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… Citizenship, Race, and Place: Frontiers in Asian American History June 09, 2022 Joanna Capps, Daniel … experienced the frontier in familiar ways–the colliding of cultures, the need to innovate in the face of unimaginable …
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Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage and History in … teachers, and parents can begin their own foray into the cultures of Asia-Pacific, starting in Manjiro’s country. …
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Asian American & Pacific Islander Perspectives within … Pacific Islanders engaged civically and contributed to U.S. culture?"   and grounded in inquiry-based teaching and … the locations of places and regions and their political, cultural, and economic dynamics . NCSS. D2.His.3.9-12. Use …
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… Closer Reading Citizenship, Race, and Place: Frontiers in Asian American History Media Resource BackStory: To Be a … War II Teacher's Guide Landmarks of American History and Culture Teacher's Guide Asian American and Pacific Islander …
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… Closer Reading Citizenship, Race, and Place: Frontiers in Asian American History Teacher's Guide Landmarks of American History and Culture Teacher's Guide Oral History as an Educational …
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… Anishinaabe/Ojibwe/Chippewa: Culture of an Indian Nation yes Photo caption Full blood … understanding of one of the many diverse peoples and cultures living throughout the lands that are now referred …
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… Investigating Jack London's White Fang: Nature and Culture Detectives yes Photo caption Writer Jack London. … is transformed from a "natural" state to a domestic, "cultured" state. Instead, as London portrays him, White Fang …
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… The Victor's Virtue: A Cultural History of Sport yes Photo caption The three most … Olympics. The intersection of sports, philosophy, and culture is illustrated in the multiple meanings of the …
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… from supporting full statehood for the island territory. Asian immigrants and their children made up a large portion … modern efforts to preserve and promote Indigenous Hawaiian culture today. As an extension to this lesson plan, students …
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… Lesson Activities Activity 1. Warm-Up: Food in Different Cultures Objective : Students will begin to think about the … students have developed in this lesson.  Teacher's Guide Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage and History in …
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… learn about examples of what it might be like to grow up in Asian, African, or Latin American countries. Content … complex concepts and possibly sensitive topics related to culture, religion, identity, stereotypes, and …
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… of Texas at Austin and served as Director of the Center for Asian American Studies there from 2006 until 2014.  She … Relations, the Immigration and Ethnic History Society, the Asian Pacific American Librarians Association, and the …
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… lessons examining immigration, race, citizenship, and culture. Each video tells a brief and self-contained story, … Heritage and History in the United States Closer Reading Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage and History in …
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… , and Black cowboys introduced many white Americans to cultures they had only ever read or heard about. These shows … Closer Reading Citizenship, Race, and Place: Frontiers in Asian American History Identify the ways the American West …
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… Does It Mean to Be American? Lesson Plan Native American Cultures Across the U.S. Lesson Plan Japanese American … Commons Citizenship American Indian African American Asian American and Pacific Islander WWII (1939-1945) …
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… Jazz Ambassadors: A Model for Cultural Diplomacy yes Photo caption Duke Ellington program … may choose to provide students with a definition for culture and for diplomacy as a starting point.   Public Law …
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… Native American Cultures Across the U.S. yes Photo caption Sioux Indian … experience, and retention of traditional spiritual and cultural practices." —Debbie Reese, Teaching Young Children …
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… European exploration and settlement of the Americas and the cultural and economic exchange that resulted profoundly … however did not only take place between European and Asian or European and African monarchs. Increased …
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… Father's Lunch." Library of Congress African American Asian American and Pacific Islander Immigration/Migration … can be found at the  BackStory  website .   The Clash of Cultures in "The Cart War" (00:40-7:00) Comprehension …
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… have produced encyclopedias focused on local history and culture. EDSITEment's Teacher's Guide " Investigting Local … "Sí, se puede!": Chávez, Huerta, and the UFW Lesson Plan Asian American & Pacific Islander Perspectives within …
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… and story, introduces upper elementary students to Chinese culture and tradition. It blends an adventure narrative with … York State. For years, she and her siblings were the only Asian American children in her school and she was the only …
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… It would grow to be one of the largest empires in Southeast Asian history, and at the height of its power the empire’s … Cambodia in relation to other Southeast Asian nations and cultures, and to India. How might geography have affected …
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… Movement Teacher's Guide Landmarks of American History and Culture Media Resource BackStory: Legislation Impossible - … Exclusion Act Raised the Price of Becoming an American” Asian American & Pacific Islander Perspectives within …
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This Teacher's Guide includes place-based history resources and activity ideas to help students recognize the value of studying historic and cultural sites across the United States…

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… part, no doubt, by an economic interest in formerly closed Asian markets, but in the main it was the product of a … Harry S. Truman, were both products of a political culture that was far less divided over fundamental issues. …
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… States case Korematsu v. United States (1944) Lesson Plan Asian American & Pacific Islander Perspectives within … Landmarks Interwar Period (1920-1939) WWII (1939-1945) Asian American and Pacific Islander Civil Rights …
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… by having students talk to a parent about the countries and cultures that are part of their family history. Ask students … Presse et medias of the Caribbean Islands Asia Asia Today Asian Newspapers AsiaNow from CNN CNN.com World News Middle …
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… that have helped to preserve and share the historic and cultural contributions of jazz. American Artists Abroad A … album is credited with having a significant influence on Asian American jazz artists. For instance, in 1999, composer … mbaqanga , a musical style rooted in rural Zulu culture. Brazilian jazz also draws upon a mix of indigenous …
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… imaginations to form an image of this creature. In Chinese culture the lion took on mythical proportions and signifies … Open a discussion by telling the students that the Chinese (Asian) dragon is very different from the western (European) …
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… An Elephant" yes Photo caption George Orwell confronted an Asian elephant like this one in the story recounted for this … to describe a people and a situation geographically and culturally unfamiliar understandable to his readers? Irony …