Lesson Plan Dawes to Burke to McGirt: Tribal Sovereignty, 1887–2020 Geography 9, 10, 11, 12 Click to download this three-lesson unit.
Lesson Plan The Cold War: Discussing the Speech of President Kennedy in 1963 Government and Civics, Literature, World History 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ Introduction The Cold War is the term for the rivalry between the two blocs of contending states that emerged following the Second World War. It was a series of confrontations played out on the world stage between the non-Communist...
Lesson Plan America’s First Ladies on Twentieth-Century Issues 8 Unit Overview Over the course of three to four lessons the students will analyze five primary source documents. These documents are the abridged transcripts of speeches by five of our country’s first ladies: Eleanor Roosevelt, Betty...
Spotlight on: Primary Source The Cold War in the classroom, 1952 Government and Civics, World History As the Cold War pervaded domestic as well as international spheres, Duck and Cover , an educational film produced by the Federal Civil Defense Administration and Archer Productions Inc., showed children how to react in case of a...
Spotlight on: Primary Source Robert F. Kennedy on Vietnam, 1967 Government and Civics, World History On May 15, 1967, CBS broadcast Town Meeting of the World , a program in which Senator Robert F. Kennedy of New York and Governor Ronald Reagan of California answered questions posed by the moderator, Charles Collingwood; students from...
Lesson Plan JFK’s Inaugural Address Government and Civics 4, 5, 6 Unit Objective This lesson on President John F. Kennedy’s Inaugural Address is part of Gilder Lehrman’s series of Common Core–based units. These units were written to enable students to understand, summarize, and analyze original...
Lesson Plan Hubert Humphrey’s Speech to the 1948 Democratic National Convention Government and Civics 11, 12, 13+ Unit Introduction As the United States moved into the post-WWII world, it faced struggles over diversity and race relations. Soldiers returning from Europe recognized the disparities between races in the United States and, by the late...
Spotlight on: Primary Source Lyndon B. Johnson proclaims a national day of mourning for JFK, 1963 Government and Civics On November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, by Lee Harvey Oswald. The next day, the newly sworn-in Lyndon B. Johnson issued his first presidential proclamation. In a statement that was broadcast...
Lesson Plan The Civil Rights Movement: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X Government and Civics Click to download this three-lesson unit.
Spotlight on: Primary Source Breaking Diplomatic Ties with Iran during the Hostage Crisis, 1980 Government and Civics, World History 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ On April 7, 1980, President Jimmy Carter announced the breaking of diplomatic ties with Iran as a result of the Iran hostage crisis of 1979–1981. The US had first become actively involved in Iran in 1953, when the CIA helped overthrow...