Kansas City Public Schools
MISSOURI
This team of educators in KCPS created a unit that is easily adaptable for any ELA course 6-12. The unit asks students to explore how societal structures developed to support the enslavement of Black people, and the anti-Black racism that was cultivated in the U.S. to justify slavery, influence many aspects of modern laws, policies, systems, and culture?
CURRICULAR RESOURCES
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Activity
1619 Foundational Inquiry
An extended engagement activity to guide students through close reading and analysis of select essays from The 1619 Project.