Students consider whether the United States is undergoing a third Reconstruction by analyzing key events, figures and movements from the past.

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.

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.