Black History Month All Year Long
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LEARN HISTORY THROUGH SONG, MUSIC, POETRY, FOLKTALES |
TEACHING IN CONTEXT ONLINE CLASS PROJECT This collection of resources is intended for use by teachers, parents and students throughout the school year. The links below describe only some of what is in the module. More than 50 pages of information you can print out. Save time - the research has been done for you. Links to the best sites on the Net for supporting information. Original content not found in school libraries, books, or the WWW. Two original E-books with sound. Read and hear Anansi folk tale in Standard English and American Virgin Islands Creole. Online Collaborative Project that can be expanded past the school day. |
HOW DOES THIS WORK? HOW DO I PARTICIPATE? TOP
What will I need . . .
- One computer is all you need, but student access is great.
- An e-mail account
- Basic computer skills, including the ability to use e-mail
- Web Browser (Netscape, Explorer, Firefox )
All projects are subscription-based. Educators will subscribe and find content that explores issues pertaining to the project topic.
You can subscribe any time during the year and have access to the module for 10 weeks from your start date.
You must agree not to disseminate the project, its content or its passwords. Intellectual content is copyrighted and digimarked for subscriber's use only and may not be redistributed or sold.
CLASSROOM RESOURCES TOP
Brown vs. Board of Education: Kenneth Clark did a test in the 1950's which was replicated in 2007 by a film student Kiri Davis a young filmmaker whose high school documentary has left audiences at film festivals across the country stunned -- and has re-ignited a powerful debate over race.
LEARN HISTORY THROUGH SONG, MUSIC, POETRY, and the ARTS TOP
Make history relevant - make it personal - hook this into your state standard - hook them through songs across time.
STUDENTS LOVE MUSIC - Your students can make history and become the primary source. Discuss daily life, including traditions in art, music, and literature, of early national America - Classroom teachers do not need to sing or play music all you need is this website to find the songs and primary sources. The fine arts will grab the imagination and hook your students. Take your time here, so that you don't miss any of the treasures to share. . .
Subscribe Now - Get Access for 10 weeks and start anytime of year $50.00
FOLKTALES TOP
Stories of the people, often passed from elders to the next generation. Help your students learn through the oral tradition. Download, read, and hear each story narrated in both American Virgin Island Creole and Standard English, plus find out how these stories survived in tact from the original storyteller.
De Josselin de Jong does not say who told him this story. However, we do know that all of the people who told him stories lived on St. Thomas and St. John and that they spoke both Dutch Creole and Virgin Islands English. A Brother Anansi and Brother Tecoma Stories spoken in Standard English and Negerhollands English.
LESSON PLANNING TOP
There's something for everyone here. . . from broad, overview sites to uniquely focused sites, here is the content for developing engaging lessons for your students.
FACT . . .
DO YOU KNOW HOW BLACK HISTORY MONTH GOT STARTED?
In 1920, Dr. Carter Godwin Woodson (1875-1950) founded Associated Publishers, the for-profit arm of ASALH Inc., which was founded in 1915. The Associated Publishers is responsible for the publication and circulation of ASALH's renowned Afro-American History Month Kits. In February 1926, he announced the institution of Negro History Week, which coincided with the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. In 1976, the observance was expanded to "National Afro-American History Month", in honor of the nation's bicentennial. Beginning in 1975, U.S. Presidents have paid tribute to the mission of the association and urged all Americans to celebrate Afro-American History Month, which we now make available to you all year long.
UNDERGROUND RAILROAD TOP
Find the UnderGround Railroad! Background information, and ready-made curriculum . . . these links provide the resources to really delve into this topic!
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"When I found I had crossed that line, I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything." -
AMISTAD TOP
These links cover the issues and inequities of slavery. . . from the specifics of the Amistad revolt to the slavery that exists in today's world. These resources deserve a thoughtful look. In January 1839, a group of Mende Tribe Africans, were captured by Spanish traders and shipped to Cuba, where the Africans were bought by two plantation owners who intended to take them to their own plantations on another part of the island on the ship La Amistad. During that journey, the Mende revolted against their captors and tried to force the Spanish to sail them back to Africa. The riveting trial of the Amistad Africans, including their legal defense by former President of the United States, John Quincy Adams, began in Connecticut and led to the U.S. Supreme Court.
African Slave Owners
Many societies in Africa with kings and hierarchical forms of government traditionally kept slaves. But these were mostly used for domestic purposes. They were an indication of power and wealth and not used for commercial gain. However, with the appearance of Europeans desperate to buy slaves for use in the Americas, the character of African slave ownership changed.
TEACHING IN CONTEXT Grades 4 - 12
ONLINE CLASS PROJECT:TOP
Help children develop the use of technology as a tool for learning and for use in all sorts of career related ways in the real world, by teaching "skills" with a learner-centered constructivist approach.
Skills are important, and you ARE helping your students develop them if you are providing learner-centered/constructivist events, and hands-on (experiential), facilitated discovery. Anyway you approach it, the learner almost always develops both a knowledge base of skills and/or concepts along with the ability to make critical and/or creative decisions about the uses of those skills/concepts when the learning is student-centered and constructivist based.
Teachers can facilitate learning environments and learning events that lead to the eventual use of higher order thinking and the very very important assimilation and ability to transfer those skills out of the initial learning environment, but knowledge must precede application which precedes all important higher level thinking skills.
BLACK SLAVERY IS NOT HISTORYTOP
A real life thematic classroom project using multiple intelligences empowering students who wish to become modern day abolutionists and activists. Have children participate in an experience they will never forget. This is a human rights issue, not political or religious. Slavery is a direct violation against the 1948 U.N. Declaration of Human Rights. This unit combines history, current events, education and activism. Service Project: Become an abolitionist, an activist, support the antislavery movement.Turn children into life long learners, give them skills that they will remember for a lifetime.
- Objectives:
Become an abolitionist. Find out about the outrageous active slave trade in the year 2001.
- Identify:
Governments involved and their rulers
- Research:
The plight of thousands of blacks who currently suffer the world's worst human rights violation, who are being captured and sold right now. What is the price of human life and freedom? Whole villages are captured, women are being raped, and men are mutilated and killed. Men, women and children are being marched to the slave markets.
- Synthesize Information:
Through personal expression, self-evaluation, collaborative group projects and service projects
CENSUS TOP
Tons of information straight from the U.S. Census Bureau's Public Information Office.
PLANTATION TOP
This site offers a fascinating opportunity to merge archaeological and historical thinking through the findings at this plantation. This one is guaranteed to provide food for thought!
BOOKS TOP
Individual titles AND an extensive bibliography of children's books; here are links to book resources for your studies of black history. Take a look...
FREE TOOLS TOP
Great free online tools teachers can use for the classroom. Make rubrics, download free collaboration software, quizzes, puzzles, multiple choice and more. . .
HIGHER EDUCATION TOP
If you feel you need to broaden your own understanding of African American history and current issues before broaching them with your students, be sure to spend some time here.  |
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