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Egypt Project gave choice , pride and I think joy to the students

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Egypt Project gave choice , pride and I think joy to the students

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Poetry: Elizabeth Acevedo Background Choice Board

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Poetry: Elizabeth Acevedo Background Choice Board

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Thanks Jo Paraiso - I using this as my intro activity for Acevado's "Afro Latina" - This will come after a Do Now including Identity (What is your heritage? What are you most proud of about it? In Peardeck)

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Spent the time solo, collecting my "lesson plan" for Emily Dickinson to provide an example to the King 6th grade ELA team of how I plan to use 3 other Dickinson poems as a lead in to "Hope is the thing with feathers". Will be using additional Dickinson poems to show students the need to first "translate" Dickinson into modern English before attempting to interpret the meaning, using I/We/You Do tools.

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Spent the time solo, collecting my "lesson plan" for Emily Dickinson to provide an example to the King 6th grade ELA team of how I plan to use 3 other Dickinson poems as a lead in to "Hope is the thing with feathers". Will be using additional Dickinson poems to show students the need to first "translate" Dickinson into modern English before attempting to interpret the meaning, using I/We/You Do tools.

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Current work...using "let america be america" to get at power and equity...especially when compared to "make america great again'

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Understanding origins of African-American names

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Understanding origins of African-American names

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Students learn the complex history of African-American names since the first arrival in the Americas.

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"Black sounding" names and their surprising history

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celebrating black excellence, its beautiful and joyous.  Listening to and creating spoken word poetry.

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celebrating black excellence, its beautiful and joyous.  Listening to and creating spoken word poetry.

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Well, the oratorical fest and spoken word poetry unit is a great way to explore and deepen knowledge of African American excellence and poetry is not easy, and that struggling through the process of making powerful poetry is rewarding for the synapsis.

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Well, the oratorical fest and spoken word poetry unit is a great way to explore and deepen knowledge of African American excellence and poetry is not easy, and that struggling through the process of making powerful poetry is rewarding for the synapsis.

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make connections between lit. circle books to self, world and 13 principles of BLM 

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make connections between lit. circle books to self, world and 13 principles of BLM 

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Students will be able to identify the various structures that were used to maintain a fundamentally unjust social order and how slaves resisted and survived.

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Students will be able to identify the various structures that were used to maintain a fundamentally unjust social order and how slaves resisted and survived.

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Students will explore past writings to gain inspiration for their new project.

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Students will read the account by Frederick Douglass and relate to his strength, love of liberty and eloquence. 

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Students will read the account by Frederick Douglass and relate to his strength, love of liberty and eloquence. 

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discussing the origins, purpose, and goals of black literary societies as we engage in literature circle reading groups around a social justice themed book.

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making connections between lit. circle books and the 13 principles of BLM

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making connections between lit. circle books and the 13 principles of BLM

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Students will examine the lasting impacts of slavery and ints intergenerational aspects

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Students will examine the lasting impacts of slavery and ints intergenerational aspects

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Students will be working with different ways to use language and word play.

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Playing with words/poetry.  Practice with imagery, metaphors.  Emphasizing that poetry is NOT academic writing (don't write in complete sentences) increases awareness of language conventions

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Playing with words/poetry.  Practice with imagery, metaphors.  Emphasizing that poetry is NOT academic writing (don't write in complete sentences) increases awareness of language conventions

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Reading and writing poetry and speeches with a focus on identity.

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using IBD skills to search for and write about author's message in lit. circle books

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using IBD skills to search for and write about author's message in lit. circle books

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Students will engage critical questions that explore the social dynamics of slavery

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Analyze how the BLM Guiding Principles are shown in the books.

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I prefaced a day of proofreading our most recent literary analysis essay with this poem called "Three Ways to Speak English," so we could talk about the language of power and how that impacts "proper" vs. "improper" English

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Jamila Lyiscott: 3 ways to speak English | TED

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Students will be exploring the themes of both identity and Black women.

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giving choice for writing responses to justice books..including writing fan fiction.

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giving choice for writing responses to justice books..including writing fan fiction.

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We will be writing speeches using the theme of Black Women Triumph OR other social justice themes students feel passionately about.

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Students will relate to a 1st person narrative from an enslaved person as a way to understand the impact of slavery on people

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We will be working on understanding the causes of the Civil War with a focus on slavery and its relationship to modern issues around racism and power dynamics.

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We will be working on understanding the causes of the Civil War with a focus on slavery and its relationship to modern issues around racism and power dynamics.

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How do you identify with the character/theme of our justice book.

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Celebrating triumphs and working student interest into the curriculum.