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K–12 teaching and learning · from the UNC School of Education

A native of Western North Carolina and a former teacher, Terry Roberts has been the Director of the National Paideia Center since 1993. He is the author of numerous articles and books on education as well as the novel A Short Time to Stay Here (2012, Ingalls Publishing).

Resources created by Terry Roberts

Paideia seminar plan: "A Soldier Recalls the Trail of Tears"
In this Paideia seminar, students examine the text of an 1890 letter written by an American soldier. In the letter, the soldier, now eighty years old, recalls being tasked with helping to forcibly relocate North Carolina's Cherokee Indians to Oklahoma in 1837–1838.
Format: lesson plan (grade 8–12 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
By Terry Roberts.