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BROWSE RESOURCES
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Students apply literacy and writing skills to investigate the impact of the Columbian Exchange, colonization, and Transatlantic slave trade on the world’s economy and culture.
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Kindergarten and first grade students explore concepts of enslavement, resistance, and racial justice through an analysis of primary source documents reflecting resistance to slavery in Lowell, MA.
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Students learn and write about Black history and culture through the lens of Afrofuturism, which creatively illuminates past and present realities, and imagines liberated Black futures.
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Students consider whether the United States is undergoing a third Reconstruction by analyzing key events, figures and movements from the past.
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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.
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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.
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Students analyze how cultural traits diffuse and change, focusing on the impact of African culture on culture in the U.S., and apply their analyses to the creation of a photo project.
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Students explore themes of challenge and perseverance by analyzing four books, including Born on the Water, and ultimately create original narratives from the perspective of a character in a text.
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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.
