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Pro- and Anti-Slavery Arguments
From: Exploring US History
Grade Level: (HS), College
Remote Ready: With Modifications
Time: 1 Class Period
Length of Reading: Pages
The Debate Over Slavery
5 short pro-slavery primary sources and 4 short anti-slavery primary sources available here (each about a page long). The assignment asks students to come prepared to debate the historical rationale for and against slavery. Anti-textbook suggests teachers might also have students read the docs and create a T-chart or fill out a Document Analysis Worksheets. Or each group could be assigned a few docs; then groups can jigsaw to explain their docs to each other.
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Grade Level: (HS), College
- Though College is the specified grade level, this lesson would be excellent for high school students as well
Remote Ready: With Modifications
- Links to the reading assignments can easily be emailed or posted for students
- Debate/discussion can be had via typing on your LMS or over video conferencing
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