right? Returning Citizens and Voting
Reading and discussing an article from The Marshall Project, students learn about voting rights for incarcerated people and discuss questions of voting rights more broadly.