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FALL SEMESTER NEWS
People's History Resources, New in 2019
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Whether you're new to the Zinn Education Project community or have used our resources for years, we have valuable updates to share.
Since last spring, we published four new lessons, formed partnerships with Newsela and the AFT's Share My Lesson, secured book donations for teachers
, and launched the Teach Climate Justice campaign.
Scroll down to learn about these resources and campaigns for your 2019-2020 school year.
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New People's History Lessons
How to Make Amends: A Lesson on Reparations
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By Ursula Wolfe-Rocca, Alex Stegner, Chris Buehler,
Angela DiPasquale, and Tom McKenna.
In this
mixer role play, students learn about more than a dozen examples of reparations
---- ranging from cash payments to land settlements to state apologies
---- from a variety of historical moments and places.
This lesson helps students think about the subject of reparations generally, and to prepare them to study the modern debate over reparations for African Americans specifically. A lesson on HB 40 and reparations for African Americans is being piloted and is coming soon.
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Lessons on the Great Depression
and the New Deal
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By Adam Sanchez
In the simulation game,
What Caused the Great Depression? The Widget Boom Game, students learn the causes of economic crises so they can better understand what caused the Great Depression
---- and other, more recent, economic crises. This lesson (inspired by Bill Bigelow's
Thingamabob Game) takes the standard textbook explanation, with its stock market crash, and delves deeper into the past to teach students about the root causes of economic depressions under capitalism.
The second new lesson is Who Made the New Deal? The Economic Recovery Conference Role Play. It can be a follow-up to the Widget Boom Game lesson or taught by itself. In it, students explore how different groups influenced New Deal legislation through an economic conference simulation and primary sources. They consider the motivations behind New Deal reforms and consider the racist disparities in New Deal programs.
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How Red Lines Built White Wealth:
A Lesson on Housing Segregation in the 20th Century
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By Ursula Wolfe-Rocca
How Red Lines Built White Wealth introduces students to the 20th-century housing policies that bankrolled white capital accumulation while halting Black social mobility
---- and contributed to the absurd injustice of the modern wealth gap.
In the lesson, students encounter stories about the Home Owners' Loan Corporation, the Federal Housing Administration, the Veterans Administration, redlining, zoning, racially restrictive deeds and covenants, and move-in violence.
The mixer lesson by Ursula Wolfe-Rocca is based on Richard Rothstein's
The Color of Law
, which shows in exacting detail how government policies segregated every major city in the United States with dire consequences for African Americans.
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New Ways to Find People's History
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We have partnered with AFT's Share My Lesson and Newsela to reach more teachers and grade levels with people's history lessons and readings.
Through Newsela.com, any educator can access Zinn Education Project essays adapted for four additional reading levels (grades 3, 5, 7, and 9). To date, Newsela has adapted our articles on the Black Panther Party, Reconstruction, Christopher Columbus and the TaĆnos, activist Yuri Kochiyama, and Red Summer. |
New Campaign
#TeachClimateJustice
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| The climate emergency threatens our students' lives. That means teaching about climate justice is work we all need to do. Join the Teach Climate Justice campaign. |
We offer classroom-tested lessons for elementary through high school that can be used in social studies, language arts, science, and other subjects. Many of the lessons come from
A People's Curriculum for the Earth: Teaching Climate Change and the Environmental Crisis, a teaching guide published by Rethinking Schools, edited by Bill Bigelow and Tim Swinehart. As Naomi Klein says, "
A People's Curriculum for the Earth is an educator's toolkit for our times."
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Take the Teach Climate Justice Pledge
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Sign your name and see the pledges to date.
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---- Get a Free Book!
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Some Things Never Change...
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Our ability to bring people's history to classrooms is because of individuals like you. That never changes. Please donate today and let's continue to grow, together.
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