A Communitarian Experiment (Grades 8-12)
Primary source-based lesson plans related to the “Communitarian Experiment” section of the larger exhibit, “Radical Equality: 1842-1846″ about the utopian abolitionist community, the Northampton Association of Education and Industry (NAEI). Created by Emerging America in 2006 and reproduced here with permission.
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Overview of Grades 8-12 Curriculum
An introduction to goals of the lesson plans
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The Principle of Equal Brotherhood
A primary source investigation into a letter about NAEI
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The Choicest Spirits
An assignment comparing the ideas of Frederick Douglass with the larger NAEI community consensus
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“A Communitarian Moment” Lessons Gallery
Primary source-based lesson plans investigating Sojourner Truth and the NAEI