In this multimedia resource, there are teaching guides and a 60-minute video to aid students in exploring the story of Wisconsin civil rights activist Vel Phillips and the struggles she undertook to build a better community. This 2:40 min film clip focuses on how Phillips and her husband faced discrimination while attending law school.
Students will analyze, evaluate, and compare/contrast the findings of the Kerner Commission of 1967 and the Ferguson Commission of 2015.
In this multimedia resource, there are teaching guides and a 60-minute video to aid students in exploring the story of Wisconsin civil rights activist Vel Phillips and the struggles she undertook to build a better community. This 12:16 min film clip focuses on how Phillips was arrested for rallying for equal housing.
In this resource from PBS based on the documentary Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise, students will view video clips covering the strengths and weaknesses of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, as well as the impact of the Black Power movement on civil rights. They will also explore Martin Luther King, Jr.’s controversial trip to Chicago that exposed racism and institutional segregation in the North.
In this resource based on the video Poetry of Liberation, students will explore discussion questions, author background, and projects.
In this resource based on the video Poetry of Liberation, students will be able to discuss the political, historical, and social contexts of postwar poetry, particularly the counterculture of the 1950s and 1960s.
In this resource, students will get an overview that explores the innovations made in American poetry in the 1960s by Allen Ginsberg, Amiri Baraka, and Adrienne Rich discussed in the video Poetry of Liberation.
In this multimedia resource, there are teaching guides and a 60-minute video to aid students in exploring the story of Wisconsin civil rights activist Vel Phillips and the struggles she undertook to build a better community. This 3:11 min film clip focuses on how Milwaukee residents were not allowed to buy housing in certain neighborhoods due to segregation.
In this resource from PBS, students will explore the life and civil rights activism of Ruben Salazar. Born in Mexico and raised in El Paso, Salazar got his break with the Los Angeles Times in 1959, at a time when the staff was nearly 100 percent white and male. Handouts, film, and discussion questions included.
In this multimedia resource, there are teaching guides and a 60-minute video to aid students in exploring the story of Wisconsin civil rights activist Vel Phillips and the struggles she undertook to build a better community. In this 4:31 minute clip, students will learn how Phillips was elected Wisconsin's first African American Secretary of State.
In this multimedia resource, there are teaching guides and a 60-minute video to aid students in exploring the story of Wisconsin civil rights activist Vel Phillips and the struggles she undertook to build a better community. This 48 page PDF teaching guide includes lesson plans, worksheets, and discussion questions to engage students in Vel Phillips's extraordinary story.
This lesson plan, using a Cyberchase activity, students watch a video clip in which the number of lily pads is doubling repeatedly. The video clip is used to introduce exponential form. Students learn to write repeated multiplication using exponents and to evaluate expressions in exponential form.