Famous Black History Women Reading Passage Activities with Rap Songs
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Looking for engaging reading passages activities about famous Black history women?
Rap songs are your solution!
Based on history rap songs, these activities will keep your students' attention using song lyrics as reading passages while they practice a variety of reading skills. Easily incorporate them into independent activities or complete them together as a class lesson.
Students will listen to the songs then use the song lyrics as reading passages to complete the activities detailed below.
These activities are:
- no prep to save you time
- super simple and easy to use
- with engaging reading passages based on rap songs!
The songs for these activities explore the lives, challenges, and accomplishments of four influential Black women.
Listen to the songs with subtitles using the links below! (Click here if you have trouble viewing the videos.)
A mix of biographies that students will love!
These passages and songs cover the lives and accomplishments of:
- Harriet Tubman, conductor of the Underground Railroad
- Sojourner Truth, abolitionist and women's rights leader
- Maggie Walker, the first female bank president
- Phillis Wheatley, accomplished poet and the first published Black American
- and Phillis Wheatley's communication with General Washington during the American Revolution
A variety of reading activities with the answer keys!
This bundle includes everything listed below. Click the product links above for more details.
- the lyrics for each song for use as a reading passage
- multiple-choice and short-response comprehension questions with the answer key
*Some resources include additional activities that are listed below:
- multiple-choice, context clues activities for defining content vocabulary words in the song with the answer key
- timeline activities with a graphic organizer
- sequential paragraph activities that utilize the timeline
- short-respose inferencing activities
- brief, student-friendly explanations about what root words, prefixes, and suffixes are
- multiple-choice, identifying root words questions with the answer key
- multiple-choice, identifying prefixes questions with the answer key
- multiple-choice, identifying suffixes questions with the answer key
- paragraph writing activities using prompts that challenge students to think about Wheatley's unique position as a slave and female author as well as her interactions with General Washington
- a challenge activity where students write their own song about Wheatley and Washington's communication using the instrumental music available on YouTube
- performance activities that involve students writing their own songs or dramatizing the song with acting or dance using the music available on YouTube.
Get this bundle now to keep your students engaged while reading!
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