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Black History Month independent work packets for Easel Activities
Black History Month Reading Comprehension Passages Biographies Research Poster
Black History Month Activities made simple! Celebrate Black History Month with biography close reading passages your students will love to read! Grab these close-reading articles to help your students learn about important African Americans while they reflect on their lives with critical thinking reader reflection tasks.These activities are perfect to tie together important history and nonfiction reading.This pack has 4 biographies to help you teach about African Americans and includes critical
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Also included in: Famous Person Biography Reading Comprehension Passages Scientists
Black History Month Biographies & Reading Activities 4th & 5th Grade
These Black History Month biographies and activities showcase the lives of important men and women who have had a major impact on Black History. This set includes nonfiction reading passages with questions that help you teach 4th and 5th grade Black History in a meaningful way.Each biography also has graphic organizers and text-aligned life timelines that help your students dig deeper into the achievements of African-Americans. With these additions, you can use this activity set for ELA and Soci
Grades:
4th - 6th
Brown Girl Dreaming by J.Woodson; A CCSS Aligned, PDF & Digital Book Study
OVERVIEW: If you like to inspire, teach, and motivate your students using award-winning, literature, don't overlook this amazing memoir: Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson (2015 Newbery Honor Award, 2015 Coretta Scott King Award, 2014 National Book Award, and 2015 E.B. White Read-Aloud Middle Reader Award). Use this PDF, custom-made, no-prep, CCSS aligned memoir-study to help your students focus, understand, and stretch themselves as they read. If you want to use it with distance lea
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5th - 9th
Black History Month Bulletin Board Research Project: 32 Famous African Americans
Explore the lives of 32 African American leaders and create a striking photo bulletin board. Your research project can be short, detailed, or differentiated. It's great for studying famous people during Black History Month.Open the preview to get a closer look.This project is scalable. If you're short on time, you can use less pages. Want a full-blown research project? Use them all. (Or you can do something more in the middle.)For the quickest activity, print the templates with large pictures of
Grades:
4th - 6th
Nonfiction Book Unit: Claudette Colvin Twice Toward Justice (Print + DIGITAL)
This is a 110-page Common Core aligned complete book study for the nonfiction text, Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip Hoose. This book study teaching unit has everything that you will need to teach and assess the novel. The table of contents makes finding information quick and easy. ALL ANSWER KEYS ARE INCLUDED. Who was Claudette Colvin? Most people know that Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white person and helped stop segregation on buses in Alabama, but did you
Grades:
6th - 8th
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Becoming Muhammad Ali: A PDF Novel Study and Easel Digital Activity
OVERVIEW:Two products in one: digital and printable! This is a ready-to-use, custom made, PDF and Easel Digital packet designed for use with middle graders reading Becoming Muhammad Ali by award-winning-authors, James Patterson and Kwame Alexander. The Easel activity included is a copy of the student workbook complete with textboxes allowing the teacher to assign it digitally and the student to complete the activities digitally when distance learning is necessary. Included in both the PDF and
Grades:
5th - 8th
Black History Month Activity - Faith Ringgold Biography Unit
Faith Ringgold Biography and Art Activities. Famous artist activities unit includes close read biography passages, reading skills activities, vocabulary words, creative writing sheets, art appreciation responses, and drawing and coloring pages. Great addition to monthly themes like Black History Month, Women’s History Month, Hispanic Heritage Month, etc. This Unit is also available in SPANISH. Click HERE.This biography and art activities unit has all you need to get your students excited about a
Grades:
1st - 4th
Also included in: Black History Month Activities - African American Female Artists Units
Follow the Drinking Gourd by Winter the Underground Railroad Lesson
Follow the Drinking Gourd by Winter The Underground Railroad Lesson is perfect for teaching American history, African American history, main idea and details, cause and effect, new vocabulary, writing skills, and much MORE! This lesson plan includes: Learning Objectives Pre, during, and post reading activities, Background InformationExtension resourceKWL Chart, Word search New Vocabulary activities Reading Comprehension QuestionsCause & Effect activity Main idea and details activity Nearpod
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Grades:
4th - 6th
Harbor Me by Jacqueline Woodson, A PDF and Digital Novel Study
Like to honor diversity and encourage inclusion in your classroom? Do you want to be prepared for distance learning as well? If so, this NYT Bestseller, Harbor Me, by Jacqueline Woodson is a great book to introduce your students to and this novel study will guide them to meaningful discussions and provide you with the option of printable or digital lessons.Included in this packet is a ready-to-use, custom-made novel study designed for independent work in grades 5-8 as students read Harbor Me by
Grades:
5th - 8th
Black History Month - African-American Musicians
30 investigations of African-American musicians. Students search online for information about each musician: the instrument they played, where and when they were born, things they are famous for, accomplishments, awards they won, etc.Stevie Wonder, Alicia Keys, Jimi Hendrix, Prince, Ray Charles, Nat King Cole, B. B. King, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Chuck Berry, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Sheku Kanneh-Mason, José White, Questlove, Lenny Kravitz, Max Roach, Fats Domino, Sh
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6th - 12th
Also included in: Black History Month BUNDLE - High School
Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt by Hopkinson Lesson
Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt by Deborah Hopkinson LessonTopics: Underground Railroad, Slavery, African American History; American History;This lesson plan includes: Lesson objectivesReading comprehension questionsKWL Chart Cause and Effect Chart4 quilt tiles (have each student create a quilt tile for the class quilt for Clara) Character analysisMain Idea and Details ActivityNew Vocabulary (activities) Word Search Extension ActivitiesNearpod Teacher Access info is included on the last pageIf
Grades:
2nd - 5th
Black History Month Read Alouds & Activities Ron's Big Mission Book Companion
Ron's Big Mission is an engaging Black History Month read-aloud that tells the true story of how astronaut Ron McNair courageously stood up against racism as a 9-year old boy in his hometown. This resource is a set of activities aligned with the book that makes an interesting Black History biography activity for your class.Ron's Big Mission is written by Rose Blue and Corinne J. NadenThe actual book is NOT included.Here are all the other activities contained in this Black History read-aloud set:
Grades:
2nd - 3rd
Novel Study: Jefferson's Sons by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley (Print + DIGITAL)
This is a 120+ page, Common Core aligned, complete novel study for Jefferson's Sons by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley. This NO PREP book study teaching unit has everything that you will need to teach and assess the novel. The table of contents makes finding information quick and easy. ALL ANSWER KEYS ARE INCLUDED.GO DIGITAL! Choose printed or paperless resources! The student packet, quizzes, final test, and supplemental materials are available as Google Drive files. A vocabulary and definitions list
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Black History Month Activities -Romare Bearden Activity - Bearden Biography Unit
Romare Bearden Biography and Art Activities. Famous artist activities unit includes close read biography passages, reading skills activities, vocabulary words, creative writing sheets, art appreciation responses, and drawing and coloring pages. Great addition to monthly themes like Black History Month, Women’s History Month, Hispanic Heritage Month, etc. Updated to include two differentiated reading comprehension assignments for use with the artist biography. Assign in Easel or download the FREE
Grades:
2nd - 5th
Hidden Figures Movie Guide Middle & High School ESL No Prep Sub Activity
This is a Black & Women's History themed movie guide that is suitable to use in conjunction with a unit, center, or as an emergency sub plan. This Hidden Figures film guide will cover more than just the movie so students will be engaged before, during, and after the film. Contents:-inferencing/predicting-vocabulary-historical context reading and comprehension questions with sentence stems-scene analysis -reflection questions-space for adding drawings or images to support thinkingJust click,
Grades:
6th - 12th, Adult Education
Civil Rights Leaders Research Paper Project — US History ELA — CCSS Rubric
Explore the influential leaders of the American civil rights movement with this comprehensive research guide. Students will have the opportunity to delve into the lives and legacies of remarkable individuals who played a pivotal role in the fight for equality and social justice. Through carefully scaffolded activities, this guide will support students in conducting research, planning their essay, and crafting a polished piece that highlights their understanding and insights.Immerse your students
Grades:
7th - 10th
Dear America With the Might of Angels Novel Guide
Dear America: With the Might of Angels by Andrea Davis PinkneyConcepts covered are prejudice, discrimination, segregation, school integration, American history; This novel unit includes:Learning ObjectivesPre-Reading ActivityKWL ChartNew Vocabulary Activities Reading Comprehension QuestionsExtension Activities Compare and Contrast Activity Character AnalysisWord SearchEssay QuestionsJournal QuestionsIf you would like the Google Classroom link for this resource, please email me @ mrslenamed@gmail
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4th - 6th
End of Year Activities: Kindness & Friendship- Activities+ 5 Games (PDF & Easel)
No Prep Required. Activities and Games are available in Both Print and Digital-Easel Version. Can be used as a classroom activity AND/OR as a homework assignment. Suitable for all Grades. What It Includes:Story: A Heart-warming story on the importance of being a kind friend. Discussion and Points to Ponder: This section encourages meaningful discussions with thought-provoking questions and points to ponder on how one can become a good friend and choose the rights friends. Explore themes such as
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PreK - 12th
Before She Was Harriet American Women's History Lesson on Harriet Tubman
Before She Was Harriet by Cline Ransome Lesson is perfect for teaching about the life and work of Harriet Tubman, who played many important roles in our nations' history from leading people to freedom to working as a Union spy. Ideal for teaching American History, African American History and/or Women's History. PRINT and GO! This lesson plan pack includes: Pre, during, and post reading activitiesBackground InformationLearning ObjectivesNew vocabularyComprehension questionsCause and effect chart
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Significant Abolitionists Research Paper Project — History ELA — CCSS Rubrics
Explore the remarkable lives of significant abolitionists with this research guide. Students will have the opportunity to delve into the inspiring stories of courageous individuals who fought against slavery and championed the cause of freedom. Through carefully designed activities, this guide will support students in the research process, guiding them from initial planning to crafting a polished essay that showcases their understanding and insights.Immerse your students in the history of abolit
Grades:
7th - 10th
Black History Month - African-American Actors
30 investigations of African-American male actors. Students search online for information about each actor's place and date of birth, popular movies they starred in, things they are famous for, awards they won, etc.: Will Smith, Chadwick Boseman, Kenan Thompson, Morgan Freeman, Donald Glover, Ice Cube, Michael B. Smith, James Earl Jones, Paul Robeson, Forrest Whitaker, Louis Gossett, Jr., Danny Glover, Anthony Mackie, Ossie Davis, Taye Diggs, Michael Ealy, Mekhi Phifer, Derek Luke, Demetrius Sh
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6th - 12th
Jean Michel Basquiat Activities - Hispanic Artist Biography Art Unit
Jean Michel Basquiat Biography and Art Activities. Famous artist activities unit includes close read biography passages, reading skills activities, vocabulary words, creative writing sheets, art appreciation responses, and drawing and coloring pages. Great addition to monthly themes like Black History Month, Women’s History Month, Hispanic Heritage Month, etc. This unit is also available in SPANISH! Click Here.Updated to include two differentiated reading comprehension assignments for use with t
Grades:
3rd - 9th
Black History Month Activities - Augusta Savage Activities -Savage Biography Art
Augusta Savage Biography and Art Activities. Famous artist activities unit includes close read biography passages, reading skills activities, vocabulary words, creative writing sheets, art appreciation responses, and drawing and coloring pages. Great addition to monthly themes like Black History Month, Women’s History Month, Hispanic Heritage Month, etc. Updated to include two differentiated reading comprehension assignments for use with the artist biography. Assign in Easel or download the FREE
Grades:
2nd - 6th
Also included in: Black History Month Activities - African American Female Artists Units
RUBY BRIDGES: ELA Activity Pack Reading + Writing + Research Black History Month
★★★★★ This 6-worksheet ELA activity pack is all about the incredible story of RUBY BRIDGES and her bravery as a young girl making a lasting difference in America during the Civil Rights Movement. Covers tons of ELA standards in an engaging and understandable way! ⭐ Want this resource for FREE? Get the bundle and save $2.50!Designed for a 90-min. literacy block, this resource centers around 1 informative text and includes 5 reading, writing, vocabulary, and research activities about the nonficti
Grades:
3rd - 6th
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