2024 Lessons
Nathan Merz, Pink Oak Middle School
This lesson asks students to explore the continuities in U.S. policies towards Native Americans from its founding to the Treaty of New Echota. Students will weigh the extent to which removal was an inevitable conclusion of U.S. policies.
Joseph Morin, Houston Academy for International Studies Early College High School
The 1960s and 70s saw the construction of a new Chicano identity in the wake of the Civil Rights Act and a new era of young activists and artists. Students will explore both art and written sources to determine the lasting impact of the movement as well as the causes of its limitations.
Iesha Washington, Worthing High School
Women's traditional gender roles have always been a double-edge sword, both limiting women's movement within society as well as providing spaces for radical activism. Students will explore these complications throughout 20th century American history, examining multimedia primary sources along the way.
Jonathan Bryant, Northside High School
This inquiry will allow students to explore the struggles of the Vietnamese who settled in the Texas Gulf Coast following the Vietnam War. After analyzing the variety of sources, students will answer the compelling question, “Were the Vietnamese welcomed in Texas after the Vietnam War?” The performance tasks will allow students to understand the racial tensions that existed in the Texas Gulf Coast following the Vietnam War as well as the struggle for justice within the Vietnamese American community.
Karen Paskos-Baker, South Early College High School
Discussions of Asian-American experiences during World War II are often only limited to the incarceration of Japanese Americans under EO9066. This inquiry attempts to complicate this story, looking at the variety of ways that many different Asian American communities persevered despite this challenges in their attempts to prove their Americanness.
Sydney Byro, Pin Oak Middle School
Drawing from a variety of well researched primary sources, This inquiry asks students to examine the complicated motivations of the U.S. removal policy and Native American responses.
Theresa Orsburn, Pin Oak Middle School
Cultural diffusion intensified in the late 20th century as new technologies brought societies across the world closer together. This World Cultures or Geography lesson examines the causes and effects of the relationship between the U.S. and South Korea, especially its impact on the cultural landscapes of both countries.
Alan Heise, Bellaire High School
The early 20th century marked a turning point of immigration to the U.S. from Mexico as the country experienced its tumultuous revolution. This lesson explores the complicated experiences of those who migrated here during the period and how immigration shaped U.S. perceptions of Mexican Americans already living in the country.
Angelica Flores, Young Women's College Prepatory Academy
U.S. immigration policy has evolved throughout history, often to meet the country's economic needs while also filtered through the racialization of those who are immigrating. This lesson investigates the causes of one of these periods of change, the Post-World War II era and Operation Wetback.
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