Active Viewing: The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter
In this activity, students watch film clips from the documentary The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter, decode a propaganda poster, and analyze statistics about working women during World War II. Parts of this activity can be completed without [...]
Tags: Active Viewing, Common Core Reading, Delving into Data, Lessons in Looking, Rosie the Riveter, World War II
Item Type: Teaching Activity
Historical Era: Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
Active Viewing: Up South
In this activity, students watch the ASHP documentary Up South: African-American Migration in the Era of the Great War with documents and exercises designed to support and reinforce the documentary's key concepts of Jim Crow, lynching, [...]
Tags: Active Viewing, Common Core Reading, Common Core Writing, Delving into Data, Great Migration, Up South
Item Type: Teaching Activity
Historical Era: Modern America (1914-1929)