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Appendix B: Scenarios
The best way to be ready to speak up is to prepare. Here are some prompts to get you started.
July 31, 2012
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A Room of One's Own
In this excerpt, Virginia Woolf declares that any talented woman born in the 16th, 17th, 18th or even 19th centuries would have been so hindered from sharing her gifts due to her sex--and if she somehow overcame this obstacle, her name would not have been tied to her work.
July 7, 2014
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Once Upon a Time in America
Don’t sugarcoat history in teaching the civil rights movement. Students deserve the full truth about both the racial bias that caused it and our hesitant steps toward freedom.
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Drawing on Justice
The Comic Book Project encourages students to address social issues in their lives and schools with art and creativity.
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Columbine Timeline
Spring & Summer 1999 April 20 Columbine High School students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold shoot and kill 12 students and one teacher before turning the guns on themselves. Twenty-three are injured. The students killed
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Understanding How Schools Are Labeled
What goes into the process of labeling schools, and how reliable are those labels — especially when a school is labeled as “failing”? This is the second of three articles on public schools as a common good, which explore the possibilities and threats to public education.
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William Wells Brown
William Wells Brown was born into slavery and later escaped to become one of the foremost supporters of abolition.
January 8, 2019
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Promote and Model Civic Responsibility
It’s one thing to learn about voting rights and civic responsibilities; it’s another to engage in action to make positive change in our communities.
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The Torch Is in Your Hands: A Conversation With Helen Sims
Helen Sims, aka the Old Storyteller of Belzoni, Mississippi, encourages us to accept the torch that is being passed to us.