Pennsylvania

Students will explore resources about the wealth theft from Black Americans that has repeatedly occurred from 1619 to the present in order to research and propose a comprehensive solution.

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Students use rhetorical analysis skills to reflect on the media backlash to The 1619 Project and connect political media rhetoric to current anti-critical race theory (CRT) legislation.

Students create artistic memorials honoring enslaved Africans after exploring the origins and development of the Atlantic Slave War, forms of control used by enslavers, and forms of Black resistance.

Students explore personal connections to national and local histories, gain an understanding of connections between oppressive systems in the past and present, and create original artistic works.

In this unit, students will evaluate key claims made in essays from The 1619 Project as well as writing that criticizes the project in order to write a research paper explaining the impact of slavery.