High School
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Students analyze and explore how Black consciousness, Black genius, and Black ways of being were foundational to the creation of the U.S. and the construction of American identity.
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Curriculum of Community
Students collaborate to design critical inquiries into underreported and untold histories in their schools, communities, and families or personal lives.
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Students connect themes from The 1619 Project to historical and contemporary stories from Long Beach, cultivating a richer context for personal, local, and national culture and community.
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Students gain social and historical context for affirmative action and analyze colorblind vs. race conscious approaches to policy through persuasive writing.
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Students explore what defines being American through analysis of 1619 texts about identity, wealth, civil rights and infrastructure, ultimately sharing their own stories about heritage and identity.
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Students learn and write about Black history and culture through the lens of Afrofuturism, which creatively illuminates past and present realities, and imagines liberated Black futures.
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Students contrast the histories of migration by African Americans to Hawaiʻi and within the continental US and apply their analysis to a socratic seminar and written work.
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Students analyze how cultural traits diffuse and change, focusing on the impact of African culture on culture in the U.S., and apply their analyses to the creation of a photo project.
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Students examine how contemporary racial inequities in health care services and outcomes, especially for Black women, are rooted in slavery.
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Students explore how composition conveys meaning imbued with the point of view of the composer. They apply this learning to explorations of local history, primary sources, poetry, and art projects.
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Students apply math skills, research into historical wealth gaps, and an analysis of reparations models to an investigation into whether reparations are due to the descendants of enslaved people.
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Literacy and Liberation
Students examine the relationship between literacy and liberation by learning about multiple modes of literacy and analyzing examples of how literacy has been used to empower and advocate across time.
