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- Where English and history meet: A collaboration guide
- Strategically plan a collaborative unit and learn how to overcome those everyday obstacles that prevent success. This guide is accompanied by four lesson plans to help you put collaboration into practice.
- Format: series (multiple pages)
- Brown versus Board of Education: Rhetoric and realities
- In this lesson, students will listen to three oral histories that shed light on political and personal reactions toward the 1954 Supreme Court ruling Brown versus Board of Education. Includes a teacher's guide as well as the oral history audio excerpts and transcripts.
- Format: lesson plan (multiple pages)
- The Declaration of Independence
- In Where English and history meet: A collaboration guide, page 5
- In this interdisciplinary lesson, students will examine the role of the Declaration of Independence in the development of the American Revolution and as part of the American identity. They will also analyze the argumentative structure and write their own declaration.
- Format: article (grade 10 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Karen Cobb Carroll, Ph.D., and NBCT.
- Packaging resources
- In Web Publishing & Collaboration Guide, page 2.3
- LEARN NC is especially interested in publishing "packages" of resources that integrate instructional plans, best practices, and/or materials for student learning, including primary sources and multimedia. Teachers will be more likely to use and adapt upon...
- Format: /help
- Deficit thinking
- In Bridging Spanish language barriers in Southern schools, page 4.2
- Teachers frequently attribute the academic struggles of English language learners to the students' inability or unwillingness to learn English, but this "deficit thinking" can better be replaced by a focus on what immigrant students bring to the classroom.
- By Buck Cooper.
- African American history
- A guide to lesson plans, articles, and websites to help bring African American history alive in your classroom.
- Format: bibliography/help
- Reconstruction
- In North Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction, page 9.1
- Brief history of Reconstruction, including Lincoln's plans, Johnson's presidency, radical reconstruction, military reconstruction, and the end of Reconstruction with the election of 1876.
- Format: article
Resources on the web
- Silva Rhetoricae:The Forest of Rhetoric:
- Make sense of rhetoric with definitions and examples of specific terms and discover the purposes of rhetoric, the patterns into which it has fallen historically as it has been taught and practiced for over 2000 years. (Learn more)
- Format: website/general
- Provided by: Brigham Young University
- Top 100 Speeches of the 20th Century
- An index to and partial database of full text transcriptions of the American speeches that have been proclaimed the 100 most significant American speeches of the 20th century according to a list compiled by Professors Stephen E. Lucas and Martin J. Medhurst. (Learn more)
- Format: website/general
- Provided by: Michael E. Eidenmuller
- Perspectives on the slave narrative
- This lesson introduces students to one of the most widely-read genres of 19th-century American literature and an important influence within the African American literary tradition even today: the slave narrative. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 11–12 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- Provided by: National Endowment for the Humanities
- Battling for liberty: Tecumseh's and Patrick Henry's language of resistance
- This lesson extends the study of Patrick Henry's “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death” speech to demonstrate the ways Native Americans also resisted oppression through rhetoric and action. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- Provided by: IRA/NCTE
