Content-Area Literacy

Real World History: Six Videos that Model and Inspire

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 Looking for ways to involve high-school students in using historical tools to craft arguments and make personal connections to current issues? These six short NWP-produced videos spotlight Cosby Hunt’s Real World History program, one of the 2014 LRNG Innovators Challenge grantees. Real World History is a high-school course that frames history as an argument about the past and teaches students to think like historians. The video footage, focused on a study of the Great Migration of the 20th Century, could be a springboard for curriculum design or spark conversation in classes or professional development focused on disciplinary literacy with a social justice bent. Originally published on January 29, 2018

Cosby Hunt kneeling in the front row of a group shot of students, all pointing at him and smiling.

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