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Unearthing the Origins of Plantation Slavery on São Tomé

Sapiens

São Tomé’s role in this devastating and transformational history is largely unknown—some people have never heard of the tiny nation. Our team aims to illuminate the island’s central and brutal place in world history. Furthermore, the insidious mindset of colonialism has influenced what is considered “heritage.”

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10 Travel Themed Classroom Decor Ideas

Mr and Mrs Social Studies

Whatever version you decide to use, each one comes with a title page and four rule cards covering the following: Be Prepared Be Punctual Be Present Be Polite Around the World Skyline Posters If you are a world history or social studies teacher, these world skyline posters can help transform your walls or bulletin boards!

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Poems of Witness and Possibility: Inside Zones of Conflict

Sapiens

As “expert witness,” the poem’s speaker translates for legal documents: “I type tortures—.” Engage these poets as they speak of their worlds, histories, and communities. Duncan’s poem simultaneously disrupts many of our assumptions as readers and re-plants us in new understandings.

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The Importance of Research in Social Studies Classrooms

Teaching American History

In fleeing the dustbowl conditions of the Midwest, the migrants had “left behind many of their material possessions,” Czarnecki writes, but the folklore collectors “reasoned that they brought instead an intangible cultural heritage in their stories and songs.” I was raring to go! In Lawrence, our city commission race is non-partisan.