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Timelines in The
Evaluating and Reshaping

York Times for Kids
1619 Project: New

Edition

September 10, 2019 | All Grades
By Meerabelle Jesuthasan

Daguerreotype of Rhoda Phillips, circa 1850. Photograph by Erica Deeman for The New York Times.

From the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Lesson Outline Analyzing the Column: Reading and
discussion questions for "4 Myths About
Introducing the Lesson: Slavery"
Introducing "Why You Should Know
About the Year 1619." Extension Activities:

Warm-up Exercise: Creating a timeline 1. Constructing a new timeline of U.S.
of U.S. history and evaluating the events history
selected.
2. Writing a short story about an
Analyzing the Timeline: Comparing overlooked event in U.S. history
The New York Times' U.S. history timeline
with the class-generated timeline. 3. Comparing multiple sources on a
historical event and presenting an analysis
Analyzing the Column: Reading and

discussion questions for "How I Became A 4. Evaluating historical sources and their
Historian" educational value