Lesson Focus Question: How did the Black Panther Party’s survival programs, specifically the Free Breakfast Program, support the organization’s larger goals for systemic change?

Teaching Thesis: Although the Black Panther Party is remembered for its use of military tactics and emphasis on police patrols and open carry demonstrations, they also developed programs to meet the day to day needs of community members. The Black Panther Party survival programs, namely the free breakfast program, were instrumental in furthering the organization’s objectives. The survival programs served as a powerful recruiting tool and helped to meet the basic needs of community members so that they could focus on the larger goals of peace, justice, freedom, and self-determination.

Lesson Focus Question:
What were the economic impacts of the railroad industry in the 19th century for California businesses and individuals?

Lesson Teaching Thesis:
The railroad industry created a monopoly that eliminated local businesses and infringed personal liberties such as property rights.

A collaborative activity that uses primary source documents to help students identify the countries involved in the war and the attitudes of these countries towards the war.  Who blames who? And why?  This collaborative activity includes primary source packets for seven groups. Each packet represents a different country: France, England, Germany, Belgium, Russia, Serbia, or Austria-Hungary. Within the packet, students will find newspaper headlines, quotes, photos, political cartoons, or posters related to a particular “mystery” country. A blank map of Europe in 1914 is also included in the packet.Students should examine the sources within their packet to determine which country the sources represent. They should identify the location of that country on the blank map provided and then discuss the role of their country in the outbreak of the war, combining the primary sources, notes, textbook, and information discussed in class. At the end of the activity, students may shareinformation about their country and the role it played in the war with the class. This can be followed by a discussion of which country (or countries) contributed the most to the outbreak of WWI, allowing students to draw conclusions from multiple resources, as well as the information shared by their classmates. 

This resource goes with the webinar "Christian Nationalism and Internationalism: Evangelicals and US Foreign Policy in Modern History," which took place on 10/04/2022.  

In this lesson, students will analyze and compare the rhetorical choices used to achieve a variety of purposes in two speeches written and delivered by high school students following the February, 14, 2018, school shooting in Parkland, Florida. This lesson asks you to consider the rhetorical strategies used Lily Lehman from Durham, NC, and Emma Gonzalez from Parkland, Florida, to persuade their audience to push for meaningful gun reform. Student speakers expertly used rhetoric to craft speeches for a variety of occasions, audiences, and purposes. Students will also explore the importance of speech delivery and how a speech’s “performance” can affect its audience and purpose. Finally, students will discuss how social media can encourage and enable young people to organize, protest, and contribute to real world meaningful change. 

This activity asks students to provide rule of law words for each letter of the alphabet. When all letters have been completed, the teacher may ask students to look for common themes that reflect key principles of the rule of law. Teachers may choose to use this activity as a springboard for discussing the rule of law or as a review.

The attached lesson icnludes different activites that can be used by teacher. The lesson plan can be modified and altered. 

In this lesson, students will analyze the breadth of visual qualities -- including medium, color, shape, and other attributes -- of Thornton Dial’s Lost Cows and apply them to a broader understanding of hardship and perseverance in the Post-Civil Rights era South. They will learn about the life and career of Thornton Dial and consider whyand howthe visual arts can broaden understanding of the importance of material culture as a form of communication, record-keeping, and creative expression for African Americans in the rural South.

By using contemporary sources and stories, this presentation asks students to reflect on the ways the African Diaspora has influenced the present, especially ideas about identity. 

This activity will allow students to explore some aspects of the political, economic, social, and cultural developments of major African empires from around 1500-1800 CE. It contains information about Songhai, Kongo, Asante, the Swahili Coast, and Ethiopia. 

Designed for use with Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun, but could be adapted for other texts dealing with ideas of African heritage and assimilation. 

Students will explore the Age of Enlightenment through a Power Point presentation and class discussion. Students will then further explore this period of history and its prominent figures by designing a dinner party for 12 Enlightenment thinkers. This project will encourage students to learn more about the period and the philosophers associated with it, as well as synthesize what they have learned while utilizing higher order thinking, group work skills, and creativity.

This notebook is intended to give a brief introduction to elementary functions emphasizing on effective thinking in algebra and geometry.

Students analyze "Alright" alongside documents about the Black Lives Matter movement to consider why it might have been adopted by some protesters as an anthem. Although the song uses many rhetorical and lyrical strategies to accomplish its effects, we will focus on the way allusions operate. In the second part of the lesson, students compose their own protest lyrics (part of a larger project) and strategically use allusions to affect listeners in specific ways (educate them, call them to action, document the writer's experience, and/or galvanize protesters). The lesson is constructed as a reader's and writer's workshop.

Race affects the everyday lives of all students in this country; it is at the heart of human identity, human conflict, and human healing. As educators, we can facilitate safe, open conversations, and move young people toward a better future. Through multiple sources, varying perspectives, and the analysis of facts, we must provide opportunities for students to learn, address our own implicit biases, and allow for deeper thought and cross-cultural understanding to emerge. This discussion guide, based on National Geographic's Special Issue on Race, will guide educators in promoting open discussion. Dedication Message. A Note to Educators A Color Wheel of Humanity A Place of Their Own The Things That Divide Us Streets in His Name The Muslim Next Door Skin Deep The Many Colors of Matrimony The Stop The Rising Anxiety of White America Re-Righting History Additional Resources Download the discussion guide from https://journeysinfilm.org/product/america-inside-out/.

In this volume, scholars and educators share resources to better teach America's place and role in the Transatlantic World.  The iBook contains audio lectures, primary source documents, and lessons designed to engage students in inquiry and investigation.

In this volume, scholars and educators share resources to better teach the global perspective of 19th century America, including the Civil War and Reconstruction.  The iBook contains audio lectures, primary source documents, and lessons designed to engage students in inquiry and investigation.

This exercise asks students to read excerpts about global migration and think about the factors that drive migration. Students will assess a series of statements to determine what factors encouraged or discouraged migration and map their analysis onto a map using + and all - symbols. The visual interpretation will help students better understand the push/pull factors involved with global migration movements of the 19th century. 

This is a 5 question analysis of the introduction to Risa Goluboff's book Vagrant Nation, which was shared in the 2022-23 webinar series under the title "Who Interprets the Constitution and Why it Matters," which occurred on September 7, 2022. 

The goal of this preparatory textbook is to give students a chance to familiarize with some terms and some basic concepts they will find in an Anatomy and Physiology course. Organization and functioning of the human organism are generally presented starting from the simplest building blocks, and then moving into levels of increasing complexity. This textbook follows the same presentation. It starts introducing the concept of homeostasis, then covers the chemical level, and later on a basic introduction to cellular level, organ level, and organ system levels. This second edition incorporates a module on protein synthesis, and a complementary base pairing learning objective as requested by many students. This edition also adds audio for all learning objectives. Audio Icon by Kieselli form Pixabay. The textbook is organized in five UNITS, divided into sixteen MODULES covering a total of fifty-two Learning Objectives. There is a short self-assessment at the end of each learning objective.