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Pittsburgh Public Schools Black History Month Activities 2013-14 School Year Pittsburgh Public Schools Black History Month Activities 2013-14 School Year K-5 Schools ACTIVITIES Pittsburgh The following are activities taking place in honor of Black History month, listed by grade level: Allegheny Kindergarten-Students will read the stories, “The Other Side” and “The Story of Ruby Bridges.” Students will connect the story content to the robust vocabulary words: courage and persistence. Students will write a Response to Literature to the Story of Ruby Bridges. Grade 1-Students will read a story about the following individuals: Roberto Clemente, George Washington Carver, and Harriet Tubman. Students will also create a Venn diagram comparing the person they read about to themselves and compare findings during community time. Grade 2-Students will study the following people during Unit #3 in Reading: Ruby Bridges, Thurgood Marshall, Mae Jemison, Mary McLeod Bethune, and Frederick Douglas. For the culminating project students will be writing an opinion piece based on the prompt: “In your opinion, which famous African Americans changed the world and made it a better place? Use evidence from the text and include details to describe who he/she collaborated with and what changes were made.” Students will share writing pieces during community time. Grade 3- Students will discuss traits that Dr. Martin Luther King had (consideration, self-control, compassion and team work) and write notes to their peers when they notice them using these traits. We will share the accolades during community time. Grade 4- Students will research various African Americans and create an acrostic poem about a person of their choice. Students will share their poems during community time. Grade 5- Students will research and study famous African Americans in history, math, and writing. By homerooms they will develop presentations for community time. Music- Students will explore decade by decade African Americans who influenced various genres of music. Gym: Students will identify and discuss an African American athlete whom they find influential. Library: Students will explore a variety of famous African Americans. Students will identify and discuss key contributions they have made to our present day lives. Science-Students will identify and discuss contributions made by African American scientists, researchers, and doctors as they pertain to the FOSS curriculum. Spanish-Students will explore the lives of African Americans who speak Spanish fluently. Students will make connections with them and study key words in Spanish that describe who they are. Pittsburgh The 2014 Theme for Black History Month is “Civil Rights in America”. This year is the 50thanniversary of the Civil Arsenal Rights Act of 1964. We will introduce the month by sharing the theme and how the Civil Rights Act of 1964 changed the United States. During community time we will share videos and books with the children to spark a conversation about segregation, integration, “Separate but equal”, and Jim Crow. Information will be shared in the classrooms throughout the month. Teachers and their students will create presentations to be shared during our daily morning meetings. During our daily community time, information will be shared about Ruby Bridges, The Little Rock Nine, Thurgood Marshall, Brown vs. The Board of Education. Some books that will be shared are Child of the Civil Rights Movement by Paula Young Shelton,Sit-in, How Four friends stood up by Sitting Down, Freedom Summer by Deborah Wiles, A Sweet Smell of Roseby Angela Johnson Pittsburgh Famous African Americans highlighted during each Morning Assembly and Information posted throughout school to create Banksville Informational Hallway of Famous African Americans. Classroom Based Writing and Art Activities - K-5. African American History Month Tribute Assembly, Friday, February 21, 2014 - 9:30AM Pittsburgh Beechwood will celebrate Black History Month with an assembly featuring songs, skits and poetry. The assembly is on February Beechwood 28that 8:30 and 10:30. Pittsburgh Concord African-American History Month Celebration will be on Thursday, February 20 at 1:30 in the school gymnasium. Concord Each grade level, K-5, will perform through prose, singing, or dance, the importance of African-American History. During Community Time each morning facts and FAQs will be shared with our entire student body. Pittsburgh At Pittsburgh Dilworth PreK-5thGrade, we intentionally introduce the students and community to African American Leaders and Dilworth how those leaders have helped to improve the world and add to the history of the United States of America. Our focus this year is the Year of History. We are preparing for the 100 year celebration of Pittsburgh Dilworth in the 2015 school year, which will be the Year of Dilworth. Our students have learned during the first five months of school during morning meeting about Nelson Mandela, First Lady Michelle Obama-Turning 50 years old, Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, and Louis Armstrong. We will introduce students to a famous African American Leader every month in morning meeting for the 2013-2014 school years. During morning meetings, the staff/student presenters will share facts, poems, etc. about Famous African Americans. We will use a picture projected from the iPad and facts about that person to help the students know about the leader and how they have helped the world. Students will sing for the morning song the Negro National Anthem and Compilation of Negro Spirituals. The end of the year program will culminate our experiences. The students will incorporate the lessons in the June EOY program “Year of History”. The date for the program will be announced. Our program information will be shared in the weekly school bulletins. Pittsburgh We are going to use this time to build our students pride in their culture so that they can experience what it means to be an African- Faison American outside of main stream media and stereotypes. Each teacher will create a visual display that we will use for many years to come so that the culture of Pittsburgh Faison represents our students’ culture. Through this activity, and what you are doing in your classroom every day, we will work to “empower students to maintain cultural integrity, while succeeding academically.” Gloria Ladson- Billings. Project: 1. Choose an African-American History person or topic approved by Ms. Z or Dr. Patterson by Wednesday, January 29. 2. Interventions will not take place on Fridays. This time will be used for you to work with your students on your person/topic. 3. Each homeroom teacher will create a visual display that will be used for multiple years at Faison. Please be sure to make the display sturdy so that it will last for several years. Special education teachers and related arts teachers can have a group of students or partner with another teacher. Everyone must create a display. Pittsburgh Fulton Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Grandview will have a Black History Month program featuring songs, African drumming, and other presentations by Grandview students in Grades 1-5 on Friday, February 28th at 1:30. Pittsburgh Here at Liberty we have many exciting activities and events planned for Black History Month. Most of our activities are classroom Liberty based – plays, books, poems, essays, etc. For specific dates and grade level activities and performances please contact the school. Pittsburgh Lincoln Pittsburgh There was an Art Reception at CMU in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. During the reception students pieces were read about Linden Dr. King. Fourth grade students held a small play featuring Dr. King and his work for civil rights. Artwork was inspired by collage artist Romare Bearden. The work will be displayed at Linden from now until February 28th. February 3-28 – During our Family Meetings on each Monday and Friday we will have African American speakers join our morning meeting. Students will read inspirational readings about Dr. King Jr. and many other African Americans who had made an impact in our society and lives. During this month we will also have a program celebrating African American heritage through song, plays and readings. Pittsburgh Miller Pittsburgh The School wide theme will be “Hold onto Your Dreams.” The Langston Hughes poem, DREAMS, will be used as a springboard Minadeo during community time to inspire all students to dream. In his poem, Hughes urges black people to keep dreaming—not to give up their dreams of true freedom and equality. The poem will be used to inspire all our young dreamers, to never give up on their dreams and life goals. Students will write about their personal goals and dreams in class. · On February 28, the CAPA, MLK Dance Project will perform at Pittsburgh Minadeo for students K-5. During community time each morning, an African American proverb will be shared and discussed with the school community. Ex. Don't set sail using someone else's star. Meaning: Just because someone has been successful at doing something does not mean you will be successful at doing the same thing. Pittsburgh School Wide Assembly Feb. 18that 1:30 – The Shona Sharif African Drum and Dance Ensemble from the Univ. of Pittsburgh. Phillips Music– Will be doing lessons on music from the civil rights movement. Kindergarten-Will read and discuss a number on non-fictional accounts chronicling the Black Experience. For MLK day the students will write what their dreams are. 1stGr. – Will listen and respond to stories and poetry written by African American poets, also will read a book about Dizzy Gillespie and play some of his music. 2ndGr. –Will be working on opinion writings for an African American person in history who is important to us and we are also writing letters to the Ruby Bridges Foundation. Additionally, we are reading about other important African American people in history on an ongoing basis. 3RDGr. –Plans to read and discuss contributions of many famous African Americans.
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