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Lesson Plan
This is Where I Come From
Students who have moderate disabilities and learn in a class with a significantly modified curriculum analyze plot, character, and theme in each poem in Born on the Water.
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In this project-based unit, scholars explore early African civilizations, analyze the history of enslavement in America, and research the impact that abolitionists made in ending enslavement.
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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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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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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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Upper Elementary students utilize “Born on The Water” and other texts to examine how the legacies of slavery include present issues of environmental racism.
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Units
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.
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Educators from the 2021 Network Cohort share a screening tool they developed to support other educators teaching about marginalized identities and group resistance to oppression.
