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Lesson Plans for Lift More Voices: Integrating the Arts & Literacy

Album Description

“Lift More Voices: Integrating the Arts & Literacy to Engage Culturally & Linguistically Diverse Students” was a TPS Eastern Region funded project for pre-service teachers who were enrolled at Bronx Community College (CUNY), a public institution in New York City. The main objective was to explore the curriculum planning of pre-service teachers to understand how they could use primary sources to align the arts to their K-12 literacy lessons.

In the spring of 2022, forty preservice teachers were in two asynchronous methods courses taught by Dr. Elise Langan, in collaboration with Dr. Salika A. Lawrence and regional arts organizations, e.g., the New-York Historical Society. Four pre-recorded OnDemand workshops helped the pre-service teachers with curriculum planning. The workshops focused on curriculum development and integrating the arts into lesson plans. All workshops demonstrated the use of primary sources from the Library of Congress and other arts organizations.

The sample lesson plans in this album were selected for their diverse topics and originality. All lessons meet grades 6-12 curriculum standards. Students were given the option of translating their lesson plans into Spanish to earn extra credit. 

  6 - 8   9 - 12   English/Language Arts   Social Studies/History   Bilingual Education/ESL   pre-service teachers   curriculum 

African American woman being carried to police patrol wagon during demonstration in Brooklyn, New York

Teaching Notes

To access each complete Civil Rights Movement Lesson Plan, click on:

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2004676670/

Reference note

Created / Published

  • 1963.

Genre

  • Gelatin silver prints--1960-1970

Notes

  • -  Title devised by Library staff.
  • -  NYWT&S staff photograph.
  • -  Date stamped on verso: Aug 20 1963.
  • -  Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).
  • -  Published in: "African Americans" chapter of the ebook Great Photographs from the Library of Congress, 2013.
  • -  pp/rfcr

Repository

Digital Id

Civil Rights Lesson Plan - English Version

Teaching Notes

This is the English version of the Civil Rights Movement Lesson Plan written for 10th grade. It can be amended for other grade levels.

  9 - 12    Bilingual Education/ESL    Social Studies/History    Civil Rights  

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Civil Rights Lesson Plan - Spanish Version

Teaching Notes

This is the Spanish version of the Civil Rights Movement Lesson Plan written for 10th grade. It can be amended for other grade levels.

  Social Studies/History    Civil Rights     9 - 12    Bilingual Education/ESL  

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Indian chief in council informing his tribe of the arrival of strangers in ships [Columbus]

Teaching Notes

Click on Columbus and the Taino to access the complete lesson plan.

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2003680405/

Reference note

Created / Published

  • c1890.

Notes

  • -  Color lithograph copyrighted by Gebbie & Co. - J. Hall, Pinx.
  • -  This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.
  • -  Caption card tracings: Artists, Publ. Index (2); US Hist.; Indians Councils; Shelf.

Repository

  • Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

Digital Id

  • cph 3a46186 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a46186

Columbus and the Tainos Lesson Plan

Teaching Notes

This lesson plan was written for 7th graders. However, it could be amended for other grade levels.

Objective: Students will be able to use close reading/annotating strategies to analyze primary and secondary sources to understand the motivation for and effects of Columbus’ exploration. 

  6 - 8    Columbus    Social Studies/History    English/Language Arts    geography    middle grades  

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In old New York

Teaching Notes

This lesson is written for ninth-grade Language Arts but can be amended for other levels. 

Please click on Finding the Main Idea through Song Lyrics to access the complete lesson plan. 

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/ihas.100008071/

Reference note

Created / Published

  • M. Witmark & Sons, New York, 1903.

Repository

  • Music Division

Finding the Main Idea Through Song Lyrics

Teaching Notes

This lesson plan is written for 9th grade English Language Arts, but it can be amended for other grade levels. 

  9 - 12    English/Language Arts    Bilingual Education/ESL    Literacy    Music  

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Girls wanted / Glintenkamp.

Teaching Notes

Please click on Triangle Shirtwaist Factory & U.S. Labor Movement to access the complete lesson

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/97518221/

Reference note

Summary

  • Three women standing across street from the burned-out shell of a building from which hangs the sign, "Girls wanted." A policeman stands guard in front of the ruins.

Created / Published

  • [1916]

Notes

  • -  Title from item.
  • -  Signed in ink lower right.
  • -  Published in: The Masses, v. 8 (1916 February), p. 9.
  • -  (DLC/PP-1997:015.3349).
  • -  Forms part of: Ben and Beatrice Goldstein Foundation collection.
  • -  Reprinted in Art for The Masses (1911-1917): A radical magazine and its graphics / Rebecca Zurier. New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 1985, p. 90.
  • -  Exhibited: "Symbolic of the Triangle Waist Fire," in "The Artists' Response to Political and Social Issues" an exhibit organized by Ben Goldstein, 1971.
  • -  Exhibited: "Life of the people: realist prints and drawings from the Ben and Beatrice Goldstein Collection, 1912-1948" at the Library of Congress, 1999.
  • -  Exhibited: "From Haven to Home : A Library of Congress Exhibition Marking 350 Years of Jewish Life in America" at the Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives, Cincinnati, Ohio, 2005.

Repository

Digital Id

  • ppmsc 01016 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsc.01016
  • cph 3g05712 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g05712
  • cph 3c19277 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c19277

Triangle Shirtwaist Fire & the U.S. Labor Movement

Teaching Notes

This lesson is written for 8th graders but can be amended for other levels. 

  6 - 8    9 - 12    Social Studies/History    Labor Movement    Working conditions  

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At Elsa's Fashions

Teaching Notes

To access the complete lesson plan, click on: Women's Fashion Lesson Plan

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/afcwip001785/

Reference note

Created / Published

  • 1994-08-15

Genre

  • Ethnography
  • Photographs

Notes

  • -  Forms part of a group of images documenting scenes at the dress shop on the second floor of Elsa's Wholesale & Retail on 21st Avenue, Paterson.

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

Digital Id

Womens Fashion Lesson Plan .pdf

Teaching Notes

This lesson plan was written for grades 6-12 but can be amended for other grade levels. At Elsa's Fashions in this album is one possible Library of Congress photograph that might be used with this lesson. 

Specific learning goals for this lesson include the following options:

  • Students will be able to analyze women’s fashion from various ethnic backgrounds using primary sources.

  • Students will be to compare and contrast women’s fashion from various ethnic backgrounds using primary sources

  • Students will be able to differentiate women's fashion from various ethnic backgrounds in the past and the present.

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Augusta Savage at Work on Lift Every Voice and Sing

Teaching Notes

This image comes from the New-York Historical Society's Women and the American Story website. It is located on the page Activist Art on the World Stage, and it pictures a sculpture created by Harlem Renaissance sculptor Augusta Savage for the 1939 World's Fair. 

This image can be used as a resource for the lesson plan, Art as Activism. 

Art as Activism Lesson Plan.pdf

Teaching Notes

This lesson is written for grades 4 and 10 but can be amended for other levels. 

Specific learning goals include the following:

  • Grades 4 & 10 students will be able to determine how and why art has been used as a form of activism throughout the 20th century.
  • Grades 4 & 10 students will identify different mediums artists used to respond to world events and social issues in the 20th century.
  • Grades 4 & 10 students will gain a deeper understanding of history by analyzing art through image based inquiry.
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