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Black History Month Common Core CCRA.R.5 resources
Kobe Bryant Dear Basketball Poem — Analysis & Paired Text Michael Jordan Letter
Students LOVE reading and analyzing Kobe Bryant's "Dear Basketball" Poem. In this activity, they will complete a Poem Analysis & Compare/Contrast Paired Text Activity. The paired text students will look at is Michael Jordan's 2003 Retirement Letter, also titled "Dear Basketball."In 2015, Bryant announced his retirement through “Player’s Tribune” in a poem titled “Dear Basketball.” In the poem, Bryant shares his love for the sport with the world. Bryant later earned an Academy Award for Best
Grades:
6th - 10th
Ruby Bridges Reading and Writing Activities - Civil Rights - Black History Month
These digital Ruby Bridges reading passages and writing activities are perfect to teach Civil Rights leaders during Black History month. They're easy to use as traditional classroom lesson plans, centers, homework, independent work, or they’re great for fast finishers in first and second grades. Busy teachers love these low-prep lessons and activities that are sure to engage their students! With print & digital options, Learning Quests provide a balance of face to face and device-based learn
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1st - 3rd
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Black History Month Nonfiction Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions
Get students digging deeper in nonfiction texts with this differentiated Black History Month Reading Passages download! ⭐ This resource includes print and digital (Google Slides) versions.⭐This product features 10 informational articles each featuring one influential African American. They include photographs and text features. Passages range from approximately 200 words to 250 words, serving as a mini-biography! . Pick and choose, or assign them all...whatever best serves your students' needs!E
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Nonfiction Reading Comprehension Passages BUNDLE
Martin Luther King Jr. Activities - Civil Rights Leaders - Black History Month
These digital Martin Luther King Jr. activities are perfect to teach about Civil Rights leaders during Black History month. They're easy to use as traditional classroom lesson plans, centers, homework, independent work, or they’re great for fast finishers in first and second grades. Busy teachers love these low-prep lessons and activities that are sure to engage their students! With print & digital options, Learning Quests provide a balance of face to face and device-based learning styles fo
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1st - 3rd
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Civil Rights Leaders - Black History Month - King, Parks, Bridges, Robinson
This bundle of digital Civil Rights leaders activities are perfect for Black History month and easy to use as traditional classroom lesson plans, centers, homework, independent work, or they’re great for fast finishers in first and second grades. Busy teachers love these low-prep lessons and activities that are sure to engage their students! With print & digital options, Learning Quests provide a balance of face to face and device-based learning styles for your modern classroom.These Learnin
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1st - 2nd
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Black History Month Activities - February Print & Digital Lessons
These digital Black History Month activities are easy to use as traditional classroom lesson plans, centers, homework, independent work, or they’re great for fast finishers in first and second grades. Busy teachers love these low-prep lessons and activities that are sure to engage their students! With print & digital options, Learning Quests provide a balance of face to face and device-based learning styles for your modern classroom.Why do teachers and students love our Learning Quests?We al
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1st - 2nd
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Also included in: Literacy and Research Digital Curriculum - A Year Long Printable Units
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Paired Texts [Print & Digital]: Abolitionists Grades 4-6
These paired passages, or paired texts, meet the demand for more complex texts that students can use to compare and build knowledge to integrate information and draw conclusions. The high-interest, rigorous passages in this set are great to stretch your 4th and 5th graders, and still appropriate for many students in middle school as well. The passages in this set are differentiated. Two levels are provided: on grade level for 4-5 and on grade level for 6-7.I have included printable AND Google Ap
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4th - 6th
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Also included in: Yearlong Print and Digital Paired Text Bundle for Grades 4-6
February Lesson Plans - Groundhog, Valentine, Black History, U.S. Presidents
This bundle of digital February activities are easy to use as traditional classroom lesson plans, centers, homework, independent work, or they’re great for fast finishers in first and second grades. Busy teachers love these low-prep lessons and activities that are sure to engage their students! With print & digital options, Learning Quests provide a balance of face to face and device-based learning styles for your modern classroom.These Learning Quests provide literacy and research activitie
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1st - 2nd
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Jackie Robinson Digital Activities - Civil Rights Leaders - Black History Month
These digital Jackie Robinson digital activities are perfect to teach Civil Rights leaders during Black History month. They're easy to use as traditional classroom lesson plans, centers, homework, independent work, or they’re great for fast finishers in first and second grades. Busy teachers love these low-prep lessons and activities that are sure to engage their students! With print & digital options, Learning Quests provide a balance of face to face and device-based learning styles for you
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1st - 3rd
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ELA Grades 9-10 Quarter 3 Curriculum - 9 Weeks Rhetoric Unit, MLK, Argument Unit
Looking for a no-prep rhetorical analysis and argument writing quarter of instruction that contains engaging, relevant, and rigorous materials? Fortunately, this complete nine-week bundle, with a free daily calendar (click to download), represents 21st Century learning at its best! Students will participate in a variety of educational activities that range from analyzing prominent speeches and viewing real-world advertisements to watching and working with iconic movie speeches aimed to motivate
Grades:
9th - 12th
MARCH by John Lewis Graphic Novel Unit Activities, Projects, & Assignments
All of my MARCH resources! ALL EDITABLE IN GOOGLE DOCS.Use these resources for book one, two, or three (or all 3) of the March trilogy!Included:-daily journal/writing prompts (that can also function as discussion starters) -pre-reading Anticipation guide (10 agree/disagree statements)-vocabulary related to the Civil Rights Movement and social movement theories -March Book One Vocabulary worksheet-March Book Two Vocabulary Worksheet-a slides presentation to introduce the different Social Movement
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8th - 11th
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Short Stories by Black Authors | African American Authors Bundle
In this bundle, you will receive lesson plans for 7 short stories all written by Black authors. With each product, there are detailed literary analyses, reading questions, answer keys, and accommodating activities. Diversify the literature in your classroom and use these stories to broaden your students' perspectives! These short stories also make a great addition to any Black History Month Unit in ELA!The 7 short stories by African American authors featured in this bundle are:"Raymond’s Run" by
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7th - 12th
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Counting on Katherine Mentor Text Unit for Grades 3-5
Counting on Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Saved Apollo 13 by Helaine Becker is a mentor text that highlights one of the famous "Hidden Figures" women! If you don't own a copy of the book, check your local library or you might even find an online read-aloud of the text with a simple Google search!Using mentor texts is one of the best ways to maximize your teaching time. You are able to teach multiple skills, subjects, and topics with just one book!WHAT IS INCLUDED IN THIS UNIT?a week of plans
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: MENTOR TEXT CLUB by Jivey 1ST EDITION for Grades 3-5
Rosa Parks Digital Activities - Civil Rights Leaders - Black History Month
These digital Rosa Parks digital activities are perfect to teach Civil Rights leaders during Black History month. They're easy to use as traditional classroom lesson plans, centers, homework, independent work, or they’re great for fast finishers in first and second grades. Busy teachers love these low-prep lessons and activities that are sure to engage their students! With print & digital options, Learning Quests provide a balance of face to face and device-based learning styles for your mod
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1st - 2nd
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Hip Hop Main Idea and Supporting Details Passage Worksheets 6th and 7th Grade
Based on a history of Hip Hop and rap music song, these main idea and supporting details passage worksheets for 6th and 7th grade include multiple-choice questions, extension activities, and graphic organizers. Students will listen to the song then use the song's lyrics as a reading passage to complete the activities detailed below.What teachers like you had to say:⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "My students struggle with identifying central idea. This is a great resource to supplement those skills." – Austin H.This act
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6th - 8th
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Harlem Renaissance Digital Escape Room
Introduction to the Harlem RenaissanceTake your students back in time in this Harlem Renaissance digital escape room. Students will try to solve a series of clues as they enter the 360° digital speakeasy from the 1920s with fun jazz music playing.This is an excellent introductory activity for learning about the Harlem Renaissance and the literature of the time. No background knowledge is necessary to play!Not only will students be introduced to the history of the era, but they will read four pie
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8th - 12th
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Also included in: Black History Month ELA Activities
Pies From Nowhere Book Companion - Black History and the Civil Rights Movement
Perfect for Black History Month, this literature guide for the picture book Pies From Nowhere introduces students to Georgia Gilmore, a hidden figure of the Civil Rights Movement. The story focuses on how Georgia helped sustain the Montgomery Bus Boycott by selling pies and cakes with the Club From Nowhere and her relationship with Martin Luther King Jr. These activities are great for Guided Reading, independent or small group work, reading response, or in a center. Use it with Gr. 2-4 and hom
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2nd - 5th
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Also included in: Biography Picture Book Companion Bundle - Lit Guides
Juneteenth Readers Theater
Perfect for celebrating Juneteenth! Based on actual slave narratives, Freedom for the First Time is historically-accurate, kid-friendly, and comes embedded with discussion prompts and historic photos. It’s the narrative of ten-year old Tyree during the Civil War. Tyree believes whatever her masters say. But when Tyree’s brother, Sweet Walter, arrives with a band of Union soldiers to tell her the war is over, she and her family experience their day of Jubilee, the day they know freedom for the fi
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4th - 8th
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Sweat by Zora Neale Hurston | Short Story Analysis
Use the short story "Sweat" by Zora Neale Hurston to teach Feminist Literature, Famous African American Authors, or about Themes and Biblical Allusions in literature. This is a great lesson for students to practice literary analysis.Included in this lesson plan:- Full Text "Sweat" short story by Zora Neale Hurston- Anticipation activity, activating strategy worksheet- Powerpoint presentation: - Background Information about the author Zora Neale Hurston - Historical Context: Rural Ame
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in: Short Stories by Black Authors | African American Authors Bundle
Thank You Ma'am — Short Story Bundle
This bundle includes 3 products: a one pager project, a digital escape room, and a literary analysis, all for the short story "Thank You Ma'am" by Langston Hughes. 1. Literary Analysis: includes vocabulary, anticipation activity, reading comprehension questions, and more.3. 360° Digital Escape Room: Students will solve a series of clues based on the story. This game entails reading comprehension skills, finding textual evidence, and making inferences.4. One Pager Project: Students imaginatively
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5th - 10th
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Raymond's Run by Toni Cade Bambara — Short Story Literary Analysis
In this Literary Analysis of the short story "Raymond's Run" by Toni Cade Bambara, you will receive before, during, and after reading activities for your students. This product includes:anticipation guide — before readingvocabulary definition chart — before readingcomprehension questions — during readingliterary analysis questions — during or after readingnarrator analysis graphic organizer — after readingwriting menu student choice — after readinganswer keysStudents will get exposure to importa
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6th - 9th
Also included in: Short Stories by Black Authors | African American Authors Bundle
This Is the Rope Mentor Text Unit for Grades 3-5
This Is the Rope: A Story From The Great Migration by Jacqueline Woodson is a beautiful symbolic book about how family is tied together through generations. If you don't own a copy of the book, check your local library or you might even find an online read-aloud of the text with a simple Google search!Using mentor texts is one of the best ways to maximize your teaching time. You are able to teach multiple skills, subjects, and topics with just one book!WHAT IS INCLUDED IN THIS UNIT?a week of pla
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: MENTOR TEXT CLUB by Jivey 1ST EDITION for Grades 3-5
Hip Hop History Fun End of Year ELA Reading Activities for 5th and 6th Grade
Looking for fun end of year ELA reading activities for 5th and 6th grade? Rap music is the solution! Based on our History of Hip Hop and Rap Music song, these language arts activities will keep your students engaged using song lyrics as a reading passage while they practice a variety of skills. Easily incorporate them into independent activities or complete them together as a class lesson.Students will listen to the song then use the song lyrics as a reading passage to complete the activities de
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5th - 7th
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The History of Black History Month Slideshow: Great for Assemblies! Gr K-6
This slideshow is great for ASSEMBLIES! Or use in the classroom. It gives a brief history of why we celebrate Black History Month. 40 Slides - with animations and REAL photos! Plus- questions at the end for a great review.Students will explore the following questions:1. What is Black History Month?2. How did Black History Month start?3. Why did Black History Month start?4. Who started Black History Month?5. How can we celebrate Black History Month? If you like this, check out the Martin Luther
Grades:
1st - 6th
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