Teacher Resources

Writing Prompts

Inaugural Address Writing Prompt [PDF]

Special Exhibit Resources

Senator Robert F. Kennedy Speaks on Martin Luther King Jr. Analyzing Speeches Given on April 4 and 5, 1968 after the Death of Dr. King [PDF]
Mourning a President: Vocabulary [PDF]
Mourning a President: Resources for Further Study [PDF]
Mourning a President: Lesson Ideas [PDF]
Mourning a President: Lesson Plan – Comparing Poetry: Presidential Deaths of 1865 and 1963 [PDF]
Mourning a President: Lesson Plan – Landmark Flag Cases at the Supreme Court [PDF]
Amending America Exhibition Resource Guide [PDF]
A Time For Greatness: Debates Lesson Plan [PDF]
A Time For Greatness: 1960 Presidential Debate Guide [PDF]
A Time For Greatness: Political Debates Format and Evaluation Sheets [PDF]
Sign of the Times: The Great American Political Poster 1844-2012 Educator Programming Guide [PDF]

Primary Source Lesson Plans by Grade Level

Elementary School
Hispanic Americans and Civil Rights Elementary Lesson [docx]

Middle School
Middle School Lesson on School Names [docx]
Middle School Lesson on Viva Kennedy Movement [docx]

High School
HS Lesson Plan – How We Memorialize People and Events [docx]
HS Lesson Plan Civil Rights Era Protests [docx]
HS Lesson Plan Jim Crow vs. Juan Crow [docx]      Court Cases [PDF]
HS Lesson Plan Oral Histories [docx]

Primary Source Lesson Plans by Topic

Civil Rights Movement Lesson Plans
Hispanic Americans and Civil Rights Elementary Lesson [docx]
HS Lesson Plan Civil Rights Era Protests [docx]
HS Lesson Plan Jim Crow vs. Juan Crow [docx]      Court Cases [PDF]
Middle School Lesson on Viva Kennedy Movement [docx]

General Lesson Plans
Middle School Lesson on Bullying and Injustice [docx]

Mock Trial, Government and Legal Rights Lesson Plans
State of Texas vs. Lee Harvey Oswald Mock Trial [PDF] courtesy of Law-Related Education

Oral History Lesson Plans
HS Lesson Plan Oral Histories [docx]

JFK’s Legacy Lesson Plans
HS Lesson Plan Oral Histories [docx]
Middle School Lesson on School Names [docx]
HS Lesson Plan – How We Memorialize People and Events [docx]