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Our Women's History Teacher's Guide provides compelling questions, lesson activities, and multimedia resources for integrating women's perspectives and experiences throughout the school year.…
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… On the Home Front yes Photo caption We Can Do It! Rosy the Riveter Poster. … the American people, "This whole nation of 130 million men, women and children is becoming one great fighting force." … You Do In the War, Grandma? It Was Everybody's War: An Oral History A Teenage Volunteer Too Young to Join the WACS …
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… Romare Bearden's "The Dove": A Meeting of Vision and Sound yes Photo … of the magazine: Editing Art Local News Music Reviews History Poetry Supplemental Material Link the study of art … Blues Closer Reading Jazz Beyond Borders: Jazz Appreciation Month 2019 Media Resource The Jazz Ambassadors Teacher's …
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… Glossary of Terms for Film Discussion and Analysis January 06, … Media Arts Media Arts Film/Movie Media Resource BackStory: Women at Work Lesson Plan Scripting the Past: Exploring Women's History Through Film Lesson Plan Shakespeare's Julius …
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… The Letters and Poems of Emily Dickinson yes Photo caption … significance of Dickinson's poetry at the time and today. History & Social Studies U.S. History Literature & Language … AP English Literature and Composition Lesson Plan Lesson 5: Women's Lives Before the Civil War AP Literature Poetry …
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… Anishinaabe/Ojibwe/Chippewa: Culture of an Indian Nation yes … of the U.S., and engages students in research on its history, location, and past and present culture. By focusing … colored with red, yellow, blue, and green dyes made by the women, who decorated them with intricate quill and …
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… Not Only Paul Revere: Other Riders of the American Revolution yes Photo caption Artist … ride is the most famous event of its kind in American history. But other Americans made similar rides during the American Revolution. Who were these men and women? Why were their rides important? Do they deserve to be …
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… Grassroots Perspectives on the Civil Rights Movement: Focus on Women November 29, 2019 Judy Richardson yes Photo caption … narrative from scholars and from veterans who made the history, with a focus on women, youth, and the Student …
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… George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and the Presidents' Day holiday … and Lincoln stand out as unrivaled figures in American history. Their importance is reflected in the large number … February 22nd never falls on the third Monday of the month. All of this congressional debate, of course, took …
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… Presidential Inaugurations: A Capitol Parade on a Cold Winter's … inaugurations came at some of the darkest moments in U.S. history. In the four months that separated his election victory in November of …
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… Bring Your Classroom to Life Through Diplomatic Oral Histories September 21, 2018 Maureen McNicholl yes Photo … that is often overlooked but ideally suited to the world history, civics, or global studies curriculum -- the oral …
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… A Spectrum of Perspectives: The Gilded Age and Progressive Era … American activism against segregation and oppression; women’s rights and suffrage; and colonialism, imperialism, … and the Gilded Age will be helpful, but they will learn the history of the fair and the broader history of the era …
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… Music of the Harlem Renaissance Audio History & Social Studies U.S. History Literature & Language … Cool" Closer Reading Jazz Beyond Borders: Jazz Appreciation Month 2019 Featured Image Photo caption Duke Ellington at …
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… Place-Based Learning: Creating Clio Entries yes Photo caption Clio … Historical markers, monuments, plaques—every so often, the history of a landscape and the people who have inhabited it … organization, discussing all of the local sites related to women's history, African American history, military history, …
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… Lesson 3: The Rise and Fall of Joseph McCarthy yes Photo … 1950 he made a bombshell speech. Addressing the Republican Women's Club of Wheeling, West Virginia, he announced that … once and for all. A painful chapter in America's history had at last come to its close. For those wanting …
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… Lesson 3: Kate Chopin's "The Awakening": Searching for Women & Identity in Chopin's "The Awakening" yes Photo …
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… What Makes a Hero? yes Photo caption The Joint Service Color Guard … be divided into categories? Activity 6. Heroes from History In this Activity, students will research historical … Robinson Jim Thorpe Historical Figures Who Worked for Women's Rights Susan B. Anthony Elizabeth Blackwell Carrie …
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… Anne Frank: One of Hundreds of Thousands yes Photo caption Portrait of Anne Frank, age … of a Young Girl by connecting the diary to the study of history and to honor the legacy of Anne Frank, the writer, … U.S. Holocaust Museum website. Students should record the month and date of each country's defeat by Germany. …
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… The Gift of Holiday Traditions: Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, and Christmas February 10, 2012 yes … quiet home!" — Charles Dickens Each year, December brings a month filled with holidays, celebrations complete with a … including Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, and Christmas. Kwanzaa The History of Kwanzaa provides an extensive history of this …
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… The Great Society and the Case for the Humanities yes Photo caption As … October is designated as National Arts and Humanities month in the United States. But, what is meant by the … as the study and interpretation of languages, history, literature, jurisprudence, philosophy, comparative …
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… Lesson 5: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Rise of Social Reform in … century: the Progressive movement, the New Deal, the Women's Movement, the struggle for racial justice, and the … the Power of the Ballot " on the the EDSITEment-reviewed History Matters . Mary McLeod Bethune's 1939 speech " What …
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… Civil Rights and the Cold War yes Photo caption Bayard Rustin and Dr. … Board of Education of Topeka (1954) Textbooks often present history as conveniently divided by eras, movements, or … Closer Reading Jazz Beyond Borders: Jazz Appreciation Month 2019 Lesson Plan Lesson 1: Martin Luther King, Jr. and …
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… A Teacher's Guide to the Films of Ken Burns April 26, 2016 Joe Phelan … from Ken Burns' website. WETA "More Americans get their history from Ken Burns than any other source." —Historian … have been relegated to February “the shortest and coldest month of the year,” Mr. Burns has suggested we rethink the …
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… Lesson 2: The House Un-American Activities Committee yes Photo … the Soviet Union. One of the most famous episodes in HUAC's history was its investigation of Hollywood. In this case the … anticommunism in American popular culture—Treasure Chest, a monthly comic book published by the Catholic Guild. Although …
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… BackStory: Shock of the New: The Legacy of the 1893 World’s Fair Audio History & Social Studies U.S. History Related Content Media … 1893 World’s Fair and the First Ferris Wheel Lesson Plan Women's Equality: Changing Attitudes and Beliefs Lesson Plan …
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… BackStory: Hidden Figures - The People Behind the Story You Know Audio History & Social Studies U.S. History Related Content … Perspectives on the Civil Rights Movement: Focus on Women Teacher's Guide Maya Angelou: A Phenomenal Woman …
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… Building A More Perfect Union Website A More Perfect Union Formatted Title Building A More … A More Perfect Union Teacher's Guide Preparing for National History Day Teacher's Guide Chronicling America: History's … That Tell America’s Story The Spanish-American War Women and the Abolition Movement Erik Peterson's (Santa Ana, …
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… Kate Chopin’s The Awakening yes Photo caption Kate Chopin House, State … will explore how Chopin stages the possible roles for women in Edna's time and culture through the examples of … sharp relief? Evaluate Kate Chopin's place in literary history. Analyze the components of literary realism and …
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… Portrait of a Hero yes Photo caption Benjamin Franklin . The Library of Congress … Students will then view portraits of heroes from American history, and glean a bit of background information on each … so that she could communicate with other people. In six months Helen learned 625 words. Helen wanted to learn as …
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… The Things They Carried: Tim O’Brien’s Vietnam War Novel Endures … many aspects of the military have changed. For one thing, women now serve in combat roles, too. Critics have hailed … students may have already encountered. A More Perfect Union History & Social Studies U.S. History World History Vietnam …