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Introducing Jane Eyre: An Unlikely Victorian Heroine
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Through their interpretation of primary documents that reflect Victorian ideals, students can learn the cultural expectations for and limitations placed on Victorian women and then contemplate the writer Charlotte Brontes position in that context. Then, through an examination of the opening chapters of Jane Eyre, students will evaluate Jane's status as an unconventional Victorian heroine.

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Arts and Humanities
Literature
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Lesson Plan
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National Endowment for the Humanities
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06/15/2023
Investigating Local History
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This collection of free, authoritative source information about the history, politics, geography, and culture of many states and territories has been funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Our Teacher's Guide provides compelling questions, links to humanities organizations and local projects, and research activity ideas for integrating local history into humanities courses.

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Arts and Humanities
History
Literature
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National Endowment for the Humanities
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06/15/2023
JFK, Freedom Riders, and the Civil Rights Movement
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Students learn how civil rights activists including the Freedom Riders, state and local officials in the South, and the Administration of President Kennedy come into conflict during the early 1960s.

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History
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Lesson Plan
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National Endowment for the Humanities
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04/05/2023
JFK, LBJ, and the Fight for Equal Opportunity in the 1960s
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This lesson provides students with an opportunity to study and analyze the innovative legislative efforts of Presidents Kennedy and Johnson in the social and economic context of the 1960s.

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History
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National Endowment for the Humanities
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04/05/2023
Jacob Lawrence's Migration Series: Removing the Mask
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In this lesson, students analyze Jacob Lawrence'sThe Migration of the Negro Panel no. 57(1940-41), Helene Johnson's Harlem Renaissance poem"Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem"(1927), and Paul Laurence Dunbar's late-nineteenth-century poem"We Wear the Mask"(1896), considering how each work represents the life and changing roles of African Americans from the late nineteenth century to the Harlem Renaissance and The Great Migration.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
History
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Lesson Plan
Provider:
National Endowment for the Humanities
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Date Added:
06/15/2023
James Madison: From Father of the Constitution to President
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Even in its first 30 years of existence, the U.S. Constitution had to prove its durability and flexibility in a variety of disputes. More often than not, James Madison, the "Father of the Constitution," took part in the discussion.

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History
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National Endowment for the Humanities
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04/05/2023
Jazz and World War II: A Rally to Resistance, A Catalyst for Victory
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Learn about the effects that the Second World War had on jazz music as well as the contributions that jazz musicians made to the war effort. This lesson will help students explore the role of jazz in American society and the ways that jazz functioned as an export of American culture and a means of resistance to the Nazis.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
History
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Lesson Plan
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National Endowment for the Humanities
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04/06/2023
Jefferson vs. Franklin: Revolutionary Philosophers
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Explore the philosophical contributions that Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson made to the movement for American independence. The lesson introduces students to some of the important precursor documents, such as Franklin's Albany Plan of 1754 and Jefferson's Draft of the Virginia Constitution, that led to the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

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History
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National Endowment for the Humanities
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04/05/2023
John Marshall, Marbury v. Madison, and Judicial Review
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If James Madison was the "father" of the Constitution," John Marshall was the "father of the Supreme Court""”almost single-handedly clarifying its powers. This new lesson is designed to help students understand Marshall's brilliant strategy in issuing his decision on Marbury v. Madison, the significance of the concept of judicial review, and the language of this watershed case.

Subject:
History
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Lesson Plan
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National Endowment for the Humanities
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04/05/2023
John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath: Verbal Pictures
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Students align original FSA photographs from the 1930s and the author's own journal entries, to trace parallel elements John Steinbeck then incorporated into passages in The Grapes of Wrath.

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Arts and Humanities
History
Literature
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Lesson Plan
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National Endowment for the Humanities
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06/15/2023
The Jungle, Muckrakers, and Teddy Roosevelt
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Curriculum unit on the historical  context of Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle and how the book helped reform efforts in Congress to pass the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act in 1906.

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History
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Lesson
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National Endowment for the Humanities
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04/05/2023
The Korean War (1950-1953)
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In 1950, North Korean forces, armed mainly with Soviet weapons, invaded South Korea in an effort to reunite the peninsula under communist rule. This lesson will introduce students to the conflict by having them read the most important administration documents related to it.

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History
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Lesson Plan
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National Endowment for the Humanities
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04/05/2023
Language of Place: Hopi Place Names, Poetry, Traditional Dance and Song
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A curriculum unit of three lessons in which students explore Hopi place names, poetry, song, and traditional dance to better understand the ways Hopi people connect with the land and environment through language. The unit is centered on the practice of growing corn. Students make inferences about language, place, and culture and also look closely at their own home environment and landscape to understand the places, language, and songs that give meaning to cultures and communities

Subject:
History
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Lesson
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National Endowment for the Humanities
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04/05/2023
Leonardo da Vinci: Creative Genius
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Students discover why Leonardo is considered the ultimate Renaissance man. They will learn about his famous notebooks, focusing upon his machines of motion, then zooming in on the flying machines.

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Arts and Humanities
History
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
National Endowment for the Humanities
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EDSITEment!
Date Added:
06/15/2023
Lesson 1: 1828 Campaign of Andrew Jackson: Expansion of the Voting Base
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Did changes in state constitutions tend to affect the voting population? In this lesson, students discuss the general trend in the first half of the 19th century to extend the right to vote to more white males.

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History
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
National Endowment for the Humanities
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04/05/2023
Lesson 1: An Early Threat of Secession: The Missouri Compromise of 1820 and the Nullification Crisis
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Americans affirmed their independence with the ringing declaration that "all men are created equal." Some of them owned slaves, however,and were unwilling to give them up as they gave speeches and wrote pamphlets championing freedom, liberty, and equality. So "to form a more perfect union" in 1787, certain compromises were made in the Constitution regarding slavery. This settled the slavery controversy for the first few decades of the American republic, but this situation changed with the application of Missouri for statehood in 1819.

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History
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Lesson Plan
Provider:
National Endowment for the Humanities
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04/05/2023
Lesson 1: Characterization in Lord of the Flies
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This lesson focuses on character analysis throughout William Golding's novel Lord of the Flies. While contemplating both direct and indirect characterization techniques, students will be able to consider how characterization builds relationships among the boys in the novel.

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Arts and Humanities
Literature
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
National Endowment for the Humanities
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Date Added:
06/15/2023
Lesson 1: FDR's Fireside Chats: The Power of Words
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In this lesson, students gain a sense of the dramatic effect of FDR's voice on his audience, see the scope of what he was proposing in these first two "Fireside Chats," and make an overall analysis of why the series of speeches were so successful.

Subject:
History
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
National Endowment for the Humanities
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Date Added:
04/05/2023