Writing About Great African-Americans - 5 Days of Writing Activities & Lessons

This unit includes five days of writing lessons and activities that highlight just a few great African-Americans that changed history. The lessons this week will touch on the background of African-Americans who have been explorers in a variety of fields such as science, politics, sports, and humanitarian needs.

The writing lessons in this packet will spend one day studying and writing about each of the following people: Harriet Tubman, George Washington Carver, Jackie Robinson, Thurgood Marshall, and Martin Luther King Jr..

I have included writing paper templates, images, any reference information you will need to conduct these workshops.

I hope your students enjoy these writing activities and as always if you have any questions please let me know!

Along with the writing activity packet above, I also offer a variety of other one week writing downloads specifically for K - 2nd grade. To preview these writing packets please click on the links below.

✓ Lesson #1 - Preparing For A Great Year of Writing
✓ Lesson #2 - Modeling & Journal Writing Practice
✓ Lesson #3 - Exploring Your School - Back To School Writing
✓ Lesson #4 - Writing All About Me!
✓ Lesson #5 - Family Writing Week
✓ Lesson #15 - Introduction to Narrative Writing
✓ Lesson #16 - Teaching Narrative Writing - Working With A Timeline
✓ Lesson #17 - Narrative Writing With Flare - Holiday Writing Workshops
✓ Lesson #18 - Celebrating Holiday Traditions Through Writing
✓ Lesson #19 - Writing About Your State
✓ Lesson #20 - Great African-Americans That Changed History
✓ Lesson #21 - Writing Integrated with Science - Writing About Light
✓ Lesson #22 - Writing About The Night Sky & Groundhog Day
✓ Lesson #23 - Writing About Farm Animals
✓ Lessons #24 & 25 - Writing About Animal Habitats
✓ Lessons #26 - Investigating & Writing About Motion


Along with the above activity packets, I have also developed a variety of writing and language arts activity books that make teaching these lessons fun and effective. Please click on the links below to preview these activity books.

• Just Write: A Sentence
• Letters from Ted E. Bear - Friendly Letter Writing Activities
• Just Write: A Paragraph
• Just Conventions - Daily Grammar and Conventions Practice
• Daily Grammar Lesson Integrated with Science - 3rd Grade
• Daily Grammar Lesson Integrated with Science - 4rd Grade
• Daily Grammar Lesson Integrated with Science - 5rd Grade
• Teaching Research Skills

The writing activity books above all supplement my complete writing programs that schools throughout the country are using in order to develop outstanding writers school-wide. Please click on any of the links below to preview these programs.

• Kindergarten Writing Program
• 1st Grade Writing Program
• 2nd Grade Writing Program
• 3rd Grade Expository Writing Program
• 3rd Grade Narrative Writing Program
• Expository Writing for 4th - 6th Grade
• Narrative Writing for 4th - 6th Grade


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