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Grade 8 Spring — The 20th-Century World, the Long Civil Rights Movement as Multi-Movement Struggle, and a Civics Deep-Dive (US + Global 1898–Present, K-8 History Capstone)

18 weeks 250 min/week 22 lessons 22 skills 58 exercises 2 assessments

Overview

Grade 8 Spring is the K-8 history capstone. It returns from G8-Fall's US national 1850-1900 arc to a global-and-national 20th-century arc that runs from 1898 (Spanish-American War + US imperial reach) through the present (globalization + Internet + climate change preview for high school). The compelling question — 'Whose 20th century? Whose civil rights? Whose freedom?' — drives all 22 lessons. Five thematic arcs interlock:

  1. 01
    PROGRESSIVE ERA + US IMPERIAL REACH 1898-1920

    Spanish-American War 1898 + Philippines occupation 1899-1902 + Hawaii annexation + Puerto Rico + Panama Canal + Roosevelt Corollary; Progressive Era reforms including women's suffrage 19th Amendment Aug 18 1920 (with explicit Black women's struggle for the vote per Wells + Terrell + Cooper + NACW 1896) + muckrakers (Sinclair The Jungle 1906 + Tarbell Standard Oil 1904 + Riis How the Other Half Lives 1890 + Steffens Shame of the Cities 1904) + antitrust (Sherman 1890 + Standard Oil 1911 + Clayton 1914) + food safety (Pure Food and Drug Act + Meat Inspection Act 1906) + child labor laws (NCLC 1904 + Keating-Owen 1916 + Fair Labor Standards Act 1938) + Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire March 25 1911.

  2. 02
    WORLD WAR I + ROARING 20s + DEPRESSION + WORLD WAR II 1914-1945

    WWI causes (MAIN: Militarism + Alliances + Imperialism + Nationalism) + US entry April 6 1917 + Harlem Hellfighters 369th Infantry + Wilson 14 Points Jan 8 1918 + Treaty of Versailles June 28 1919 + League of Nations + US Senate rejection Lodge Reservations; Russian Revolution Feb + Oct 1917 + USSR Dec 30 1922; Roaring Twenties + 18th Amendment Prohibition Jan 17 1920 + 21st repeal 1933 + women's changing roles + Scopes 1925 + KKK revival 1915; Harlem Renaissance with named writers Langston Hughes + Zora Neale Hurston + Claude McKay + Countee Cullen + Jessie Fauset + Nella Larsen + jazz Duke Ellington + Louis Armstrong + Bessie Smith + artists Aaron Douglas + Augusta Savage + Marcus Garvey UNIA + The Crisis Du Bois ed.; Great Migration 1910-70 6M+ Black Americans; Great Depression 1929-39 (bank failures 9,000+ + 25% unemployment + Dust Bowl + Hoovervilles + Bonus Army 1932) + New Deal (FDR Fireside Chats + CCC + WPA + TVA + SSA Social Security Act 1935 + Wagner Act + Frances Perkins first woman Cabinet secretary + Eleanor Roosevelt + Indigenous Reorganization Act 1934 Collier + Black New Deal exclusion debates) with multiple perspectives on government's role; rise of fascism 1920s-30s (Mussolini 1922 + Hitler 1933 + Imperial Japan Manchuria 1931 + Nanjing Massacre Dec 1937 200K+ + Spanish Civil War 1936-39 Guernica Picasso 1937 + Munich appeasement 1938); WWII 1939-45 European + Pacific theaters with HOLOCAUST taught per Yad Vashem 'each person has a name' pedagogy (6 million Jews murdered + 5 million additional victims Roma + Sinti + disabled people Aktion T4 + LGBTQ+ + Soviet POWs + political prisoners + Jehovah's Witnesses + Black Germans + Polish + Slavic + Anne Frank + Elie Wiesel + Primo Levi + Vladka Meed + Janusz Korczak); JAPANESE AMERICAN INCARCERATION 1942-46 (Executive Order 9066 + Korematsu 1944 + Manzanar + Densho oral history + Yoshiko Uchida + George Takei + Mitsuye Yamada + 442nd RCT + Civil Liberties Act of 1988 redress); ATOMIC BOMBINGS Hiroshima Aug 6 1945 + Nagasaki Aug 9 1945 taught from HIBAKUSHA OWN-VOICE (Sadako Sasaki + Setsuko Thurlow 2017 Nobel + Hersey 1946 + Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum) with multiple-perspective contextualization (Stimson + Byrnes + Manhattan Project + Szilard petition + Franck Report + Truman); GI Bill June 22 1944.

  3. 03
    COLD WAR + DECOLONIZATION 1945-91

    Iron Curtain Churchill Mar 1946 + Truman Doctrine + Marshall Plan + Berlin Airlift + NATO + Warsaw Pact + Korean War 1950-53 + Hungarian Uprising 1956 + Sputnik 1957 + Bay of Pigs 1961 + Berlin Wall 1961-89 + Cuban Missile Crisis Oct 1962 + Vietnam War 1955-75 taught from VIETNAMESE + VIETNAMESE-AMERICAN OWN-VOICE (Bao Ninh 1990 + Viet Thanh Nguyen 2015/2016 + Thi Bui 2017 + Le Ly Hayslip 1989 + Phan Thi Kim Phuc + My Lai 1968 + 3M+ Vietnamese dead + 58,220 US dead + Agent Orange ongoing intergenerational effects); fall of USSR Dec 1991; DECOLONIZATION 1947-94 from DECOLONIAL LEADER OWN-VOICE (Gandhi Hind Swaraj 1909 + Nehru Tryst with Destiny Aug 14-15 1947 + Nkrumah I Speak of Freedom 1961 + Fanon Wretched of the Earth 1961 + Mandela Long Walk to Freedom 1994 + Lumumba + Kenyatta + Cabral + Aimé Césaire + C.L.R. James + Bandung 1955 Non-Aligned Movement).

  4. 04
    LONG CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT 1909

    present as MULTI-MOVEMENT STRUGGLE per Jacquelyn Dowd Hall 2005 — REFUSING 'MLK-only' single-leader hagiography — Black Freedom (NAACP 1909 + Brown 1954 + Emmett Till 1955 + Montgomery 1955-56 + Little Rock 1957 + Greensboro Sit-ins 1960 + Freedom Rides 1961 + March on Washington Aug 28 1963 + Birmingham + Selma March 1965 + Voting Rights Act Aug 6 1965 + MLK Letter from Birmingham Jail April 16 1963 + 'I Have a Dream' + MLK assassinated April 4 1968 + Black Power + Ella Baker + Bayard Rustin + Fannie Lou Hamer + Bob Moses + Diane Nash + Audre Lorde + Combahee 1977 + Crenshaw 1989 intersectionality + BLM 2013); CHICANO Movement (Cesar Chavez + Dolores Huerta + UFW + Delano Strike 1965 + Plan Espiritual de Aztlán 1969 + East LA walkouts 1968 + Chicano Moratorium 1970 + Gloria Anzaldua 1987); AMERICAN INDIAN MOVEMENT (AIM 1968 + Alcatraz Occupation 1969-71 + Trail of Broken Treaties 1972 + Wounded Knee II 1973 + Indian Self-Determination Act 1975 + ongoing LandBack); ASIAN AMERICAN Movement (TWLF SF State 1968-69 + Yuri Kochiyama + Grace Lee Boggs); STONEWALL June 28 1969 (Marsha P. Johnson + Sylvia Rivera + STAR 1970); WOMEN'S Liberation (Title IX 1972 + Roe 1973 + Combahee 1977 + bell hooks 1981); DISABILITY Rights (Section 504 sit-ins April 1977 26-day occupation + ADA July 26 1990 + Judy Heumann).

  5. 05
    GLOBALIZATION + INTERNET + CLIMATE 1991

    present (preview for high school) — NAFTA + WTO + 2008 GFC + Internet + smartphone + social media + 9/11 + Iraq + climate change IPCC 1988 + Paris Accord 2015 + Greta Thunberg + Standing Rock + COVID-19 + ongoing struggles. US CIVICS DEEP-DIVE — Lessons 19-21 teach how a bill becomes a law (G8-DEEP 14-stage process via mock-Congress simulation), Supreme Court process (cert + briefs + oral argument + conference + opinion-assignment + majority/concurring/dissenting), federal vs. state powers (Tenth + Fourteenth Amendments + commerce clause + supremacy clause), judicial review applied to civil-rights cases (Brown 1954 + Loving 1967 + Tinker 1969 + Roe 1973 + Lawrence 2003 + Obergefell 2015 + Shelby 2013 + Trump v. Hawaii 2018 + Students for Fair Admissions 2023), voting rights expansion (15th 1870 → 19th 1920 → 24th 1964 → 26th 1971 → VRA 1965 → Shelby 2013 → ongoing), current civic challenges (free speech tensions + voting access + electoral process + Electoral College debate + gerrymandering + campaign finance Citizens United 2010 + 21st-century deliberation). CAPSTONE Lesson 22 (90 min) — each student selects ONE civil rights movement of their choice from MG-18 (Black + Chicano + AIM + Asian American + LGBTQ+ + women's + disability + decolonial) + researches >=4 primary sources + applies MG-7 TWELVE-Q SOURCE CARD + produces Foxfire 3-copy oral-history-and-research storybook (1 school library + 1 family + 1 named descendant-community institution) + drafts civic-action letter to 1 of 14 named institutions + presents to class via 5-STAR rubric + completes 5-question self-reflection (I-LEARNED + I-CAN + I-STILL-WONDER + WHAT-I-WILL-DO + WHO-I-AM-AS-HISTORIAN). Six TRAUMA-INFORMED lessons (4 WWI + 9 Japanese American incarceration + 10 Holocaust + 11 Hiroshima + 12 Tulsa/Emmett Till/lynching + 13 Vietnam War + 17 decolonial violence/apartheid + 18 9/11/COVID-19) use MG-15 PROTOCOL: caregiver letters in advance + Compassion Circle close + alternative-assignment options + sensory-quiet space + opt-out without penalty + refusal of sensationalized imagery. Twelve PROMISES poster active at every lesson opening. Multiple-perspective check (NEW Q11) and present-day connection (NEW Q12) embedded in every source analysis. Banks Level 4 SOCIAL ACTION at capstone. K-8 history capstone — students leave equipped to read primary sources, evaluate evidence, refuse single-perspective framing, and act civically.

Essential questions

  • Whose 20th century? Whose civil rights? Whose freedom? (Compelling question for all 22 lessons)
  • How does the Long Civil Rights Movement (Hall 2005) — as multi-movement struggle by Black, Chicano, AIM, Asian American, LGBTQ+, women's, and disability rights activists — refute the 'MLK-only' single-leader narrative?
  • How do we hold the Holocaust's 6 million Jewish victims (and 5 million additional victims) as individuals with names, families, and futures — refusing dehumanizing statistic-only framing per Yad Vashem 'each person has a name' pedagogy?
  • How do hibakusha (Hiroshima + Nagasaki survivors), Vietnamese (NVA + civilian + South Vietnamese), and Japanese American incarcerees teach us that history requires multiple perspectives — and what happens when we tell only one side?
  • How did decolonization (1947-94) end formal European empire — and what did decolonial leaders (Gandhi + Nehru + Nkrumah + Fanon + Mandela) write in their own voices about freedom?
  • How does the US Constitution actually work in the 21st century? (How a bill becomes law in 14 stages; Supreme Court process; judicial review; federalism; voting rights expansion 1870-2026)
  • What are the current civic challenges (free speech tensions + voting access + electoral process + climate)? How do we deliberate as citizens?
  • What is OUR responsibility to the Long Civil Rights Movement — to the descendants of those it served and the work it left unfinished (capstone Banks Level 4 SOCIAL ACTION)?

Enduring understandings

  • History is told by SOMEONE; the historian must ask whose voice is centered and whose is silenced. The 'each person has a name' principle and the multi-perspective check are the K-8 capstone routines.
  • The Long Civil Rights Movement is multi-movement (Black + Chicano + AIM + Asian American + LGBTQ+ + women + disability) and multi-decade (1909 NAACP → 1954 Brown → present LandBack + BLM + queer + trans liberation + disability + immigrants' rights).
  • The Holocaust + Hiroshima/Nagasaki + Vietnam War + Japanese American incarceration are taught with survivor-own-voice-centered pedagogy and trauma-informed protocols — never as detached statistics or abstract 'sides'.
  • Decolonization (1947-94) is one of the largest political transformations in human history — over 100 nations gained independence from European empire — and its leaders wrote in their own voices about what freedom meant.
  • US civics is procedural AND substantive: how a bill becomes law and which bills become law; the Supreme Court process AND which cases the Court decides; federalism in theory AND federalism in civil-rights practice.
  • Voting rights expanded through 7 amendments + 1 landmark act over 200 years (15th 1870, 19th 1920, 24th 1964, 26th 1971, VRA 1965, Shelby 2013 contraction, ongoing struggles) — democracy is a verb.
  • Banks Level 4 Social Action: history is not just learned — it is enacted. The capstone (Lesson 22) mails a real letter to a real descendant-community institution.
  • Globalization + Internet + climate change are the K-8 chronology's preview for high school — students leave G8 history equipped to read primary sources, evaluate evidence, refuse single-perspective framing, and act civically.

Visual reference library 25 assets

MG-1 Illustration
Unit-opener splash: 16x24 watercolor montage stitching the long 20th century — left to right: Triangle Shirtwaist Memori

Unit-opener splash: 16x24 watercolor montage stitching the long 20th century — left to right: Triangle Shirtwaist Memorial NYC + WWI doughboys + suffragists at the Capitol + Harlem Renaissance jazz musicians + Dust Bowl family + Yad Vashem Hall of Names + Hiroshima Peace Memorial Children's Cenotaph (Sadako paper cranes) + Berlin Wall Brandenburg Gate + Vietnamese family / Vietnam Veterans Memorial Maya Lin + Selma 1965 marchers + Alcatraz Occupation 1969 + Stonewall 1969 + Cesar Chavez UFW eagle + Mandela 1994 + smartphone screen showing climate-strike youth. Style: hand-rendered warm watercolor; figures rendered with dignity; multiple skin tones; visible across classroom.

MG-2 Map
MG-2 TWENTIETH-CENTURY-WORLD Atlas — 48x60 inch wall display, 6 layered overlay maps: (1) European empires 1914 with col

MG-2 TWENTIETH-CENTURY-WORLD Atlas — 48x60 inch wall display, 6 layered overlay maps: (1) European empires 1914 with colony shading + national resistance movements named on each colony; (2) WWI Western + Eastern fronts 1914-18 + Versailles 1919 boundary changes; (3) WWII European + Pacific theaters 1939-45 with Holocaust death-camp sites named (Auschwitz-Birkenau + Treblinka + Belzec + Sobibor + Chelmno + Majdanek) + Hiroshima + Nagasaki + Japanese American incarceration camps named (Manzanar + Tule Lake + Heart Mountain + Topaz + Minidoka + Poston + Gila River + Granada + Rohwer + Jerome); (4) Cold War 1947-91 + decolonization 1947-94 wave (India 1947 + Indonesia 1949 + Ghana 1957 + 1960 Year of Africa 17 nations + Algeria 1962 + Kenya 1963 + Vietnam 1954/1975 + Mozambique/Angola 1975 + Zimbabwe 1980 + Namibia 1990 + South Africa 1994); (5) US Civil Rights Movement geography Birmingham + Selma + Little Rock + Greensboro + Memphis + Tulsa Greenwood + Manzanar + Delano + Alcatraz + Wounded Knee + Stonewall NYC + East LA; (6) 21st-century globalization + climate (G20 + WTO + IPCC monitoring stations + 195 Paris Accord signatories 2015).

MG-3 Chart
MG-3 Deep-Time Strip — 36x96 inch banner; 1898-2026 timeline; FIVE THEMATIC ARCS color-coded: (1) Progressive Era + Impe

MG-3 Deep-Time Strip — 36x96 inch banner; 1898-2026 timeline; FIVE THEMATIC ARCS color-coded: (1) Progressive Era + Imperial Reach 1898-1920 [blue]; (2) WWI + Roaring 20s + Depression + WWII 1914-45 [red]; (3) Cold War + Decolonization 1945-91 [green]; (4) Long Civil Rights Movement 1909-present [purple]; (5) Globalization + Internet + Climate 1991-present [orange]; >=80 named events with date + 1-line caption + small portrait when applicable.

MG-4 Diagram
MG-4 Concept Map — 36x48 inch poster centered on compelling question 'Whose 20th century? Whose civil rights? Whose free

MG-4 Concept Map — 36x48 inch poster centered on compelling question 'Whose 20th century? Whose civil rights? Whose freedom?' with radiating spokes to FIVE ARCS + TWELVE PROMISES + MG-7 TWELVE-Q SOURCE CARD + 8 essential questions; allows students to add string-and-tag connections across lessons.

MG-5 Diagram
MG-5 TWELVE PROMISES poster (18x24 laminated) — explicit list: (1) Center multiple perspectives; (2) Refuse single-leade

MG-5 TWELVE PROMISES poster (18x24 laminated) — explicit list: (1) Center multiple perspectives; (2) Refuse single-leader hagiography; (3) Use Indigenous nations' own names + present tense; (4) Use enslaved-people's own narratives; (5) Refuse euphemism (incarceration not internment; the n-word substituted; cultural genocide named); (6) Slavery-as-primary-cause (carried forward from G8-Fall MG-14a); (7) Reconstruction-as-betrayed-promise (carried forward from G8-Fall MG-14b); (8) HOLOCAUST-YAD-VASHEM-EACH-PERSON-HAS-A-NAME (NEW MG-14c); (9) HIBAKUSHA-OWN-VOICE (NEW MG-14d); (10) VIETNAMESE-OWN-VOICE (NEW MG-14e); (11) LONG-CIVIL-RIGHTS-MULTI-MOVEMENT (NEW MG-14f); (12) DECOLONIAL-OWN-VOICE (NEW MG-14g).

MG-6 Chart
MG-6 I-STILL-WONDER chart — 36x48 wall chart with sticky-note grid; students add wonderings at every lesson close; bridg

MG-6 I-STILL-WONDER chart — 36x48 wall chart with sticky-note grid; students add wonderings at every lesson close; bridges into Lesson 22 capstone selection.

MG-7 Diagram
MG-7 TWELVE-Question SOURCE CARD (8.5x11 laminated double-sided): Q1 Who made this? (sourcing); Q2 When + where? (contex

MG-7 TWELVE-Question SOURCE CARD (8.5x11 laminated double-sided): Q1 Who made this? (sourcing); Q2 When + where? (contextualization); Q3 What purpose? (sourcing); Q4 What evidence supports? (close reading); Q5 What other sources corroborate? (corroboration); Q6 What is omitted? (silences); Q7 Audience? (rhetorical context); Q8 What other voices must we seek? (G7 extension); Q9 Is this Lost Cause framing? (G8-Fall extension); Q10 Is the SURVIVOR own-voice centered or marginalized? (NEW); Q11 Have we checked MULTIPLE PERSPECTIVES across nationality / class / race / gender / sexuality / ability / age? (NEW); Q12 What is the PRESENT-DAY connection — what does this source mean for our civic action now? (NEW). Sentence frames + bilingual transliteration in 8 languages.

MG-8 Chart Physical / non-image

MG-8 PROGRESSIVE-ERA REFORMS poster — 18x24; 6 columns: women's suffrage (19th Amendment Aug 18 1920 + Black women's struggle), antitrust (Sherman 1890 + Clayton 1914 + Standard Oil 1911), food safety (Sinclair The Jungle 1906 + Pure Food and Drug Act + Meat Inspection Act 1906), child labor (NCLC 1904 + Keating-Owen 1916 + Fair Labor Standards Act 1938), labor (Triangle Shirtwaist March 25 1911 + ILGWU + Frances Perkins), muckrakers (Tarbell + Riis + Steffens); each column: 4-5 named reformers + key dates + legacy.

MG-9 Map
MG-9 US IMPERIAL REACH 1898-1917 map (24x36) — Spanish-American War 1898 + Cuba + Puerto Rico + Philippines + Guam; Hawa

MG-9 US IMPERIAL REACH 1898-1917 map (24x36) — Spanish-American War 1898 + Cuba + Puerto Rico + Philippines + Guam; Hawaii annexation 1898; Panama Canal Zone 1903-1979; Roosevelt Corollary 1904 + Big-Stick diplomacy + interventions in Dominican Republic 1903 + Nicaragua 1912 + Haiti 1915 + Mexico Veracruz 1914 + Philippine-American War 1899-1902 200,000+ Filipino deaths per Karnow 1989; named: Emilio Aguinaldo Filipino independence leader + Queen Liliuokalani Hawaii 1893 overthrow + Jose Marti Cuba + Jose de Diego Puerto Rico.

MG-10 Chart
MG-10 WWI 1914-18 chart — 24x36; MAIN causes (Militarism + Alliances + Imperialism + Nationalism); Western Front + Easte

MG-10 WWI 1914-18 chart — 24x36; MAIN causes (Militarism + Alliances + Imperialism + Nationalism); Western Front + Eastern Front + trench warfare + ~17 million dead; US entry April 6 1917 (Lusitania May 7 1915 + Zimmermann telegram 1917 + unrestricted submarine warfare); Harlem Hellfighters 369th Infantry; Wilson 14 Points Jan 8 1918 + Treaty of Versailles June 28 1919 + League of Nations + US Senate rejection 1920; postwar disillusionment Lost Generation Hemingway + Fitzgerald; Spanish flu pandemic 1918-19 50M+ dead.

MG-11 Chart
MG-11 RUSSIAN REVOLUTION + SOVIET UNION 1917-22 chart — 18x24; February + October Revolutions 1917 (Kerensky → Lenin); B

MG-11 RUSSIAN REVOLUTION + SOVIET UNION 1917-22 chart — 18x24; February + October Revolutions 1917 (Kerensky → Lenin); Bolshevik takeover + Russian Civil War 1918-21 + Red Army v. White Army; Treaty of Brest-Litovsk March 1918; USSR formed Dec 30 1922; named: Lenin + Trotsky + Stalin + Aleksandra Kollontai (women's rights) + Rosa Luxemburg (German Spartacist); Pittsburgh Courier + Black press coverage.

MG-12 Chart
MG-12 ROARING TWENTIES + HARLEM RENAISSANCE poster — 24x36; left half: 18th Amendment Prohibition Jan 17 1920 + 21st rep

MG-12 ROARING TWENTIES + HARLEM RENAISSANCE poster — 24x36; left half: 18th Amendment Prohibition Jan 17 1920 + 21st repeal 1933 + speakeasies + organized crime + flappers + women's changing roles + Scopes Trial 1925 + KKK revival 1915 Birth of a Nation; right half: Harlem Renaissance (Langston Hughes 'I, Too' 1926 + Zora Neale Hurston Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937 + Claude McKay + Countee Cullen + James Weldon Johnson + Jessie Fauset + Nella Larsen + Duke Ellington + Louis Armstrong + Bessie Smith + Aaron Douglas + Augusta Savage + Marcus Garvey UNIA 1914 + The Crisis Du Bois ed.); centerfold: Great Migration map 1910-70 6M+ Black Americans leaving the South.

MG-13 Chart
MG-13 GREAT DEPRESSION + NEW DEAL chart — 24x36; left: bank failures (9,000+ 1929-33) + unemployment 25% peak 1933 + Dus

MG-13 GREAT DEPRESSION + NEW DEAL chart — 24x36; left: bank failures (9,000+ 1929-33) + unemployment 25% peak 1933 + Dust Bowl 1930-36 Okies + Hoovervilles + Bonus Army 1932 + Black Tuesday Oct 29 1929; right: FDR Fireside Chats + New Deal alphabet (CCC + WPA + TVA + SSA Social Security Act 1935 + Wagner Act 1935 + FDIC + SEC + AAA + NRA struck down Schechter 1935); multiple perspectives panel: pro-New Deal (Frances Perkins first woman Cabinet secretary + Harry Hopkins + Eleanor Roosevelt) v. critics from the left (Huey Long Share Our Wealth) + critics from the right (Liberty League + American Liberty League) + Indigenous Reorganization Act 1934 Collier + the African American/Black New Deal exclusion debates.

MG-14 Chart
MG-14 RISE OF FASCISM + WWII chart — 36x48; left third: rise of fascism 1920s-30s (Mussolini March on Rome 1922 + Hitler

MG-14 RISE OF FASCISM + WWII chart — 36x48; left third: rise of fascism 1920s-30s (Mussolini March on Rome 1922 + Hitler Beer Hall Putsch 1923 + Nazi Party 1933 Reichstag fire + Nuremberg Laws 1935 + Anschluss 1938 + Munich Agreement Sept 29 1938 Chamberlain appeasement + Imperial Japan Manchuria 1931 + Nanjing Massacre Dec 13 1937-Jan 1938 200,000+ killed + Spanish Civil War 1936-39 Guernica Picasso 1937); middle third: WWII European theater (Sept 1 1939 Poland invasion + Blitzkrieg + Battle of Britain 1940 + Operation Barbarossa June 22 1941 + Stalingrad Aug 1942-Feb 1943 + D-Day June 6 1944 + Battle of the Bulge Dec 1944 + Yalta Feb 1945 + VE Day May 8 1945); right third: Pacific theater (Pearl Harbor Dec 7 1941 + Doolittle Raid + Midway June 1942 + Guadalcanal + Iwo Jima Feb-March 1945 Joe Rosenthal photo + Okinawa April-June 1945 + Hiroshima Aug 6 + Nagasaki Aug 9 + VJ Day Aug 15 1945).

MG-15 Diagram
MG-15 TRAUMA-INFORMED PROTOCOL card (8.5x11 laminated double-sided at every table + teacher desk) — caregiver letter in

MG-15 TRAUMA-INFORMED PROTOCOL card (8.5x11 laminated double-sided at every table + teacher desk) — caregiver letter in advance + Compassion Circle close + alternative-assignment options + sensory-quiet space + opt-out without penalty + n-word substituted + 'incarceration' not 'internment' + 'enslaved person' not 'slave' + 'cultural genocide' named + NO graphic imagery; explicit list of Lessons with MG-15 active: 4 (WWI), 9 (Japanese American incarceration), 10 (Holocaust), 11 (Hiroshima), 12 (Tulsa 1921 + Emmett Till + lynching), 13 (Vietnam War), 17 (decolonial violence + apartheid), 18 (9/11 + ongoing); USC Shoah Foundation + Yad Vashem + Hiroshima Peace Memorial + Densho + EJI + Truth & Reconciliation South Africa survivor-voice protocols cited.

MG-16 Chart
MG-16 HOLOCAUST YAD-VASHEM 'EACH PERSON HAS A NAME' poster — 24x36; FIRST QUADRANT explains pedagogy: each victim was a

MG-16 HOLOCAUST YAD-VASHEM 'EACH PERSON HAS A NAME' poster — 24x36; FIRST QUADRANT explains pedagogy: each victim was a person with a name, family, future; Yad Vashem Pages of Testimony 4.5M+ names recovered as of 2024; refuses dehumanizing statistic-only framing; SECOND QUADRANT names individual victims with photo + bio: Anne Frank (Frankfurt 1929 → Bergen-Belsen Feb/March 1945) + Edith Frank (mother) + Margot Frank (sister) + Otto Frank (father, only survivor); Etty Hillesum (Amsterdam → Auschwitz Nov 1943); Hannah Senesh (Hungarian Jewish parachutist executed Nov 7 1944); Janusz Korczak (children's orphanage Warsaw Ghetto → Treblinka Aug 1942 with all 192 children); Vladka Meed (Warsaw Ghetto Uprising April 19 – May 16 1943 survivor); Mordechai Anielewicz (Warsaw Ghetto Uprising commander killed May 8 1943); Marek Edelman (Warsaw Ghetto Uprising survivor); THIRD QUADRANT explicitly NAMES additional victims: Roma + Sinti (Porajmos ~500,000); disabled people murdered in Aktion T4 1939-45 ~250,000 (Hadamar + Hartheim killing centers); LGBTQ+ Pink Triangle 5,000-15,000 (Heinz Heger 1972 The Men with the Pink Triangle); Soviet POWs ~3.3M; Jehovah's Witnesses Purple Triangle; Black Germans Hans Massaquoi 1999; Polish + Slavic civilians; political prisoners Red Triangle; FOURTH QUADRANT survivor-voice texts: Elie Wiesel Night 1958 + Primo Levi Survival in Auschwitz 1947 + Anne Frank Diary 1942-44 + Helen Fagin USC Shoah testimony + Schindler's List 1993 with critical framing per Cole 2000.

MG-17 Chart
MG-17 HIROSHIMA + NAGASAKI HIBAKUSHA-OWN-VOICE poster — 24x36; LEFT THIRD names Hiroshima August 6 1945 8:15am Enola Gay

MG-17 HIROSHIMA + NAGASAKI HIBAKUSHA-OWN-VOICE poster — 24x36; LEFT THIRD names Hiroshima August 6 1945 8:15am Enola Gay + ~140,000 killed by end of 1945 (immediate ~70,000 + radiation deaths); Nagasaki August 9 1945 11:02am Bockscar + ~70,000 killed by end of 1945; MIDDLE THIRD centers hibakusha (被爆者 'bomb-affected people') voices: Sadako Sasaki (1943-Oct 25 1955 paper cranes Children's Peace Monument); Setsuko Thurlow (Hiroshima survivor at 13; ICAN Nobel Peace Prize co-laureate 2017 acceptance lecture); Yamaoka Michiko; Tsuboi Sunao (Nihon Hidankyo Hibakusha Confederation Co-Chair 1925-2021); Hersey 1946 'Hiroshima' New Yorker (Mrs. Nakamura + Father Kleinsorge + Dr. Sasaki + Dr. Fujii + Miss Sasaki + Reverend Tanimoto); RIGHT THIRD US decision-making contextualization (Stimson + Byrnes + Manhattan Project Oppenheimer + Szilard petition July 17 1945 + Franck Report June 11 1945 + Truman + alternative-to-bomb scholarly debate Bernstein/Walker/Hasegawa); BOTTOM: ongoing Hibakusha Stories pedagogy + Nihon Hidankyo Nobel Peace Prize 2024.

MG-18 Chart
MG-18 LONG CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT poster — 36x60; HORIZONTAL TIMELINE 1909-present; FIVE PARALLEL TRACKS color-coded: (1)

MG-18 LONG CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT poster — 36x60; HORIZONTAL TIMELINE 1909-present; FIVE PARALLEL TRACKS color-coded: (1) BLACK FREEDOM (NAACP 1909 + UNIA Garvey 1914 + Brown v. Board May 17 1954 + Emmett Till Aug 1955 + Montgomery Bus Boycott Dec 1 1955 – Dec 20 1956 + Little Rock Sept 1957 + Greensboro Sit-ins Feb 1 1960 + Freedom Rides May 4 1961 + March on Washington Aug 28 1963 + Birmingham Children's Crusade May 1963 + Civil Rights Act July 2 1964 + Freedom Summer 1964 + Selma March 7-25 1965 + Voting Rights Act Aug 6 1965 + MLK assassinated April 4 1968 + Black Power SNCC 1966 + Black Panthers 1966 + Combahee 1977 + Crenshaw 1989 + BLM 2013); (2) CHICANO (UFW 1962 Chavez/Huerta + Delano Strike 1965 + Plan of Delano 1966 + East LA Walkouts 1968 + Plan Espiritual de Aztlán 1969 + Chicano Moratorium Aug 29 1970 + Anzaldua 1987); (3) AIM (NCAI 1944 + Termination/Relocation 1953-69 + AIM 1968 + Alcatraz Nov 20 1969 – June 11 1971 + Trail of Broken Treaties Nov 1972 + Wounded Knee II Feb-May 1973 + Indian Self-Determination Act Jan 4 1975 + AIRFA 1978 + NAGPRA 1990 + UNDRIP 2007 + Standing Rock 2016-17 + LandBack); (4) ASIAN AMERICAN + LGBTQ+ + WOMEN + DISABILITY (TWLF SF State 1968-69 + Yuri Kochiyama + Grace Lee Boggs + Stonewall June 28 1969 + STAR Johnson/Rivera 1970 + Lavender Menace 1970 + Title IX June 23 1972 + Roe v. Wade Jan 22 1973 + Section 504 sit-ins April 1977 26-day occupation + Combahee River Collective 1977 + bell hooks 1981 + ACT UP 1987 + ADA July 26 1990 + Obergefell June 26 2015); (5) ANCHORS show MLK is ONE of MANY — Ella Baker + Bayard Rustin + Fannie Lou Hamer + Septima Clark + Bob Moses + Diane Nash + James Baldwin + Audre Lorde + Pauli Murray + Marsha P. Johnson + Sylvia Rivera + Cesar Chavez + Dolores Huerta + Russell Means + Judith Heumann + Yuri Kochiyama; refuses 'MLK-only' framing per Hall 2005 + Theoharis 2018 + Ransby 2003.

MG-19 Chart
MG-19 DECOLONIZATION 1947-94 poster — 24x36; world map; 100+ nations independent from European empire; named: India + Pa

MG-19 DECOLONIZATION 1947-94 poster — 24x36; world map; 100+ nations independent from European empire; named: India + Pakistan Aug 14-15 1947 (Partition ~14M displaced ~1-2M killed per Khan 2007 + Talbot/Singh 2009 + Khan/Roy curriculum); Indonesia 1949; Vietnam 1954/1975; Ghana March 6 1957 (Nkrumah I Speak of Freedom 1961); 1960 Year of Africa 17 nations independent; Algeria July 5 1962 (Fanon 1961); Kenya Dec 12 1963 (Kenyatta); Mozambique + Angola 1975 (Cabral 1973 + Machel + Neto); Zimbabwe April 18 1980 (Mugabe; complications); Namibia March 21 1990 + South Africa apartheid end April 27 1994 (Mandela 1994 Inaugural). DECOLONIAL OWN-VOICE excerpts: Gandhi Hind Swaraj 1909 + Nehru 'Tryst with Destiny' midnight Aug 14-15 1947 + Nkrumah 1957 + Fanon Wretched of the Earth 1961 + Mandela Rivonia Speech Apr 20 1964 + 1994 Inaugural + Lumumba June 30 1960 + Aimé Césaire 1950 + C.L.R. James 1938; Bandung April 18-24 1955 Non-Aligned Movement 29 nations.

MG-20 Chart
MG-20 COLD WAR 1945-91 poster — 36x48; world map + timeline; Iron Curtain Churchill Mar 5 1946 Fulton MO; Truman Doctrin

MG-20 COLD WAR 1945-91 poster — 36x48; world map + timeline; Iron Curtain Churchill Mar 5 1946 Fulton MO; Truman Doctrine March 12 1947; Marshall Plan April 3 1948; Berlin Airlift June 24 1948 – May 12 1949; NATO April 4 1949; Soviet atomic bomb Aug 29 1949; PRC Oct 1 1949 Mao; Korean War June 25 1950 – armistice July 27 1953 ~3M Korean civilian deaths per Cumings + ~37,000 US dead; Warsaw Pact May 14 1955; Hungarian Uprising Oct-Nov 1956; Sputnik Oct 4 1957; U-2 1960; Bay of Pigs Apr 17-19 1961; Berlin Wall Aug 13 1961 – fall Nov 9 1989; Cuban Missile Crisis Oct 16-28 1962; Vietnam War (separate MG); Tet Offensive Jan 30 1968; Apollo 11 July 20 1969; détente 1972 SALT I; Helsinki Accords 1975; Soviet-Afghan War 1979-89; Solidarity Poland 1980; Reagan-Gorbachev Reykjavik 1986 INF Treaty 1987; fall of Berlin Wall Nov 9 1989; USSR dissolution Dec 25-26 1991. CENTERED: nuclear arms race + MAD doctrine + nuclear-bomb-test ban + START + ongoing nuclear-weapon-state count today (9 states ~12,500 warheads per FAS 2024).

MG-21 Diagram
MG-21 US CIVICS DEEP-DIVE — HOW A BILL BECOMES A LAW (14 stages) wall poster — 36x48; STAGE 1 Idea + drafting; STAGE 2 I

MG-21 US CIVICS DEEP-DIVE — HOW A BILL BECOMES A LAW (14 stages) wall poster — 36x48; STAGE 1 Idea + drafting; STAGE 2 Introduction in House OR Senate (sponsor required); STAGE 3 Committee referral (Speaker / President pro tempore); STAGE 4 Subcommittee hearing + markup; STAGE 5 Full committee markup + vote; STAGE 6 Reported to floor + Rules Committee (House); STAGE 7 Floor debate + amendments + vote (simple majority House 218 / Senate 51 OR cloture 60 to end filibuster); STAGE 8 Sent to other chamber; STAGE 9 Other chamber repeats stages 3-7; STAGE 10 Conference Committee reconciles differences; STAGE 11 Both chambers vote on conference report; STAGE 12 President signs OR vetoes (10 days); STAGE 13 If vetoed: 2/3 override House + Senate; STAGE 14 Law published Public Law number + Statutes at Large; example: Civil Rights Act of 1964 traced through all 14 stages with 54-day Senate filibuster + cloture June 10 1964 + LBJ signing July 2 1964.

MG-22 Diagram
MG-22 US CIVICS DEEP-DIVE — SUPREME COURT PROCESS wall poster (36x48) — STAGE 1 Cert petition (Rule of Four — 4 of 9 Jus

MG-22 US CIVICS DEEP-DIVE — SUPREME COURT PROCESS wall poster (36x48) — STAGE 1 Cert petition (Rule of Four — 4 of 9 Justices must agree to hear); STAGE 2 Briefs on the merits + amicus curiae briefs; STAGE 3 Oral argument (30 minutes each side; questioning); STAGE 4 Justice Conference (Friday after oral argument; Chief Justice speaks first; junior Justice votes first); STAGE 5 Opinion assignment (majority by Chief if in majority, by senior associate if not); STAGE 6 Draft opinions circulate (majority + concurring + dissenting); STAGE 7 Cite-checking + final edits; STAGE 8 Announcement from bench (oral summary by majority author); STAGE 9 Published in U.S. Reports + Federal Reporter; example: Brown v. Board of Education 347 U.S. 483 (1954) traced through Warren Court's unanimous opinion + Thurgood Marshall NAACP LDF oral argument Dec 9 1952 + Dec 8 1953 reargument + May 17 1954 decision; Korematsu 1944 + Loving v. Virginia 1967 + Tinker v. Des Moines 1969 + Roe v. Wade 1973 + Obergefell 2015 + Shelby County v. Holder 2013 noted.

MG-23 Chart
MG-23 VOTING RIGHTS EXPANSION TIMELINE wall chart (24x60) — 1789-2026; Constitution 1789 left voting to states (overwhel

MG-23 VOTING RIGHTS EXPANSION TIMELINE wall chart (24x60) — 1789-2026; Constitution 1789 left voting to states (overwhelmingly white propertied men ~6% of population); 15th Amendment Feb 3 1870 (race) + immediate disenfranchisement via poll taxes + literacy tests + grandfather clauses + white primaries + violence; 17th Amendment April 8 1913 (direct Senate election); 19th Amendment Aug 18 1920 (sex — Black women effectively excluded in South until VRA 1965); Indian Citizenship Act June 2 1924 (still excluded by state law in AZ NM until 1948); 24th Amendment Jan 23 1964 (poll tax); Voting Rights Act Aug 6 1965 (federal enforcement + preclearance Section 5); 26th Amendment July 1 1971 (age 18); Section 5 preclearance gutted by Shelby County v. Holder June 25 2013; current struggles voter ID + voter-roll purges + polling-place closures + felony disenfranchisement + DC + Puerto Rico statehood + Electoral College debate + gerrymandering Rucho v. Common Cause 2019 + Citizens United v. FEC 2010 campaign finance + Trump v. Anderson 2024 Section 3 disqualification + 2020-2024 election integrity discourse. CENTERED: voting is a verb.

MG-24 Diagram Physical / non-image

MG-24 FIVE-STAR CAPSTONE RUBRIC poster (18x24 laminated) — Lesson 22 Long-Civil-Rights-Multi-Movement capstone scored on 5 STAR criteria each 0-2 (10 max): STAR 1 — PRIMARY SOURCES (>=4 from selected movement; MG-7 12-Q applied to each); STAR 2 — OWN-VOICE CENTERED (movement-leader own-voice primary source >= 1; survivor own-voice >= 1; refuses single-leader hagiography); STAR 3 — MULTI-PERSPECTIVE (named opposition + named alliances + named internal debate within movement); STAR 4 — PRESENT CONNECTION (Q12 applied; what does this movement mean today; what is the ONGOING work); STAR 5 — CIVIC ACTION (Banks Level 4: identifies real institution + drafts respectful letter + commits to mailing). 5-question self-reflection: I-LEARNED + I-CAN + I-STILL-WONDER + WHAT-I-WILL-DO + WHO-I-AM-AS-HISTORIAN.

MG-25 Map
MG-25 GLOBALIZATION + INTERNET + CLIMATE preview poster (24x36) — for Lesson 18; left panel globalization (NAFTA 1994 +

MG-25 GLOBALIZATION + INTERNET + CLIMATE preview poster (24x36) — for Lesson 18; left panel globalization (NAFTA 1994 + WTO 1995 + EU enlargement + BRICS 2009 + supply-chain map + offshoring + 2008 Global Financial Crisis); middle panel Internet (ARPANET 1969 + Tim Berners-Lee WWW 1989 + Mosaic 1993 + Google 1998 + iPhone 2007 + Facebook 2004 + Twitter 2006 + TikTok 2016 + social-media + misinformation + digital divide); right panel climate (Keeling Curve Mauna Loa 1958-present + IPCC formed 1988 + UNFCCC 1992 + Kyoto Protocol 1997 + Paris Accord Dec 12 2015 195 signatories + Greta Thunberg 2018 climate strikes + IPCC AR6 2021-23 + Sunrise Movement + Indigenous climate leadership Standing Rock + LandBack); centered: this previews high school study; G8 leaves students equipped.

Lessons (22)

# Title Min Skills
1 Whose 20th Century? Whose Civil Rights? Whose Freedom? — Unit Launch + Five-Arc Atlas + TWELVE PROMISES 50 2
2 Progressive Era 1900-1920 — Muckrakers, Antitrust, Food Safety, Child Labor; 19th Amendment AND Black Women's Struggle for the Vote 50 1
3 US Imperial Reach 1898-1917 — Spanish-American War, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, Panama Canal, Roosevelt Corollary — from Filipino and Hawaiian Voices 50 1
4 World War I 1914-1918 — MAIN Causes, US Entry, Harlem Hellfighters, Versailles + Wilson 14 Points + League — TRAUMA-INFORMED MG-15 PROTOCOL 50 1
5 Russian Revolution 1917-22, Roaring Twenties, Harlem Renaissance + Great Migration 1910-70 — Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Duke Ellington 50 2
6 Great Depression 1929-1939 + New Deal — FDR, Frances Perkins, Eleanor Roosevelt, Dust Bowl, Multiple Perspectives on Government's Role 50 1
7 Rise of Fascism 1920s-30s — Mussolini, Hitler, Imperial Japan + Spanish Civil War + Munich Appeasement 1938 50 1
8 WWII 1939-1945 — European + Pacific Theaters, Home Front, Double V Campaign, Women's Roles, Manhattan Project 50 1
9 Japanese American Incarceration 1942-1946 — TRAUMA-INFORMED — Executive Order 9066, Korematsu, Manzanar, Densho, Civil Liberties Act of 1988 Redress 50 1
10 The Holocaust — TRAUMA-INFORMED — Yad Vashem 'Each Person Has a Name' — 6 Million Jewish Victims + 5 Million Additional Victims 55 1
11 Hiroshima August 6 1945 + Nagasaki August 9 1945 — TRAUMA-INFORMED — Hibakusha Own-Voice — Setsuko Thurlow 2017 Nobel + Sadako Sasaki + Hersey 1946 + Multi-Perspective US Decision-Making 55 1
12 Tulsa Race Massacre May 31 – June 1 1921 + Emmett Till August 28 1955 + Continued Lynching 1877-1968 — TRAUMA-INFORMED — EJI 2017 Continuity from G8-Fall 50 1
13 Vietnam War 1955-1975 — TRAUMA-INFORMED — Vietnamese + Vietnamese-American Own-Voice — Bao Ninh, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Thi Bui, Phan Thi Kim Phuc 55 1
14 Civil Rights Movement Phase 1 — Brown 1954 → Montgomery 1955-56 → Little Rock 1957 → Sit-ins 1960 → Freedom Rides 1961 → Birmingham 1963 + MLK Letter from Birmingham Jail 50 1
15 Civil Rights Movement Phase 2 — Freedom Summer 1964 + Fannie Lou Hamer DNC + Selma March 1965 + Voting Rights Act Aug 6 1965 + Black Power + MLK Assassination April 4 1968 — Ella Baker, Bayard Rustin, Fannie Lou Hamer, Bob Moses, Diane Nash, Malcolm X 50 1
16 Long Civil Rights Multi-Movement 1965-Present — Chicano (Chavez/Huerta) + AIM (Alcatraz/Wounded Knee II) + Asian American + Stonewall (Marsha P. Johnson/Sylvia Rivera) + Women's Liberation (Combahee/Crenshaw) + Disability Rights (Heumann) 55 1
17 Decolonization 1947-1994 — TRAUMA-INFORMED — Gandhi, Nehru, Ambedkar, Nkrumah, Lumumba, Fanon, Kenyatta, Mandela, Biko Own-Voice 55 1
18 Cold War 1945-91 Deep + Globalization + Internet + Climate Change — 9/11 + COVID-19 + Greta Thunberg — TRAUMA-INFORMED for Cold War + 9/11 + COVID 50 2
19 US Civics Deep-Dive — How a Bill Becomes a Law (14 Stages) + Mock-Congress Simulation Tracing Civil Rights Act of 1964 50 1
20 US Civics Deep-Dive — Supreme Court Process (9 Stages) + Judicial Review + Mock-Brown Re-Argument Dec 8 1953 50 1
21 US Civics Deep-Dive — Federalism, Voting Rights Expansion 1870-2026, Current Civic Challenges via Kettering NIF Deliberation 50 1
22 CAPSTONE — Long Civil Rights Multi-Movement Research Storybook + Civic-Action Letter + 5-Star Rubric + 5-Question Self-Reflection (Banks Level 4 Social Action) — K-8 History Capstone 90 5

Skills (22)

Strand · CHR
Strand · CIV
Strand · CUL
Strand · ECO
Strand · GEO
Strand · HIS

Assessments (2)

  • Summative week 18 90 min covers 13 skills
  • Summative week 9 60 min covers 9 skills

Standards alignment

Framework
C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards — Grades 6-8 (NCSS 2013)
D1.1.6-8 — Explain how a question...D1.2.6-8 — Explain points of...D1.3.6-8 — Explain how questions are...D1.4.6-8 — Explain how the...D1.5.6-8 — Determine the kinds of...D2.His.1.6-8 — Analyze connections...D2.His.2.6-8 — Classify series of...D2.His.3.6-8 — Use questions...D2.His.4.6-8 — Analyze multiple...D2.His.5.6-8 — Explain how and why...D2.His.6.6-8 — Analyze how people's...D2.His.9.6-8 — Classify the kinds of... + 44 more
Framework
NCSS National Curriculum Standards for Social Studies (10 themes) — Middle Grades
Theme I — Culture (Harlem...Theme II — Time, Continuity, and...Theme III — People, Places, and...Theme IV — Individual Development...Theme V — Individuals, Groups, and...Theme VI — Power, Authority, and...Theme VII — Production,...Theme VIII — Science, Technology,...Theme IX — Global Connections (WWI +...Theme X — Civic Ideals and Practices...
Framework
English National Curriculum — History KS3 (statutory programme of study, 2014 reforms)
KS3 — 'challenges for Britain,...KS3 — 'the Holocaust' — KS3...KS3 Aim 1 — know and understand the...KS3 Aim 2 — know and understand...KS3 Aim 3 — gain and deploy a...KS3 Aim 4 — understand historical...KS3 Aim 5 — understand the methods...KS3 Aim 6 — gain historical...
Framework
California History–Social Science Content Standards — Grade 8 (US History and Geography: Growth and Conflict) cluster 8.11–8.12 + Grade 11 (US History and Geography: Continuity and Change in the 20th Century) cluster 11.1–11.11 SCAFFOLDED ENTRY
8.11.5 — Understand the Thirteenth,...8.12.5 — Examine the location and...8.12.6 — Discuss child labor,...11.1 — Students analyze the...11.2.4 — Analyze the effect of urban...11.2.7 — Analyze the similarities...11.2.8 — Examine the effect of...11.2.9 — Understand the effect of...11.3.5 — Describe the principles of...11.4.2 — Describe the...11.4.3 — Discuss America's role in...11.4.4 — Explain Theodore... + 18 more
Framework
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills — Social Studies §113.20 Grade 8 US History Studies Since 1877 cluster (3)–(13) IN FULL with §113.41 G11 preview
§113.20(c)(3)(A) — analyze political...§113.20(c)(5)(C) — analyze social...§113.20(c)(6)(A) — identify reasons...§113.20(c)(6)(B) — evaluate American...§113.20(c)(7)(A) — analyze the...§113.20(c)(7)(B) — evaluate the...§113.20(c)(7)(C) — explain why the...§113.41(c)(7)(F) — describe the U.S....§113.41(c)(7)(I) — analyze major...§113.41(c)(9)(F) — describe how...§113.41(c)(9)(G) — explain U.S....§113.41(c)(10) — Civil Rights —... + 1 more
Framework
New York State Grade 7-8 Social Studies Framework — United States and New York State History — G8 cluster 8.2–8.10
8.2 — A Changing Society: Reform...8.2c — Different reform movements...8.3 — Expansion and Imperialism...8.4 — World War I (1914-18) and the...8.5 — The Great Depression (1929-39)...8.6 — World War II (1939-45)...8.7 — Foreign Policy after WWII...8.8 — Demographic Change (post-WWII...8.9 — Domestic Politics and Reform...8.10 — Contemporary US...

Pedagogical anchors

  • C3 Framework Inquiry Arc Dimensions 1-4 (NCSS 2013)
    Compelling question 'Whose 20th century? Whose civil rights? Whose freedom?' drives all 22 lessons; supporting questions per lesson; D2 disciplinary tools (chronology + civics + sourcing + spatial + economic) all engaged; D3 evaluating sources via MG-7 TWELVE-Question Source Card (G7's 8 + G8-Fall Q9 LOST-CAUSE-DETECTION + new Q10 SURVIVOR-OWN-VOICE-CENTERED + new Q11 MULTI-PERSPECTIVE-CHECK + new Q12 PRESENT-CONNECTION); D4 communicating conclusions via Lesson 22 capstone Long-Civil-Rights Multi-Movement student-research presentation + civic-action letter to 1 of 14 named institutions.
  • Wineburg Historical Thinking — Reading Like a Historian (Sam Wineburg, Stanford SHEG) — full 4-question routine sourcing/contextualization/corroboration/close reading PLUS multi-perspective check
    MG-7 TWELVE-Question SOURCE CARD active in all 22 lessons; SHEG 'Atomic Bomb' + 'Vietnam War' + 'Civil Rights Movement' + 'Cold War' lesson modules directly adapted in Lessons 11, 13, 14, 17, 18
  • Document-Based Learning (DBL) routines — survivor-voice + own-voice + civil-rights-leader + decolonial-leader primary sources
    FDR Fireside Chats (Lessons 8-9); Anne Frank Diary 1942-44 + Elie Wiesel Night 1958 + Primo Levi Survival in Auschwitz 1947 (Lesson 10); Hersey 1946 Hiroshima + Sadako Sasaki story + Setsuko Thurlow 2017 Nobel Lecture (Lesson 11); MLK Letter from Birmingham Jail April 16 1963 + I Have a Dream Aug 28 1963 (Lessons 14-15); Ella Baker 1960 'More Than a Hamburger' + Fannie Lou Hamer 1964 DNC testimony (Lesson 15); Malcolm X Ballot or Bullet 1964 (Lesson 15); Bao Ninh 1990 + Thi Bui 2017 + Viet Thanh Nguyen 2016 (Lesson 13); Cesar Chavez Plan of Delano 1966 (Lesson 16); Russell Means AIM 1973 + Trail of Broken Treaties 20-Point Position Paper 1972 (Lesson 16); Marsha P. Johnson + Sylvia Rivera Stonewall 1969 oral histories (Lesson 16); Gandhi 1909 + Nehru 1946 Tryst with Destiny + Nkrumah 1957 + Fanon 1961 + Mandela 1964 Rivonia Speech + 1994 Inaugural (Lesson 17)
  • NMAI Native Knowledge 360° (Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian) — Native-Living-Descendant Present-Tense Protocol
    574 federally-recognized tribes today named at unit opening; Indigenous-self-determination 1968-present is core curriculum (Lesson 16) — Alcatraz Occupation Nov 20 1969 – June 11 1971; Trail of Broken Treaties 1972; Wounded Knee II Feb 27 – May 8 1973; Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act Jan 4 1975; American Indian Religious Freedom Act 1978; NAGPRA 1990; UNDRIP 2007; Standing Rock 2016-17; LandBack movement; framed as ONGOING sovereign-nation self-determination per Treuer 2019 + Estes 2019 Our History Is the Future
  • Teaching Hard History K-12 (Learning for Justice 2018/2022, Hasan Kwame Jeffries lead author) — extended to 20th century via Long Civil Rights Movement framework
    Framework PRIMARY anchor for ALL civil rights + segregation + Japanese internment + lynching-into-20th-century content (Lessons 6, 8-9, 12, 14-15); Hall 2005 Long Civil Rights Movement extends Jeffries 2018 forward into multi-movement framework; refusing 'MLK-only' single-leader hagiography per Bayard Rustin + Ella Baker + Fannie Lou Hamer + Bob Moses + Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) own-voice centering
  • 1619 Project K-12 Education materials (Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., NYT Magazine 2019, Pulitzer Center K-12 curriculum)
    Centers Black Americans as foundational; applied at Lessons 5 (Great Migration 1910-70 + Harlem Renaissance), 8 (Black labor in WWII + Double V Campaign 1942), 12 (Emmett Till Aug 28 1955 + Tulsa Race Massacre May 31 – June 1 1921), 14-15 (Civil Rights Movement multi-leader), 16 (Black Power + Combahee), 21 (Black women's intersectional civic challenge — Crenshaw 1989); Wesley Morris on music + Hannah-Jones on democracy essays directly applied
  • Yad Vashem — The World Holocaust Remembrance Center International School for Holocaust Studies pedagogy: 'Each person has a name' + survivor-voice-centered + name-restoration
    PRIMARY anchor for Lesson 10 Holocaust (TRAUMA-INFORMED MG-15 active); refusing dehumanizing statistic-only framing; naming individual victims via Yad Vashem Pages of Testimony (4.5 million names recovered as of 2024); 6 million Jews murdered + additional 5 million victims (Roma + Sinti + disabled people murdered in Aktion T4 1939-45 + LGBTQ+ people + Soviet POWs 3.3M murdered + Polish + Slavic civilians + political prisoners + Jehovah's Witnesses + Black Germans); centered survivor voices: Anne Frank Diary + Elie Wiesel Night 1958 + Primo Levi Survival in Auschwitz 1947 + Helen Fagin USC Shoah Foundation testimony + Vladka Meed Warsaw Ghetto Uprising 1943 + Marek Edelman + Hannah Senesh; USHMM teacher guidelines refusing simulation activities and refusing graphic imagery
  • USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education — IWitness K-12 platform (Steven Spielberg 1994+)
    Lesson 10 — 56,000+ Holocaust survivor testimonies on IWitness K-12 platform; trauma-informed clip-selection guidelines; survivor 'Last Generation' age-and-passing protocol (most witnesses now in 90s+; pedagogy includes the preservation responsibility)
  • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) Guidelines for Teaching about the Holocaust (1993/2019)
    Lesson 10 — 12 USHMM teaching guidelines applied: define the term Holocaust + investigate what made it possible + avoid simple answers + balance the perspectives + don't compare in mathematical terms + select age-appropriate sources + use accurate testimony + don't romanticize history + contextualize history + translate statistics into personal stories + make responsible methodological choices + use language carefully (no 'innocent civilians' since 'innocent' implies others were guilty)
  • Hibakusha own-voice pedagogy — Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum + Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum + Hibakusha Stories curriculum
    PRIMARY anchor for Lesson 11 atomic bombings (TRAUMA-INFORMED MG-15 active); centering hibakusha (被爆者 'bomb-affected people') voices: Yamaoka Michiko + Sadako Sasaki (paper cranes; died Oct 25 1955 age 12) + Setsuko Thurlow (Hiroshima survivor; ICAN Nobel Peace Prize co-laureate 2017 acceptance lecture); Hersey 1946 'Hiroshima' New Yorker August 31 1946 (Mrs. Nakamura + Father Kleinsorge + Dr. Sasaki + Dr. Fujii + Miss Sasaki + Reverend Tanimoto) read together; Yoneyama 1999 Hiroshima Traces; Lifton 1967 Death in Life; INCLUDES multiple-perspective US decision-making contextualization (Stimson + Byrnes + Manhattan Project scientists Szilard petition July 17 1945 + Franck Report June 11 1945)
  • Vietnamese and Vietnamese-American own-voice pedagogy — Viet Thanh Nguyen Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network DVAN
    PRIMARY anchor for Lesson 13 Vietnam War (TRAUMA-INFORMED MG-15 active); refusing US-only single-perspective framing; centering Vietnamese voices Bao Ninh The Sorrow of War 1990 (NVA soldier perspective) + Duong Thu Huong + Le Ly Hayslip 1989 When Heaven and Earth Changed Places; Vietnamese-American voices Viet Thanh Nguyen The Sympathizer 2015 (Pulitzer Prize) / Nothing Ever Dies 2016 / The Refugees 2017; Thi Bui The Best We Could Do 2017 graphic memoir; Ocean Vuong 2019 On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous; Monique Truong; Andrew Pham; INCLUDES US-soldier perspectives Tim O'Brien 1990 The Things They Carried + Wallace Terry 1984 Bloods; INCLUDES Vietnamese government 1995 estimate ~3 million Vietnamese dead + 58,220 US dead per Vietnam Veterans Memorial; My Lai March 16 1968 + Hugh Thompson Jr. + Lawrence Colburn; Phan Thi Kim Phuc 'Napalm Girl' photo June 8 1972 Nick Ut Pulitzer; Agent Orange ongoing intergenerational birth defects
  • Densho — Japanese American Incarceration oral history (Frank Abe + Tom Ikeda 1996+) + Manzanar National Historic Site + Tule Lake + Heart Mountain
    PRIMARY anchor for Lesson 9 Japanese American incarceration; centering Densho 1,200+ oral history testimonies; Yoshiko Uchida 1971 Journey to Topaz + 1982 Desert Exile; George Takei 2019 They Called Us Enemy graphic memoir; Mitsuye Yamada 1976 Camp Notes; Mine Okubo 1946 Citizen 13660; Korematsu v. United States 1944 (overruled in dicta Trump v. Hawaii 2018 Roberts CJ); Civil Liberties Act of 1988 apology + $20,000 redress per surviving incarceree; 442nd Regimental Combat Team most-decorated unit of its size in US military history; refusing 'internment' euphemism — using 'incarceration' per Densho terminology guidelines
  • Long Civil Rights Movement framework (Jacquelyn Dowd Hall 2005 American Historical Review) + Hasan Kwame Jeffries 2018 + Bobby J. Smith II + Barbara Ransby 2003
    PRIMARY anchor for Lessons 14-16; Hall 2005 explicitly refuses 'short' 1954-65 framing and 'MLK-only' framing — centering Ella Baker (Ransby 2003 Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement) + Bayard Rustin (D'Emilio 2003 Lost Prophet) + Fannie Lou Hamer (Lee 2013 For Freedom's Sake) + Bob Moses + Septima Clark + Daisy Bates + Diane Nash + Pauli Murray + James Baldwin + Audre Lorde + Combahee River Collective 1977; multi-movement extension to Chicano + AIM + Asian American + Stonewall + Women's Liberation + Disability Rights per Hall 2005 + Hill 2019
  • Chicano/a/x history own-voice anchors — Cesar Chavez Foundation + UFW + Dolores Huerta Foundation + Chicana feminism
    Lesson 16 — Cesar Chavez 1962 NFWA + 1965 Delano Grape Strike + 1966 Plan of Delano + 1968 25-day fast; Dolores Huerta 'Si Se Puede' 1972 + own-voice; Rodolfo 'Corky' Gonzales 1969 Plan Espiritual de Aztlán + I Am Joaquin 1967; Reies Lopez Tijerina; Brown Berets 1967; East LA walkouts March 1968; Chicano Moratorium August 29 1970 Ruben Salazar; Gloria Anzaldua 1987 Borderlands/La Frontera (queer Chicana feminist)
  • American Indian Movement (AIM) self-determination era own-voice — Russell Means + Dennis Banks + Clyde Bellecourt + LaDonna Harris + International Indian Treaty Council
    Lesson 16 — Alcatraz Occupation Nov 20 1969 – June 11 1971 (Indians of All Tribes Richard Oakes + LaNada Means); Trail of Broken Treaties Nov 3-8 1972 + BIA Building occupation + 20-Point Position Paper; Wounded Knee II Feb 27 – May 8 1973 (71-day standoff led by Oglala Lakota traditional council + AIM); Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act Jan 4 1975 PL 93-638; American Indian Religious Freedom Act 1978; NAGPRA 1990; Vine Deloria Jr. + David Treuer + Nick Estes 2019 Our History Is the Future + Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz 2014 + Sarah Deer; LandBack movement
  • LGBTQ+ Movement Stonewall + post-Stonewall liberation own-voice — Marsha P. Johnson Institute + STAR (Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries) Sylvia Rivera + ACT UP + Bayard Rustin Center
    Lesson 16 — Stonewall Uprising June 28 – July 3 1969 NYC (Marsha P. Johnson + Sylvia Rivera + Stormé DeLarverie); STAR 1970 Marsha P. Johnson + Sylvia Rivera trans Black + Puerto Rican leadership; first Christopher Street Liberation Day March June 28 1970; Lavender Menace 1970; Combahee River Collective 1977 Black + queer feminist; Audre Lorde 1984 Sister Outsider; HIV/AIDS crisis 1981+ + ACT UP 1987 Larry Kramer + AIDS Memorial Quilt 1985 Cleve Jones; Bayard Rustin 1963 MoW architect re-centered as gay Black civil-rights leader per D'Emilio 2003; Lawrence v. Texas 2003; Obergefell v. Hodges 2015
  • Women's Liberation Movement own-voice — Betty Friedan + Gloria Steinem + Shirley Chisholm + bell hooks + Combahee River Collective + intersectional feminism (Crenshaw 1989)
    Lesson 16 + Lesson 6 — 19th Amendment 1920 with explicit Black women's struggle for the vote (Sojourner Truth + Ida B. Wells + Mary Church Terrell + Frances E. W. Harper + Adella Hunt Logan + NACW 1896); Title IX June 23 1972; Equal Rights Amendment 1972 (ratified by 28 states, failed federal ratification); Roe v. Wade Jan 22 1973 + Dobbs v. Jackson 2022 reversal; intersectional feminism Crenshaw 1989 + Combahee 1977 + bell hooks Ain't I a Woman 1981; Shirley Chisholm 1968 first Black congresswoman + 1972 presidential campaign
  • Disability Rights Movement own-voice — Judith Heumann + Ed Roberts + Section 504 sit-ins 1977 + ADA 1990 + crip theory
    Lesson 16 — Disabled in Action 1970 Judy Heumann; Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 + April 5–30 1977 26-day occupation HEW San Francisco (longest non-violent occupation of a federal building in US history per Heumann 2020 Being Heumann); ADA Americans with Disabilities Act July 26 1990 + Capitol Crawl March 12 1990; Justin Dart Jr.; Crip Camp 2020 documentary James Lebrecht + Nicole Newnham
  • Decolonial own-voice pedagogy — anti-colonial leader primary sources from EACH continent
    PRIMARY anchor for Lesson 17 decolonization (1947-94); Asia: Gandhi Hind Swaraj 1909 + Salt March 1930 + Quit India 1942 + Nehru Tryst with Destiny Aug 14 1947; Bhimrao Ambedkar (Dalit) 1949 Indian Constitution; Aung San Burma; Sukarno Indonesia 1945-49; Ho Chi Minh Vietnam 1945 Declaration of Independence (quoting US 1776); Africa: Kwame Nkrumah I Speak of Freedom 1961 Ghana 1957; Patrice Lumumba Congo 1960 + 1961 assassination; Jomo Kenyatta Facing Mount Kenya 1938 Kenya 1963; Julius Nyerere Tanzania; Amílcar Cabral Guinea-Bissau; Samora Machel Mozambique; Nelson Mandela Long Walk to Freedom 1994 + Rivonia Speech Apr 20 1964 + 1994 Inaugural; Steve Biko I Write What I Like 1978; Caribbean: C.L.R. James The Black Jacobins 1938 (Haitian Revolution); Frantz Fanon (Martinique) Black Skin White Masks 1952 + The Wretched of the Earth 1961; Aimé Césaire Discourse on Colonialism 1950; Latin America: Salvador Allende Chile + 1973 coup; Pacific: Pacific Islands decolonization Samoa 1962 + Fiji 1970; ALSO Bandung Conference April 18-24 1955 Non-Aligned Movement 29 Asian + African nations
  • Civic Mission of Schools — CIRCLE Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (Tufts) + 6 Proven Practices in Civic Education
    PRIMARY anchor for Lessons 19-21 + 22 capstone; CIRCLE's 6 Proven Practices: (1) classroom instruction in government + history + law + economics; (2) discussion of current local + national + international issues; (3) service learning linked to academic content; (4) extracurricular activities; (5) student participation in school governance; (6) simulations of democratic processes (mock Congress + mock trial + Model UN); applied to Lesson 19 (14-stage bill-becomes-law simulation), Lesson 20 (mock Supreme Court Brown v. Board re-argument), Lesson 21 (current civic challenges deliberation Kettering Foundation NIF deliberation guide)
  • iCivics (Justice Sandra Day O'Connor 2009 founding) curriculum library — free K-12 civics games + lessons + DBQuests
    Lessons 19-21 — iCivics 'Cast Your Vote', 'Do I Have a Right?', 'LawCraft' (legislative simulation), 'Race to Ratify', 'Court Quest', 'Argument Wars' (Supreme Court oral argument simulation), 'NewsFeed Defenders' (media literacy + free speech); DBQuests 'The Civil Rights Movement' + 'A New Nation' applied
  • Eric Foner The Story of American Freedom (1998) + Give Me Liberty! An American History (Foner 2005/2023 6th ed) + Linda Gordon + Howard Zinn 1980
    Lessons 14-15 (Civil Rights Movement); Foner 1998 frames freedom as contested concept reshaped each generation by social movements; PRIMARY scholarly anchor for continuity-and-change civil-rights framework
  • Long Civil Rights Movement Carolina Conference (1996+) + UNC Center for the Study of the American South — Hall 2005 + Lassiter 2006 + Theoharis 2018
    Lessons 14-15 — Jeanne Theoharis 2013 Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks (Parks 1955 as 12-year activist not 'tired seamstress'); Charles Payne 1995 I've Got the Light of Freedom (SNCC Mississippi); John Dittmer 1994 Local People (Mississippi grassroots); Tomiko Brown-Nagin 2011 Courage to Dissent (Atlanta women); Pauli Murray Proud Shoes 1956 + States' Laws on Race and Color 1951
  • Trauma-Informed Pedagogy (van der Kolk 2014 + NCTSN National Child Traumatic Stress Network + Learning for Justice + Hammond Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain 2014 + Bath 2008 Three Pillars of Trauma-Informed Care)
    MG-15 PROTOCOL active for WWI + Holocaust + Hiroshima + Vietnam + civil-rights violence + Indigenous-self-determination violence + 9/11 + COVID-19 lessons (Lessons 4, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 17, 18); caregiver letters in advance weeks 4 + 9 + 10 + 11 + 12 + 13 + 17 + 18; Compassion Circle close; alternative-assignment options; refusal of sensationalized imagery; never showing graphic imagery; n-word substituted with 'the n-word' per current best practice; explicit acknowledgment students may have direct ancestral connection (Holocaust descendants + hibakusha descendants + Vietnamese-American students + civil-rights movement descendants + Indigenous students + LGBTQ+ students + post-9/11 Muslim-American students + COVID-loss students)
  • Banks Multicultural Education Levels — Banks Level 3 Transformative + Level 4 Social Action (Banks 1989/2008)
    Structural choice of MG-2 TWENTIETH-CENTURY-WORLD Atlas centering Black + Indigenous + Chicano + Asian American + LGBTQ+ + disability + women's + decolonial + working-class voices on EQUAL FOOTING with US presidents + European leaders; Lessons 9 (Densho), 10 (Yad Vashem), 11 (hibakusha), 13 (Vietnamese), 14-16 (multi-movement civil rights), 17 (decolonial own-voice) are all Level 3 STRUCTURAL transformation; capstone Lesson 22 civic-action letter mailed to 1 of 14 named institutions is Level 4 SOCIAL ACTION
  • Foxfire pedagogy — student-as-researcher + student-as-publisher + 3-copy preservation protocol (Wigginton 1985) + carry-forward from G8-Fall capstone
    Lesson 22 (90-min capstone) — each student researches ONE long civil rights movement of student-choice + produces a Foxfire 3-copy oral-history-and-research storybook; 3 copies: 1 to school library + 1 to family + 1 to a named descendant-community institution (NMAAHC + Yad Vashem USC Shoah Foundation + Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum + Manzanar NHS / Densho + Smithsonian National Museum of the American Latino + Smithsonian APA Center + Stonewall National Monument + Disability Visibility Project + Apartheid Museum + Mahatma Gandhi National Memorial + Nelson Mandela Foundation + Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive + AIM Grand Governing Council + Combahee Survivors Memorial)
  • Kettering Foundation + National Issues Forums (NIF) deliberation guide — democratic deliberation in classrooms
    Lesson 21 current civic challenges — NIF 3-option deliberation framework applied to free speech tensions + voting access + electoral process + Electoral College debate + gerrymandering + campaign finance; Mathews 2014 The Ecology of Democracy applied
  • SHEG Civic Online Reasoning (Stanford 2019) + News Literacy Project + AllSides
    Lesson 21 — applied to current-events deliberation; lateral reading + click-restraint + source-credibility evaluation for 21st-century civic discourse
  • UDL Universal Design for Learning (CAST 2018) + Responsive Classroom + Building Thinking Classrooms (Liljedahl 2020 Visibly Random Groups + Vertical Non-Permanent Surfaces) + Hammond Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain 2014
    UDL Principles 1-3 throughout; VRG group-formation at Lessons 3, 6, 9, 12, 14, 15, 16, 19, 20, 22; VNPS at all source-analysis lessons; Hammond's brain-based moves at Lessons 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 22
  • Annette Gordon-Reed + Henry Louis Gates Jr. + Ibram X. Kendi + Nikole Hannah-Jones + Imani Perry — Black-author K-12 mentor scholarship
    Lessons 12 (Tulsa 1921 + Emmett Till 1955), 14-15 (Civil Rights Movement multi-leader), 21 (current civic challenges intersectional analysis); Perry 2022 South to America + Kendi 2016 Stamped from the Beginning + Hannah-Jones 1619 Project + Gates 2013 Many Rivers to Cross
  • Carry-forward from G8-Fall — SEVEN PROMISES extended to TWELVE PROMISES + MG-7 SOURCE CARD extended from NINE to TWELVE questions + MG-23 5-STAR RUBRIC + I-STILL-WONDER chart from G8-Fall capstone Lesson 20 bridges into G8-Spring Lesson 1
    Lesson 1 opens with G8-Fall MG-23 I-STILL-WONDER chart; recites SEVEN PROMISES from G8-Fall + adds NEW MG-14c HOLOCAUST-YAD-VASHEM-EACH-PERSON-HAS-A-NAME (8th) + NEW MG-14d HIBAKUSHA-OWN-VOICE (9th) + NEW MG-14e VIETNAMESE-OWN-VOICE (10th) + NEW MG-14f LONG-CIVIL-RIGHTS-MULTI-MOVEMENT (11th) + NEW MG-14g DECOLONIAL-OWN-VOICE (12th); MG-7 SOURCE CARD extended with Q10 SURVIVOR-OWN-VOICE-CENTERED + Q11 MULTI-PERSPECTIVE-CHECK + Q12 PRESENT-CONNECTION

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AND exceeds C3 D2.His.1-17.6-8 + D2.Civ.1-14.6-8 + D2.Eco.1-15.6-8 + D2.Geo.1-12.6-8; NCSS Themes I–X; English NC History KS3 'challenges for Britain, Europe and the wider world 1901 to the present day' adapted to 20th-century US + world arc; California HSS Grade 8 cluster 8.11–8.12 transition + Grade 11 11.1–11.11 SCAFFOLDED ENTRY; TEKS §113.20 Grade 8 US History Since 1877 cluster (3)–(13) IN FULL with §113.41 G11 preview

Exceeds
  1. 01
    TEACHING THE HOLOCAUST VIA YAD VASHEM

    'EACH PERSON HAS A NAME' PEDAGOGY — refusing dehumanizing statistic-only framing; naming the 6 million Jewish victims + 5 million additional victims (Roma + Sinti + disabled people murdered in Aktion T4 + LGBTQ+ people + Soviet POWs + political prisoners + Jehovah's Witnesses + Black Germans + Polish + Slavic victims) per Yad Vashem International School + USHMM teacher guidelines;

  2. 02
    TEACHING HIROSHIMA + NAGASAKI FROM HIBAKUSHA OWN-VOICE

    per Hersey 1946 + Yamaoka Michiko + Sasaki Sadako + Yoneyama 1999 + Setsuko Thurlow 2017 Nobel — refusing detached 'ended the war' single-perspective framing;

  3. 03
    TEACHING VIETNAM WAR FROM VIETNAMESE AND VIETNAMESE-AMERICAN OWN-VOICE

    per Bao Ninh The Sorrow of War 1990 + Viet Thanh Nguyen The Sympathizer 2015 / Nothing Ever Dies 2016 + Thi Bui The Best We Could Do 2017 + Le Ly Hayslip 1989 — refusing US-only single-perspective framing; including My Lai March 16 1968 + Operation Rolling Thunder + Agent Orange ongoing effects + 3M+ Vietnamese dead per Vietnamese government 1995 estimate + 58,000+ US dead;

  4. 04
    JAPANESE AMERICAN INCARCERATION 1942

    1946 NAMED AS CONSTITUTIONAL VIOLATION per Executive Order 9066 + Korematsu v. United States 1944 (overruled in dicta Trump v. Hawaii 2018) + Civil Liberties Act of 1988 redress + Manzanar Densho oral history + Yoshiko Uchida + George Takei + Mitsuye Yamada;

  5. 05
    LONG CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT TAUGHT AS MULTI-MOVEMENT STRUGGLE

    per Jacquelyn Dowd Hall 2005 + Hasan Kwame Jeffries 2018 — NOT 'MLK-only' framing — including Black Freedom Struggle (Brown 1954 + Montgomery 1955-56 + Little Rock 1957 + sit-ins 1960 + Freedom Rides 1961 + March on Washington Aug 28 1963 + Birmingham Children's Crusade + Selma + Voting Rights Act 1965 + Black Power + SNCC + Ella Baker + Fannie Lou Hamer + Bayard Rustin + James Baldwin + Audre Lorde + Combahee River Collective 1977) AND Chicano Movement (Cesar Chavez + Dolores Huerta + UFW grape boycott 1965-70 + Crusade for Justice + Plan Espiritual de Aztlán 1969 + East LA walkouts 1968) AND American Indian Movement (Alcatraz occupation Nov 20 1969 – June 11 1971 + Trail of Broken Treaties 1972 + Wounded Knee II 1973 + Indian Self-Determination Act 1975) AND Asian American Movement (Yuri Kochiyama + Grace Lee Boggs + Third World Liberation Front 1968-69 SF State + UC Berkeley) AND Stonewall June 28 1969 + Marsha P. Johnson + Sylvia Rivera AND Women's Liberation + Title IX 1972 + Roe 1973 AND Disability Rights + Section 504 sit-ins 1977 + ADA 1990;

  6. 06
    DECOLONIZATION TAUGHT FROM DECOLONIAL LEADER OWN-VOICE

    per Gandhi Hind Swaraj 1909 + Nehru 1946 + Nkrumah I Speak of Freedom 1961 + Fanon The Wretched of the Earth 1961 + Mandela Long Walk to Freedom 1994 + Kenyatta + Cabral + Lumumba — covering India 1947 + Pakistan 1947 + Indonesia 1945-49 + Vietnam 1945-54 + Ghana 1957 + 1960 Year of Africa + Algeria 1962 + Kenya 1963 + Mozambique/Angola 1975 + Zimbabwe 1980 + Namibia 1990 + South Africa apartheid end 1994;

  7. 07
    US CIVICS DEEP-DIVE

    how a bill becomes law (G8-DEEP — 14-stage House + Senate + reconciliation + presidential + override); Supreme Court process (cert + briefs + oral argument + conference + opinion-assignment + majority/concurring/dissenting + cite-checking); federal vs. state powers via Tenth + Fourteenth Amendments + commerce clause + supremacy clause; judicial review applied to civil-rights cases (Brown 1954 + Loving 1967 + Tinker 1969 + Roe 1973 + Lawrence 2003 + Obergefell 2015 + Shelby 2013 + Students for Fair Admissions 2023); voting rights expansion (15th 1870 → 19th 1920 → 24th 1964 → 26th 1971 → VRA 1965 → Shelby 2013 + ongoing struggles); current civic challenges (free speech tensions + voting access + electoral process + Electoral College debate + gerrymandering + campaign finance Citizens United 2010);

  8. 08
    NEW MG-14c HOLOCAUST-YAD-VASHEM-EACH-PERSON-HAS-A-NAME PROMISE

    (8th PROMISE); NEW MG-14d HIBAKUSHA-OWN-VOICE PROMISE (9th); NEW MG-14e VIETNAMESE-OWN-VOICE PROMISE (10th); NEW MG-14f LONG-CIVIL-RIGHTS-MULTI-MOVEMENT PROMISE (11th); NEW MG-14g DECOLONIAL-OWN-VOICE PROMISE (12th)