Stone Mountain and Historical Memory: Who Defines the Past? Resources and Standards
Resources and Standards
RESOURCES
Stream the film on POV’s official film site.
The film’s official website provides more information on the film and filmmakers.
POV: Media Literacy Questions for Analyzing POV Films
This list of questions provides a useful starting point for leading rich discussions that challenge students to think critically about documentaries.
The Equal Justice Initiative (EJI)
The organization that runs The Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration, The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, and the Equal Justice Initiative. Their mission is to end mass incarceration and excessive punishment in the United States for the most vulnerable people in American society.
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice
The official website for the Memorial with multi-media resources on the project
Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror provides an interactive, multi-platform resource on the brutal wave of lynchings that terrorized Black Americans from Reconstruction through World War II including standards-aligned lesson plans on the legacy of lynching in the United States.
Website for the national public art and history project based in Philadelphia that features past and current projects, program resources, and the Monument Lab Podcast.
Whose Heritage? A Report on Public Symbols of the Confederacy
An interactive web project of the Southern Poverty Law Center that provides a comprehensive map of Confederate monuments and symbols in public spaces across the U.S. as well as lesson plans and educator resources.
The Atlanta-based ACLU of Georgia is a nonpartisan nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving the civil liberties enshrined in the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights.
STANDARDS
Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science and Technical Subjects (http://www.corestandards.org/assets/CCSSI_ELA%20Standards.pdf)
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas:
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.9-10.8
Assess the extent to which the reasoning and evidence in a text support the author's claims.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.11-12.8
Evaluate an author's premises, claims, and evidence by corroborating or challenging them with other information.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.9-10.9
Compare and contrast treatments of the same topic in several primary and secondary sources.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.11-12.9
Integrate information from diverse sources, both primary and secondary, into a coherent understanding of an idea or event, noting discrepancies among sources.
Production and Distribution of Writing:
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.9-10.6
Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update individual or shared writing products, taking advantage of technology's capacity to link to other information and to display information flexibly and dynamically.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.11-12.6
Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update individual or shared writing products in response to ongoing feedback, including new arguments or information.
Research to Build and Present Knowledge:
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.9-10.7
Conduct short as well as more sustained research projects to answer a question (including a self-generated question) or solve a problem; narrow or broaden the inquiry when appropriate; synthesize multiple sources on the subject, demonstrating understanding of the subject under investigation.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.11-12.7
Conduct short as well as more sustained research projects to answer a question (including a self-generated question) or solve a problem; narrow or broaden the inquiry when appropriate; synthesize multiple sources on the subject, demonstrating understanding of the subject under investigation.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.9-10.8
Gather relevant information from multiple authoritative print and digital sources, using advanced searches effectively; assess the usefulness of each source in answering the research question; integrate information into the text selectively to maintain the flow of ideas, avoiding plagiarism and following a standard format for citation.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.11-12.8
Gather relevant information from multiple authoritative print and digital sources, using advanced searches effectively; assess the strengths and limitations of each source in terms of the specific task, purpose, and audience; integrate information into the text selectively to maintain the flow of ideas, avoiding plagiarism and overreliance on any one source and following a standard format for citation.
Content Knowledge: (http://www2.mcrel.org/compendium/) a compilation of content standards and benchmarks for K-12 curriculum by McREL (Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning).
United States History
Standard 15. Understands how various reconstruction plans succeeded or failed
Thinking and Reasoning
Standard 1. Understands and applies the basic principles of presenting an argument
Standard 2. Understands and applies basic principles of logic and reasoning
Standard 3. Effectively uses mental processes that are based on identifying similarities and differences
National Center for History in the Schools
United States History Content Standards
United States Era 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Standard 3A: The student understands the political controversy over Reconstruction.
This lesson was reviewed by Dr. Magdalena Gross, Senior Research Associate at CSET, Stanford University.
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