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Bank War
From: Gilder Lehrman
Grade Level: HS, (College)
Remote Ready: With Modifications
Time: 2-3 class periods
Length of Reading: Pages
Andrew Jackson and the Bank War
Each of 6 groups is assigned a particular topic to research (Jackson, panic 1819, second bank of US, etc). The site recommends links to 2-4 short to medium sized articles for each topic.
The second part of the lesson recommends creating a panel discussion with 3 students for and 3 students against the Bank of the United States. You may want to make adaptations so that the whole class is included in the discussion; maybe there are multiple panel discussions happening simultaneously. You could jigsaw the research topics or just have an old fashioned debate.
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Grade Level: HS, (College)
- This lesson is intended for high school (HS) students.
- However, we think it would be excellent for college students too.
Remote Ready: With Modifications
- Links to the reading assignments can easily be emailed or posted for students.
- It’s much easier for small groups or pairs to coordinate a phone call or video conference meeting than for the entire class to sync their schedules.
- Have these small groups post answers, a synopsis, or a video of their discussion to your LMS. Or have one person from each group video conference with one person from each other group to discuss what they’ve learned. Or bring everyone on video conference to debate.
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This activity calls for working in pairs, a group, and/or having a class discussion
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