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In this unit students will work using some of the latest innovative technology sites. Historical information will be presented in a timeline format that engages the students with origami projects as the motivational associative learning tool. It’s all about how learning happens, from the lower level of thinking to applying the complete complex levels of Blooms Taxonomy; the learning process. Students complete research, write in all three rhetorical modes and work cooperatively with hands on…
Continue readingThis unit gives a snapshot of Philadelphia 50 years following the issue of the Emancipation Proclamation, which was signed on January 1, 1863 by President Lincoln. We will look at W.E.B. DuBois’ 1897 study of African Americans living in the Seventh Ward of Philadelphia in which he completed a door-to-door survey of the residents to get a sense of their economic and social condition. Although this study was completed some 16 years before the 50th…
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