NMAAHC Summer Reading Challenge!

N M A A H C S U M M E R R E A D I N G C H A L L E N G E

"READING THROUGH THE GALLERIES"

SUMMER 2020

GRADES 3 TO 12 AND EDUCATORS

Join the NMAAHC in summer 2020 for a new digital experience, “Reading Through the Galleries,” the NMAAHC Summer Reading Challenge!

Created for 3rd - 12th grade students and educators, the book selections are curated to provide enjoyment and enrichment about African American history and culture.

The “Reading Through the Galleries” runs from June through August.

Galleries June: History N M A A H C THEME AND ACTIVITIES S U M M E R R E A D I N G C H A L L E N G E For 2020, the book selection is

"READING THROUGH THE GALLERIES" based on the galleries at NMAAHC. Read your way through The National Museum of African the permanent galleries and the American History and Culture temporary exhibition. debuts for 2020 for a new digital experience, the NMAAHC Each month between June and Summer Reading Club. This is a August, NMAAHC educators will self-guided program for 3rd - 12th provide a book list based on one grade students and their of the permanent galleries: educators to read suggested History (June), Community (July), selections by NMAAHC educators. and Culture (August). The lists will feature books suitable for various grades as well as educators. The literature selections consist of fiction and non-fiction, and are DIVISIONS chosen for enjoyment and enrichment about African Sojourners (Grades 3 - 5) American history." Navigators (Grades 6 - 8) Innovators (Grades 9 - 12) Educators (Grades 3 - 12)

READING LIST SUBMISSIONS TABLE OF CONENTS Each month, you can submit your How to Participate: 2 - 3 reading list and earn a certificate. You can keep track of your Book Lists : 6 - 20 selections on a sheet available in Resources and Activities: 21 - 26 the resource section or in a personal notebook.

You can find the submission link on our website. H O W T O F I N D B O O K S W H A T C A N I R E A D ?

You might not currently be able There are various types of to visit your local library. Instead, literature available to you, we suggest you read using digital including: alternatives (like audiobooks), or purchase books from local small Fiction businesses if you’re able. Non-Fiction Memoirs You can choose books that are Poetry not on our list as well as long as Screen and Stage Plays they fit the theme for the month. Novels and Novellas You can also read books you Biographies already own – the goal is just to Journal Articles read books you haven’t read Anthologies before. Graphic Novels Documentaries (If you prefer a more visual experience.)

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"READING THROUGH THE GALLERIES"

In the year 2020, we would like you to explore our galleries through literature. Each month the club will highlight one of NMAAHC three galleries: History, Community, and Culture. The book lists will reflect the themes, objects, and narratives found within the exhibits.

JUNE

HISTORY GALLERIES

JULY

COMMUNITY GALLERIES

AUGUST

CULTURE GALLERIES

Building and Permanent Gallery Images: NMAAHC/Alan Karchmer We Return Fighting Exhibit Image: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture

JUNE HISTORY GALLERIES

SLAVERY AND FREEDOM

This exhibition explores the complex story of slavery and freedom which rests at the core of our nation’s shared history. The exhibition begins in 15th century Africa and Europe, extends through the founding of the United States, and concludes with the nation’s transformation during the Civil War and Reconstruction. H I S T O R Y G A L L E R I E S

S L A V E R Y A N D F R E E D O M , 1 4 0 0 - 1 8 7 7

S O J O U R N E R S N A V I G A T O R S T H I R D T O F I F T H G R A D E S I X T H T O E I G H T H G R A D E

Who Was Frederick Douglass? Biddy Mason Speaks Up April Jones Prince Arisa White and Laura Atkins Nonfiction Nonfiction

Fort Mose: And the Story of the Man Searching for Sarah Rector: The Who Built the First Free Black Richest Black Girl in America Settlement in Colonial America Tonya Bolden Glennette Tilley Turner Nonfiction Nonfiction Streetcar to Justice: How Elizabeth Eliza's Freedom Road: An Underground Jennings Won the Right to Ride in Railroad Diary New York Jerdine Nolen Amy Hill Hearth Fiction Nonfiction

Meet Addy: An American Girl (The Forge American Girls Collection Book 1) Laurie Halse Anderson Connie Porter Fiction Fiction Never Caught, the Story of Ona Dayshaun's Gift (City Kids) Judge: Young Readers Edition* (Volume 2) Erica Armstrong Dunbar and Kathleen Zetta Elliott Van Cleve Fiction Nonfiction

The Remarkable Story of George She Came to Slay Moses Horton: Poet Erica Amrstrong Dunbar Don Tate Nonfiction Nonfiction

The Bell Rang James E. Ransome Fiction H I S T O R Y G A L L E R I E S

S L A V E R Y A N D F R E E D O M , 1 4 0 0 - 1 8 7 7

I N N O V A T O R S E D U C A T O R S N I N T H T O T W E L V E G R A D E T H I R D T O T W E L V E

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists Douglass: An American Slave and the Politics of Violence Frederick Douglass Kelly Carter Jackson Nonfiction Nonfiction

Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation They Were Her Property: White Women Damian Duffy and Octavia Butler as Slave Owners in the American South Fiction Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers Nonfiction Crossing Ebenezer Creek Tonya Bolden The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery Fiction and the Making of American Capitalism A Wish After Midnight Edward E. Baptist Zetta Elliott Nonfiction Fiction Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Copper Sun Troubled History of America's Sharon M. Draper Universities Fiction Craig Steven Wilder Nonfiction Escape from Texas: A Novel of Slavery and the Texas War of Black Patriots and Loyalists: Independence Fighting for Emancipation in the Sharon M. Draper War for Independence Fiction Alan Gilbert Nonfiction Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Harriet Jacobs A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from Nonfiction the Rise of the Slave Trade to the An Muslim American Slave: The Life of Age of Revolution Omar Ibn Said Toby Green Nonfiction Omar Ibn Said Nonfiction The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to The Water Dancer Grave in the Building of a Nation Ta-Nehisi Coates Fiction Daina Ramey Berry Nonfiction Twelve Years a Slave Solomon Northup Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom Nonfiction David W. Blight Nonfiction

JUNE HISTORY GALLERIES

THE ERA OF SEGREGATION

This exhibition explores the years following the end of Reconstruction to show how the nation struggled to define the status of African Americans. This period represents a critical era for the United States and for African Americans. It puts to the test whether African Americans would have full citizenship rights after more than 250 years of enslavement. H I S T O R Y G A L L E R I E S

D E F E N D I N G F R E E D O M , D E F I N I N G F R E E D O M T H E E R A O F S E G R E G A T I O N 1 8 7 6 - 1 9 6 8

S O J O U R N E R S N A V I G A T O R S T H I R D T O F I F T H G R A D E S I X T H T O E I G H T G R A D E

Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women The Unstoppable Garrett Morgan: Freedom Fighters Inventor, Entrepreneur, Hero Andrea Davis Pinkey Joan Dicicco Nonfiction Non Fiction

Buzzing with Questions: The Storm Warriors Inquisitive Mind of Charles Henry Elisa Carbone Fiction Turner Janice N. Harrington Making Our Way Home: The Great Nonfiction Migration and the Black American We Are the Ship the Story of Negro Dream League Baseball Blair Imani Nonfiction Kadir Nelson Nonfiction The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Ruth and the Green Book Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights Calvin Alexander Ramsey Steve Sheinkin and Gwen Strauss Nonfiction Fiction Hidden Figures Young Readers' Edition Pies From Nowhere: How Georgia Margot Lee Shetterly Gilmore Sustained the Montgomery Nonfiction Bus Boycott Dee Romito Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule Nonfiction Harriette Gillem Robinet Fiction The Amazing Age of John Roy Lynch Chris Barton Through My Eyes Nonfiction Ruby Bridges Nonfiction The Youngest Marcher: The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a Young The Watsons Go to Birmingham Civil Rights Activist Christopher Paul Curtis Cynthia Levinson Fiction Nonfiction H I S T O R Y G A L L E R I E S

D E F E N D I N G F R E E D O M , D E F I N I N G F R E E D O M T H E E R A O F S E G R E G A T I O N 1 8 7 6 - 1 9 6 8

I N N O V A T O R S E D U C A T O R S N I N T H T O T W E L V E G R A D E T H I R D T O T W E L V E

March: Book One Medical Apartheid - The Dark John Lewis and Andrew Aydin History Of Medical Experimentation Fiction On Black Americans From Colonial Times To The Present Incognegro: A Graphic Mystery Harriet A. Washington Mat Johnson Nonfiction Fiction Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Lighting the Fires of Freedom: Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow African American Women in the Civil Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Rights Movement Nonfiction Janet Dewart Bell Nonfiction Rising from the Rails: Pullman Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Porters and the Making of the Black Six African Americans Who Escaped Middle Class Slavery and Became Millionaires Larry Tye Nonfiction Shormari Wills Nonfiction Forever Free: A Story of Up from Slavery Emancipation and Reconstruction Booker T. Washington Eric Foner Nonfiction Nonfiction

The Souls of Black Folk The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic W.E.B. Du Bois Story of America's Great Migration Nonfiction Isabel Wilkerson Nonfiction Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells The Underground Railroad: A Novel Ida B. Wells Colson Whitehead Nonfiction Fiction

Dark Sky Rising: Reconstruction and At the Dark End of the Street: Black the Dawn of Jim Crow Women, Rape, and Resistance--A Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Tonya Bolden New History of the Civil Rights Nonfiction Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Danielle L. McGuire Years, 1954 - 1965 Nonfiction Juan Williams Nonfiction

JUNE HISTORY GALLERIES

1968 AND BEYOND

A Changing America: 1968 and Beyond explores contemporary black life through stories about the social, economic, political, and cultural experiences of African Americans. From the death of Martin Luther King, Jr. to the second election of Barack Obama, the coverage is broad. Large scale graphics and original artifacts lead visitors from the Black Arts Movement to Hip Hop, the Black Panthers to “Yes We Can," and Black is Beautiful to #BlackLivesMatter. H I S T O R Y G A L L E R I E S

A C H A N G I N G A M E R I C A : 1 9 6 8 A N D B E Y O N D

S O J O U R N E R S N A V I G A T O R S T H I R D T O F I F T H G R A D E S I X T H T O E I G H T G R A D E

Memphis, Martin, and the Mountaintop: Pride (A Pride and Prejudice Remix) The Sanitation Strike of 1968 Ibi Zoboi Alice Faye Duncan Fiction Fiction The Black Arts Movement (Lucent Who Is Barack Obama? Library of Black History) Roberta Edwards David Robson Nonfiction Nonfiction

What Do You Do with a Voice Like That?: Black Panthers For Beginners The Story of Extraordinary Herb Boyd Congresswoman Barbara Jordan Nonfiction Chris Barton Nonfiction African Americans In The Vietnam War (The American Experience In Vietnam) Who Is Michelle Obama? James E. Westheider Megan Stine Nonfiction Nonfiction Armstrong and Charlie Woke: A Young Poet's Call to Justice Steven B. Frank Mahogany L. Browne, Elizabeth Acevedo, Fiction and Olivia Gatwood Nonfiction Drowned City : Hurricane Katrina & New Orleans Malcolm X: A Fire Burning Brightly Don Brown Walter Dean Myers Fiction Nonfiction H I S T O R Y G A L L E R I E S

A C H A N G I N G A M E R I C A : 1 9 6 8 A N D B E Y O N D

I N N O V A T O R S E D U C A T O R S N I N T H T O T W E L V E G R A D E T H I R D T O T W E L V E

Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Black in America Community? Edited by Ibi Zoboi Martin Luther King Jr. Fiction Nonfiction The New Jim Crow Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-Fi Michelle Alexander and Fantasy Culture Nonfiction Ytasha L. Womack Nonfiction Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism Monster bell hooks Walter Dean Myers Nonfiction Fiction Unbought and Unbossed Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: Shirley Chisholm A Remix of the National Book Award- Nonfiction winning Stamped from the Beginning Race for Profit: How Banks and the Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi Real Estate Industry Undermine Black Nonfiction Homeownership BLACK Vol. 1 Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor Nonfiction Kwanza Osajyefo Fiction Living for the City: Migration, Education, and the Rise of the Black The Sellout: A Novel Panther Party in Oakland, California Paul Beatty Fiction Donna Jean Murch Nonfiction Just Mercy (Adapted for Young Adults): Obama: An Intimate Portrait A True Story of the Fight for Justice Pete Souza Bryan Stevenson Nonfiction Nonfiction Why Should White Guys Have All the Fun? How Reginald Lewis Created a Billion-dollar Business Empire Reginald F. Lewis and Blair S. Walker Nonfiction

JUNE TEMPORARY EXHIBIT

WE RETURN FIGHTING

This exhibition immerses visitors into a conversation that examines what fighting in the first global war meant for African Americans. World War represented the next major opportunity to reassert post- Civil War expectations of full citizenship. They assumed that participating in a war to help make the world safe for democracy would in turn help them achieve their own level of democracy. However, they returned to an unchanged America. As a result of the status quo, African Americans gave birth to the “New Negro”, who aggressively pursued new racial attitudes, ideals, and cultural expressions. T E M P O R A R Y E X H I B I T

W E R E T U R N F I G H T I N G

S O J O U R N E R S E D U C A T O R S T H I R D T O F I F T H G R A D E T H I R D T O T W E L V E

Harlem Hellfighters All Blood Runs Red: The Legendary Life J. Patrick Lewis of Eugene Bullard―Boxer, Pilot, Nonfiction Soldier, Spy Phil Keith with Tom Clavin N A V I G A T O R Nonfiction S I X T H T O E I G H T H G R A D E We Return Fighting: World War I and Harlem Stomp!: A Cultural History Of the Shaping of Modern Black Identity The Harlem Renaissance Edited by Kinshasha Holman Conwill Laban Carrick Hill Nonfiction Nonfiction 1919, The Year of Racial Violence: How The Harlem Hellfighters: When Pride African Americans Fought Back Met Courage David F. Krugler Walter Dean Myers and Bill Miles Nonfiction Nonfiction Torchbearers of Democracy: African I N N O V A T O R S American Soldiers in the World War I Era N I N T H T O T W E L V E G R A D E Chad L. Williams Nonfiction Scott's Official History of the American Negro in the World War Two Colored Women in World War I France Emmett J. Scott Addie W. Hunton and Kathryn M. Johnson Nonfiction Nonfiction

1919 A Life in Ragtime: A Biography of James Eve L. Ewing Reese Europe Poetry Reid Badger Nonfiction The Harlem Hellfighters Max Brooks Fiction

JUNE HISTORY GALLERIES

RESOURCES

These pages include a reading log and activities to deepen your reading experience. MY READING LIST

Use this page to record the books that you read for the month of June.

Title: Author: Genre: Fiction or Non Fiction: Associated Exhibit: Rating (1 to 10): Recommend to Others: Yes or No

Sojourners (Grades 3 - 5): 3 Selections Per Month Navigators (Grades 6 - 8): 3 Selections Per Month Innovators (Grades 9 - 12): 3 Selections Per Month Educators (Grades 3 - 12): 3 Selections Per Month JUNE ACTIVITIES

Use these activities to help you dive deeper into your monthly reading selections. These activites are optional,

Double Entry Journals - This is a reading log activity that asks you to reflect on passages within your selection.

Questioning the Author - This is activity asks you to engage the selection by questioning the choices of the author and their work.

Create a Literary Quilt - This is activity asks you to creatively engage the selection by creating a quilt that includes elements (such as theme, characters, plot points) that you found important or engaging. You will design quilt squares for each section or chapter of the selection.

JUNE ACTIVITIES Double Entry Notebook

This is a reading log activity that asks you to reflect on passages within your reading. You will choose quotes from your selection to reflect and write responses to. All you need is a notebook to record your reflections.

Directions

1. Divide a page in half. Label the left side "Quotes" and the right side "Reflections." 2. Choose a passage or quote that you found informative or interesting. Write it on the left side. On the right side, reflect on and write down your thoughts about the quote or passage. 3. Try to record a reflection once per section or chapter.

Quote Reflection

Activity selections adapted from 50 Literacy Strategies: Step by Step (Fourth Edition) by Gail E. Tompkins. JUNE ACTIVITIES

Questioning the Author

This is activity asks you to engage the selection by questioning the choices of the author and their work. Use the four questions to help to reflect. All you need is a notebook to record your responses.

Directions

1. Decide whether you will answer the questions after reading a section, chapter, or the entire work. 2. Review the questions below before you begin. 3. After you complete reading your chosen section, chapter, or the entire work, answer the following four questions.

Questions

1.What is the author trying to tell us? 2.What is the author talking about here? 3.How does this fit with what the author told us before? 4.Why is the author telling us this?

Activity selections adapted from 50 Literacy Strategies: Step by Step (Fourth Edition) by Gail E. Tompkins. JUNE ACTIVITIES

Create a Literary Quilt

This is activity asks you to creatively engage the selection by creating a quilt that represents elements (such as theme, characters, plot points) that you found important or engaging. You will design quilt squares for each section or chapter of the selection.

In the end, your assembled quilt will represent your experience reading your selection. You can draw and color your quilt in a notebook or use construction paper or fabric to create your quilt.

Directions

1.Count the number of sections or chapters within your selection. These will be your number of quilt squares. 2.Design your quilt squares after reading each section or chapter. Your design will represent an element of the selection (theme, characters, settings, plot points, colors, etc...) that you found engaging or important. You can also add relevant quotes or passages. 3.Assemble your quilt (with tape, glue, or stitching) after you complete your reading. 4.Take a photo of your quilt and selected reading together. Compose a short reflection of the overall message of your quilt in relation to the work, or any final thoughts you had.

Activity selections adapted from 50 Literacy Strategies: Step by Step (Fourth Edition) by Gail E. Tompkins.