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Media and Strategies for Teaching Warriors Don’t Cry

Find the teaching strategies, media, and online resources referenced throughout the Warriors Don't Cry memoir teaching guide.

Published: January 10, 2018

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Language

English — US

Subject

History
Social Studies

Grade

6–12

Human & Civil Rights
Racism

Overview

This page is designed for educators using Teaching Warriors Don't Cry. It contains all of the digital resources referenced throughout the guide.

This collection contains all of the resources used in Teaching Warriors Don't Cry, which includes:

1 video
2 images
1 audio
7 teaching strategies
Additional recommended resources

Lesson Plans

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Get resources for teaching a unit on the efforts to desegregate Central High School in Little Rock, explored through the lens of civic choices.

Teaching Strategy

Use exit tickets to assess students’ understanding, monitor their questions, or gather feedback on your teaching.

Teaching Strategy

Educators will create a practice of student journaling to help their students critically examine their surroundings and make informed judgments.

Teaching Strategy

Invite students to nonverbally communicate something they have read or watched, using a color, a symbol, and an image.

Teaching Strategy

A gallery walk activity gets students moving as they explore a range of documents, images, or student work displayed around the classroom.

Students adding post-it notes to a white board.

Teaching Strategy

Students will become “experts” on a topic and then share their new knowledge with peers.

Four students sitting at a table smiling and talking to each other

Teaching Strategy

Lead students in a critical analysis of an image that enhances their observational, interpretive, and critical thinking skills.

Two students working together and looking at classwork

Audio

After the Federal Judge ordered integration in Little Rock, Arkansas, the "Little Rock Nine" prepared for their first day at Central High School. Governor Orval Faubus, in defiance of the order, called out the Arkansas National Guard. One of the students, Elizabeth Eckford, could not be reached and was therefore not informed of the plan. This is her story.

Lesson

Students explore the strategies, risks, and historical significance of the 1963 Chicago school boycott, while also considering bigger-picture questions about social progress.

Crowd fills LaSalle Street between City Hall and building housing Board of Education as hundreds of demonstrators marched in Chicago on Oct. 22, 1963 following a one-day boycott of public schools.

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Get resources for teaching a unit on the efforts to desegregate Central High School in Little Rock, explored through the lens of civic choices.

Lesson

Students consider what it means to be free by learning about the choices and aspirations of freedpeople immediately after Emancipation.

Black students standing outside in front of a clapboard school house

Mini-Lesson

This mini-lesson invites students to synthesize their learning about the causes of racial injustice in policing and reflect on the implications these causes have on the individual and collective choices we make today.

Black and white image of time for change protestor.

Mini-Lesson

This mini-lesson prepares students to engage in conversations about policing and racial injustice by inviting them to co-create class norms and reflect on the emotions and experiences they and their classmates bring.

Photo of students seated in a classroom.

Mini-Lesson

This mini-lesson helps students define the term, learn what forms reparations can take, and consider what reparations should be offered for slavery and other racist policies.

Lesson

Students learn about the aftermath of the Civil War and examine primary source documents that provide insight into the difficult task of reuniting the nation.

The ruins of Mills House and nearby buildings, Charleston, South Carolina, at end of American Civil War.

Lesson

Students examine President Andrew Johnson's plan for Reconstruction and the debate it provoked with Congress while reflecting on deeper issues of healing and justice.

Columbia with black union soldier with amputated leg in ornate Greco-Roman style building

Lesson

Students learn about the violent responses to the transformation of US democracy that occurred as a result of Radical Reconstruction.

Black and white photo of the house committee

Lesson

Students examine the factors that led many northerners to turn against federal policies passed during the Reconstruction era that protected freedpeople.

A drawn picture of people crowding into the Fourth National Bank

Lesson

Students learn about the debate within the women’s rights movement over the passage of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments.

Five black women officers sitting for a portrait

Lesson

Students explore some of the limitations of Reconstruction's transformation on US democracy and learn about groups who demanded that the promise of equality be made a reality.

Seated portrait of women's voting rights advocate Susan B. Anthony.

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Media and Strategies for Teaching Warriors Don’t Cry

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Enacting Freedom

Creating a Society That Ensures Safety for All

Preparing for a Conversation about Policing and Racial Injustice

The Debate over Reparations for Racial Injustice

The Devastation of War

Healing and Justice

Backlash and the KKK

Shifting Public Opinion

The Struggle over Women’s Rights

Equality for All

Media and Strategies for Teaching Warriors Don’t Cry

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Using This Study Guide

Choices in Little Rock

Exit Tickets

Journals in a Facing History Classroom

Color, Symbol, Image

Gallery Walk

Defining Segregation

Understanding Jim Crow (Setting the Setting)

Becoming A "Warrior"

Jigsaw: Developing Community and Disseminating Knowledge

Analyzing Images

In Elizabeth Eckford's Words

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10 Questions for the Past: The 1963 Chicago Public Schools Boycott

Choices in Little Rock

Enacting Freedom

Creating a Society That Ensures Safety for All

Preparing for a Conversation about Policing and Racial Injustice

The Debate over Reparations for Racial Injustice

The Devastation of War

Healing and Justice

Backlash and the KKK

Shifting Public Opinion

The Struggle over Women’s Rights

Equality for All

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