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!

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...

This week we'll focus on American Indian resistance. We'll start with a jigsaw on early moments of resistance and discuss the Indian...

You'll spend most of this week organizing your research in the Graphic Organizer posted on Google Classroom. Towards the end of the week...

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...

This week we'll explore two key questions that the Black Lives Matter movement has raised: Do police belong in schools? Should we reform,...

This week we'll look at the origin of the United States — focusing on how three different origin stories shape three very different views...

This week we'll look at the relationship between power and violence, examine the 1967 walkout that birthed African American history...

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...

We'll start our first unit this week, looking at the origins of the United States from an indigenous perspective. In addition to your...

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...

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...

This week we'll learn about the Black Panther Party and the FBI's CounterIntelligence Program (COINTELPRO) that targeted Civil Rights...

This week we'll look at the transition from Civil Rights to Black Power by examining the key events that radicalized activists in the...

This week we'll examine the two largest Civil Rights demonstrations of the 1960s: the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom and the...

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...

We'll begin this week by looking at the organizations that made the Civil Rights Movement and focus on the key debates within...

Welcome back! We'll start our investigation of the Civil Rights Movement this week by sharing our prior knowledge and interrogating some...

This week we'll be covering the umbrella of government policies commonly referred to as "redlining." We'll be examining how the...

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...