UBUNTU: High School for Law Advocacy & Community Justice
NEW YORK
UBUNTU team took an interdisciplinary approach to helping students engage with The 1619 Project. Through lessons in both history and art classes students will both explore this history and legacy of slavery in the United States and create stories of joy and resistance mirroring the prose of Born on the Water.
CURRICULAR RESOURCES
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This unit introduces the “20 and odd” who built the United States and focuses on themes of conflict, human rights violations, and power.
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This mini-unit reveals hidden histories of the systematically excluded by exploring the geography of West Africa and creating masks in the spirit and essence of West Africa.
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Students will read and annotate deeply, think critically, learn research skills, and use technology to create a podcast and infographic inspired by exploration of an essay from The 1619 Project.
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Resource Collection
Expanding Origin Stories, Empowering Learners
This collection pulls together units from our curricular resource library that center the theme of Expanding Origin Stories and Empowering Learners.
