Periods 3, 6, 7 and 8: We'll be finishing up our essay on "Who Freed the Slaves?" this week. I'll have individual writing conferences...

Periods 3, 6, 7 and 8 We'll be writing our essay on "Who Freed the Slaves?" this week. Every day I'll start by presenting a resource to...

Periods 3, 6, 7 and 8 We'll be diving head first into our "Who Freed the Slaves?" Essays this week, learning about how to write a great...

Periods 3, 6, 7 and 8 This week we'll be wrapping up our unit on "Who Freed the Slaves?" We'll finish our jigsaw of different answers...

Periods 3, 6, 7 and 8 This week we'll be continuing our unit on "Who Freed the Slaves?" and by focusing on the crucial period of the...

This week you will be writing a half-essay on the question "Who led to the Civil War?" - the first of the two smaller questions that will...

This week we'll be finishing up our role play on the abolitionist movement and reading two crucial sources that give two different...

Welcome back from break and happy new year! This week we'll be jumping back in to our discussion about who/what led to the Civil War....

This week we'll continue our discussion of the Abolitionist movement by imagining why someone might become an abolitionist and writing a...

This week we'll finish our discussion of pre-Civil War enslaved resistance by reading and annotating an excerpt from David Williams' I...

This week we'll begin a new major unit built around the question: "Who Freed the Slaves?" We'll start the week by examining Lincoln's...

Our content this week will be tough — it is not easy to cover the brutal realities of slavery. If you need to check out at particular...

This week we'll be looking at how the theme we covered last week "The Danger of a Single Story" fits into our own lives and we'll be...

This week we'll be moving on to a new subject. We'll start our dive into African American history by heading to Africa, interrogating the...

This week we'll be wrapping up our opening unit on Black Lives Matter and policing by sharing our visual essays with each other, taking a...

This week we'll be focusing on our first major assessment: a visual essay in which you answer one of the questions below and create an...

This week we'll be wrapping our discussion on the Black Lives Matter Movement by looking at two key debates that the movement has...

This week we'll focus on the second wave of the Black Lives Matter movement that erupted this summer: we'll practice annotations using...

This week we'll take a look at the first wave of the Black Lives Matter Movement that erupted after the murder of Trayvon Martin and...

This week we'll continue to look at how racist policies have shaped our communities and begin our exploration of the Black Lives Matter...