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=BASIC FACTS ABOUT THE HHB ELECTIVE OUTLINE=

1) It needs a better name.

2) It was created as part of a grant that provided funding to support teachers of the Facing History Elective in Memphis city and county schools. Some of this funding supports workshops (several during the year and a longer one over the summer) and another portion of the grant supported the development of this outline.

3) A Facing History Elective is taught at almost every public high school in the Memphis area. Most of them are public, urban schools but a few are private and a few are in the suburbs.

4) The Elective meets for one semester. In some schools the elective is taught in 90 minute blocks several days a week and in other schools it is taught in 45 minute classes every day.

5) It consists of 29 lesson ideas divided into 13 sections that mirror the chapters of HHB. The lesson ideas were written based on 90 minute class periods.

6) It is still in draft form. We are just beginning the revision process now. A finished printed draft will be distributed to Memphis elective teachers at the end of June, 2011.

7) We plan on making the final version available to everyone else on a website. Not sure when we will have the time and funding to develop this site. Our hope was that the website and print version would be available at the same time.