Black History Month Activities: Common Core Poetry Fiction Music Movies and more
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Poetry, fiction, graphic novels, expository writing, research, activities, worksheets, assessments, posters, lessons--all printable and all time-saving. For any grade 9-10, native speaker or ESL, it's already differentiated with a tiered assessments: Pick and choose the difficulty as you go!It's allPrice $241.84Original Price $268.71Save $26.87
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Black History Month: Martin Luther King Jr, Kendrick Lamar, Maya Angelou, Frederick Douglas, Ralph Ellison, Malcolm X and more! Learn about Historical and Famous Black American men and women who shaped American culture, art, and politics with poetry, fiction, essays, and history using Common Core standards.
Features:
* Highlights of famous black historical figures and a research activity
* Poetry Activities and ssessments on Langston Hughes, Maya Angelou, Billie Holiday, Kendrick Lamar
* Deep reading of prose excerpts of Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower and Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man
* Martin Luther King Jr's "I Have a Dream" speech and rhetorical device analysis, including parallel structure
* Frederick Douglas and a debate about the power of photography for social change and new technology
* Black filmmaking: Jordan Peele's Get Out and Donald Glover's Atlanta and how fiction works as metaphor and allegory
Includes:
* Powerpoint Lesson (works as teacher led or self-guided asynchronous with prompts)
* Student Activity book with assessments, activities, and discussion prompts
* Media: Audio and Visual examples of select media to provide differentiated learning for audio and visual learners
Meets numerous Common Core Standards!
This unit is structured so it's easy to fit in one or two lessons a week between your usual lessons, or to make this your whole unit for the entire month! Simply choose how many of the questions you want your students to answer for each activity and you can create weeks long sustained research projects and debates, or one-class reading and writing assessments. The choice is yours!
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