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Evaluating Reliable Sources
This lesson, part of the Digital Literacy series, addresses the importance of locating and verifying reliable sources when working with online information.
September 12, 2017
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What is a Family?
This lesson provides a framework that will help students talk about their own and others’ families in safe, caring ways.
July 10, 2017
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Everyone’s a Helper
This lesson helps students understand the concepts of strengths, struggles and what it means to help.
July 10, 2017
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Culturally Inclusive Cooking Club
Creating a cohesive community from disparate parent groups around a great unifier: food.
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A Law for Regulating Negroes and Slaves in the Night Time
A New York City law from 1731 details the punishments for the enslaved and free black people who are in the streets after dark.
December 13, 2017
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Branding Slaves
This is an image of enslavers burning brands into the skin of people they enslaved, this engraving illustrates the way that enslaved people were treated as property.
December 13, 2017
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The History of Jamaica
The image is an 18th-century hand-drawn map of Caribbean islands and Central America with Jamaica at the center.
December 14, 2017
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Slave Houses, Louisiana (1853)
The drawing is a visual description that seeks to portray enslaved people as enjoying a relatively stable home life with people playing music, dancing and courting.
December 14, 2017
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John Canoe (Jonkonnu) Costume, Jamaica (1838)
A color lithograph image of Afro-Caribbean dress, this picture adds depth to students’ understanding of the culture of enslaved people.
December 14, 2017
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“Runaways” and “$200 Reward”
These are two different advertisements describing people who had escaped from slavery. They demonstrate the different treatment and valuation of enslaved people.
December 15, 2017