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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.
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Priestley's World and the World of the Play
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Use these slides to help students learn about important events that occurred during Priestley’s lifetime up until 1945, and about Priestley's ideological beliefs.
Putting the Characters on Trial
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Use these slides to help students participate in a court trial to decide which character is the most responsible for the death of Eva Smith, and then create a pie chart to represent the distribution of responsibility between the characters.
Recurring Themes in the Play
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Use these slides to help students identify and analyse the themes explored in the play, creating a knowledge sheet to share their ideas with their peers in preparation for writing an essay.
Social Systems and Individual Agency
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Use these slides to help students identify the parts, people and interactions of various social systems, thinking about what bearing they have on character choices and behaviour, before considering responses to injustice.
Theatre as a Call to Action
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Use these slides to help students consider theatre as a call to action, discussing its power and limitations to spark real social change, before plotting their own play inspired by An Inspector Calls.
The Treatment of Edwardian Women
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Use these slides to help students examine a range of primary sources to better understand how women were treated and expected to behave in Edwardian society.
Understanding Class
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Use these slides to help students develop their understanding of the sociohistorical context of the play, focusing specifically on class, status, etiquette and hierarchy.
Glenn Ligon, Untitled - Four Etchings [A]
In this white on black etching, Glenn Ligon repeats "I do not always feel colored," a phrase from Zora Neale Hurston's essay "How It Feels to Be Colored Me."
Glenn Ligon, Untitled - Four Etchings [B]
This black-on-white etching quotes Zora Neale Hurston's essay "How It Feels to be Colored Me."
Glenn Ligon, Untitled - Four Etchings [C]
In this black-on-black etching, Glenn Ligon uses Ralph Ellison's quote from the prologue of his novel, Invisible Man (1952): "I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids—and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus side-shows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach me they see only themselves, or figments of their imagina-"
Glenn Ligon, Untitled - Four Etchings [D]
In this second black-on-black etching, Glenn Ligon also uses Ralph Ellison's quote from the prologue of his novel, Invisible Man (1952), though this one uses the complete quote, which ends "...figments of their imagination-indeed everything."