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Sounds of Change
This lesson challenges students to analyze and to reflect on messages presented in songs — and to express their own views about important issues addressed in some songs.
April 26, 2017
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Perspectives on Women’s Equality Day
Celebrate the 19th Amendment with diverse readings from our free Text Library.
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Jimmie Lee Jackson
This essay details Jimmie Lee Jackson’s involvement in the voting rights movement and his violent death at the hands of Alabama state troopers.
March 10, 2016
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Susan B. Anthony
Alexandra Wallner follows Susan B. Anthony from her birth to her death by detailing her life, goals, hardships and accomplishments.
July 7, 2014
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Close to Home
Jackie Brown prided herself on teaching her students about disabilities. But could she confront her own feelings about her mother and polio?
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New Girl in School
This story follows a girl who befriends the first African American to attend High Point Central High School, as a result of desegregation. What begins as an unintended and awkward experience in the cafeteria, becomes a strong and admirable friendship.
July 16, 2018
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My Identity
After growing up in foster care, Ashley, a young Native-American Caucasian woman, converts to Islam in hopes of finding structure in a life where it never existed. However, with that decision comes the risk of losing one of the few biological connections she still has.
January 12, 2018