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And Justice for All

Cluster 1: What's fair--what's not?

Fourth Amendment to the U. S. Constitution
Witchcraft Trials

Cluster 2: Who judges?

Jury system
Plagiarism

Cluster 3: Punishment or mercy?

Portia from The Merchant of Venice
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Cluster 4: Thinking on your own

Susan B. Anthony
Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
Gwendoyn Brooks

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Family Matters

Cluster 1: What is a family?

People of Massapequa
Norman Rockwell
Isis

Cluster 2: How are we influenced by family?

Erma Bombeck
La Bamba

Cluster 3: How do families deal with problems?

San Joaquin River
Bat Mitzvah
Stevie Wonder
Phoenix in Greek Mythology

Cluster 4: Thinking on your own

Le Monde
Third Reich
Vision Quest
Assiniboin
Washington Tribes
Abenaki Tribe

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From There to Here: The Immigrant Experience

Cluster 1: Who were the immigrants and why did they come?

John Winthrop
Massachusetts Bay Colony
Abolitionism
Irish Potato Famine
Pogrom

Cluster 2: What first experiences did immigrants have?

Ellis Island
Statue of Liberty

Cluster 3: Did immigrant expectations match reality?

Golda Meir
Yiddish Literature
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU)

Cluster 4: What is the immigrant experience today?

Refugee
International Refugee Organization
Rio Grande River
Juárez, Mexico
Immigration legislation

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A House Divided: America's Civil War

Cluster 1: 1861-1862: What were they fighting for?

Fort Sumter
Shiloh
Paul Laurence Dunbar

Cluster 2: 1863: A turning point?

Emancipation Proclamation
Robert E. Lee
William Clarke Quantrill
Free-Soil Party

Cluster 3: 1864-1865: What were the costs of the war?

Louisa May Alcott
Ulysses S. Grant
Surrender at Appomattox Court House
John Wilkes Booth

Cluster 4: Thinking on your own

Ku Klux Klan
Jim Crow laws
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Irish Republican Army
Bloody Sunday
Sudan
Slave Trade

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Times of Change: Vietnam and the 60's

Cluster 1: What were the roots of the conflict?

Green Beret
Vietminh
Vietcong
USS Maddox
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Napalm
Conscientious Objector
Domino Theory

Cluster 2: What was the war experience?

Hippie
My Lai Massacre

Cluster 3: What was happening back home?

John Phillips
Jerry Rubin

Cluster 4: Thinking on your own

Pete Seeger
Ho Chi Minh City
Gerald R. Ford
Vietnam War Veterans Memorial

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To Be a Hero

Cluster One: What Are Some Types of Heroes?

Joseph Campbell and the Hero in Myth
Achilles
Theseus
Jesse Owens

Cluster Two: What Makes a Hero?

Lewis Carroll
Crazy Horse
Quest for the Holy Grail
Elizabeth Blackwell

Cluster Three: Hero or Not?

Student Protests in China, 1919
Hero in Literature
Arthurian Legend

Cluster Four: Thinking On Your Own

Mohammad Ali
Babe Ruth
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nikki Giovanni

Resources for Voices of the Holocaust

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Voices of the Holocaust

Cluster 1: How could the Holocaust happen?

Hitler Youth Organization
Pogrom
Crystal Night

Cluster 2: How were victims oppressed?

SS
Star of David
Auschwitz

Cluster 3: Was there resistance?

Niels Bohr
German Resistance
Jewish Resistance
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Cluster 4: Why should we remember?

Dachau
Haganah

Cluster 5: Thinking on your own

Eli Wiesel
Anne Frank
Skinhead


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What on Earth?

Cluster 1: What is our relationship with nature?

Paul Bunyan
John Chapman (Johnny Appleseed)
Onondaga Nation
Iroquois Confederacy
Prince William Sound

Cluster 2: What happens when humanity and nature collide?

DDT
El Oriente, Ecuadorian Amazon Rain Forest
Lyme Disease

Cluster 3: How can we live in harmony with nature?

Black Widow Spider
Audubon Society
Biomedical Research

Cluster 4: Thinking on your own

Mushroom Hyphae
Global Warming
Greenhouse Effect
Cloning