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Showing Empathy
This lesson has students practice ways to be more understanding and reflect on the effects of empathetic listening.
July 10, 2017
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Recognize Trailblazers on Women’s Equality Day
Women’s Equality Day commemorates the ratification of the 19th Amendment on Aug. 26, 1920. It’s important to remember that many Black women and more women of color didn’t earn the right to vote until years later. Read Sojourner Truth’s “Ain’t I a Woman?” with its intersectional message delivered during her 1851 speech at the Women’s Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio. Also, check out an LFJ lesson featuring an accurate voting rights timeline, and identify ways to take a deeper look at women’s history this Women’s Equality Day—and beyond.
- Ain’t I a Woman?
- The True History of Voting Rights
- A More Complete Women’s History
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Informational
Letter from Mrs. J.H. Adams, Macon, Georgia, to the Bethlehem Baptist Association in Chicago, Illinois
The text is a letter from J.H. Adams to the Bethlehem Baptist Association written in 1918.
July 18, 2022
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Teaching 'The New Jim Crow' with Michelle Alexander
This webinar walks participants through the teaching guide for Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. The guide provides resources and support educators and students need to explore the critical social justice issues at the center of Alexander's work.
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Toolkit for "Shifting Out of Neutral"
This toolkit for “Shifting Out of Neutral” focuses on historical thinking development through critical literacy and builds on author Jonathan Gold’s call for educators to acknowledge and teach about power and bias.
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Word Work
Illustrated Vocabulary
In this visual strategy, students divide vocabulary words into parts and draw illustrations to represent the separate meaning of each part.
July 19, 2014
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Literature
Foul Line—1987
In this poem, a black woman carefully analyzes her interaction with a white waitress, whose actions, although civil, are smoldering with superiority.
July 5, 2014
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Why I Teach: Learning What Courage Means
My first year of teaching in middle school was an onslaught of reading quizzes, vocabulary lists, lunch duty, reading skills and faculty meetings. It didn’t really leave a great deal of time for reflection other than the simple thought that I wasn’t quite living up to my ideal of changing the world through teaching.
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Student Writing: A Listening Exercise
As an eighth-grade writing teacher, I routinely focus on reading student writing and utilizing it for several purposes. I am designing effective lessons, creating sound rubrics for assessment, developing peer conferences and monitoring their ability to meet standards and benchmarks. However, I often forget about one of our most important, frequently overlooked roles as writing teachers: our role as listeners.
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Portfolio Activity for “Speak Truth To Power”
Grades: 9-12 Subjects: Reading and Language Arts, Social Studies, ELL/ESL Categories: Wealth and poverty; Gender, Race and ethnicity Speak Truth To Power is a project of the RFK Center for Justice and Human Rights. For