Grade Range: 8-12Resource Type(s): Interactives & Media, Lessons & ActivitiesDuration: 135 MinutesDate Posted: 8/3/2012
In this lesson, students will examine the difference between history and memory by debating the legacy of John Brown. Using video clips of an actor playing Brown, students are invited to debate his actions and determine how history should remember him. The video segments are also available on YouTube.
Discussions, Multimedia instruction, Simulations and games
As a boy of five, John Brown witnessed a slave his own age being beaten with a fire shovel....
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