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Black History Month Common Core L.8.2 resources
Maya Angelou & Langston Hughes Poetry Lesson Bundle
These three differentiated lesson plans center around the beautifully powerful poems, "Still I Rise," "A Dream Deferred," and "Caged Bird." Each plan is meticulously explained using a format of warm-up, explanation, application, and synthesis with the aim to engage students from beginning to end. Students will analyze the figurative language within the poems and respond to the powerful messages they evoke through independent work, paired activities, and full class discussion. Lesson plans and ac
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8th - 11th
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African American Biography Task Cards - Black History Month Activities, Poster
80 notable African Americans who were pioneers in their fields are profiled in these Black History mini biographies. This African American history task card resource helps your students develop their writing, speaking and listening skills. Included are 16 ways to use these Black American biographies. You can use this resource during Black History Month or anytime you're teaching Black History or American History classes. Please open the Preview to see a list of all the famous Black Americans
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5th - 8th
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Still I Rise (Angelou) Lesson Plan & Materials
Celebrate Black History Month with this thoughtful, engaging lesson on overcoming obstacles in Maya Angelou's renowned poem, "Still I Rise."This lesson plan on Angelou's poem can be used in a variety of ways throughout the school year. For instance, the lesson is the perfect jumpstart for your unit on slavery, Civil Rights, poetry, or Women's Rights in America. It can also be used as a stand-alone lesson to get your students to reflect upon and discuss overcoming their own personal obstacles. Gi
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: Maya Angelou & Langston Hughes Poetry Lesson Bundle
My Perspectives 9th Grade Unit 3: Literature of Civil Rights BUNDLE
This LOADED resource facilitates students to discover how the writings and speeches of the Civil Rights movement inspired social change and demonstrates how words inspire change. Students will interact with a series of speeches, writings, poems, and videos to better understand and create their own change-inspiring speech at the end of the unit. This concise resource includes do-now's, vocabulary, comprehension check questions and answers, discussion questions, debate topics, assessments, and eng
Grades:
8th - 12th
Caged Bird (Angelou) Lesson Plan & Materials
Celebrate Black History Month with this engaging lesson on Maya Angelou's stunningly poignant poem of injustice, "Caged Bird."This dynamic lesson plan on Angelou's poem is the perfect addition to your poetry unit. In this lesson, students will analyze the figurative language within the poem and respond to its powerful theme through independent work, paired activities, and full class discussion. The lesson plan even includes a unique way to read the poem as a class that will have your students en
Grades:
7th - 12th
Also included in: Maya Angelou & Langston Hughes Poetry Lesson Bundle
Harlem (A Dream Deferred) Lesson Plan & Materials
Celebrate Black History Month with this dynamic lesson on pursuing your dreams in Langston Hughes' provocative poem, Harlem (A Dream Deferred).This differentiated lesson plan on Hughes' poem is the perfect addition to your poetry unit. In this lesson, students will analyze the figurative language within the poem and respond to its powerful theme through independent work, paired activities, and full class discussion. These meticulously laid-out materials will have your students thinking, speaking
Grades:
6th - 12th
Also included in: Maya Angelou & Langston Hughes Poetry Lesson Bundle
Literature of Civil Rights Unit Plan & Activities, Handouts, Assessments BUNDLE
This LOADED resource facilitates students to discover how the writings and speeches of the Civil Rights movement inspired social change and demonstrates how words inspire change. Students will interact with a series of speeches, writings, poems, and videos to better understand and create their own change-inspiring speech at the end of the unit. This concise resource includes do-now's, vocabulary, comprehension check questions and answers, discussion questions, debate topics, assessments, and eng
Grades:
8th - 12th
African-Americans, Women Around the World, American Women Biographies Task Cards
These short biographies profile 80 African-American men and women, 100 American women of various ethnicities, and 68 women around the world who were pioneers in their field or achieved something notable. Each resource has different people in it so there are biographies of 248 people in all. Included in each resource are 15 ways to use these task cards to help your students develop their writing, speaking and listening skills.Bundle at a Glance:★ What will students learn?* Basic facts about the
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5th - 8th
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Martin Luther King Jr. Activities & Mentor Sentences for Punctuation Practice
You'll love these mentor sentences focused on the life of Martin Luther King Jr. Combine daily writing with content-rich mentor sentences that focus on the use of semicolons and commas. Use as a start-up activity, partner or group work, or as a center activity. Each day's work teaches about the life of Martin Luther King Jr. and emphasizes sentence structure, punctuation, and word choice. Just print and go! Perfect for grades 5-8. Click here to follow me and stay up to date on new products and
Grades:
5th - 8th
Famous African-Americans - Daily Oral Language Exercises
Set of 20 daily oral language exercises covering famous African-American doctors, writers, politician, and activists. Designed to honor Black History month. Perfect as a daily warm-up, learning center activity, or group work. Includes worksheets and answer key.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
Grades:
5th - 9th
Black History Month - Sentence Structure Game - Sentence Structures Activity
Students review simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences while reading about famous Black Americans. The text focuses on the achievements of Rosa Parks, Thurgood Marshall, Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Langston Hughes, and Oprah Winfrey. All you need to play this fun game is the ability to project a PowerPoint or Google Slides presentation, a soft ball, some dark tape, and a trash can. (Recently updated with a link to a Google Slides Presentation.)In this game, there are
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: Grammar Bundle - Grammar Practice Activities - 36 Trashketball Games
MLK Day: Martin Luther King Jr Activity, Webquest, Biography Summary
Looking for an engaging activity to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. or MLK Day? Your students will enjoy learning more about the life and achievements of this civil rights leader through a biography summary activity. In a user-friendly, graphic organizer template, students will summarize the life and biography of MLK. It’s no-prep for you, but quality content for your students. Make research fun and enjoyable with this biography summary webquest.What is Included:A detailed page of teacher ins
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Not Grade Specific
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