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Classic Invisibility
Just because a bookshelf is full of "classics" doesn't mean it holds universal life lessons.
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Just Peace: A Message of Hope
In this book excerpt Mattie Stepanek describes what it is like living with a rare neuromuscular disease. Defying many developmental odds, Mattie recounts highs and lows as he travels toward his tenth birthday, living on what he terms “the edge.”
July 5, 2014
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Why I'll Never Teach This Powerful Book Again
This teacher's classes were in the middle of reading a Sherman Alexie classic that spurred deep discussions and powerful writing. Then several women came forward to say #metoo about the author.
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Patty and Abigail
Patty, a young enslaved girl, shares some insight about life on a South Carolina plantation.
January 8, 2019
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Our Countrymen in Chains
This is an antislavery poem by John Greenleaf Whittier on a broadside with an accompanying woodcut image.
December 15, 2017
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John Brown’s Body
In this story, a young boy learns the history behind the abolitionist song “John Brown’s Body.”
February 19, 2020
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Spotlight on “Bridges Not Walls”
TT Educator Grants support social justice work at the classroom, school and district levels. Grants Manager Jey Ehrenhalt spoke with Emily Conner about her students’ pop-up exhibit of Latinx immigration history and policy in Portland, Oregon.
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The American Slave Code in Theory and Practice (1853)
This argument from William Goodell underscores the moral and legal precedents used to break up families for commodification.
December 14, 2017
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January 2, 2018
Toolkit for "States' Rights and 'Historical Malpractice'"
This professional development activity encourages educators to use primary source documents as a tool to counter common myths about the Confederacy and to discuss with students how we remember (or misremember) history.
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