This 51-slide PowerPoint Presentation provides an overview of key events in the United States during the decade of the 1970s, including some 1960’s history to provide background context. The presentation covers political, social and cultural aspects of the era, including the civil rights and womens movements, anti-war protests, political scandals, anti-war agitation, and popular culture. This presentation gives students a feel for the historical climate that can provide excellent background context for novels, films and works of art from the period, as well as general history. The presentation could provide a full lesson and may be used in tandem with study texts such as One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, The Post, Apocalypse Now, I Am Not Your Negro, Hamburger Hill, and many others…

This exercise provides interactive discussion prompters and tasks that help students to reflect carefully on what they think tolerance really means. It should form the basis for two 1-hour lessons, for secondary students between ages 14 - 18. The aim is to foster a critical discussion about tolerant societies, and to help students to reflect upon whether there is a distinction between tolerance and cultural/ moral relativism. How can tolerance be a principled approach that is fair to both individuals and communities? Is tolerance fair to **all **citizens? Does a tolerant state promote genuine** intellectual** diversity? How can a state promote tolerance without becoming an intolerant state, i.e. without promoting censorship of controversial ideas?