IDEA Public Charter School
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
In this cross curricular project (English and US History) 11th grade students will read Isabel Wilkerson’s “The Warmth of Other Suns” while conducting similar personal genealogical research in order to produce a presentation which reflects on both the impact of decisions made by their family/ancestors on their lives and on the various impacts their own decisions in the present could have on their future.

CURRICULAR RESOURCES
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In this cross curricular project students studying the Great Migration use The 1619 Project and Isabel Wilkerson’s “The Warmth of Other Suns” to reflect on their ancestry and genealogy.