Event Details
Event Title CHOICES - Westward Expansion: A New History
Location via Zoom
Sponsor World View
Date/Time 01/20/2022 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Event Price
For more information, contact the event administrator: Daniel McNeal mndaniel@unc.edu
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UNC World View is excited to partner with the Choices Program at Brown University on January 20, 2022, to explore the Choices curriculum unit, Westward Expansion: A New History and to learn how to use this unit in the classroom. According to Choices, this unit explores how different groups in the West experienced U.S. expansion and invasion and includes lessons on geography, Indian primary sources, rewriting history, and more to help students learn about legends, calendar sticks, and Native perspectives on U.S. westward expansion. This unit introduces students to the term "settler colonialism" in addition to the idea of "westward expansion" to emphasize the processes of Native removal and the taking of land by U.S. settlers.

This unit is best suited for middle school, high school and community colleges. Participants will receive access to a one-year Digital Editions license for the Westward Expansion: A New History curriculum unit.