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Sharing African Culture

Students use a format (provided) to create poems about someone familiar — themselves! Then they use the same format to write poems about people from history. They will see that they are not so different from the great people of our past and present. Students learn to research, identify with others, and apply information in poetic ways.

Found in: 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade, 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade, February, Language Arts

Our Town’s Black Heritage

Students:
-Learn about the history of African Americans.
-Listen to an African American folk tale
-Draw pictures to illustrate the story.

Found in: 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade, February, Kindergarten, Language Arts, Pre-Kindergarten, Social Studies

Experiencing Slavery and Imagining Freedom

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.

Found in: 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade, 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade, February, Language Arts, Social Studies

The Problem With Profiling

Students:
-Explore the issue of racial profiling.
-Write brief essays about their conclusions.
-Submit their essays to a youth message board.

Found in: 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade, February, Language Arts, Social Studies

Build a Black History Database/Timeline

Students will: -research famous people/events in Black History.
-break the biographies and events down into specific information related to dates in history.
-follow directions for inputting information into the database.
-use the database to search for important information/dates.

Found in: 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade, February, History, Kindergarten, Language Arts