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Middle school Black History Month thematic unit plans
Black History Month Reading Comprehension Passages NONFICTION (18)
Are you looking for BLACK HISTORY MONTH close reading passages? These eighteen non-fiction text dependent passages are perfect for Black History Month in February! If you're looking for a way to incorporate social studies with reading, and a variety of people, this study is perfect. The passage and the questions are all on one page for easy reference.The passages are rigorous to help meet the Common Core standards. Each passage includes mostly text dependent questions that assess comprehension.
Grades:
3rd - 8th
Selma (2014): Document Based Question Bundle (Movie Guide + Essay Outline + DBQ)
**** If you purchase this product, you do not have to purchase the movie guide separately! This bundle includes the movie guide! DBQs are an excellent way to hit most of the Common Core standards in your class. If there is one activity that encapsulates the requirements of the Common Core - the DBQ is it! This DBQ is designed to help students combine their knowledge of the movie "Selma" with primary/secondary source documents! This is a great culminating activity for the movie!Prompt: Analyze th
Grades:
8th - 12th
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Black History Month Periodic Table EDITABLE
*Original Seller of This Product*Black History Month Bulletin Board/DisplayWomen's History Month Bulletin Board/DisplayHispanic Heritage Bulletin Board/DisplayThis Set Includes:*Periodic Table of Black History*Periodic Table of Women in History*Hispanic Heritage Periodic TableEach Periodic Table Includes: *90 Historic Names (color or black and white)*90 color boxes in 2 sizes (These sets require color ink to print.)*90 black and white boxes in 2 sizes (These sets are ink savers but they do requ
Grades:
PreK - 12th, Staff
Black History Month - Artists of the Harlem Renaissance
Warm nights, hot jazz! This Black History Month, explore the cultural revival known as the Harlem Renaissance. 10 fun craft and literacy lessons for grades 3-7 based on key artists of the Harlem Renaissance!• Make a collage with Romare Bearden• Storyboard the Great Migration with Jacob Lawrence• Analyze African Art with Lois Mailou Jones• Learn about dialogue with Langston Hughes• Make a sculpture with Augusta Savage• Write a poem about Paul Robeson• Identify the elements of a folktale with Zora
Grades:
3rd - 8th
February Adapted Books (Valentine's Day, MLK, Black History Month) | Special Ed
9 interactive FEBRUARY thematic books with 2 levels -- perfect for early learners! Includes important lessons about Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Ruby Bridges, and Abraham Lincoln. Celebrate February holidays like Valentine's Day and Groundhog Day! Each book includes a matching component on each page to keep students engaged and interacting with their work. Perfect for special education, early childhood, ELL, homeschool, and speech therapy. *** You SAVE when you purchase these books inside
Grades:
PreK - 6th
Also included in: Adapted Books Bundle | Year-Long | Seasonal | Special Ed
Black History Month Music Lessons: Africa, Afro-Caribbean, Jazz, and more!
These slides include a variety of lessons, songs, and games targeted for studying music for Black History Month or anytime of year when discussing Jazz, African music, slavery, or the civil rights movement. All text is editable but the backgrounds and music are not. Included are links to outside videos and MP3 files of music. What's included...Introduction slideMusic from Ghana: facts, map, song game music and directions, drumming video from Brown UniversityMusic from Liberia: facts, map, welcom
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Grades:
PreK - 8th
Black History Month
This Black History Month unit introduces your students to the accomplishments of 28 different African Americans through "biography briefs". They make a fabulous Black History Month bulletin board display and are the perfect place to begin class discussions and/or student research. There are 28 cards included- one for each day in February!
This packet is designed to give your students an overview of the impact that African Americans have made in the areas of politics, civil rights, music, spor
Grades:
K - 10th
Also included in: Black History Month Biography BUNDLE
ESL Reading Comprehension Passages about Famous Immigrants Bundle
Discover the contributions of immigrants with these ESL-friendly reading comprehension passages. With differentiated text and activities to support comprehension skills, vocabulary, and more, all students will love learning about these incredible individuals!What's included?32 sets of differentiated reading passages (original versions and simplified versions for English Learners or struggling readers)Main idea & key details graphic organizersDifferentiated vocabulary worksheetsDifferentiated
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Martin Luther King Jr Speech Therapy | MLK Day Speech Therapty Printable Pack
►MLK Day in speech and language therapy ! MLK Speech Therapy is fun when you learn about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and history while addressing multiple IEP goals and objectives.►This differentiated pack provides for learning at multiple levels while incorporating fun facts and information that can be carried over into functional conversations.►Five games can be printed in color and laminated for years of use. I have printed these worksheets on a high speed printer for use with my own students
Grades:
K - 12th, Not Grade Specific
Also included in: January Speech Therapy Articulation and Language Bundle
Black History Month Unit - Middle School Paired Reading, Writing Prompts
Do you want to be the best teacher? Would you like to celebrate the Black History Month with meaningful texts, bell ringers and writing prompts? Is one of your goals to offer a solid unit that explores the life, beliefs and history of amazing black people? Would you be interested in giving your students complex standards aligned activities (PRINT&DIGITAL) with paired texts (article, poem, short story) and inspiring writing prompts and bell ringers?If you found something that gave you all the
Grades:
6th - 8th
African American Literature Bundle: Units for School Year or Black History Month
This is a bundle of our African American literature units (5 units total). These resources are great for incorporating throughout the year or you can teach them sequentially for Black History Month. The literature begins with the early poetry of Phillis Wheatley in the 1700s, continues through the voices of the abolitionist cause in the 1800s (The Spirituals and Frederick Douglass), and culminates with influential writings for civil rights in the 20th century (Langston Hughes and Martin Luther K
Grades:
8th - 12th
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Tall Tale Lesson: John Henry +10 Reading Comprehension Multiple Choice Questions
In this mini-lesson students read a selection to see why a folk song was written about the tall tale hero, John Henry. Then they answer ten multiple choice questions by putting a circle around each correct answer. Along with two colorful drawings of John Henry being a steel driving man, you get two pages of informational text and three stanzas of the John Henry folk song. Multiple choice questions make up two pages and then the fifth page is the answer key. The reading skills the ten questions
Grades:
5th - 7th
164 Monthly Crossword Puzzles and Word Search Puzzles- Print & Digital Resources
Do you need no-prep resources for the school year? These crossword puzzles and word search puzzles will meet your needs! 82 Crossword Puzzles and 82 Word Search Puzzles -- Monthly topics are listed below. The puzzles are all printable AND DIGITAL! No paper? No problem! Assign them in Google Classroom or another LMS!Topics and Themes:January:Martin Luther King, Jr.January Fun FactsNew Year's TraditionsNational Soup MonthCompetitive Winter SportsFebruary:Valentine's DayU.S. Presidents' DayBlack Hi
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5th - 12th
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Black History Month Science & Reading Comprehension - Scientists & Inventors
Celebrate Black History Month! Discover the amazing contributions of African American scientists and inventors with this engaging and collaborative hexagonal thinking activity! Take a deeper look into the lives, contributions, and character traits of diverse scientists and inventors. This is the perfect Black History Month project for secondary science classes! Also... great for Black History Month Bulletin Boards and Science Sub Plans. Product Highlights:Hexagonal Worksheet Templates: Students
Grades:
8th - 12th
ESL Reading Comprehension Passages about Famous Immigrants | Black History Month
To celebrate Black History Month, discover the contributions of black immigrants with these ESL-friendly reading comprehension passages. With differentiated text and activities to support comprehension skills, vocabulary, and more, all students will love learning about these incredible individuals!What's included?8 sets of differentiated reading passages (original versions and simplified versions for English Learners or struggling readers)Main idea & key details graphic organizersDifferentia
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Also included in: ESL Reading Comprehension Passages about Famous Immigrants Bundle
Christopher P. Curtis's "The Watsons Go to Birmingham" - 30 Common Core Tasks!!
This Common Core resource includes 26 rigorous unit learning tasks for Christopher Paul Curtis’s, "The Watsons Go to Birmingham." The teacher-created learning tasks include standard(s) alignment using the language of Common Core State Standards. The unit activities represent a balance of analysis and evaluation activities focusing on a variety of literary elements, constructed responses, and extended informational/explanatory and argumentative writing. This resource also includes some embedded e
Grades:
6th - 8th
BUNDLE: AFRICAN-AMERICAN MUSIC STUDY: Slavery - Mid 1900's (POWER-POINT Edition)
This BUNDLE features 3 individual POWER-POINT files AND 1 PDF Teacher's Guide that are sold separately in my store but purchasing them in this BUNDLE saves you $4.00. With this purchase, you will receive the following files:
Genres explored and studied in this entire unit of study (ALL Parts 1, 2, 3 combined) are as follows:
Introduction to the Unit - (part 1)
Civil War/Underground Railroad/Harriet Tubman/Drinking Gourd - (part 1)
Blues - (part 2)
Ragtime - (part 2)
Jazz (Dixieland, Swing, Be-B
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Grades:
4th - 8th
Black History Month: Complete Black History Month Program Script and Speeches
Full black history program script created by black educators including speeches spotlighting black athletes, musicians, scientists, politicians, historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs), and poets.
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Grades:
PreK - 12th
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
"A Tisket A Tasket" by Ella Fitzgerald | Jazz Song for Voice & Orff
This childhood nursery rhyme came to life when Ella Fitzgerald sang it in 1938 and this unit keeps the song bursting with life! In these Google Slides, you will find:Information on the song & jazz singer Ella FitzgeraldInformation on jazzMusic with standard notation using half notes, quarter notes, & quarter restsSolfege Orff/BoomwhackersHand drumGuiroClappingXylophones or MetallophonesSong lyricsRead Aloud (link to YouTube Video - rights belong to original artists)Game (Lyric inspired
Grades:
2nd - 6th
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Also included in: Year Long Music Lessons & Curriculum for 1st Grade | 30% off
Black History Month Research Project for iMovie
This project is intended to provide students and teachers with small steps and differentiated research outlines to discover new information about leaders of color. Research can be completed in school or at home. Once research is completed, students will put all of the research together in iMovie on iPads to create a video to share with others. This project also includes step-by-step instructions for teachers and students to create and present the movies. My school ends February with a Black Hist
Grades:
2nd - 6th
UNIT PLAN: The Civil Rights Movement
In this 4 week Unit, students will be building background knowledge and making modern day connections to the impacts of the Civil Rights Movement to identify the ways in which Black Americans fought (and continue to fight) for equality and freedom in society.Lesson Set Materials are all located in Google Docs. Teachers can copy and paste materials to place in their Google Drives. All materials are differentiated and translated (Spanish) for accessibility in the classroom.
Grades:
7th - 12th
Black History Month: Use Your Voice English Language Arts/History Unit
This unit will last 1-2 weeks! Check out this culturally and contextually relevant unit plan with an answer key!Essential Question: How can people respond to inequity and fight for change?Anchor Texts:McDuffie Riots (sourced from WLRN 91.3 FM, Miami Herald)Excerpt from The Letter from Birmingham Jail (Primary Source, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr)Our Brother Trayvon (sourced from The History Channel)The Power of a Hashtag (sourced from The Washington Post)Skills:Routine vocabulary applicationRo
Grades:
6th - 10th
84 Monthly Crossword Puzzles and Word Search Puzzles - Print & Digital Resources
Do you need no-prep resources to use FIRST SEMESTER--July-December? These crossword puzzles and word search puzzles will meet your needs! 42 Crossword Puzzles and 42 Word Search Puzzles -- Monthly topics are listed below. The puzzles are all printable AND DIGITAL! No paper? No problem! Assign them in Google Classroom or another LMS!Topics and Themes:July: Summer VacationUS Independence Day – July 4Space Exploration Day - July 20Shark Awareness Day – July 14Bastille Day – July 14National Ice Crea
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Grades:
5th - 12th
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