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“I Was Born on September 11, 2001”
After a candid classroom discussion, this high school teacher marvels at the questions and concerns that educators like herself must confront at school.
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What We’re Reading This Week: October 7
A weekly sampling of articles, blogs and reports relevant to TT educators.
student task
Do Something
Journalism for Justice
Students plan, write, edit and distribute a piece of print or digital journalism about a relevant social problem or issue.
July 13, 2014
teaching strategy
Word Work
Meaning-Making Paragraphs
Students learn the meaning of vocabulary words by writing the word in multiple ways. Students write guided paragraphs about words from the central text then share their writing with peers.
July 19, 2014
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Multimedia
Curbing floods and restoring a sense of community
“English Avenue, an historic African-American neighborhood with an illustrious past, sits at the bottom of Atlanta’s water runoff. Blighted by regular flooding, mass vacancies, unemployment, and impoverishment, English Avenue finds hope in a home-grown response from its youth. Longtime resident MacKenzie Bass — along with fellow members of Street Smart — helped construct a park that curbs the excess water, creates a gathering place, and seeks to reclaim English Avenue’s identity.”
June 26, 2019
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Latinos and the Fourteenth Amendment: A Primary Document Activity
In this lesson, students will work in pairs and use expert reading strategies to analyze the Court’s ruling in Hernandez v. Texas. After participating in a carousel discussion, students will write a three-minute paper describing how the United States would be different if the Court had reached an alternate conclusion.
September 14, 2009
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Literature
Tomorrow Night
Bibi and her family escape their plantation and journey to a better life.
February 19, 2020
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Where Do We Go From Here?
LFJ Director Jalaya Liles Dunn explains that "Education is not merely a way of upward mobility for the individual, it is a way of collective movement."
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Informational
James Henry Gooding's Letter to Abraham Lincoln
A letter written by a free African-American Union soldier argues for equal pay for African-American soldiers.
August 17, 2018
