Students
* learn about the history of African Americans.
* listen to an African American folk tale
* draw pictures to illustrate the story.
Students
* learn about black history in their city or town.
* work in groups to research and write informational essays about relevant locations.
* create a black heritage tour, including a map and informational brochure.
Students
* read a slave’s account of his or her life as a slave.
* read the Emancipation Proclamation.
* write “first-person” accounts of what that person’s life might have been like after the Emancipation Proclamation.
Students
* explore the issue of racial profiling.
* write brief essays about their conclusions.
* submit their essays to a youth message board.
Students
* use an online resource (Encyclopedia Brittannica’s Black History Month Biographies) to learn about famous African Americans.
* follow directions to complete the three-way matching activity.
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