Celebrate Black History Month (February) with one or all of our favorite activities. There are printables, lesson plans, and more resources for you to enjoy with your class. Learn about the civil rights movement, famous African-Americans of the past (like Dr. Martin Luther King., Jr), and more.
Introduce young students to the work of Nobel prize-winning writer Toni Morrison in Remember, a narrated pictorial journey of school desegregation in the 1950s. This teacher's guide includes discussion questions, photographs, and online resources to increase students' knowledge of the civil rights movement in America.
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Preparation assignments, group discussion questions about lynching and civil rights, and many other resources are provided in this teacher's guide for A Wreath for Emmett Till, a poem about the murder of an African-American boy. Extension activities for language arts, current events, music, and history will help students understand the context of the poem.
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