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Introducing Our US History Curriculum Collection
Draw from this flexible curriculum collection as you plan any middle or high school US history course. Featuring units, C3-style inquiries, and case studies, the collection will help you explore themes of democracy and freedom with your students throughout the year.
Creating a Plan for Reconstruction
This handout serves as a guide for students as they make a plan for Reconstruction that balances the goals of healing and justice.
![Centerfold prints show Columbia considering why she should pardon Confederate troops who are begging for forgiveness when an African American Union soldier with an amputated leg does not have the right to vote.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/1865_PardonFranchiseColumbiaShallItrustthesemenandnotthisman_FH2125825.jpg?h=5d059bf2&itok=rLpFJ0P6)
Creating a Plan for Reconstruction (en español)
In Spanish, this handout serves as a guide to students as they make a plan for Reconstruction that balances the goals of healing and justice.
![Centerfold prints show Columbia considering why she should pardon Confederate troops who are begging for forgiveness when an African American Union soldier with an amputated leg does not have the right to vote.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/1865_PardonFranchiseColumbiaShallItrustthesemenandnotthisman_FH2125825.jpg?h=5d059bf2&itok=rLpFJ0P6)
Viewing Guide for "The Political Struggle"
This handout provides questions that guide students' viewing and prompt discussion on the video "The Political Struggle."
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Viewing Guide for "The Political Struggle" (en español)
In Spanish, this handout contains questions that guide students' viewing and prompt discussion on the video "The Political Struggle."
![A photograph of Andrew Johnson.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/03751u.jpg?h=8c44f663&itok=SOBBoTvF)
At the River I Stand
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This film reconstructs the events that led to the climax of the Civil Rights Movement.
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Teaching Strategies
Designed to support History, Citizenship, PSHE, RS and English, this resource offers a variety of classroom strategies to develop critical thinking and communication skills, model democracy in the classroom, and empower students to become active, responsible citizens.
![Preview of UK Teaching Strategies Guide](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2024-03/TeachingStrategiesUK.png?h=d3d13267&itok=X3ErfyBb)
Exploring Civil Rights and Migration: 18-week Curriculum Outline
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Recommended for 7th and 8th-grade, this outline provides an instructional pathway for middle school educators to teach an 18-week curriculum exploring membership, belonging, and the power of individual and collective choices.
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Exploring Identity and Community: 18-week Curriculum Outline
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Recommended for 6th grade, this outline provides an instructional pathway for middle school educators to teach an 18-week curriculum exploring identity, family legacy, group membership and choices.
Eyes on the Prize Study Guide
This guide provides a framework for using the landmark documentary film Eyes on the Prize as a tool for teaching the civil rights movement.
![Eyes on the Prize Study Guide Cover](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Eyes_on_the_Prize.jpg?h=6e507e0f&itok=UWKQoO9Q)
Twilight, Los Angeles Study Guide
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Use this guide to the documentary film Twilight to help students investigate the trial of the Los Angeles police officers indicted for the beating of Rodney King.
![Twilight, Los Angeles Study Guide Cover](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/twilight_LA_Page_01.jpg?h=50887407&itok=mJwjRzde)
Excerpts from the Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment
This reading contains excerpts from the Emanicipation Proclimation and the Thirteenth Amendment.
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