Methods for Social Studies
How Do I Keep My Ideals and
Still Teach?
©Rich Gibson
2000 Renaissance Community Press
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TABLE OF CONTENTS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER
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After Dinner Conversations
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The Air on Both Sides of the
Screen Door
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Antennas Up! The Author's
Chair
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The Art (Music, Dance, Film,
etc.) Detective
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Beginning Wherever and
Webbing
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Beware of Golden Handcuffs
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Circle of Responders
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Class Council
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The Class is NOT Over
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Classroom Debates
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Classroom Management?
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Crap Detection
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Critique Tyranny
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Culture Jammin’
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Democracy as a Problem
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Dialectical Scientific
Evidence
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Don't Forget the Working Class,
the Force of Modern History
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Dub the
Room
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Duration Lines
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Enablers
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Every Trial is a Big Trial
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The Eye of the Beholder
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Fabulous Realities (from Ken
Macrorie)
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Farmer Duck, the Story, the
Book, the Plan, the Big Book
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Fight Racism Everyday
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Fly Me to the Moon
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Follow the Money
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Four-Squares
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Freedom of Information Act Requests
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Freedom Schools
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Good Questions better than
Good Answers
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Grow Stuff and Eat It
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He Who Insists He is the
Khan, is Not the Khan
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Heroes Schmeroes Sez Me
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Hey, What’s That Noise?
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History of Fairlyland
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The History of Me–and Grandma
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The History Wars
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How Come That’s Funny?
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How did Mao deal with Stalin?
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Hunter Scott and the Sinking
of the Indianapolis
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"I ain't the worlds best
writer nor the worlds best speller, But when I believe in something I'm
the loudest yeller." --Woody Guthrie (1950)
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I Search Papers (also from
Ken Macrorie)
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Imagine, Wonder, Guess
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Informational Picketing
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Interest and Integrity
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International Computer
Comrades
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Introduction
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It's About Time!
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Journals and Active Literacy:
Reading the Word is Reading the World
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Just Tell Me What to do and
I Will Do It
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The Lewis and Carol Journal
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Make Friends
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Mapping
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Marionette Plays
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Mentoring the Mentors
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Micro-Macro-Cosm
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Mock Legislative Hearings
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The most powerful weapon
in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
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Move from the Cover to the
Book
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Mrs Sutfin’s Immortal Class
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The Mute Flute
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My Teacher Has Cancer! Isn't
She Pretty?
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Nazi Hunters
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Newspapers in Education
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Newspapers or Newscasts
about an Area of Study
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Paper Dolls to Theaters
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Photo or Video Essays
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Play APBA, Make History
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Plunk Your Magic Twanger,
Froggie!
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Political Cartoons
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Power and Geography in the
Classroom
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Power Symbol to the Speaker
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Product Analysis
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The Professional Organizations
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Quicky Theater
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Read
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Read Some Good Books, Bilge
the Textbook
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The Real Map and Standpoint
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Reification is Forgetting
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Rethinking the Senses
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Rewriting Textbooks
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Room Title
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A Safe and Respectful Place of
Learning
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Sham Interviews
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Spy versus Spy
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Story Ladders and
Story Boards
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Storyliving
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Storytelling
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Study Deep
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Surveying for Surveillance
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Surveys
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Taking it Personally
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Undoing the Fear of Freedom
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Unity that makes Sense, and Disunity
that makes Sense
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Utopia Project
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Visit the VA Hospital
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We Gotta Get Outa This Place
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What Goes on Insider Your
Brain?
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What's Up?
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William’s Testament About
His Fabulous Vietnam Unit
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Wisdom
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Yes, Inclusion Means Them
Too
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You are Albania!
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You are the Text, You are the
Method, You are the Question
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