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  • East Side High School
  • Newark, NJ
  • More than three‑quarters of students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

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This is not a typical history book! The best leaders of our country have always been the ones having the most compassion and open-minded approach toward decision making. However, many history textbooks do not completely prepare students to become these leaders due to the omission of key facts that ultimately silence certain American perspective. Obtaining "A Young People's History of the United States", Voices of People's History, and A People's History for the Classroom by Howard Zinn, will allow my students the opportunity to develop their critical thinking skills by reading and learning about U.S. History from a myriad of references and points of view, not just the confirmed outdated convention of history and often slanted perspective currently offered in most standard history textbooks. Building leaders begins with reading, opening avenues of expression and understanding. Students using this text will be able to read speeches and other primary sources which will expose and push them to not only challenge the status quo but to also believe in the spirit of diversity which built this nation and to become a stakeholder in it's future! Our students will learn this by exploring and being guided through this text. I believe that learning about history in this way will help make them into active citizens that always ask questions and think about policies, laws, and events from as many perspectives as possible. The lasting impact of this project will be the opportunity it affords my students to learn about U.S. History from a variety of vantage points.

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This is not a typical history book! The best leaders of our country have always been the ones having the most compassion and open-minded approach toward decision making. However, many history textbooks do not completely prepare students to become these leaders due to the omission of key facts that ultimately silence certain American perspective. Obtaining "A Young People's History of the United States", Voices of People's History, and A People's History for the Classroom by Howard Zinn, will allow my students the opportunity to develop their critical thinking skills by reading and learning about U.S. History from a myriad of references and points of view, not just the confirmed outdated convention of history and often slanted perspective currently offered in most standard history textbooks. Building leaders begins with reading, opening avenues of expression and understanding. Students using this text will be able to read speeches and other primary sources which will expose and push them to not only challenge the status quo but to also believe in the spirit of diversity which built this nation and to become a stakeholder in it's future! Our students will learn this by exploring and being guided through this text. I believe that learning about history in this way will help make them into active citizens that always ask questions and think about policies, laws, and events from as many perspectives as possible. The lasting impact of this project will be the opportunity it affords my students to learn about U.S. History from a variety of vantage points.

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