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A simple writing assignment sharpens students’ minds — and challenges their biases.
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Critical Engagement With Materials
Critical engagement emphasizes the value of students’ learning, increasing the likelihood that they will use the knowledge and skills they build in the service of their academic, personal, social and political lives.
May 23, 2023
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A Place Where Sunflowers Grow
Mari and her family have been sent to an internment camp in Utah. She does not understand what they have done to deserve their internment and longs for her backyard in California where she used to grow sunflowers.
April 7, 2016
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Brothers In Hope: The Story of The Lost Boys of Sudan
In this excerpt, Garang tells his story of how he became a lost boy when war destroyed his village. Walking with thousands of other orphaned boys, Garang travels thousands of dangerous miles from southern Sudan to a refugee camp in Ethiopia.
September 30, 2016
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I, Too
Langston Hughes, a voice of the Harlem Renaissance, writes of a black man banished to the kitchen when company arrives. This same man looks to the future, for a day when he will sit at the table to eat with company, because he, too, is an American.
July 5, 2014
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A Very Special Delivery
'Henry Brown left Richmond, Va. a slave and arrived in Philadelphia—in a freight box—a free man. Abolitionists who cheered Brown's 27-hour journey to freedom chose not to publicize it, fearing that others following in his path would be in danger.
July 5, 2014
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Mama Played Baseball
With her husband away fighting in World War II, Amy's mother gets a job playing baseball in the first professional women's league.
July 7, 2014
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On Liberty and Slavery
The first Black Southerner to have a book of poetry published, Horton's plea for freedom personifies liberty and beseeches her to stamp out oppression and break his chains.
July 7, 2014
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Alabama Sanctity of Marriage Amendment
The Alabama Sanctity of Marriage Amendment, or Alabama Constitution Amendment 774, was ratified by voters in 2006.
July 2, 2014
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An Act to Protect Religious Freedom and Recognize Equality in Civil Marriage
With this law, passed by the General Assembly in 2009, Vermont became the fourth state to recognize same-sex marriages.
July 2, 2014