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Week 16: December 12 - 16
This week we'll wrap our investigation of "Who led to the Civil War?" by looking at the argument that the election of Lincoln and the...
Adam Sanchez
Dec 10, 20221 min read
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Week 16: December 12 - 16
This week we'll be continuing our investigation into immigration policies. We'll wrap up our investigation of what caused the National...
Adam Sanchez
Dec 10, 20221 min read
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Week 15: December 5 - 9
We'll start this week by developing questions for our immigration oral history interviews. After that we'll participate in a mixer to...
Adam Sanchez
Dec 9, 20221 min read
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Week 15: December 5 - 9
This week we'll wrap up our discussion on the abolitionist movement in the lead up to the Civil War by jigsawing "A People's History of...
Adam Sanchez
Dec 9, 20221 min read
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Week 14: November 28 - December 2
This week we'll be focusing on Chicanx/Latinx activism starting with a jigsaw where we'll research and present our findings to the class...
Adam Sanchez
Nov 23, 20221 min read
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Week 14: November 28 - December 2
This week we'll be learning about the abolitionist movement through role play. For the first few days, in the role of anti-slavery...
Adam Sanchez
Nov 23, 20221 min read
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Week 13: November 21 - 23
This week we'll be shifting our focus to the abolitionist movement. In preparation for our role play next week, you'll be creating an...
Adam Sanchez
Nov 18, 20221 min read
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Week 13: November 21 - 23
This week we'll be broadening our focus from Mexico to look at immigration from Latin America more generally. We'll be investigating the...
Adam Sanchez
Nov 18, 20221 min read
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Week 12: November 14 - 18
Your homework for this week is to read about the Bracero program and "Operation Wetback." This will fill in the time gap as we jump to...
Adam Sanchez
Nov 16, 20221 min read
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Week 12: November 14 - 18
After celebrating our American Origins Art Projects with an art gallery on Monday, we'll be starting our next major unit centered around...
Adam Sanchez
Nov 16, 20221 min read
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Week 11: November 7 - 22
This week we'll pause our mini-unit on Mexican American history to complete our end-of-quarter reflection, think about what we've...
Adam Sanchez
Nov 4, 20221 min read
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Week 11: November 7 - 22
We'll spend the majority of this week working on our American Origins Art Project. In the tradition of Black Americans that throughout...
Adam Sanchez
Nov 4, 20221 min read
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Week 10: October 31 - November 5
This week we'll focus on the Mexican deportations that happened in the 1930s and hold an in class trial to determine who is to blame for...
Adam Sanchez
Oct 28, 20221 min read
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Week 10: October 31 - November 4
This week we'll focus on several questions that help us interrogate the contradictions of the origin of the United States: 1) Was the...
Adam Sanchez
Oct 28, 20221 min read
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Week 9: October 24 - 28
We'll start this week by celebrating our Indigenous Resistor projects and working on our end-of-unit reflection. Next, we'll start our...
Adam Sanchez
Oct 21, 20221 min read
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Week 9: October 24 - 28
This week we'll start by discussing the various stages of the Middle Passage. From there, we'll delve into why slavery became based on...
Adam Sanchez
Oct 21, 20221 min read
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Week 8: October 17 - 21
This week we'll examine several pre-colonial African societies and discuss how what we learn challenges the "single stories" of Africa....
Adam Sanchez
Oct 14, 20221 min read
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Week 8: October 17 - 21
This week we'll mostly be working on our end-of-unit project about Indigenous resistors. We'll wrap up the week with an end-of-unit...
Adam Sanchez
Oct 14, 20221 min read
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Week 7: October 11 - 14
This week we'll wrap up our unit on Indigenous resistance by participating in a role play on the protests against the Dakota Access...
Adam Sanchez
Oct 9, 20221 min read
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Week 7: October 11 - 14
This week we'll start our dive into African American history by heading to Africa, interrogating the stereotypes our society teaches us...
Adam Sanchez
Oct 9, 20221 min read
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