teaching strategy
Word Work
My Pile, Your Pile
My Pile, Your Pile is an interactive word game that increases students’ Tier Two and Tier Three vocabularies.
July 19, 2014
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Informational
An Address to the Slaves of the United States of America
Henry Highland Garnet was an African-American abolitionist, minister, educator and newspaper editor. Garnet delivered “An Address to the Slaves of the United States of America” at the National Negro Convention in Buffalo, N.Y., on Aug. 16, 1843.
July 2, 2014
professional development
The Right to Vote (Transcript)
This transcript of NBC’s 2004 story “The Right to Vote” highlights the events leading up to the Selma-to-Montgomery march, with firsthand accounts from Rep. John Lewis.
October 26, 2011
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Inclusion on the Bookshelf
In fiction, children with disabilities are often still segregated, labeled, lonely and lost. These titles will help bring your school’s library into the age of inclusion.
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Immigrant and Refugee Children: A Guide for Educators and School Support Staff
Now, more than ever, these vulnerable students need advocates in schools.
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Online Exclusive! "Becoming Joey"
How can a student begin the walk to school with one name and arrive with another? Hear the story of "Becoming Joey," a poem by Paul Gorski, read by Gabriela Bovea.
student task
Write to the Source
Questions that Come Up
Questions that Come Up asks students to demonstrate their explanatory and informative writing skills.
July 19, 2014
lesson
Student Service Reflection: A Different Kind of Vacation
A student reflects on his travel to New Orleans, where he helped rebuild parts of the Ninth Ward.
July 6, 2009
lesson
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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Informational
Testimony Before the Credentials Committee, Democratic National Convention
In this transcript, Fanny Lou Hamer describes the way in which she was forced to leave the plantation where she worked as as sharecropper for 18 years, was arrested and was beaten--all on account of trying to register to vote.
July 3, 2014