Lesson Plans
Using Film in the History Classroom

• Movies in American History: movie list according to subjects
• Movie Review Guidelines
• Motion Picture Analysis Worksheet
• Readers' 100 Best Movies of All Time: link to Web site
• All Quiet on the Western Front
  • Curriculum Guide: objectives, historical background, discussion questions, activities, references
• Amistad
  • Curriculum Guide
  • Original Documents Exercise
  • Comparison Chart
  • Two Opposing Movie Views
  • Essay on James Baldwin and Ralph Ellison
  • See Resources link for Bibliography, Primary Documents, and Internet Resources
• Gandhi - 1982
  • Curriculum Guide: objectives, historical background, discussion questions, activities, references
• Glory -
  • Curriculum Guide: objectives, historical background, discussion questions, activities, references
  • Worksheet
• Romero
  • Curriculum Guide: objectives, historical background, activities, references
  • Worksheet
• Saving Private Ryan
  • Curriculum Guide: objectives, historical background, activities, references
  • Worksheet
  • Oral history project

 

Lesson Plans
Celebration of 100th Anniversary of Women's Rights

• Working With and Analyzing Primary Documents
• Cleveland Suffrage History
• Cleveland Women and the City's Bicentennial: 1896-1996
• Questions from the Women of 1896
• Video and Audio Cassettes - See the Library Center Resource section
• Publication List on Women in History - See the Women in History Resource section

 

Lesson Plans
Exploring Africa and Latin America

Africa

• August Wilson's Comment on the African's Experience in America
  • Introduction
  • Study Guide
  • Syllabus

Latin America

• Mathematics and Science of Ancient Mexico
• Latin America Movie Review Guidelines and Titles
• See Romero, listed above, under Using Films in the History Classroom

 

Lesson Plans
Ohio History

• Ohio - "The Mother of Presidents"
• Creating a Perfect World in Ohio - Ohio's Utopian Communities
• Utopian Work Sheet

 

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This page updated December 30, 2002