Becoming American Study Guide
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This guide to accompany the film Becoming American helps students investigate identity and belonging through the stories of generations of Chinese immigrants in the United States and their paths to "becoming American."
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Teaching Enrique's Journey
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This guide provides activities and discussion questions for leading your students through a six-week reading of Enrique's Journey that explores themes of identity, belonging, and choices.
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Pour commencer: Vies Volees
Lisez une préface de Théodore Fontaine ainsi que d’autres documents d’introduction qui vous aideront à commencer à explorer ce livre.
![Cover of "Stolen Lives: The Indigenous Peoples of Canada and the Indian Residential Schools."](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Genocide_StolenLivesBookCover_FH2173821.jpg?h=ea933802&itok=Ows2T6Lg)
Teaching Farewell to Manzanar
Use this guide to Jeanne Wakatsuki's memoir about the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II to develop students' literacy skills and increase understanding of this history.
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Teaching Red Scarf Girl
Use this guide to Ji-li Jiang’s engaging memoir set during the tumultuous years of the Cultural Revolution in China to help students explore themes of conformity, obedience, and prejudice.
![Book Cover of Red Scarf Girl.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2023-05/RedScarfGirl_cvr.png?h=f44212c3&itok=7tu3YQLb)
Teaching Warriors Don't Cry
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Use this guide to Melba Pattillo Beals' memoir about the desegregation of Little Rock High School to develop literacy skills and teach about the civil rights movement.
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Please Ring the Bell for Us
This cartoon, by Francis Knott for the Dallas Morning News, was published on July 7, 1939. It accompanied an editorial that described admitting refugee children to the United States as an “act of simple humanity."
![Children labeled "refugees" try to get into a door marked "US" as they look to a man labeled "Congress" for help.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/13_PleaseRingBell_Medium_res.jpg?h=870af43d&itok=7G_kpstt)
Civil Rights Historical Investigations
Use this resource to help students study three major moments in the development of the civil rights movement in the United States from the 1950s to the 1970s.
![African-American protesters picketing against Boston school segregation in 1963.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/neu_111423.jpeg?h=3884fb6d&itok=IyOyFLKA)
Taking Down the Confederate Flag
Learn about the recent debate over the Confederate flag in South Carolina following the murders at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston in 2015.
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Developing Students’ Capacity to Connect with History
In this classroom video, social studies teacher Tareeq Rasheed teaches the lesson “The First Day of School” from the Choices in Little Rock unit.
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