Students will explore the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah. They will then research various perspectives, discuss the events in context, and write statements from the perspective of a country or organization involved.

This lesson traces the long history of how African Americans have used music as a vehicle for communicating beliefs, aspirations, observations, joys, despair, resistance, and more across U.S. history.

This lesson plan has students do research on the myths surrounding Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. They will engage in reading, writing, and research activities that will have them learn skills in distinguishing truth from fiction as well as developing a deeper understanding about an important American historical document. Links to suggested sites for students to do their research on the myths are provided in the lesson.

In this Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide, indepth discussion questions guide students through exploration of The Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, by Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs. Students will explore both primary source narratives, which provide unparalleled accounts of the dehumanizing effects of slavery.

In this lesson, students discuss the meaning of “A More Perfect Union,” a speech about race made by then-Senator Barack Obama, during the 2008 Democratic primary campaign. Students will also examine and assess how textbooks position groups differently in our national historical narrative — and how this positioning affects our understanding of ourselves.

Students will understand the New Deal, its programs, goals, and in particular students will evaluate the success of the New Deal in preserving a market economy.

In this lesson, students read primary and secondary source documents about the Supreme Court case New York Times v. The United States and freedom of the press. Students then answer analysis questions about the case. There is a teacher answer key included in the lesson.

This four-week unit focuses on the theme of nostalgia. Students will study several genres of literature (poetry, nonfiction, fiction) and write informal and formal analytical commentaries. Students will also do writing about their own childhood memories.

Students will examine the wording of the Tariff of 1828 to discover how the tariff affected the economies of the North and the South. They will look at John C. Calhoun?s Exposition and Protest, Andrew Jackson's Nullification Proclamation and Daniel Webster's 1830 speech.

This page contains background information, teaching strategies, ways to draw connections to other writers, and discussion questions and writing prompts based on Equiano's work and the time period.

Since the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, Soviet leaders had been claiming that communism and capitalism could never peacefully coexist. Agreements regarding the postwar world were reached at Yalta and Potsdam, but the Soviets wasted no time in violating them. Harry Truman believed that the proper means of responding to an international bully was a credible threat of force.

Students explore the two worlds that made contact when Columbus stepped ashore in the New World in 1492. The goals of this lesson are to gain an understanding of the forces within European society that found expression in the voyage of Christopher Columbus, to examine the cultures of those whom Columbus and his successors encountered in the New World, to analyze the degree to which cultural expectations shaped the encounter experience for Columbus, and to reconstruct the encounter experience for those who saw Columbus sail into their world.

In this lesson, students read primary and secondary source documents about the Supreme Court case Owasso v. Falvo and the 10th amendment. Students then answer analysis questions about the case. There is a teacher answer key included in the lesson.

The Paragraph Shrinking strategy allows each student to take turns reading, pausing, and summarizing the main points of each paragraph. Students provide each other with feedback as a way to monitor comprehension.

In this lesson, that includes 5 activities, students will focus on investigating an issue and using it as a context for different perspectives, positions, and arguments.

In this lesson, students will hone in on skills that allow them to closely analyze, deeply read, and interact with texts.

In this lesson, students will learn to analyze textual detail as a key to deeper meaning.

In this lesson, students will focus on learning how to summarize and share the information they've gleaned from reading and questioning.

In this 3-4 day lesson, students will read closely, using guiding questions. Students will also focus on analyzing visual texts and multimedia selections.