This week we'll wrap up our discussion on the abolitionist movement in the lead up to the Civil War by jigsawing "A People's History of...

This week we'll be learning about the abolitionist movement through role play. For the first few days, in the role of anti-slavery...

This week we'll be shifting our focus to the abolitionist movement. In preparation for our role play next week, you'll be creating an...

This week we'll be starting our next major unit centered around the question: "Who Freed the Slaves?" We'll start this week with a close...

This week we'll be discussing the Constitutional Convention through role play. We'll role play a more representative Constitutional...

This week we'll be discussing how slavery became based on race and how colonial governments enacted laws to create division and...

This week we'll wrap up our discussion on pre-colonial Africa with a final mini-unit reflection on Monday. On Tuesday we'll move on to...

This week we'll share our own single stories and then return to the single story of Africa, examine several pre-colonial African...

This week we'll explore the idea of a "single story" more in depth looking at more examples of vignette essays, exploring the elements of...

This week we'll focus on the graphic design part of our Visual Essays and complete an end of unit reflection. You will have no reading or...

This week we'll start by finishing our exploration of the second key question raised by the Black Lives Matter Movement: Should we...

This week we'll look at the second wave of the Black Lives Matter Movement and begin to explore two key questions that the movement has...

This week we'll look at the relationship between power and violence, examine the 1967 walkout that birthed African American history...

This week we'll finish our discussion on the contradiction between U.S. ideals and African American experiences by coming up with a new...

Welcome! We'll start our course this week by developing some classroom norms, discussing why we study African American history, and end...

Periods 3, 6, 7 and 8: The End is Near. This week we'll start working on our Final Project! There is so much that is worth studying about...

Periods 3, 6, 7 and 8: We'll begin discussing the transformation of the Civil Rights Movement during the 1960s by learning about the...

Periods 3, 6, 7 and 8: We'll continue our discussion of the Civil Rights Movement by role playing marchers at the March on Washington for...

Periods 3, 6, 7 and 8: This week we'll kick off our unit on the Civil Rights Movement with one of the best Civil Rights films: Freedom...

Periods 3, 6, 7 and 8: This week we'll learn a bit about the Great Migration and then launch into our final unit of the year about the...