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Lesson Plan: “I Used to Think I Loved America” — Analyzing Rhetoric and Language Features in the Writing of John Pavlovitz

May 23, 2025 Ann S. Michaelsen

About the Author: John Pavlovitz John Pavlovitz is an American pastor, writer, and social justice advocate known for his outspoken

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Lesson Plan: Teaching About Selma, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and Current Voting Rights Issues

March 19, 2025 Ann S. Michaelsen

Background On “Bloody Sunday,” March 7, 1965, approximately 600 civil rights marchers were violently attacked by state and local law

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Lesson Plan: Empathy and Activism in Jane Fonda’s SAG Awards

February 24, 2025 Ann S. Michaelsen

Objective Students will analyze Jane Fonda’s SAG Awards speech to explore how persuasive literary devices, historical allusions, and political commentary

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Lesson Plan: Exploring the Life and Works of Nikki Giovanni

December 10, 2024 Ann S. Michaelsen

Nikki Giovanni, the charismatic and iconoclastic poet, activist, children’s book author and professor who wrote, irresistibly and sensuously, about race,

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Lesson Plan: Teaching The Talk – Race in America

November 18, 2024 Ann S. Michaelsen

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas Objectives Objectives By the end of this unit, students will: Understand the concept

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Lesson Plan: Analyzing “Twelve Million Deportations” by Timothy Snyder

October 22, 2024 Ann S. Michaelsen

I had the pleasure of listening to Timothy David Snyder at an event for Democrats abroad this summer. His insight

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Lesson plan; What Do You Want to Do Differently in the New Year?

January 9, 2024 Ann S. Michaelsen

Do you want to improve your health, your relationships or your outlook on life? What about your community and the

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Lesson plan; teaching; “THE HATE U GIVE”

January 2, 2018 Ann S. Michaelsen

Literature This lesson plan is from 2018, but the topic seems to be just as relevant today.  The book is

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