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It's a Balancing Act: How Sacred Are Our Civil Rights?
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Students will explore how the public interest influences the liberties and rights of individuals. First, students will work in pairs to examine foundational documents. Then, students will work in groups to examine one of 6 different primary document sets in order to deepen their understanding. Rubric included.

Subject:
Social Studies
Material Type:
Interactive
Provider:
Teaching with Primary Sources--Northern Virginia Partnership
Date Added:
02/24/2018
Japanese Internment During World War II
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Students will explore what it was like for Japanese-Americans to be placed in interment camps during World War II. This lesson uses primary sources and the Socratic Seminar format to explore how war impacts civil rights.

Subject:
Social Studies
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Teaching with Primary Sources--Northern Virginia Partnership
Date Added:
02/26/2018
Suffering without Suffrage
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Students will complete two different parts. The first is web research assignment, preferably done as homework. The second part is a group activity involving primary sources and crafting arguments for and against suffrage for women.

Subject:
Social Studies
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Teaching with Primary Sources--Northern Virginia Partnership
Date Added:
02/26/2018
Truman vs. MacArthur: To Nuke or Not to Nuke?
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Students will construct General Douglas MacArthur's argument for the use of nuclear weapons to contain China and the spread of communism. Students will analyze MacArthur's address to the joint session of Congress in 1951, outline his position on the use of nuclear weapons in the Far East (Korea and China), and answer the essential question in a persuasive essay.

Subject:
Social Studies
Material Type:
Interactive
Provider:
Teaching with Primary Sources--Northern Virginia Partnership
Date Added:
02/24/2018
Women's Equality: Did Suffrage Accomplish Full Equality for Women?
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Students will work in groups to determine if suffrage accomplished full equality for women. Includes Library quest and worksheet, as well as activities for writing a newspaper editorial or a letter to a representative.

Subject:
Social Studies
Material Type:
Interactive
Provider:
Teaching with Primary Sources--Northern Virginia Partnership
Date Added:
02/26/2018
Women's Rights: Comparing the 19th and 20th Centuries
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Students will utilize primary sources in order to determine how women's lives changed after the ratification of the 19th ammendment. Sudents will also consider how age, social class, or skin color impacted women's roles and gains in society.

Subject:
Social Studies
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Teaching with Primary Sources--Northern Virginia Partnership
Date Added:
02/27/2018