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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Writing Free Verse

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This online lesson plan allows students to learn about the characteristics of free verse poetry and to model their poems after the activist Cesar Chavez.
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Graphic
Curated OER

Clip Art by Phillip Martin: Arizona, Cesar Chavez

For Students 3rd - 8th
A clipart illustration by Phillip Martin titled "Arizona, Cesar Chavez."
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Graphic
Curated OER

Cesar Chavez

For Students Pre-K - 1st
An image of Cesar Chavez.
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Graphic
Curated OER

Cesar Chavez

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Cesar Chavez
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Graphic
Curated OER

Cesar Chavez

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Cesar Chavez
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Lesson Plan
National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: More Amazing Americans: A Web Quest

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson plan, students will consider "More Amazing Americans: A WebQuest." The plan includes worksheets and other student materials that can be found under the resource tab. A few of the famous Americans include Leonard Bernstein,...
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Handout
Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Education: Spotlight Biography: Labor Reformers

For Students 9th - 10th
Biographical information on Samuel Gompers, Frances Perkins and Cesar Chavez. All three were inspirations for the labor union movement.
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Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: Address to the Commonwealth Club of California

For Students 9th - 10th
A learning module that begins with the speech "Address to the Commonwealth Club of California" by Cesar Chavez, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or...
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Article
University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Exploring the United Farm Workers' History

For Students 9th - 10th
An excellent history from the University of Colorado of the creation of the United Farm Workers Association led by Cesar Chavez. Outlines the methods used by laborers to achieve better wages and working conditions, such as the boycott on...
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Primary
American Rhetoric

American Rhetoric: Cesar E. Chavez: "The Mexican American and the Church"

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a paper that was prepared and presented by Cesar E. Chavez and presented in March 1968 at the Second Annual Mexican Conference in Sacramento, California. In it, he discusses the lack of support from the Catholic parish for the...
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Website
BBC

Bbc Mundo: Mundo Latino

For Students 9th - 10th
A special BBC feature, originally done as part of 2000 election coverage, on the growing presence and voting power of Latinos in the United States. Click US states on a map to see where and how Latino influence will be felt over the next...
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Handout
Other

United Farm Workers: The Rise of the Ufw

For Students 9th - 10th
History of the United Farm Workers union, with information about 1960 conditions and the efforts to improve them.
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Website
Other

Ufw: Dolores Huerta

For Students 9th - 10th
A lengthy and detailed biography of Dolores Huerta who has spent her life championing the rights of farmworkers.
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Primary
Other

San Francisco State University: Plan of Delano [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the San Francisco State University provides a statement made by the farmworkers of Delano outlining their plans.
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Handout
Digital History

Digital History: Viva La Raza!

For Students 9th - 10th
This Digital History site provides an informative overview of the Mexican American civil rights movement in America.
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Website
University of Groningen

American History: Outlines: The Latino Movement

For Students 9th - 10th
Section overview on the Latino Movement in which Hispanic Americans pushed for civil rights in post World War II America.
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Website
Independence Hall Association

U.s. History: Others Demand Equality

For Students 5th - 8th
Many other groups learned how to push for their civil rights from African Americans' civil rights movement. Read about the Mexican Americans, Native Americans, and gays as they worked to achieve equal treatment under the law.
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Handout
Country Studies US

Country Studies: The Latino Movement

For Students 9th - 10th
Latinos in the US, like African Americans, were oftentimes discriminated against and forgotten about. Noticing African American activist techniques for recognition, many Latinos in the US began to organize and pressure the government for...
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Primary
Digital Public Library of America

Dpla: The United Farm Workers and the Delano Grape Strike

For Students 9th - 10th
This primary source set uses documents, photographs, and promotional materials to explore the events of the Delano Grape Strike and the formation of the United Farm Workers. Teaching guide included.
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Website
Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Source: Civil Rights

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The Smithsonian offers a variety of teaching supplements to be used in lessons on civil rights such as documents, teaching strategies, and historic photographs. Civil rights for other minorities are also discussed.

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