Adam Sanchez2 days ago1 minWeek 36: May 16 - 20This week we'll look at the transition from Civil Rights to Black Power by examining the key events that radicalized activists in the...
Adam SanchezMay 71 minWeek 35: May 9 - 13This week we'll examine the two largest Civil Rights demonstrations of the 1960s: the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom and the...
Adam SanchezMay 21 minWeek 34: May 2 - May 6We'll begin this week by finishing Freedom Song to get a better sense of SNCC's first organizing project in Mississippi and how that...
Adam SanchezApr 251 minWeek 33: April 25 - 29We'll begin this week by looking at the organizations that made the Civil Rights Movement and focus on the key debates within...
Adam SanchezApr 181 minWeek 32: April 18 - 22Welcome back! We'll start our investigation of the Civil Rights Movement this week by sharing our prior knowledge and interrogating some...
Adam SanchezMar 291 minWeek 30: March 28 - April 1This week we'll be discussing the New Deal and the Great Depression. We'll begin by looking at class, race, and ideology and thinking...
Adam SanchezMar 191 minWeek 29: March 21 - 25We'll start the week off by looking at the different strategies early activists used to fight the Jim Crow system. At the end of the week...
Adam SanchezMar 141 minWeek 28: March 14 - 18This week we'll wrap up our unit on Reconstruction and look at the birth of Jim Crow, the caste system that was implemented after the...
Adam SanchezMar 71 minWeek 27: March 7 - 11This week we'll use the knowledge we gained from our "Who Killed Reconstruction?" Trial to write a collective essay on the same theme....
Adam SanchezFeb 281 minWeek 26: February 28 - March 4This week we'll look at the end of Reconstruction and host a trial to determine "Who Killed Reconstruction?" While most textbook accounts...
Adam SanchezFeb 221 minWeek 25: February 22 - 25First, we'll write a piece of historical fiction — a narrative based off of the Reconstruction improvisations we watched and performed...
Adam SanchezFeb 141 minWeek 24: February 14 - 18This week we'll start to look at the reverberations of 1868 — how do the new state constitutions and the right to vote for Black men...
Adam SanchezFeb 81 minWeek 23: February 7 - 11After we find out what really happened in 1868, we'll begin to look at how the rapid changes in Black life inspired other social...
Adam SanchezJan 311 minWeek 22: January 31 - February 4We'll start a new role play this week that takes us through the historic conventions that occurred across the South starting in 1868....
Adam SanchezJan 241 minWeek 21: January 24 - 28After finishing up our role play on the Sea Islands we'll explore the brief, but consequential years of Presidential Reconstruction....
Adam SanchezJan 141 minWeek 20: January 18 - 21After completing our end-of-unit reflection on Tuesday, we'll move onto our new unit about Reconstruction this week. We'll start the unit...
Adam SanchezJan 31 minWeek 18 and 19: January 4 - 14For the next two weeks we'll be wrapping up our unit on "Who Freed the Slaves?" and writing our essay. The first week we'll host a...
Adam SanchezDec 20, 20211 minWeek 17: December 20 - 24This week we'll be focusing on the question: Who transformed the purpose of the Civil War? As we've discussed, although the war was...
Adam SanchezDec 13, 20211 minWeek 16: December 13 - 17This week we'll be focusing on Lincoln. We'll start with a role play on the election of 1860 and end the week with two key readings. The...
Adam SanchezDec 6, 20211 minWeek 15: December 6 - 10This 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...