Teaching Guide: Exploring The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963

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Keywords
literature fiction Christopher Paul Curtis Birmingham church bombing civil rights racism Alabama primary sources critical thinking analysis civil rights movement social justice institutional racism segregation photographs letters excerpts
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English-Language Arts History-Social Science
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Grade 6 Grade 7 Grade 8 Grade 9 Grade 10 Grade 11 Grade 12 Post-Secondary
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Teaching Guide: Exploring The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963

This teaching guide helps instructors use a specific primary source set, The Watsons Go To Birmingham—1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis, in the classroom. It offers discussion questions, classroom activities, and primary source analysis tools. It is intended to spark pedagogical creativity by giving a sample approach to the material. Please feel free to share, reuse, and adapt the resources in this guide for your teaching purposes.
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PBS Learning Media

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