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Bring No Poor Articles with You

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students compare their travel needs to homesteaders from the late 1800's in this multi-lesson unit. Students analyze a historic document, explain modes of transportation of the homesteaders, and articulate the personal and economic...
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Changes in the New Nation

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students explore how technology has slowly changed the world, starting in the 18th Century.  In this United States History lesson, students work in teams to complete numerous activities that compare and contrast life before and after...
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Situation of America, 1848

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students explore 19th century American artwork.  For this cross curriculum New York history and art appreciation lesson, students view a reproduction of the painting "Situation of America, 1848," and identify visual symbols and details ...
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Understanding Tenement Life

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Learners look at life for immigrants in the 19th century. In this immigrant lesson, students discuss how the poor German, Irish, Italian, and Jewish immigrants lived in tenement housing. They research the reasons they came to America...
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Cowboys

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students analyze cowboy literature. In this United States history and literacy lesson, students listen to a variety of cowboy songs and poetry, view the video "Rediscovering America: The Real American Cowboy," and view related websites....
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Ninteenth Century Women: Struggle and Triumph

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars examine the role of women in US society during the 19th century and how this role evolved and changed in time. They then write a persuasive letter that domonstrates their comprehensin of the subject.
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Turn of the Century Immigration

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the immigration wave that hit the United States in 19th century. In this immigration lesson, students examine primary and secondary sources to determine what the immigration experience was like for new citizens. Students...
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A Durable Memento: Portraits by Augustus Washington

For Teachers 7th - 11th
Students read primary source newspaper articles from mid 19th century United States. The topics of the articles are slavery, abolitionism and colonization. Students are given several options for activities based on the readings.
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Edouard Manet: "The Dead Toreador" and "The Bull Fight"

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students can view the National Gallery of Art's Collection and also do in-depth study of two paintings of bull fights by 19th-century French realist painter Edouard Manet.
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Lesson 1: The Creek War - Return to Nativism or International Pawn? Religious War or International Conflict?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars investigate the countries and peoples involved in the Creek Indian War. They study the complex relationships between American and European settlers and the native Alabamians in the early 19th Century.
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Being Heard

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Examine the work of contemporary authors who use their writing to express opinions about the struggle against prejudice and oppression in our society. A short lesson on the Harlem Renaissance introduces learners to the most prominent...
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Urban Centers and African-American Migrants

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students read narratives about the experiences of 19th century fugitive slaves that fled to urban centers. They conduct further research on the African-American urban migration movement and present their findings to the class.
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Effects of African-American Emigration From the Late 1700s-Early 1900s

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students read narratives to explore the pros and cons of the 19th century African-American emigration movement. They research major groups and people involved with the movement.
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Studying the Haitian Immigration

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students research the Haitian immigration of the 18th and 19th centuries. They research modern life in the state of Louisiana and write about the influence of Haitian immigrants on politics, people and culture.
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Natural Disasters

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students create an expressive painting documenting their experience of a storm. They create a slide show presentation comparing and contrasting the impact and the response to a natural disaster in the 19th century with the impact...
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Adventure Writing: Oregon's Landscape as a Setting

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students identify geographical features of different regions encountered by migrants on the Oregon trail. Students research how the Oregon landscape may have affected life and 19th century westward migration. Students write a narrative...
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Twain: Tom Sawyer—Mythic Adventurer

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students take a closer look at archetypes. In this characterization lesson, students examine the setting and the characters of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer as they read and analyze the novel. Students consider how Twain mythically...
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Causes of Death in the 19th Century

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students analyze historical data. They explore the context in which it was created. They develop skills in historical analysis.
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Music of Slavery and Oppression in the Mid-1800's

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students examine 19th century life for African-Americans. In this slavery lesson, students analyze the lyrics of slave songs and present their findings to their classmates.
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Heart (and Arm) of Darkness

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners read and translate a 19th-century American ghost tale into a Japanese hanging scroll in this exciting lesson for middle-level Language Art classes. The lesson can be completed in four or five days.
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Social Studies: Who Burned Down Barnum's Museum?

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Learners examine the social conflict of the 19th century and the destruction of the American Museum. In pairs, they conduct Internet research and attempt to solve the mystery of who burned down the museum. Clues to the mystery are found...
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Understanding Past and Present Labor Injustice through Music

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Young scholars explore early 19th century labor conditions through the use of period songs. In this tolerance lesson plan, students listen to period songs and respond. Young scholars write their own song that protests unfair and...
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Depicting Women and Class in a Global Society

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students analyze the evolution of women's work from the 19th century to present day and create artwork depicting women. In this women's roles lesson plan, students compare and contrast the use of space and color in the two paintings...
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What Does It Cost?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students study the challenges diverse people encountered in the late 19th century American society, how racial and ethnic events influenced America during the Progressive Era, and the conditions affecting employment and labor in the late...

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