Abraham Lincoln: A Good Man? or A Good Man!

In this lesson, students use video from American Masters: Bill T. Jones: A Good Man along with primary sources to investigate the life of Lincoln and write a one page argument essay on whether Lincoln was "a good man."

Bamboo Mountain

In this video segment from Nature, researchers study pandas in an effort to halt their decline in population.

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A Community of People Now

In this video segment from the documentary American Masters: Bill T. Jones: A Good Man, Bill T. Jones struggles to find meaning and relevancy for the life of Abraham Lincoln in today’s social and political landscape.

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Comparing and Contrasting Information and Forming an Opinion - Santiago and Morris

Students use a T-Chart to take notes and then write a compare/contrast paragraph about a therapy dog.

Identifying Information - The Dogon of Africa

Students complete a chart to categorize information and identify missing, conflicting, unclear, and irrelevant information in a video.

Introduction to the Smoking Section

In this video segment from New York Voices, two people talk about their addiction to smoking.

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Miss Navajo

To win the competition, Miss Navajo Nation must know and speak the Navajo language in this segment from Independent Lens.

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Sandburg and Lincoln

Learn about Carl Sandburg’s biography of Abraham Lincoln in this video from American Masters: the Day Carl Sandburg Died.

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