I love that my students are eager learners. I am consistently impressed by their initiative and resolve. Last year was difficult because of the pandemic, and my students had to adjust to a schedule of fully online, hydrid, fully in-person, back to fully online, and back to fully in-person several times. They faced this challenge with patience and maturity, and we were still able to have a great learning experience.
I love seeing their confidence grow as they become better readers, writers, and thinkers.
My Project
I feel that it is important to give my students the opportunity to read topical historical scholarship, especially from current developments in the field that emphasize the stories and research of communities of color, written by scholars of color.
I want to create a small but potent classroom library that focuses on American history, and I want to allow my students to freely check out books and bring them back.
We will use this library for classroom activities and assignments, where the students learn how to quickly identify an author's thesis, summarize their main arguments, evaluate their evidence, and create a classroom synthesis of American history. Their practice with these books will put them in a position to learn how to produce historical narratives, and their final project will be modeled on these books (though on a much smaller scale).
This classroom library will also help students continue to have access to books after the COVID-19 pandemic has limited their ability to go to public libraries.
American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804
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$37.94
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$37.94
The Transcendentalists and Their World
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$35.99
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$35.99
Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early ... and the University of North Carolina Press)
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$34.95
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$34.95
Woman: The American History of an Idea
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$32.50
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$32.50
Liberty Is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution
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$31.49
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$31.49
Settler Memory: The Disavowal of Indigeneity and the Politics of Race in the United States (Critical Indigeneities)
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$27.95
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$27.95
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
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$24.99
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$24.99
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
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$22.80
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$22.80
The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution
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$21.99
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$21.99
Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory
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$19.95
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$19.95
Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip's War (The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity)
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$18.99
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$18.99
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
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$18.69
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$18.69
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
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$17.84
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$17.84
Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America
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$16.75
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$16.75
Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
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$14.99
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$14.99
Caste (Oprah's Book Club): The Origins of Our Discontents
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$14.79
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$14.79
An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States (Revisioning History)
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$13.99
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$13.99
The Wretched of the Earth
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$13.49
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$13.49
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
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$12.71
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$12.71
Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
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$12.67
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$12.67
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
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$9.11
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$9.11
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning
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$7.95
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$7.95
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$462.52
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$30.00
Total project cost
$499.46
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$88.14
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$587.60
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