Month of African
American History
February is considered the
Black History Month or African American History Month in the United States
and Canada. The United Kingdom celebrates African American history in October.
During this time, important figures from history are recognized and remembered
for their contribution to equality, efforts to build strong communities, and
gifts for cultural enrichment and entertainment for all. The most notable figure
may be the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who passed to Washington, DC, and
delivered his famous speech "I Have a Dream." In this speech, MLK Jr.
called for the cessation of racism and discrimination - as serious problems in
the 1960s, which had not yet been fully resolved today.
A month of black history can
be celebrated in different ways in all classroom activities. Below are some
suggestions on the activities of the Month of African American History for your
English Arts (ELA) and Social Studies classes. Check all three age ranges below
for larger ideas.
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Class Exercise for classes K-5
Teach students about the important African American (Black History Month) in the
history and how they influenced the movements of later civil rights through
stories, videos, and other lessons. Ask students to create a storyboard that
shows why this person is significant. See the example below.
Senior students in this range can also independently
research or read books on the Transatlantic Slave Trade, the Underground
Railway, or the Civil Rights Movement. After students create their own
storyboards about a particular person or an important event in the history of
Black, let them share their work and have a rich class discussion
Additional Month of African-American
History Events for K-5
• Teach
students the song "This Little Light Of Mine", on the rights of a
song of civil movement.
• Read and discuss "Follow the Drinking Pumpkin".
Ask students to create their own storyboards for the song/book.
• Invite students to select a famous African American
person from history and write a bio-poem about them and illustrate it using
Storyboard That.
• Ask students to write a thank you letter to one of the
people examined in the storyboard form. Students can focus on telling them how
they feel about their struggles.
Class Exercise for grades 6-8
Students can read about or explore the problems that led to
the civil rights movement and discuss ideas like equality, racism, segregation,
and intolerance. Discussion of this kind is also a good Segue in the conversation/study
of various groups that have been discriminated against in the past or present:
Jews, Native Americans, Gypsies, members of the LGBTQ community, people with
cognitive or physical disabilities, Muslims, Hispanics, women,
Additional Activities Month of African
American History for 6-8
• Read the Langston Hughes Poem and complete the TPCASTT
(Title Paraphrase Connotation Relation Shifts Topic title) analysis using
Storyboard That.
• Discuss black artists like Jacob Lawrence or Feith
Ringgold; there are students choose one of their images and create a storyboard
explaining its artistic or cultural significance.
• Invite students to explore the famous black history of
top quality goods, "The first black man/woman in history ...", and
create a storyboard biography on one or more.
Students can choose an important personage from the story
and make a storyboard about them and their contribution to equality and/or
society. They could also analyze "I have a dream" speech of Martin
Luther King Jr.
Read 2004 Democratic Convention with Barack Obama's keynote
speech "The Hope of Hope," and "MLK's I Have a Dream"
speech. Ask students to create a storyboard that depicts any of the following:
1. Explanation of three important quotes
2. Analysis of the rhetoric (one or both speech)
3. The diagram of Venn looking at the similarities and
differences
o Purpose/ audience/delivery
o reception from or influence on public opinion
o communication about community or cooperation
Additional Activities Month of African American
History for 9-12
• Creating a
storyboard timeline. The laws of Jim Crow.
• Reading and creating storyboards for Kill a Mockingbird
or other relevant parts of the literature.
• Look for current events and articles on equality or
racism in contrast to racism in the past. Students can use three cell
storyboards in the form of a Venn diagram.
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