We'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...

This 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...

This week we'll use the knowledge we gained from our "Who Killed Reconstruction?" Trial to write a collective essay on the same theme....

This week we'll look at the end of Reconstruction and host a trial to determine "Who Killed Reconstruction?" While most textbook accounts...

First, we'll write a piece of historical fiction — a narrative based off of the Reconstruction improvisations we watched and performed...

This 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...

After we find out what really happened in 1868, we'll begin to look at how the rapid changes in Black life inspired other social...

We'll start a new role play this week that takes us through the historic conventions that occurred across the South starting in 1868....

After finishing up our role play on the Sea Islands we'll explore the brief, but consequential years of Presidential Reconstruction....

After completing our end-of-unit reflection on Tuesday, we'll move onto our new unit about Reconstruction this week. We'll start the unit...

For 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...

This week we'll be focusing on the question: Who transformed the purpose of the Civil War? As we've discussed, although the war was...

This 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...

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...