Students examine how the Supreme Court’s landmark decision regarding forced sterilization was influenced by the American Eugenics Movement.
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Eugenics and the Progressive Era: Living Newspapers
Students gain a more complex understanding of the Progressive Era in the United States and consider what it means to re-present history by using primary source documents.
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Exploring the Relationship between Scout/Jean Louise and Calpurnia
Students broaden their understanding of the relationship between Scout and Calpurnia by pairing scenes from Harper Lee’s two novels with a historical account from a Southern domestic worker.
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From Theory to Classroom: Eugenics and Education
Students draw critical connections between the American Eugenics Movement and the emergence of Nazi race science during the 1920s and 1930s.
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Maycomb's Ways: Setting as Moral Universe
Students explore how race, class, and gender create the moral universe that the characters inhabit in To Kill a Mockingbird..
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Moral Growth: A Framework for Character Analysis
Students connect the moral development of To Kill a Mockingbird's central characters to the moments in their lives that have shaped their sense of right and wrong.
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Race and Social Change: Atticus and His Historical Contemporaries
Students analyze Atticus' character in Go Set a Watchman in historical context by reading primary sources that illuminate the ways many white southerners reacted to the prospect of social change.
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Race, Democracy, and Citizenship: The American Ideal
Students identify how the beliefs about race developed during the Enlightenment still impact attitudes toward race and equality in the United States today.
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Scout as Narrator: The Impact of Point of View
Students consider how Harper Lee’s decision to tell To Kill a Mockingbird through the eyes of young Scout impacts readers' understanding of the novel.
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