Pennsylvania
PA
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Units
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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Team
The Common Place
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November 14, 2022 -
Our students are reading texts and identifying injustice, resistance, and hope and joy. Students...
July 25, 2022 -
Students explore the methodical progression that the United States took from the period of Reconstruction to the current crisis of mass incarceration.
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Students read historical and contemporary texts. They analyze how the authors reconcile the ideals in the founding documents with slavery, and how they use rhetorical devices to strengthen arguments.
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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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Units
How Language Becomes Law
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Pulitzer Center Update
Reshaping and Reframing African American History with The 1619 Project Books
The following reflection was written by Abigail Henry, who teaches African American history at...
November 11, 2021 -
This team of educators created units to support multiple African-American History courses in the...
October 20, 2021