Let’s Talk about Race: It isn’t Real, but Racism is Lesson Plan and Materials
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English
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Content Standards
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6 – G2.2.5 Generalize about how human and natural factors have influenced how people make a living and perform other activities in a place.
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6 – G4.4.1 Identify factors that contribute to cooperation and conflict between and among cultural groups (control/use of natural resources, power, wealth, and cultural diversity).
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7 – H1.4.3 Use historical perspectives to analyze global issues faced by humans long ago and today.
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7 – G4.4.1 Identify factors that contribute to conflict and cooperation between and among cultural groups.
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7 – P3.1.1 Clearly state an issue as a question of public policy in contemporary or historical context, or as a contemporary/historical comparison. Trace the origins of an issue, analyze and synthesize various perspectives, and generate and evaluate alternative resolutions. Deeply examine policy issues in group discussions and debates to make reasoned and informed decisions.
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USHG 6.1.4 Growth and Change – explain the social, political, economic, and cultural shifts taking place in the United States at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century, by . . . evaluating the treatment of African Americans, including the rise of segregation in the South as endorsed by the Supreme Court’s decision in Plessy v. Ferguson, and describing the response of African-Americans to this inequality.
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USHG 6.3.2 Analyze the social, political, economic, and cultural changes that occurred
during the Progressive Era.
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USHG 7.1.1 The Twenties – explain and evaluate the significance of the social, cultural,
and political changes and tensions in the “Roaring Twenties” including:
• cultural movements such as the Jazz Age, the Harlem Renaissance, and the “Lost
Generation.”
• the NAACP legal strategy to attack segregation.
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USHG 7.2.3 Impact of World War II on American Life – analyze the changes in American life brought about by U.S. participation in World War II, including . . .
the role of women, African Americans, and ethnic minority groups in the war effort, including the work of A. Philip Randolph and the integration of U.S. military forces.
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USHG 8.3.1 Civil Rights Movement – analyze key events, ideals, documents, and organizations in the struggle for African-American civil rights.
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USHG 8.3.5 Tensions and Reactions to Poverty and Civil Rights – analyze the causes and consequences of the civil unrest that occurred in American cities, by comparing civil unrest in Detroit with at least one other American city.
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C – 2.1.3 Explain the impact of the major debates and compromises underlying the drafting and ratification of the American Constitution including the Virginia and New Jersey plans, the Great Compromise, debates between Federalists and Anti-Federalists, debates concerning slavery, and the promise for a Bill of Rights after ratification.
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C – 2.2.3 Use examples to investigate why people may agree on Democratic Values and Constitutional Principles in the abstract, yet disagree over their meaning when they are applied to specific situations.
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C – 4.2.1 Explain how the Civil War led to the creation of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. Analyze each Amendment’s relative effectiveness.
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C – 4.2.2 Explain how significant historical events, including but not limited to the suffrage movements and the civil rights movements, resulted in changes to the
interpretation of and Amendments to the U.S. Constitution
