A People's History of the United States: Teaching Edition

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Howard Boone's Zinn. A People's History of the United States: Teaching Edition

How to Read This Book

Notes

THE RICH AGAINST THE POOR!

1. The Group Paragraph*

II. The Grading System

III. Extra Credit

IV. Geography

V. Debates

VI. Class Discussion

VII. Using Drama in the Classroom

VIII. Students Teaching Other Students

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A PEOPLE’S HISTORY

OF THE UNITED STATES

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On their own, the Indians were engaged in the great agricultural revolution that other peoples in Asia, Europe, and Africa were going through about the same time.

While many of the tribes remained nomadic hunters and food gatherers in wandering, egalitarian communes, others began to live in more settled communities where there was more food, larger populations, more divisions of labor among men and women, more surplus to feed chiefs and priests, more leisure time for artistic and social work, for building houses.

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