This collection uses primary sources to explore The Watsons Go To Birmingham1963 …
This collection uses primary sources to explore The Watsons Go To Birmingham1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis. Digital Public Library of America Primary Source Sets are designed to help students develop their critical thinking skills and draw diverse material from libraries, archives, and museums across the United States. Each set includes an overview, ten to fifteen primary sources, links to related resources, and a teaching guide. These sets were created and reviewed by the teachers on the DPLA's Education Advisory Committee.
In this activity, students in the middle and upper grades will explore …
In this activity, students in the middle and upper grades will explore whether Obama's selection as the president of the United States marks a new era in America, one where race doesn't matter.
This offering is for those who find themselves grief-ridden as they become …
This offering is for those who find themselves grief-ridden as they become more aware of how their lives and those around them are structured historically and presently by oppression. It is an approximately ten-minute guided meditation to acknowledge and honor the grief that inhabits the listeners’ bodies. The meditation also invites listeners to self-affirm their presence and survival. Warsan Shire’s “What They Did Yesterday Afternoon” and Destiny Hemphill’s poem “mapmaking” serve as anchor texts. Instructors, students, and organizers might find this meditation supportive while learning/teaching about oppression or reckoning with the near aftermath of an oppression-rooted tragedy. References “What They Did Yesterday Afternoon” (poem) by Warsan Shire: https://verse.press/poem/what-they-did-yesterday-afternoon-6524900794187889060 “mapmaking” (poem) by Destiny Hemphill: https://www.frontierpoetry.com/2019/05/03/poetry-destiny-hemphill/
For young white students, explorations of fair and unfair, just and unjust, …
For young white students, explorations of fair and unfair, just and unjust, can go a long way in advancing anti-racist white identity. Purposeful use of literature and basic study of white anti-racists are among the key ways educators can advance such aims.Teaching Tolerance presents four short biographies for early grades classrooms, with activity ideas.
Students will examine themselves within various contexts—including family, culture and community—as a …
Students will examine themselves within various contexts—including family, culture and community—as a means to better understand who they are as individuals and who they are in relation to people around them. The lesson asks students to consider “Who is an immigrant?” and challenges them to dig deeper and extend their response as they come to understand themselves more deeply. Students will complete one of two extension activities at the end of this lesson: creating a cereal box suitcase or connecting with a pen pal.
In this lesson, students get in touch with their “inner scientists,” first …
In this lesson, students get in touch with their “inner scientists,” first by viewing a video of a 4-year-old solving a complex problem and then by working together to explain a discrepant event. Students also consider attributes shared by many scientists: curiosity, perseverance and the ability to problem-solve.
Students will demonstrate an understanding about the importance of heritage and preservation …
Students will demonstrate an understanding about the importance of heritage and preservation of traditions and values of the Northern Arapaho Tribe that reside on the Wind River Reservation located in Wyoming through viewing a video, completing a hands-on project, score a 70% or higher on the shelter packet, and using mathematical measurements accurately.
In this lesson, students will view a video that contains information about …
In this lesson, students will view a video that contains information about the treaty that established the Wind River Reservation and the two tribes that inhabit it, the Northern Arapaho and Eastern Shoshone. After viewing the video and completing the worksheet, a field trip to one of the sites mentioned in the video (if possible depending on location of school), students will select a topic of interest to research for the three paragraph writing assignment and presentation.
Students will use and analyze maps of Wyoming and create their own …
Students will use and analyze maps of Wyoming and create their own maps of the sites that are sacred to the Shoshone and Arapaho Tribes. Students will build an understanding that Wyoming has many sacred sites not only for the Shoshone and Arapaho but for neighboring tribes. Students can also explore battles that took place in the State of Wyoming.
Students will work in expert groups to research important historical events for …
Students will work in expert groups to research important historical events for the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho tribes. After completing research, the groups will present the information to the class and place visuals on the timeline and determine which events had the greatest impact on the people of the Wind River Reservation.
This brief lecture uses Ruben Salazar's 1970 L.A. Times column as a …
This brief lecture uses Ruben Salazar's 1970 L.A. Times column as a springboard for defining what is a Chicano. That answer, is complicated and nuanced, but we discuss multiple platforms to understand what it means to be a Chicana or Chicano in the Civil Rights Movement.
In this lesson, students will address misconceptions they likely have about Christopher …
In this lesson, students will address misconceptions they likely have about Christopher Columbus and the colonization of what is now the United States.
This collection uses primary sources to explore Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman …
This collection uses primary sources to explore Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior. Digital Public Library of America Primary Source Sets are designed to help students develop their critical thinking skills and draw diverse material from libraries, archives, and museums across the United States. Each set includes an overview, ten to fifteen primary sources, links to related resources, and a teaching guide. These sets were created and reviewed by the teachers on the DPLA's Education Advisory Committee.
This Womanist Praxis Academy is an expansion of WWC's Resource Corner GoogleDrive …
This Womanist Praxis Academy is an expansion of WWC's Resource Corner GoogleDrive folder and our community education workshop materials. We invite others to contribute to this growing curriculum so information is accessible to all those who need it.
During this unit, there will be several opportunities for students to address …
During this unit, there will be several opportunities for students to address their experiences as well as take a closer look at the experiences of those written about in the unit. Students will take a journey into the time periods of Apartheid in South Africa and the Jim Crow Era/Civil Rights Movement in America. Students will be exposed to practices that would be described as “man’s inhumanity to man,” but are often left out of Social Studies textbooks and glossed over-- if ever addressed in middle school classrooms.
This unit will be geared toward my Advanced Placement Literature and Composition …
This unit will be geared toward my Advanced Placement Literature and Composition class, but could certainly be taught in any survey course of English literature, or a course that examines women’s literature.
One objective, part of the AP Literature curriculum, is to teach historical context. This is always important so that students realize that art is a response to real life, and characters’ lives represent real lives shaped by real events. I also want my students to see connections to their own lives, and that the struggles for equity are not futile, but ongoing and necessary. I would like students also to see that a society that suppresses a group of people, is weaker, not stronger, and oppression is something for all of us to fight. And, I would like to open up some dusty-shelf texts to high school teachers who might not consider teaching them.
This unit will ask students to examine the historical boundaries in law, society, and economics for women in medieval literature, and consider how females depicted in stories from these eras might reveal power and agency that is not revealed in laws or politics. The unit will include the ancient Greek play Lysistrata, poetry from Anglo-Saxon England, Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and stories from Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.
This collection uses primary sources to explore the Wounded Knee Massacre. Digital …
This collection uses primary sources to explore the Wounded Knee Massacre. Digital Public Library of America Primary Source Sets are designed to help students develop their critical thinking skills and draw diverse material from libraries, archives, and museums across the United States. Each set includes an overview, ten to fifteen primary sources, links to related resources, and a teaching guide. These sets were created and reviewed by the teachers on the DPLA's Education Advisory Committee.
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