US History · Week 15 · World Power and the 1920s
Fear and Civil Liberties
Students analyze the Palmer Raids, the Ku Klux Klan, and immigration quotas alongside the responses of the ACLU, NAACP, and Anti Defamation League and learn to recognize fear driven thinking in themselves.
- Students will
- Students analyze the Palmer Raids, the Ku Klux Klan, and immigration quotas and the responses of the ACLU, NAACP, and Anti Defamation League, and explain how fear shaped decisions about rights.
- SEL skill
- Identify a thought or body signal that shows fear is shaping a decision
- What it looks like
- Students practice recognizing when fear is driving their own thinking.
- Content focus
- Fear and civil liberties
- Format
- Think write pair share
Self-awareness
Self-awareness is noticing your own emotions, thoughts, and values and how they influence what you do. More self-awareness activities
What you get
A teacher guide with what to say, step by step, plus student pages and a supports page for students with diverse learning needs, including those with IEPs. Print or Project it, or assign it in Google Forms and Google Docs for Google Classroom. Your first 10 activities are free.
Standards
- 11.5.2: CA History Social Science Content Standard, Grade 11: United States History and Geography: Continuity and Change in the Twentieth Century (standard 11.5, item 2)
- CA HSS Analysis Skill: HREP2 Identify bias and prejudice in historical interpretations. (Historical Research, Evidence, and Point of View)
- C3 Framework (national): D2.Civ.10.9-12 Analyze how personal interests and perspectives affect the application of civic virtues, democratic principles, and rights.
- Literacy in history: RH.11-12.6 Compare the point of view of two or more authors on the same or related topics.
Fits these textbook chapters
- History Alive! Pursuing American Ideals, Chapter 24: The Home Front
- History Alive! Pursuing American Ideals, Chapter 26: Understanding Postwar Tensions
- History Alive! Pursuing American Ideals, Chapter 29: The Clash Between Traditionalism and Modernism
- History Alive! Pursuing American Ideals, Chapter 40: Fighting the Cold War at Home
- History Alive! Pursuing American Ideals, Chapter 59: 9/11 and Its Aftermath: Debating America's Founding Ideals
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More self-awareness activities for US History
- Becoming a Citizen Historian Self-awarenessStudents explore the Enlightenment ideas behind the nation's founding and name the questions about belonging and fairness they bring to the American story.
- Americanization and Identity Self-awarenessStudents examine the Americanization movement's pressure on immigrants to give up language and customs and reflect on the parts of their own identity they carry proudly.
- Social Darwinism or Social Gospel Self-awarenessStudents compare Social Darwinism and the Social Gospel as explanations for poverty and success and examine their own beliefs about why some people struggle.
- Harlem Renaissance Voices Self-awarenessStudents read poems by Langston Hughes and work by Zora Neale Hurston and use writing to express an emotion and an identity of their own.
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