Elementary
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Kindergarten students use the Whole Book Approach to analyze Born on the Water to understand the system of enslavement and how people who were enslaved engaged resistance, resilience and hope.
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Students explore themes of challenge and perseverance by analyzing four books, including Born on the Water, and ultimately create original narratives from the perspective of a character in a text.
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Lesson Plan
This is Where I Come From
Students who have moderate disabilities and learn in a class with a significantly modified curriculum analyze plot, character, and theme in each poem in Born on the Water.
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Reading as Resistance
Students analyze a collection of texts, identifying moments of injustice, resistance, hope and joy and then create self-portraits, celebrating one personal strength as a form of resistance.
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Upper Elementary students utilize “Born on The Water” and other texts to examine how the legacies of slavery include present issues of environmental racism.
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Students explore how cultural identity is informed by history through engagement with “The 1619 Project," and ultimately create Altered Books to reflect what stories they think should be amplified.
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Walking Democracy
Students explore the cultural and creative traditions that were carried northward as people migrated in the lead up to the March on Washington.
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Students examine the historical context of racism by tracking the evolving relationship between Black Americans and governing structures in the United States.
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This resource includes three educator guides for implementing The 1619 Project books, A New Origin Story and Born on the Water, into classrooms.
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A collection of activities designed to facilitate engagement with The 1619 Project books "A New Origin Story" and "Born on the Water."
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Elementary students research underrepresented stories of Black Americans who lived during the American Revolution, examining their relationship to the promises made in the Declaration of Independence.
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Units
Rooted in Song
Students use reading and literacy skills to examine the lasting influence of the musical traditions of enslaved people on American music today.
