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Making History Through Protest |
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English Language Arts,History-Social Science,Technology |
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11,12 |
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In the first lesson, students will be introduced to the philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi, and be asked to discuss whether non-violent resistance has played a part in American history through the ages. Individually or in pairs, students will then investigate any of seven particular historical, social movements through Internet browsing. With information gained, students will build a 10-slide Keynote presentation complete with illustrations and transitions to enhance their project. Each Keynote, upon completion, will be presented to the class.
In a second lesson, students will be presented with information regarding the 19-month takeover of Alcatraz Island by Native Americans. They will discuss this historical event and receive instructions on what materials they may use to gain more information during the field trip to the island.
After the tour of Alcatraz, students will use any materials and information collected or obtained from their tour to design and c... |
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Title: |
Defenders of Human Rights |
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English Language Arts,History-Social Science |
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8 |
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Students will apply what they learned about reform movements in US history (pre1880s) to current human rights defenders. They will discuss why people fight for human rights and pick a historical person and a current person to research. They will take notes on the defenders and will create biographical sketches of each figure. Then, they will design and present a digital presentation about the two defenders.... |
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Title: |
I'm American Too - A Story from Behind the Fences |
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English Language Arts,History-Social Science |
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8 |
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Description: |
This lesson is an invitation to students to help shed light on a historical event that is still not widely recognized as one of the worst constitutional violations in our nation’s history. Students will explore the internment experience through the first-hand accounts archived in the Time of Remembrance online collection. By stepping into the stories of selected internees (historical characters), they will demonstrate a sense of historical perspective, and in the process, become experts on the internment experience and, hopefully, advocates for tolerance and social justice. ... |
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Title: |
Midnight Ride Translation |
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Arts,English Language Arts,History-Social Science |
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5 |
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Description: |
Students listen to a recitation of The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere, then take a stanza from the poem, rewrite it into 5th grade language, illustrate both the original and translated versions. Students then do a round-robin oral reading of both the original and translated versions.... |
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Title: |
Black History Month - Resources for "Red Tails" |
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English Language Arts,History-Social Science,Humanities |
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Grade: |
5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12 |
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Description: |
This collection of primary sources will help provide students with the historical context for George Lucas's recent release: Red Tails. The resources and lessons span elementary through high school, but I've referenced 11th grade U.S. History standards.... |
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Title: |
13 colony culture |
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English Language Arts,History-Social Science |
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Grade: |
5 |
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Description: |
In this lesson, students will build on previous lesons regarding making inferences about a text. The main objective is to use an index to locate information in a text. Eventually the information in this lesson will be used in creating a model of a colonial region.... |
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Title: |
Letter Writing |
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Mathematics,English Language Arts,History-Social Science |
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Grade: |
2 |
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Description: |
Transforming the classroom into a post office. Students write letters to their parents, address envelopes, and rotate between various jobs, which include postmarking envelopes and delivering mail. This activity ties in with the California Content writing, math, and social studies standards. ... |
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Title: |
Country Project |
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Science,English Language Arts,History-Social Science |
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Grade: |
10 |
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Description: |
The idea behind these lessons is to create a cross-disciplinary project in which students research an assigned country, organize information, present this information in multiple formats using technology, and develop an international sensibility. Students are actively involved in researching and presenting information that is pertinent to three of their core classes – namely, English, world history and biology.... |
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Title: |
Time of Remembrance Oral Histories Project |
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English Language Arts,History-Social Science |
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Grade: |
4,5,8,11 |
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Description: |
The Time of Remembrance Oral Histories Project is an on-going project supported by the Elk Grove Unified School District. Through the growing collection of interviews and teacher-created lessons, students across the state and nation now have access to the living voices of Japanese-American citizens, who, following the outbreak of WWII, were removed from the West Coast - forever changing the history of farming communities along the West Coast.
I warmly invite teachers who would like to incorporate any of the interview clips into additional lessons to contact me.... |
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Title: |
Using Technology for a Unit on American Symbols |
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English Language Arts,History-Social Science |
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Grade: |
2,3 |
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Description: |
This unit it designed to help students gain familiarity with names, locations and meanings behind a variety of famous American symbols. They will remember, understand and apply information learned from American Symbols social studies unit presented with the aide of websites, Internet images and video, and conventional classroom teaching. They will learn how to create a presentation using a variety of technologies demonstrating what they have learned. Finally, students will build on their understanding of symbols for country to create a set of symbols to represent their families.... |
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Title: |
Greek Mythology |
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English Language Arts,History-Social Science |
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6 |
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Description: |
Students will work together to become experts on one Greek myth. After reading their assigned myth they will create a narrative outline, summary paragraph and list of character traitrs related to theri god or goddess. They will incoporate these elements into a poster and presetation for the class during which they will retell the myth using a varitey of choices. They will decide how to wxplain thei myth as a group. Some options include: formal presentation, act it out, song or read aloud.... |
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Title: |
Pre-Post Assessment (Day 20) |
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Mathematics,Science,English Language Arts,History-Social Science,Sustainability Education |
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Grade: |
5,6,7,8 |
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Description: |
This is the pre-post assessment for the 20 day, integrated, STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) unit focused on teaching middle school students the importance of creating sustainable communities and how to do so.... |
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Title: |
Sustainable Community 1 of 20 |
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Mathematics,Science,Arts,English Language Arts,History-Social Science |
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Grade: |
5,6,7,8 |
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Description: |
This is a 20 day, integrated, STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) unit focused on teaching middle school students the importance of creating sustainable communities and how to do so. The students will be able to demonstrate their understanding of the persuasive writing genre by by using technology to create online posters, brochures, videos, essays and websites.... |
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