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How to identify the author, audience, date, and message of historical [...] »
Constitutional or not? Read about this 1803 landmark court case deciding [...] »
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Discover alternatives to writing based student activities. Why not encourage [...] »
Paraphrasing and summarizing exercises help ELL students improve at [...] »
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Political cartoons are often conceptually complex, but offer valuable [...] »
Help students understand the how policy and structural forces have shaped [...] »
Teach students to explore contingency with this great lesson plan idea.
[...] »Ticket stubs. Report cards. Photographs. All of these things have historical [...] »
This guide focuses on the history of free speech in one crucial year ( [...] »
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