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Maya Angelou: A Phenomenal Woman
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Poet. Orator. Actress. Activist. Writer. Singer. Phenomenal Woman. These and many more superlatives are used to describe the incomparable Maya Angelou. Gone too soon in 2014 at the age of 86, Dr. Angelou's legacy will live on through the words she used to eloquently, powerfully, and honestly express emotions, capture experiences, and spread hope.

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Arts and Humanities
Literature
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06/15/2023
Melville's Moby Dick: Shifts in Narrative Voice and Literary Genres
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This unit is a study of the shifts in narrative voice and literary genres that Melville makes throughout Moby-Dick. It serves to introduce students to several unique features of the novel without demanding as much class time as would reading the entire text. The lessons comprise a series of close readings of passages from the novel.

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Arts and Humanities
Literature
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National Endowment for the Humanities
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06/15/2023
Midnight Ride of Paul Revere: Fact, Fiction, and Artistic License
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This lesson encourages close study of Wood's painting, American Revolution primary sources, and Longfellow's poem to understand the significance of this historical ride in America's struggle for freedom. By reading primary sources, students learn how Paul Revere and his Midnight Ride became an American story of patriotism.

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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
A Midsummer Night's Dream: Conflict Resolution and Happy Endings
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The activities in this lesson invite students to focus on the characters from A Midsummer Night's Dream, to describe and analyze their conflicts, and then to watch how those conflicts get resolved.

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Arts and Humanities
Literature
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National Endowment for the Humanities
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06/15/2023
The Monroe Doctrine: Origin and Early American Foreign Policy
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Monroe brought a vision of an expanded America to his presidency"”a vision that helped facilitate the formulation of what has become known as the Monroe Doctrine. In this unit, students will review the Monroe Doctrine against a background of United States foreign relations in the early years of the republic.

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History
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National Endowment for the Humanities
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04/05/2023
The Music of African American History
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This lesson traces the long history of how African Americans have used music as a vehicle for communicating beliefs, aspirations, observations, joys, despair, resistance, and more across U.S. history.

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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
Native American Cultures Across the U.S.
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This lesson discusses the differences between common representations of Native Americans within the U.S. and a more differentiated view of historical and contemporary cultures of five American Indian tribes living in different geographical areas. Students will learn about customs and traditions such as housing, agriculture, and ceremonial dress for the Tlingit, Dinè, Lakota, Muscogee, and Iroquois peoples.

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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
Native Americans and the American Revolution: Choosing Sides
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Native American groups had to choose the loyalist or patriot cause"”or somehow maintain a neutral stance during the Revolutionary War. Students will analyze maps, treaties, congressional records, first-hand accounts, and correspondence to determine the different roles assumed by Native Americans in the American Revolution and understand why the various groups formed the alliances they did.

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History
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National Endowment for the Humanities
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04/05/2023
Nelson Mandela & South Africa
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After more than 30 years in prison and an historic election that for the first time in the nation's history included all citizens regardless of race, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela became President of the Republic of South Africa on May 10, 1994. This Teacher's Guide includes resources for teaching about the brutality of apartheid, the resilience of the nation's people, the leadership of Nelson Mandela, and primary source materials that will inform discussion about the country's emergence in the world.

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Arts and Humanities
History
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National Endowment for the Humanities
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06/15/2023
Not Everyone Lived in Castles During the Middle Ages
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In this lesson, students will learn about the lifestyle of the wealthy elite and then expand their view of medieval society by exploring the lives of the peasants, craftsmen, and monks.

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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
Not "Indians," Many Tribes: Native American Diversity
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Students study the interaction between environment and culture as they learn about three vastly different indigenous groups in a game-like activity that uses vintage photographs, traditional stories, photos of artifacts, and recipes.

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Arts and Humanities
History
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National Endowment for the Humanities
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06/15/2023
Not Only Paul Revere: Other Riders of the American Revolution
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While Paul Revere's ride is the most famous event of its kind in American history, other Americans made similar rides during the Revolutionary period.  After learning about some less well known but no less colorful rides that occurred in other locations, students gather evidence to support an argument about why at least one of these "other riders" does or does not deserve to be better known.

Subject:
History
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Lesson Plan
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National Endowment for the Humanities
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04/05/2023
"Not of an age, but for all time": Teaching Shakespeare
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For more than 400 years, Shakespeare's 37 surviving plays, 154 sonnets, and other poems have been read, performed, taught, reinterpreted, and enjoyed the world over. This Teacher's Guide includes ideas for bringing the Bard and pop culture together, along with how performers around the world have infused their respective local histories and cultures into these works.

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Arts and Humanities
Literature
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Teaching/Learning Strategy
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National Endowment for the Humanities
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06/15/2023
Oh, Say, Can You See What the Star-Spangled Banner Means?
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Using archival material, students will associate Francis Scott Key's Star Spangled Banner with historic events and recognize the sentiments those words inspired. Students will explore the symbolic nature of the American flag.

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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
Oral History as an Educational Experience
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Based on this model oral history experience, the toolkit includes instructional concepts, ideas, and strategies for use by educators to design a curriculum that reflects their instructional goals and the needs of their students while appreciating Vietnam veterans in their community.

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Arts and Humanities
History
Literature
Material Type:
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Provider:
National Endowment for the Humanities
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06/15/2023
Ordinary People, Ordinary Places: The Civil Rights Movement
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By researching these "ordinary" people and the now historic places where they brought about change, students will discover how the simple act of sitting at a lunch counter in North Carolina could be considered revolutionary, and how, combined with countless other acts of nonviolent protest across the nation, it could lead to major legislation in the area of civil rights for African Americans.

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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
The Origins of the Cold War, 1945-1949
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Since the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, Soviet leaders had been claiming that communism and capitalism could never peacefully coexist. Agreements regarding the postwar world were reached at Yalta and Potsdam, but the Soviets wasted no time in violating them. Harry Truman believed that the proper means of responding to an international bully was a credible threat of force.

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History
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Provider:
National Endowment for the Humanities
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Date Added:
04/05/2023