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High School Lesson Plans

The Rise of Totalitarianism in Germany

In this lesson the students will learn about the shift in power and the rise of totalitarianism around the time period of World War II..

The Causes and Aftermath of Japanese American Internment: From Pearl Harbor to Korematsu v. United States

Students will analyze and connect the United States Supreme Court Case: Korematsu v. United States and Japanese American Internment in the World War II period.

The Power/Negativity of Propaganda

Students will view how propaganda was used negatively to portray two different groups of people based on race; African Americans in the South during Jim Crow and Jews during Nazi Germany.

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How to identify as an American

The internment of Japanese-Americans during Word War II is not taught with the depth that the Holocaust is, and this offers students the opportunity to know what happened to this segment of American society after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

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Civil Rights Sit-Ins: Pairing Graphic Novels with Primary Sources to Enhance Lessons

Students will be given historical references through LOC images, online articles, and the graphic novel, March Book 1 in order to synthesize the motivation and significance that sit-ins had within the Civil Rights Movement.

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Filtered Perceptions: Examining the Jim Crow Era and the Civil Rights Movement through Different Perspectives

Students will identify the themes and difference in point of views in multiple ethnicities during the Jim Crow era in the south.

Identifying and using primary and secondary sources to use in research and history lessons.

Students will learn to identify, use, and differentiate between primary and secondary sources and critically observe, reflect, and ask questions in their research and US History lessons.

Important Civil Rights Activists

Students will learn about important people who helped shape the civil rights movement through primary resources.

Information and Education Access is a Social Justice issue- in “March” and primary sources

Students will link selected passages from “March” to primary source documents that demonstrate the value of education and information access.

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"Run" and the Civil Rights Movement.

Students will utilize primary sources and the graphic novel, "Run," to analyze the events of the Civil Rights Movement.

The American Dream and an American Pastime through the Lens of the Civil Rights Movement

Students analyze and examine the ideology behind the “American Dream” by studying the events of the Civil Rights Movement and the evolution of baseball in America.

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Information and Education Access is a Social Justice issue- in “March” and primary sources

Students will link selected passages from “March” to primary source documents that demonstrate the value of education and information access.

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The Youth Rise Up for Civil Rights

Students will examine primary documents and learn about the Nashville Sit In Movement that desegregated downtown Nashville and learn about the sit-in movement in Rock Hill, SC.

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