Unit 1: Belonging & Identity: Social Life, Empathy & Perspective
Lesson 1: Building Background Knowledge: The 1960s, Part 1
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Lesson 2: Building Background Knowledge: The 1960s, Part 2
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Lesson 3: Building Background Knowledge: The 1960s, Part 3
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Unit 2: Witness, Testimony & Argument: Reading the Historical Record
Lesson 1: Building Background Knowledge: Before Pearl Harbor
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Lesson 2: Building Background Knowledge: What Makes an American?
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Lesson 3: Building Background Knowledge: Executive Order 9066
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Lesson 4: “Photos: 3 Very Different Views of Japanese Internment”
Reading
Unit 3: Dreams & Barriers: Researching Opportunity in America
Lesson 1: Building Background Knowledge: Looking Closely at the South Side of Chicago
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Lesson 2: Building Background Knowledge: When Dreams Wait
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Lesson 3: Building Background Knowledge: Redlining, Who Gets to Own the Dream?
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Lesson 4: “Black Americans and the Racist Architecture of Homeownership”
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Lesson 5: A Raisin in the Sun, Act I, Scene 1, Part 1
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Unit 4: Connections that Shape Us: Family, Culture & Identity
Lesson 2: Building Background Knowledge: Understanding Bicultural Identities and Experiences, Part 1
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Lesson 3: Building Background Knowledge: Understanding Bicultural Identities and Experiences, Part 2
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Lesson 4: Red, White, and Whole, Part 1: “Give and Take” and “Girls Just Want to Have Fun”
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Lesson 5: Red, White, and Whole, Part 2: “First Memory” to “Amma’s Orbit”
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