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Creative Thinking & Making
Historical & Cultural Contexts
History & Memory
Critical Thinking

History & Memory: Lessons

Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Lesson 3 Lesson 4

Introduction to Collective Memory
Lesson includes: discussion, reading and writing

What do you know about JFK?
Lesson includes: Discussion, intergenerational interviews and/or listening to audio interviews

Primary and Secondary Sources
Lesson includes presentation of information, discussion and handouts.

Historians Interpret Sources
Lesson includes reading from JFK's innaugural speech and historian's perspective, analysis questions.

1 to 2 classes
Grades 6-12
2 classes
Grades 6-12
1 class
Grades 6-12
1 to 2 classes
Grades 6-12
 
Lesson 5 Lesson 6 Lesson 7  
Artists Interpret Sources
Lesson walks through ways Andy Warhol used primary sources for his artworks, interpretive and analysis questions with handouts.
Research as Historian/Artist
Students break up into groups to research historical photographs and gather information about historical context based on questions in handouts
Develop your own Interpretation
Students create projects using digital imagers, silkscreen printing, collage, writing, etc. based upon information gained during class research and their own perspective.
 
2 to 3 classes
Grades 6-12
1 to 2 weeks
Grades 6-12
1 week
Grades 6-12
 

 

 

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