I love these! Designer Candy Chang’s Tenants’ Rights Flash Cards come in sets of 30, with each one explaining a different right. They would make a great addition to a class for adult immigrant students. Some of the laws referred to are specific to New York, but a lot of the information […]
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Tenants’ Rights Flash Cards
March 10th, 2010 · No Comments
Tags: human rights · racism · visual prompts · poverty & wealth · vocabulary · blog
A Young People’s History of the United States
February 3rd, 2010 · 1 Comment
I just became aware of A Young People’s History of the United States,a version of Howard Zinn’s classic targeted towards younger readers. I haven’t seen the book myself yet, but I suspect that it would work well with English learners, too.
Tags: human rights · fair trade · maps · k-12 · history · racism · child labor · food and hunger · global issues activities · reading · war · politics · poverty & wealth · blog
Rest in Peace: Howard Zinn (1922-2010)
January 29th, 2010 · No Comments
Howard Zinn passed away on Wednesday. He is one of my favorite authors and educators, and he will certainly be missed.
Recently, Rethinking Schools and Teaching for Change launched the Zinn Education Project, a collection of resources for teaching A People’s History of the United States. There are tons of great materials here for […]
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A Class Divided
July 22nd, 2009 · No Comments
A Class Divided is a wonderful episode of Frontline that shows an ingenious two-day activity undertaken by the third grade class of teacher Jane Elliot. In this activity, devised the night Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, Elliot divides her class into blue-eyes and brown-eyes. On the first day, the blue-eyed students are […]
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