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Prior Knowledge Needed: Students should be able to comfortably make inferences about characters in stories they are reading (character traits, intentions, predictions, etc.) Students should be able to...
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This is an excellent video viewing document for Episode 1 of Sisterhood: SC Suffrage (Thee Grimke Sisters through the Civil War – Part 1). While viewing the video clip students can reflect and write...
Document
Grades
- 5
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With this handout students can use magazines, poster board, and any other creative things they can find to fill the silhouette with all the things that describe the Grimké Sisters.
Document
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Students can use this document to compare and contrast the Rollins Sisters and the Grimké Sisters while viewing both videos.
Video
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Lamar High School in Darlington County, South Carolina, was the site of an attack on school buses carrying African American students to the campus on March 3, 1970. In January 1970, the 4th Circuit...
Video
Grades
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Established in Trenton (Edgefield County) in 1881 by the Reverend Alexander Bettis, this school provided former enslaved African Americans and their children with a basic education of reading and...
Lesson
Grades
- 8
The students will learn about the Grimke Sisters and their importance in history.
Lesson
Grades
- 8
The students will learn about the importance of the Rollin Sisters in history.
Document
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In the last decade, scientists have made startling discoveries indicating that Ice Age humans were in the Western hemisphere between 15 – to 20,000 years ago. Four archaeological sites related to...
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Grades
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When this documentary was produced, sixty years had passed since the end of World War II, and the last of the South Carolina veterans who fought against the Empire of Japan and Nazi Germany were dying...