{"product_id":"250-celebrating-a-nations-birthday-a-free-art-history-unit","title":"250: Celebrating a Nation's Birthday - A Free Art History Unit","description":"\u003ch6 class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eA QUICK NOTE:\u003c\/h6\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis unit is free because cost should never be the reason a kid does not get to look closely at their country's story.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eIf you are able, you can add five dollars at download. That money goes toward printing this curriculum and getting it onto the shelves of rural and lower-income libraries, the places where a free copy does the most good. You are not paying for your own copy. You are quietly buying one for a family who could not.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eNo pressure either way. The free version is complete and yours to keep.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTwo Hundred Fifty Years.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is not a parade and it is not a coloring page. It is a real art history unit, 168 pages of it, built around twenty-five works that together tell the actual story of America from 1768 to today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eOne question runs the whole way down: who is in the picture, and who got left out? You will meet a silversmith, a runaway family on a single horse, a six-year-old walking into school past a screaming crowd, a president painted by an artist history kept leaving out. Your kids learn to read a painting the way you read a person, closely, fondly, without flinching. That habit, asking who made this, who paid for it, who is missing, and what it wants me to feel, works on old paintings and on everything that scrolls past them every day.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eEvery work comes with three ways in, so the same picture meets your nine-year-old and your sixteen-year-old right where each one stands. Look is for your youngest. Think is for the middle. Go Deeper is for high schoolers and for you. Each tier gives you something to talk about, something to do, and something to try on paper.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eIt is secular, museum-grounded, and honest about the hard parts as well as the beautiful ones, because the most loving thing you can do for a place is look at it clearly and stay.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eFree, and yours to keep.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat's inside\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"[li_\u0026amp;]:mb-0 [li_\u0026amp;]:mt-1 [li_\u0026amp;]:gap-1 [\u0026amp;:not(:last-child)_ul]:pb-1 [\u0026amp;:not(:last-child)_ol]:pb-1 list-disc flex flex-col gap-1 pl-8 mb-3\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e168 pages, 25 works of art, walked in order from 1768 to today\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eThree levels on every work: Look, Think, and Go Deeper\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e225 discussion questions and 150 activities and writing prompts\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eAn era page for each work, with the events and artworks around it\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eA full glossary of terms worth keeping\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003eDelivered as a PDF you can read, print, and keep\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGrade range\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUpper elementary through high school. 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