Latinos and the Fourteenth Amendment: A Primary Document Activity
In this lesson, students will work in pairs and use expert reading strategies to analyze the Court’s ruling in Hernandez v. Texas. After participating in
September 11, 2023
In this lesson, students will work in pairs and use expert reading strategies to analyze the Court’s ruling in Hernandez v. Texas. After participating in
Was George Washington a man of his time, a slaveholder in a state where 40% of the population were slaves? Was George Washington a conflicted
Emmett Till was a 14-year-old African-American boy from Chicago, Illinois who went to visit his family in Mississippi in 1955 before the start of a
For this lesson, students will be introduced to the history of race. Our modern understanding of race was introduced starting in the 1600s as European
Prior lessons have introduced students to culture and the history of racism. Race does not exist, but culture is the force that shapes us in
All cultural groups teach future generations cultural understandings that help to shape their identities and interactions with other groups and society at large. Past lessons
The Real World lesson offers students an opportunity to understand how higher education is linked to higher weekly incomes and how income impacts an individual’s
This lesson explores the history of the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and how it might be revised to reduce gun violence in the
For this lesson, students will read the text entitled, Sonia Sotomayor: A Judge Grows in the Bronx/La juez que crecio en el Bronx, by Jonah
For this lesson, students will be introduced to important elements of culture, both surface and deep culture. Students will come to understand how culture shapes