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- Image Analysis of the Bijou Theatre in the early 1900s
- In this lesson, students will use postcards and photographs from the Going to the Show digital collection that highlight the moviegoing experience in the early 1900s to expand their critical thinking and visual literacy skills, gain experience analyzing comparable visual images of the same subject, and consider motivations for different visual image constructs.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Lisa Speaker.
- Impressed with embargo
- Students will learn about the causes of the War of 1812 and make connections to current world events.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Andrea McGuire.
- Interracial "harmony" and the Great Awakening
- The students will be introduced to two episodes in 19th-century American history, around the time of the Great Awakening, that show glimpses of some positive and negative consequences of interracial interaction in a religious context. The students will examine primary sources from the Documenting the American South collection to then be able to write a "sermon" from the perspective of a southern itinerant preacher during the Great Awakening arguing for or against religion as a cure for the social ill of racism and slavery.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 11–12 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Jamie Lathan.
- An introduction to slave narratives: Harriet Jacobs' Life of a Slave Girl
- In this lesson, students will learn about the life experiences of slaves in the United States during the 1800s by reading the story of a North Carolina slave woman who eventually escaped.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Joe Hooten.
- Jim Crow and segregation
- This is an integrated lesson plan that incorporates both eighth grade language arts and history. Using Internet research, literary analysis, and persuasive technique, students will practice reading and writing skills while analyzing the impact of Jim Crow Segregation on African Americans living in North Carolina and elsewhere.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Burnetta Barton.
- Language families
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 4.7
- Students will identify and locate the three language families of contact period North Carolina and calculate the physical area covered by each language family.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 and 7–8 Mathematics and Social Studies)
- Letters back home: A soldier's perspective on World War I
- World War I traumatized many of the soldiers that participated in the war. It had a lasting effect on the political, economic, social, and cultural lives of Americans during the 1920's. By reading letters that one soldier wrote to his family back home. Students can gain insight into the reasons why the “Great War” had such a profound impact on the United States in years following the war.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By George Gray Jr..
- Letters home
- Students will write letters home, taking on the role of one of the sons of the "Gold Star Mothers" from Union County, NC.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 and 7–8 Social Studies)
- By Meg Millard and Pamela Webb.
- Liberation and deliberation: The North Carolina ratification debates of 1788
- This lesson focuses on the deliberations over ratification of the US Constitution by the North Carolina legislators. In particular it traces the arguments of the Federalists and Anti-federalists found in the primary sources digitized in the Documenting the American South collection.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8–12 Social Studies)
- By Mark Laskowski.
- Live-at-Home in North Carolina
- In this lesson students will examine pictures and documents relating to the Live at Home program started in North Carolina by Governor O. Max Gardner to help North Carolina farmers refocus on food crops rather than cash crops during the Depression. These photographs, from the Green 'N' Growing collection at the North Carolina State University, will help students draw conclusions about the culture of North Carolina in the early 1930s and understand how they overcame the hardships of the Depression.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Loretta Wilson.
- A living timeline of civil rights
- This fifth grade lesson plan is one piece of a civil rights unit. This particular lesson is an opportunity for students to demonstrate knowledge of a specific person or event that occurred during the civil rights movement. The students will share their research with others as they take on the role of a museum artifact.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Social Studies)
- By Laurie Lietz.
- Lunsford Lane: A slave in North Carolina who buys his freedom
- In this lesson plan, students read a primary source document to learn about the life of Lunsford Lane, a slave who worked in the city of Raleigh, North Carolina. Students answer questions about Lane based on his memoir to help them understand the details of his life.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By John Schaefer and Victoria Schaefer.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.'s “I Have A Dream” speech
- Students will display their understanding of the symbolism and references that Dr. King used to enrich his famous speech on August 28, 1963 from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial by constructing a “jackdaw,” a collection of documents and objects.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Charlotte Lammers.
- Measuring pots
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 2.7
- Students will use an activity sheet or modern pottery rim sherds to compute circumference from a section of a circle and construct analogies based on their own experience about possible functions of ancient or historic ceramics.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7–8 Mathematics and Social Studies)
- Mid-1800s reform era group presentations
- Students will work in groups to present information on the reforms of the mid 1800's. Topics could include the Unitarians, abolition, women's rights, growth in education, treatment of the mentally ill, temperance, and utopian communities.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Social Studies)
- By Angie Panel Holthausen.
- Mountain dialect: Reading between the spoken lines
- This lesson plan uses Chapter 13 of Our Southern Highlanders as a jumping-off point to help students achieve social studies and English language arts objectives while developing an appreciation of the uniqueness of regional speech patterns, the complexities of ethnographic encounter, and the need to interrogate primary sources carefully to identify potential biases and misinformation in them. Historical content includes American slavery, the turn of the century, and the Great Depression.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Kathryn Walbert.
- Native American music: Two North Carolina tribes
- In this lesson plan, students will listen to songs from two North Carolina tribes. Students will learn about the music through listening, analyzing, singing, moving, and playing instruments.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 Music Education and Social Studies)
- By Merritt Raum Flexman.
- Native Americans and Jamestown
- Using primary sources, students will investigate the role of Native Americans in the successes and failures of Jamestown. Students will identify and analyze inaccurate portrayals of Pocahontas and Powhatan by comparing historical facts with literary fiction.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 11–12 Social Studies)
- By Jennifer Ricks.
- The Negro Leagues : The people, places and experiences of Black baseball
- In The Walking Classroom, page 3
- In this lesson for fifth grade language arts, students listen to a podcast about the Negro Baseball Leagues and learn the impact they had on baseball and American history.
- Format: lesson plan
- North Carolina Cherokee Indians: The Trail of Tears
- In this two week unit, students will study the Cherokee by participating in literature circles, learning about Native American story telling, writing a letter to Andrew Jackson to protest against the Creek War, and more.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Gina Golden.
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