American History Toolkit

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• Big Moves: This is the Rope Read Aloud
  "The book This Is The Rope: A Story from the Great Migration is used as a read-aloud to prompt discussion related to ELA and Social Studies appropriate for the grade level. History, geography, and migration are all topics that are accessible as students identify key ideas and details from the text and images." - From Teaching Black History: Lessons from Educators
  CreatorRané Garcia, Ph.D.

  PublisherMichigan Department of Education
• It Starts With Me! Lesson Plan
  This lesson helps students become positive change agents in their own lives, community, and the world. The lesson consists of a read aloud, discussion, and art-based extension activity. Originally designed as a Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Assembly, this lesson plan could be used any day. In Port Huron Schools, community members and elders led the assembly as written in addition to sharing their experiences with elementary students. As mentioned above, generations of students have experienced the NAACP-organized Martin Luther King, Jr. Day assemblies, and they are an event students, educators, and the community look forward to.
  CreatorThis lesson was submitted to the MDE by Ms. Keiryn Ajayi-Obe, the Supervisor of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Port Huron Schools. The Martin Luther King Jr. Day Assembly started years ago as a partnership between the local NAACP and Port Huron Schools. It has become a yearly, intergenerational, and cherished tradition at every elementary school in the district. Ms. Ajayi-Obe encourages other educators to reach out to their local branches of the NAACP to create partnerships and powerful events centering Black community members and experiences.

  PublisherMichigan Department of EducationClick here for a full list of Black history resources that can be used all year long.