Liberalism Lesson Plans

1. HTI Lesson Plan: SNCC
...s, introduce them to the key members from SNCC and to the issues the organization came to emphasize. SNCC. Provides biographical information and audio recollections from key members of the SNCC. Also highlights other issues in which became involved, including Vietnam, voting rights, feminism, white liberalism, non-violence, and Black Power.> You might have students form groups or work individually on these questions. For example, divide them into groups and choose one major organization or leader for each group and have them analyze the groups actvities and goals. What were the ideological differences be...

2. The Industrial Revolution
...rious groups of people in society (gender, children, socio-economic class, etc.). 2. Students will evaluate the impact of industrialization on the environment. 3. Students will compare and contrast the new ideologies which developed in response to the conditions/abuses of the Industrial Revolution (liberalism, conservatism, socialism, and communism). _ Duration: One class period, 42 minutes _ Materials/Web Resources: SMART Board and SMART Notebook software (if unavailable, please use a projector in conjunction with a white/chalk board), United Streaming _ Procedure: 1. The teacher will address class. 2....

3. Recipe for Revolution
...8(C), 15(C), 16(B), 17(B), 21(A), 22(C), 25(C), 26(A) 27(A), 27(B) Materials needed (some handouts other can be made into transparencies) Political Spectrum & Graphic Spectrum Political Parties of England and USA (Whig, Tory, Republican & Democrat) Are you a liberal or conservative - teachers copy Liberalism of 1700 - 1800s Conservativism of 1700 - 1800s Political Philosophers & Questions of today for Philosophers Locke Hobbes Revolutionary Quotes (JFK, Emile Zola & Roland) Beatles Revolution (words to the song "Revolution") Revolutionary Outline Elements Necessary for a Revolution to occur Political So...

4. Eleanor Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy
...K? Would it have been more or less effective for her to say what she says to Lasker directly to JFK? Why or why not? 4. What political skills does ER demonstrate in this exchange of letters? For more information see: Allida Black, Casting Her Own Shadow: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Shaping of Postwar Liberalism (Columbia University Press, 1996), 177-199. Lawrence Fuchs, "The Senator and the Lady," American Heritage, 25 no. 6 (October 1974): 57-61, 81-83. Prepared by John Sears and Allida Black Teaching Eleanor Roosevelt > Lesson Plans & Lecture Notes This educational program was prepared by The Eleanor Roo...

5. Worlds Apart
...or against Zinn's argument. Civics- When Gordimer states "I'm not a liberal...I am a leftist" in the article "A Vibrant Battler of Apartheid Keeps Her Vibrancy," she is addressing the difference between the contemporary American use of the term "liberal" and the classical or European definition of "liberalism." Trace the progression of liberal ideology in American politics, starting with the classical liberalism of the colonial period and ending with the "neoliberalism" of the late twentieth century. Write a short article on the term "liberal," in the style of William Safire's column in the "New York Tim...

6. Health Care Lesson Plan and Educational Guide - Claude Pepper Museum
...ckground resources other lessons email list activity downloads > historical visiting us In this lesson the students will become aware of Claude figures other Pepper's life-long desire for high-quality, affordable > poverty, resources health care for all men, women, and children in the United labor, liberalism States. The students will realize that since Pepper's > civil rights death in 1989 health care in the United States has > elderly escalated into one of the nation's most pressing issues. The students will research and debate current proposals for addressing and easing the crisis. Standards are provi...

7. American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee: Lesson Plan: The Life and Work of Kahlil Gibran
...ADC Troubled by Destruction ? Believed in an independent Syrian Arab state, of CIA Tapes, separate from the Ottoman Empire. Encouraged Arab Allegations of uprisings around the time of the First World War. Torture December 12 ? Champion of cause of women's education in Syria, advocated modernism and liberalism. Engaged in a long A Muslim saved correspondence with May Ziadeh, a young Palestinian a group of writer living in Cairo, that started in 1912 and lasted Jews being until his death. attacked on a New York ? One of young Arab emigres who lived and wrote in the subway in an West in the 1910s and 1920s...

8. The Blues . Blues Classroom . Lesson Plans . Identity, Oppression, and Protest | PBS
...ngs: Broonzy, William. Big Bill Blues: William Broonzy's Story. New York: Oak, 1964. De Jong, Greta. A Different Day: African American Struggles for Justice in Rural Louisiana, 1900-1970. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. Kirby, John B. Black Americans in the Roosevelt Era: Liberalism and Race. Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 1980. Litwack, Leon. Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow. New York: Knopf, 1998. Sitkoff, Harvard. A New Deal for Blacks: The Emergence of Civil Rights as a National Issue: The Depression Decade. New York: Oxford Universit...

9. Swinging with the Times
...on in class discussions, prewriting work on "updated" story, and final edited story. Vocabulary: egotistical, epitome, imperialist, nemesis, inextricably, banalities, civilized, veneer, mutiny, pulpish, capitalists, rampant, meticulous, callous, laborious, cultivate, cynicism, connotes, mainstream, liberalism, integration, ardent, beleaguered, xenophobic, pastoral, advocacy, paragon Extension Activities: 1. Analyze and compare how humans and animals interact in different children's books and movies that you have read or seen. Excellent choices for this activity are "Robinson Crusoe," "The Jungle Book" an...

10. Remembering to Never Forget
...History Standard 38- Understands reform, revolution, and social change in the world economy of the early 20th century. Benchmarks: Understands the industrial power of Great Britain, France, Germany, Japan, and the United States in the early 20th century; Understands prominent features and ideas of liberalism, social reformism, conservatism, and socialism in the early 20th century; Understands events that led to revolutions in the early 20th century World History Standard 39- Understands the causes and global consequences of World War I. Benchmarks: Understands events that contributed to the outbreak of...