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- Grade Range
- 7th - 12th
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Students browse current issues of Targetnewspaper and their local newspaper and look for articles/advertisements featuring jazz, blues, funk, hip-hop, gospel or ragtime musicians. They discuss the African American roots in these types of music. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students examine the contributions of a few African American actors. After watching different films, they work together to recreate the film and the struggles faced by the actors. In groups, they compare and contrast the acting style of the different actors. To end the lesson, they identify the stereotypes used in films to represent African Americans. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 5th
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Students are introduced to various time periods in history in which African Americans wrote songs and poetry to cope. In groups, they travel between different stations to listen or read poems and music from the Civil War period, Civil Rights Movement, etc. For each poem or music, they answer discussion questions and write their own poem appropriate for the time period. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th
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Students examine the roots of African American pride and accomplishments. Individually, they are assigned an African country for them to research. In groups, they discover the life and works of Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington and Joseph Sengbe. To end the lesson, they view art from the country they researched and reflect on them in writing. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 7th
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Students study the ideologies of life, values, love, peace and struggle of African Americans, Latinos and Native Americans as citizens of the United States. Authors and artists are used as tools to open the eyes of the students and allow them to see the impact and significance of cultures upon the history of the United States. Through traditional stories from different groups, they explore the customs and beliefs of their culture and others. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 7th
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Students listen to a variety of folktales sharing experiences of slavery. As a class, they compare and contrast reading a story and telling a story. They participate in a role play activity to discover the journey of a slave and reflect on the activity in their journal. After watching a video, they discuss how point of view influences ones view of history. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 11th - 12th
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Students complete a unit on the African American culture from its African roots up to the Harlem Renaissance. They view and discuss a PowerPoint presentation, read slave narratives, write an epic poem, and produce a PowerPoint presentation. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students explore the history African Americans in the South through analysis of "To Kill A Mockingbird." They demonstrate the technique of recording oral histories and write creative works that reflect the themes of racism, compassion, and tolerance in "To Kill a Mockingbird." Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 4th
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Students participate in activities involving African-American stories. They listen to stories written by African Americans and using them as models, write their own. Students also make a storyboard quilt and write culturally significant poems. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 7th
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Students are introduced to African American Folktales. They dress up in traditional African clothing, play traditional African music and then research their own personal family tree to locate a folktale from their backgrounds and then develop a family crest. Full Review »
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