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Lesson Plan: “Representation and Courage in Media: The Case of Franklin in Peanuts”

August 8, 2025 Ann S. Michaelsen

How a teacher’s letter and a cartoonist’s quiet courage brought racial representation to one of America’s most beloved comic strips.

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Lesson Plan: The Rosenberg Case, Cold War Justice, and Historical Revision

January 22, 2025 Ann S. Michaelsen

Grade Level: High School (Grades 9-12) Subject: Social Studies/History Topic: Cold War History, Civil Rights, and the Pursuit of Justice

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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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