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What Is Your American Flag?
Two drastically different images of the American flag have appeared in popular culture. What might they reveal about the state of race relations in the United States?
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Preparing to Teach 'The New Jim Crow'
Teaching 'The New Jim Crow' Preparing to Teach 'The New Jim Crow' In The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Michelle Alexander introduces readers to the phenomenon of mass incarceration in the
July 6, 2017
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Have You Thanked a Parent Lately?
My third-hour class was a challenge. The students were young, the class was large, and most students just needed a required fine art credit. Not great art lovers, they spent their considerable energy doing everything but their art projects.
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Toolkit for National Treasures
This toolkit will equip you with strategies to engage students in primary source analysis. By learning the right questions to ask, students will come to a more nuanced understanding of history.
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Literature
A Slave Auction
Solomon Northup was kidnapped and sold into slavery for 12 years before he was freed. This excerpt from his memoir of those years, Twelve Years A Slave, details a New Orleans slave auction.
April 27, 2016
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Multimedia
Gender Spectrum
Young people speak out against fitting every person into one of two narrowly conceived gender categories.
July 8, 2014
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Close and Critical Reading
GIST
Generating Interactions between Schemata and Texts (GIST) is a summarization procedure that helps students digest complex texts by requiring contextual word learning. GIST explicitly combines the most important words with reading and writing to comprehend complex texts.
July 19, 2014
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Advice From the Experts
Q: Some of my world history students have taken to drawing Confederate battle flags on their homework assignments. What should I do?
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Literature
The Jungle
From a novel that raised public consciousness about conditions in the meatpacking industry, these excerpts provide a glimpse into early 20th century industrialization from labor's vantage point.
July 3, 2014
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Dialogue of Freedom
Asian voices challenge cultural assumptions about democracy.