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- Eyewitness to the flood
- In this lesson, students will listen to oral history excerpts from Hurricane Floyd survivors and contrast their experiences with the experiences of the characters in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God.
- Format: lesson plan (multiple pages)
- Farmville's choice
- In this lesson, students will learn about rural life in North Carolina at the turn of the century. Home demonstration and 4H clubs implemented many programs to help people learn better farming techniques, ways of preserving food, and taking care of the home. Several North Carolina leaders went to great lengths to ensure the success of these programs. In part of this activity, students help the town of Farmville dedicate a monument to one of those people.
- Format: lesson plan (multiple pages)
- The fate of North Carolina's native peoples: Causes and effects
- This activity provides a way for students to further their comprehension as they read an article about changes in the population of North Carolina in the early 1700s as European settlers displaced American Indians. Students will complete a graphic organizer and answer a series of questions.
- Format: worksheet/lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Federal recognition for Lumbee Indians
- In Teaching about North Carolina American Indians, page 2.9
- Introduction North Carolina recognizes the Lumbee Indian Tribe; however, Federal recognition has not been given. Why? What are the criteria for recognition? What are the reasons for and against Lumbee recognition? This lesson uses a teacher-made debate...
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8–12 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Linda Tabor.
- "A female raid" in 1863: Using newspaper coverage to learn about North Carolina's Civil War homefront
- In this lesson plan, students will use original newspaper coverage to learn about a raid on local stores by Confederate soldier's wives in March 1863 in Salisbury, North Carolina, and use that historical moment to explore conscription, life on the homefront, economic issues facing North Carolina merchants, the challenges of wartime politics, and the role of newspaper editors in shaping public opinion.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8–12 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Kathryn Walbert.
- Finding your way in North Carolina
- Students will become familiar with the regions and local features of North Carolina and be able to write directions for others to find these features on a map.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 Social Studies)
- By Sadie Allran Broome.
- First Americans of North Carolina and the United States
- This lesson will use shared reading, center time, hands-on projects, and journal writing to help learners discover facts about first Americans, particularly those in the region that is today North Carolina, while at the same time developing their English language skills in listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Development and Social Studies)
- By Adriane Moser.
- First contact newspaper
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade eight, page 6.2
- In this lesson plan for grade eight, students write newspaper articles about early contact between individuals or groups from very different cultural backgrounds who met in the Carolina colony, including Europeans, Native Americans, and Africans.
- Format: lesson plan
- By Andrea Stewart, Keisha Gabriel, and Patty Grant.
- Folklife
- Students will learn North Carolina folklore, traditions, war activities, local legends, superstitions, food preparation traditions, art, songs and dances which are unique to the area.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Carolyn Early.
- "For What Is a Mother Responsible?" -- Idealized motherhood vs. the realities of motherhood in antebellum North Carolina
- In this lesson for grade 8, students analyze a newspaper article about motherhood from a North Carolina newspaper in 1845 and compare it to descriptions of motherhood from other contemporary sources. Students will also compare these antebellum descriptions to the modern debates over mothers' roles in American society.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8–12 Social Studies)
- By Kathryn Walbert.
- A forced migration: Reading lesson
- In this lesson plan, students read an article about the slave trade in West Africa, which caused the kidnapping of millions of free West Africans by slave traders. The lesson plan includes reading strategies designed to prepare students for end-of-grade reading test.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8–12 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Ghosts and sea monsters: Analyzing mythology
- In North Carolina maps, page 3.1
- This lesson is meant to accompany a ninth or tenth grade unit covering myths and legends. In this lesson, students analyze sea creatures found in 16th and 17th century maps in terms of culture and context. They then search for stories relating to North Carolina legends, ending by writing a story of their own.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–10 English Language Arts)
- By Jennifer Job.
- Good medicine
- Students will examine changes in technology, medicine, and health that took place in North Carolina between 1870 and 1930 and construct products and ideas which demonstrate understanding of how these changes impacted people living in North Carolina at that time. To achieve these goals, students will employ the eight intelligences of Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligences Theory.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies)
- By Leslie Ramsey.
- Governor Charles Aycock: A virtual exhibit
- In this activity, students learn about North Carolina governor Charles Aycock by reading historical commentary and a transcript of Aycock's inaugural speech. Students create museum exhibits about Governor Aycock using PowerPoint software.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Jamie Lathan.
- Graphic organizer: Marriage in colonial North Carolina
- This graphic organizer will aid students' comprehension as they read an article about marriage in colonial North Carolina.
- Format: chart/lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Graphic organizer: From Caledonia to Carolina
- Graphic organizer designed to aid students' comprehension as they read an article about the immigration of Highland Scots to North Carolina in the colonial era.
- Format: chart/lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Graphic organizer: Janet Schaw on American agriculture
- This graphic organizer will aid students' comprehension as they read a diary excerpt about agricultural practices in the Carolinas on the eve of the American Revolution.
- Format: chart/lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Graphic organizer: John Lawson's assessment of the Tuscarora
- This graphic organizer will aid students' comprehension as they read a primary source account detailing an English traveler's encounters with the Tuscarora Indians in 1700-1701.
- Format: chart/lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Graphic organizer: Who owns the land?
- This graphic organizer will aid students' comprehension as they read an article about conflicting ideas of land ownership between European settlers in America and American Indians.
- Format: chart/lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- The Great Depression: Impact over time
- In this lesson students listen to oral history excerpts from Stan Hyatt from Madison County and evaluate how the Great Depression affected one North Carolina family over time.
- Format: lesson plan (multiple pages)
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