2020-2021 African American History Curriculum Matrix K-12

Gr Content Curriculum Details/Text Units/ Lessons Videos Area K Social Social Studies Hello, Changes! How Families change over Unit 1, Lesson 1 For Kinder – Grade 3: Click on the blue title to access BrainPop videos Studies time. Unit 3, Lesson 3 • Ruby Bridges: Imagine the bravery it took to integrate an all-white school. Rosa Parks Unit 3, Lesson 4 That’s just what Ruby Bridges did when she was only 6 years old. Harriet Tubman • Martin Luther King Jr.: This civil rights leader had a dream for America. Discover how his vision and courage paved the way for generations to come. st 1 Social Social Studies National Museum of African American Unit 6, Week 6 • Rosa Parks: With one noble act of defiance, this fearless activist made a Studies McGraw Hill History and Culture statement about equal rights. ELA Wonders • Jackie Robinson: Explore the story of this talented ballplayer who broke 2nd Social Social Studies Citizens & Government –People’s actions Unit 4 barriers and changed history in the Major Leagues. • Harriet Tubman: Learn about this courageous abolitionist’s life and her brave Studies McGraw Hill affect others. work bringing slaves to freedom through the Underground Railroad. ELA Wonders National Museum of African American Unit 6, Week 6 History and Culture

rd 3 ELA Wonders Best Friends in Business with paired text Unit 3, Week 2 st Madam C.J. Walker – 1 African American Woman Millionaire

On the Ball with paired text Jackie Robinson – baseball player who broke the color barrier Unit 3, Week 2 Social Social Studies Martin Luther King, Jr. A Man with a Dream Unit 4, Lesson 1 Studies McGraw Hill leveled reader 4th ELA Wonders Finding My Place. EQ. How can preparing a Unit 6, Week 5 For Grades 4+: The Fight Against Institutionalized Racism meal tell you who you are? • Slavery: Learn about the terrible institution of slavery, from its beginnings in ancient history, the enslavement of Black people in the United States, 5th Social TCI African Americans Win Voting Rights and how we are still dealing with the effects of slavery today. Studies • Reconstruction: Following the Civil War, efforts were made to rebuild the South and reunite the country. Learn how Reconstruction policies affected ELA Wonders Hard Times paired with Chicago: Jazz Central people in the South, including freed slaves. – Louis Armstrong • Jim Crow: Slavery may have ended with the Civil War, but the ELA/Social Novel Study – Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963 Novel 4th Quarter Confederacy’s defeat marked the beginning of a new kind of oppression. • Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka: This landmark Supreme Court Studies Watsons Go to tells the story of one family's trip to the decision paved the way for integration and was a major victory of the civil Birmingham South, where its youngest member is rights movement. involved in one of the darkest incidents in • Civil Rights: Learn about the American civil rights movement of the 1950s American history. and 1960s – what it is, why it’s important, and how its legacy continues today • Muhammad Ali: Discover the story of this champion boxer and beloved activist whose confidence was always on display, whether he was fighting opponents in the ring or injustice in society. • Fannie Lou Hamer: The courage and persistence of this activist and many like her, helped secure passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, an important victory in the fight for equal rights. • Martin Luther King Jr.: Explore the inspiring life of this civil rights leader, and discover how his protests led to Supreme Court decisions banning segregation. • Motown: At a time of deep racial segregation in America, Detroit entrepreneur Berry Gordy founded Motown Records, creating a legendary record label that was home to many iconic musical acts. • Jackie Robinson: He broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball and endured a lot of abuse on the field. He went on to carve out a brilliant career, and he’s the only player whose jersey number was retired by every baseball team. • Tuskegee Airmen: As the first Black military pilots in the United States Armed Forces, these true American heroes battled Nazis abroad and discrimination back home. • Malcolm X: He was a charismatic civil rights leader who advocated for Black empowerment, and inspired future generations with his fearless approach to fighting for equality.

6th Social Discover Our Past African American Voting Rights Chapter 11 Everfi 306 Studies Brown V Board of Ed Chapter 4 Level: Grades 9-12 Topics Covered: Linda Brown Chapter 6 • Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Biography: Barack Obama Lesson 3 • Underground Railroad • Phyllis Wheatley • Frederick Douglass Language HMH Collections Memoir/Biography: Colin Powell- Students Collection 5 • Hiram Revels Arts will compare a memoir by Colin Powell to his • Tuskegee Institute biography. Colin Powell, a member of the • W.E.B. De Bois Republican Party, is the first African • The Harlem Renaissance American Secretary of State. He is also a • Brown vs. Board of Education politician, diplomat, and retired four-star • Mongomery Bus Boycott general who served as the 65th United • The Freedom Rides March on Washington States Secretary of State from 2001 to 2005. • Mae Jemison

7th Civics Civics, Economics, Revolution '67 Protest: Why and and Geography How - Students will understand why people protest against government policies or laws, identify methods for protest, and analyze the conditions under which people choose to

protest. Selma-to-Montgomery March, 1965 - Civil War & Reconstruction - Students will understand the Civil War and Reconstruction Era brought about the end of slavery and the expansion of civil rights to African Americans through the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments. Jim Crow - Students will discover the ways state and local governments restricted the newly gained freedoms of African Americans after the Civil War.

______Language HMH Collections Arts Women in Aviation: Students will Collection 1 Video: Bessie Coleman understand why Bessie Coleman, the first African American to earn her pilot’s license, is such an exciting and important figure in aviation.

Memoir: from Mississippi Solo by Eddy Harris- Eddy Harris is an African American writer and adventurer who chronicled his Collection 3 risky canoe trip down the entire length of the Mississippi River in 1980. He has also written about adventurous journey’s in other southern regions and in Africa.

History Writing: from “The Most Daring of Our Leaders”- Students will understand the many changes in the United States that occurred over the past few decades for African Americans paired with a speech by

John Lewis.

John Lewis: Speech from the Democratic National Convention. Lewis has served as the U.S. Representative of Georgia’s Fifth Congressional District since his election to 7th-Grade HMH Congress in 1986. In his speech to the Close Reader Democratic National Convention, delivered

in Charlotte, North Carolina, in 2012, Lewis talks about the progress America has made since he made an earlier trip to Charlotte in 1961.

A Poem for My Librarian Mrs. Long by Nikki Giovanni: Nikki Giovanni is an African Collection 6 American author and poet who became a part of a movement of African American writers who were finding new ways to express pride in their distinct culture. 8th Social Discover Our Past Seeing the Light: Underground Railroad, Civil Chapter 14 Studies War, Antislavery movement, and Civil Rights. Lesson 4

Biography: Barack Obama Chapter 18 Lesson 3 Second Presidential Inaugural Address by Abraham Lincoln Chapter 16 African Americans in the Civil War Lesson 2

Freedom’s Journal, First African American Newspaper in the US.

People of the South

Challenges to Slavery

African Americans in the Civil War

Language HMH Collections Autobiography: from Narrative of the Life Collection 3 America the Story of Us: Arts of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave- Students will understand that Frederick Douglass was born into enslavement at a • Fredrick Douglass time when slavery was still legal in many • Harriet Tubman states in the Union. He escaped slavery in 1838 and went on to become a famous speaker and writer, fighting to abolish slavery.

Biography: from Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad- Students will understand that before the Civil War, many enslaved people fled north to freedom along the Underground Railroad. One of the Underground Railroad’s most famous “conductors” was Harriet Tubman.

Historical Writing: My Friend Douglass- Students will understand the similarities between Abraham Lincoln and Frederick 8th-Grade HMH Douglass. For example, both men were born Collections Close poor, self-educated, and rose to Reader

prominence, one as the sixteenth President of the United States, and the other as a powerful orator and influential abolitionist.

9th Human Human Geo The Great Migration between 1916 – 1970 High school students should be Introduced writings of strength, Geography racial discrimination and Jim Crow laws in resilience, and leadership from the African American community the south, sharecroppers struggle to survive throughout history. Geography of the Caribbean Islands

Language HMH Collections I Have a Dream Speech by Martin Luther Collection 2 Arts King Jr. - Students will understand that Martin Luther King Jr. was a catalyst for social change in the 1950s and 1960s. Preaching a philosophy of nonviolence, he galvanized people of all races to participate in boycotts, marches, and demonstrations against racial injustices. America The Story of Us: March on Washington Excerpt from Nobody Turn Me Around: A People’s History of the 1963 March on Washington- Students will understand a detailed account of the “I Have a Dream” speech including first-hand accounts from people who were on the National Mall that day.

10th US History Pearson Origins of Slavery in Africa Florida This lesson describes slavery on African World societies. Students will study the economic, History social, and political forces that were at work

to develop African slave trade.

Reconstruction Students will understand the civil rights of former slaves; freedmen in the South.

Segregation to Integrated Education: The Little Rock 9- Students will understand how

the Civil Rights movement used every available means to achieve equal rights.

Madame CJ Walker: First African American Female Millionaire

Language HMH Collections Letter from Birmingham Jail- Students will Collection 6 Arts understand that Martin Luther King Jr. was jailed along with many of his supporters for initiating a nonviolent protest in 1963 against lunch counter segregation in Birmingham, Alabama. While in jail, King wrote this letter in response to the local clergy.

th Speech at the March on Washington by 10 -Grade HMH Josephine Baker- Students will understand Collections Close

Josephine Baker’s contribution to the fight Reader for civil rights, refusing to perform for a segregated audience and eventually adopting 12 multiethnic children in 1963. 11th Language HMH Collections Colonial American Poetry by Phillis Wheatly Collection 2 Arts • To the Right Honorable William

Earl of Dartmouth • On Being Brought from Africa to America

Students will understand how Phillis Wheatly expressed her views on freedom, redemption, and society as the first African American to publish a book of poetry.

A Soldier for the Crown by Charles Johnson

Students will understand issues such as slavery, the American Revolution, and gender inequality presented in a fictional short story. Collection 6

Civil War and Reconstruction

Students will understand that the

Emancipation Proclamation is a foundational U.S. document because it outlined a direct opposition to slavery.

What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? Speech by Frederick Douglass- Students will

understand Fredrick Douglass’s argument to end slavery.

The Harlem Renaissance America the Story of Us: Fredrick Douglass • Song of the Son • From the Dark • A Black Man Talks of Reaping 11th-Grade HMH • The Weary Blues by Langston Collections Close Hughes • How It Feels to e Colored Me by Reader

Zora Neale Hurston

Students will understand poetry and other literary text that was created during the most influential period of African American literary history, the Harlem Renaissance. African From Slavery to Through this course, students are introduced American Freedom: A History to the origins of African American 12th History of African population, its many cultural streams and its Americans 9th Ed. rich legacy of resistance to injustice and inequality.

Language HMH Collections Voices of Protest Collection 3 Arts Speech on the Vietnam War, 1967 by Martin Luther King Jr. - Students will understand Martin Luther King Jr’s compelling argument about the need for change in American policy.

People and Peace not Profit and War 12th-Grade HMH Lyndon Johnson’s Speech on Civil Rights and Vietnam Speech by Shirley Chisholm – Students will Collections Close trace and evaluate Shirley Chisholm’s Reader argument that money spent on weapons to fight the Vietnam War should be spent on education and on social programs in America.

Multi-cultural Coordinators will submit additional school-based plans describing the teaching and learning opportunities for African American History that occur during January in celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King’s birthday and in February when schools celebrate Black History Month.

Additional Resources:

Tolerance

Talking About Race

National Museum of African American History