Tag: declarationofindependence

• Whose Independence?

  I spent quite a lot of time thinking about independence this year. It isn’t that I hadn’t considered the Declaration of Independence through the lens of equality and inequality before, but a recent PD session at Academy for Teachers helped me think about independence in a historical way that I’d not really considered. The idea…

  CherylAnne Amendola

  February 7, 2020

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• The Declaration of Independence Creatively Translated

  

  Click here to view to the lesson! Creativity holds an important place in the history classroom.  Children in an early childhood education setting are encouraged to paint, collage, and use their imaginations to learn about the world around them.  At what point during a student’s education does that change?  I argue that it doesn’t have…

  CherylAnne Amendola

  December 18, 2013

  creativity, declaration of independence, history, lesson plan, primary source

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