Week 6: October 3-7
We'll wrap up working on our Visual Essay this week and end with an end-of-unit reflection and a celebration of our work!
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Week 6: October 3 - 7
This week we'll focus on the Red Power Movement of the 1960s and 70s. We'll start by watching a documentary on the American Indian...
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Adam Sanchez
- Sep 23
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Week 5: September 27 - 30
This week we'll focus on American Indian resistance. We'll start with a jigsaw on early moments of resistance and discuss the Indian...
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Adam Sanchez
- Sep 23
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Week 5: September 27 - 30
You'll spend most of this week organizing your research in the Graphic Organizer posted on Google Classroom. Towards the end of the week...
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Adam Sanchez
- Sep 16
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Week 4: September 19 - 23
This week we'll start by watching Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (2007). The film gives the American Indian perspective on “the winning of...
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Adam Sanchez
- Sep 15
- 1 min
Week 4: September 19 - 23
This week we'll explore two key questions that the Black Lives Matter movement has raised: Do police belong in schools? Should we reform,...
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Adam Sanchez
- Sep 9
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Week 3: September 12 - 16
This week we'll look at the origin of the United States — focusing on how three different origin stories shape three very different views...
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Adam Sanchez
- Sep 9
- 1 min
Week 3: September 12 - 16
This week we'll look at the relationship between power and violence, examine the 1967 walkout that birthed African American history...
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Adam Sanchez
- Sep 3
- 1 min
Week 2: September 6 - 9
This week we'll be focusing on defining and identifying key terms we'll be using throughout the school year. We'll start by defining...
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Adam Sanchez
- Sep 3
- 1 min
Week 2: September 6 - 9
We'll start our first unit this week, looking at the origins of the United States from an indigenous perspective. In addition to your...
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Adam Sanchez
- Jul 30
- 1 min
Week 1: August 29 - September 2
Welcome! I'm very excited to meet you all (and see some of you again)! We'll start our course this week by developing some looking at the...
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Adam Sanchez
- Jul 30
- 1 min
Week 1: August 29 - September 2
Welcome! I'm very excited to meet you all (and see those of you that were in my advisory again)! We'll start our course this week by...
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Adam Sanchez
- May 22
- 1 min
Week 37: May 23 - 27
This week we'll learn about the Black Panther Party and the FBI's CounterIntelligence Program (COINTELPRO) that targeted Civil Rights...
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Adam Sanchez
- May 14
- 1 min
Week 36: May 16 - 20
This week we'll look at the transition from Civil Rights to Black Power by examining the key events that radicalized activists in the...
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Adam Sanchez
- May 7
- 1 min
Week 35: May 9 - 13
This week we'll examine the two largest Civil Rights demonstrations of the 1960s: the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom and the...
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Adam Sanchez
- May 2
- 1 min
Week 34: May 2 - May 6
We'll begin this week by finishing Freedom Song to get a better sense of SNCC's first organizing project in Mississippi and how that...
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Adam Sanchez
- Apr 25
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Week 33: April 25 - 29
We'll begin this week by looking at the organizations that made the Civil Rights Movement and focus on the key debates within...
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Adam Sanchez
- Apr 18
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Week 32: April 18 - 22
Welcome back! We'll start our investigation of the Civil Rights Movement this week by sharing our prior knowledge and interrogating some...
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Adam Sanchez
- Apr 4
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Week 31: April 4 - 8
This week we'll be covering the umbrella of government policies commonly referred to as "redlining." We'll be examining how the...
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Adam Sanchez
- Mar 29
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Week 30: March 28 - April 1
This week we'll be discussing the New Deal and the Great Depression. We'll begin by looking at class, race, and ideology and thinking...
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