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This is a special opportunity just for you from Learning for Justice.

I'm Hassan Kwamey Jeffries, and this is a bonus episode of Teaching Hard History, American Slavery,

a special series from Teaching Tolerance, a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center.

In our last episode, we heard from Tamara Spears and Jordan Landfare. Now, these two

teachers are going to walk us through some lessons they created to explore the history of slavery

with their students. We'll begin with a social studies lesson

about understanding resistance and Kanye West,

followed by an English language arts lesson

that examines holidays as a way to help students

understand the history and legacy of American slavery.

I'll see you on the other side.

Enjoy.

I would like to share a lesson that I do on resistance

and how I use current events,

bringing the present into the classroom to change up my curriculum.

I was sitting on my couch, scrolling through Twitter, you know, looking at the latest news,

checking out what Black Twitter is saying, what is Edgy Twitter upset about. And then I saw

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