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Introducing Our US History Curriculum Collection
Draw from this flexible curriculum collection as you plan any middle or high school US history course. Featuring units, C3-style inquiries, and case studies, the collection will help you explore themes of democracy and freedom with your students throughout the year.
How It Feels to Be Colored Me
Zora Neale Hurston describes her sense of identity and experience being a black woman in this 1928 essay.
Looking at Citizenship through a Literary Lens
This article by Laura Tavares explains how teaching novels can develop empathy, humility, and tolerance.
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our broken system of justice--from one of the most brilliant and influential lawyers of our time Bryan Stevenson.
To Kill a Mockingbird
Six-year-old Scout is forced to face a new, frightening side of her rural southern town when her attorney father defends a black man accused of raping a white woman.
Sanctions Against Representatives Pearson, Jones, and Zephyr
This reading contains information about the state representatives in Tennessee and Montana who were excluded from their legislatures.
The Critical Work of Young Adult Literature
In this article, scholar Jennifer Buehler argues for the inclusion of YA literature in the ELA classroom and the value of providing students with books about kids their age.
Ralph Yarl, Prejudice, and Gun Violence
This reading contains excerpts from two published reflections on the death of Ralph Yarl.
They Called Us Enemy
This graphic memoir from actor, author, and activist George Takei recounts his childhood incarcerated in Japanese American internment camps during World War II.
The Republic of Imagination (excerpt)
Author Azar Nafisi discusses the roles of literature and imagination in both repressive states and democracies.
We Wear The Mask
In this poem, Paul Laurence Dunbar reflects on the experience of African Americans in post-Civil War America and the universal human behavior of hiding an aspect of ourselves.
Teaching Farewell to Manzanar
Use this guide to Jeanne Wakatsuki's memoir about the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II to develop students' literacy skills and increase understanding of this history.