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.

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.

Upper Elementary students utilize “Born on The Water” and other texts to examine how the legacies of slavery include present issues of environmental racism.