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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.
Analyzing Actions and Outcomes
This handout helps students analyze a character's decision-making process in a scene and discuss as a group.
Perspectives on Power: Big Paper Quotations
Students use this handout to reflect on five different perspectives about power and consider the ways in which each one confirms, challenges, or changes their initial thinking about the concept.
As You Were
Bethany Morrow's short story, "As You Were," tells the tale of a harrowing night for one young marching band member.
Speaker Visit Checklist
This checklist provides guidance for thoughtfully hosting a witness-to-history guest speaker in your classroom.
Introducing Agency
Students use this reading to learn about the concept of individual and collective agency.
Glenn Ligon, Untitled - Four Etchings [A]
In this white on black etching, Glenn Ligon repeats "I do not always feel colored," a phrase from Zora Neale Hurston's essay "How It Feels to Be Colored Me."
Glenn Ligon, Untitled - Four Etchings [B]
This black-on-white etching quotes Zora Neale Hurston's essay "How It Feels to be Colored Me."
Brown Girl Dreaming
Through using free-verse poetry, the author shares her childhood memories of growing up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement.
T.S.A. and Cinnamon Buns
In this personal narrative, a young adult shares their experience of going through security at the airport.
The Danger of Silence Transcript
This is a transcript of Clint Smith's TEDtalk about finding the courage to speak up against ignorance and injustice.