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‘Bibi’ Lesson 1: What Makes Us Who We Are?
In this first lesson in a series of three, students will explore how people are comprised of personal and social identities.
June 2, 2020
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Participating in Digital Communities
This lesson aims to help students learn to safely and respectfully participate in different kinds of digital communities.
September 25, 2017
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Informational
An Act for Prohibiting the Importation of Negroes, June 1774
With this text, the colony of Rhode Island outlawed the importation of enslaved Africans and established the immediate emancipation of enslaved people in the colony in 1774. However, the law stipulated some important exceptions that made this change particularly ineffective.
December 15, 2017
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'We Share One World'
A message from Teaching Tolerance director Brian Willoughby.
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Equal Partners
Austin teenagers learn to expect respect in dating relationships.
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Informational
The Missouri Compromise (1820)
This is the text of the 1820 Missouri Compromise. It shows how lawmakers tried to balance power between slave and free states when admitting Maine and Missouri into the Union.
December 14, 2017
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Write to the Source
Point of View
Point of View asks students to demonstrate their narrative skills when applying different points of view in writing.
July 19, 2014
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Literature
Mama Played Baseball
With her husband away fighting in World War II, Amy's mother gets a job playing baseball in the first professional women's league.
July 7, 2014
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Cultural Sensitivity Keeps Students Engaged
A young language arts student teacher directed her class to “close your eyes and imagine what your characters might look like.” I was observing her second-ever presentation to one of the classes where she would practice-teach for the next few weeks. “Details are very important in descriptions,” she continued, “but you can’t write about them if you can’t see them. Maybe you want to write about a beautiful young girl. Think about the details. She’d have big blue eyes and long blond hair, and her hands would be slender and delicate.” As she spoke, I watched her seventh-grade students. They represented the lower-middle-class school’s racial and ethnic mix pretty well: About half of them appeared to be Hispanic, almost a third could be considered African-American and the rest looked Caucasian. I didn’t see a blond hair or a blue eye among them. Most also had round, soft bodies.