Reverend Martin Luther King leads civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama

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  Picturing Freedom: Selma-to-Montgomery March, 1965

  Why did thousands march over 50 miles through cold, Alabama rain in 1965? With this interactive, students learn about the Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights march, one of the seminal events of the Civil Rights movement.

World Poetry Day

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  A Storybook Romance: Dante's Paolo and Francesca

  Journey through the Inferno to learn how allegory, allusion, and drama combine in Dante’s poetic art.

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  Charles Baudelaire: Poète Maudit (The Cursed Poet)

  French Language and World Literature classes will study the works of 19th-century poet Charles Baudelaire and will learn about the connections between the Romantic Movement and themes of 21st-century popular culture.

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  Japanese Poetry: Tanka? You're Welcome!

  This unit on the Japanese poetic form tanka encourages students to explore the structure and content of the form and to arrive at a definition of the tanka’s structure in English. Students will read and analyze the tanka form and compare it to English structures of poetry, and will finally compose their own tankas.

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Frederick Douglass delivers "Men of Color, To Arms" speech

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  Lesson 1: From Courage to Freedom: The Reality behind the Song

  One myth that Southern slave owners and proponents were happy to perpetuate was that of the slave happily singing from dawn to dusk as he worked in the fields, prepared meals in the kitchen, or maintained the upkeep of the plantation.

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  Lesson 2: From Courage to Freedom: Slavery's Dehumanizing Effects

  One of Douglass's goals in his autobiography is to illustrate beyond doubt that slavery had an insidious, spirit-killing effect on the slaveholder as well as the slave.

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  Lesson 3: From Courage to Freedom

  Frederick Douglass's 1845 narrative of his life is a profile in both moral and physical courage.  In the narrative Douglass openly illustrates and attacks the misuse of Christianity as a defense of slavery.  He also reveals the turning point of his life: his spirited physical defense of himself against the blows of a white "slave-breaker."

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  Launchpad: Frederick Douglass “What To the Slave Is the Fourth of July?”

  Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) was a former slave who became the greatest abolitionist orator of the antebellum period. During the Civil War he worked tirelessly for the emancipation of the four million enslaved African Americans. In the decades after the war, he was the most influential African American leader in the nation.

  He delivered this speech on July 5, 1852. It is generally considered his greatest and one of the greatest speeches of the 19^th century. Before you read the speech you can follow these links to learn more about Douglass’s life and the evolution of his thought in this period.

Pocahontas buried in Gravesend, England

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  More Amazing Americans: A WebQuest

  Through a series of interactive lessons, guided by a WebQuest, students learn about many amazing Americans. Ultimately, students get to nominate and highlight their own amazing Americans.

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