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Dark Boy don't you cry;
Wipe those tears down from your eyes;
Days will come and they will go;
As for pain; don't let it show;

Dark boy don't you fear;
For your kingdom soon appears;
Just doing what you're told;
living till you're old;

Dark boy don't you know;
The whole world is your foe;
Keep it cool, keep it calm;
Move along, now, move along

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There's blood on the concrete; Blood in the year book; Mistook and shook, a bullet's left hook;
fear took, over minds;
same signs over time, crooks rooked;
and pawns cosigned, the toxic brine;
the death and dying,
all over crime.

Whose worse cops or robbers? COPS;
Stop the shots turning baby tots to martyr's,
and they kill your daughters,
and they kill your sons,
and it's for funds;
we've domesticized another prophetic lie.
anesthetized, next to rise,
best if I, testify, you don't wanna rest if I;
speak justice,
All over crime.

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A depiction of differing perspective.

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A depiction of acceptance and belonging.

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6th Grade

~ Grouping Strategies
The students will be divided into three groups of 15 and one teacher will be responsible for facilitating the learning in each group.

~ Unit Length
3-4 weeks

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We are a group of loving, caring, optimistic, and cognitively undemanding future educators.
We Believe that through our teaching we can create a better society. Every child is worthy and capable of receiving a quality education, using their knowledge gained in this journey for the betterment of the community they will grow into.

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I just wanna fit well,
don't stick out,
I got a story to tell,
won't let out.

I just want to see me,
grow up and get strong,
cops don't like me,
so it's cya, so long.

I just wear myself,
black is beautiful,
black is bad for health,
they see it unusual.

I just go my way,
the road may never tell,
I just want to say,
I just want to yell.

I just want to fit in,
I just want love,
stage another sit in,
free another dove.

They killed another black boy,
but black's still beautiful,
didn't know that gun's a toy,
but that seems so usual.

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In our classroom of 45 energetic, intelligent students, Mr. Baldwin, Miss Mendez, and Miss Kay work together in co-teaching this Pre-AP English Language Arts Class. This group of students is a widely diverse group in regards to cultural background and ethnicity. There are 22 boys and 23 girls enrolled in this class. The class as a whole remains engaged for the majority of the time, however they perform at a higher level when split into smaller groups. (See Targeted Grade Level for more information on our grouping strategies)

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~ Dr. Stan Lee's Excelsior Intermediate School ~ 

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~ Dr. Stan Lee's Excelsior Intermediate School ~ 

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Established in December of 1964 by Dr. Stan Lee himself, the vision for this school is to let every student that passes through the doors believe that they are the greatest Marvel of all.

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1. What was the importance in showing the preliminary hearings?
2. Why does this book reference Peter Pan?
3. What does the author mean by "Even though life ends, it also doesn't end?" (Page 146).

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A change is needed in this nation. Every week in 2017 an unarmed civilian was killed, with black boys and men serving as a disproportionate minority in the killing statistics. Black males accounted for 22% of all fatal police shootings in 2017, but account for 6% of the population (via The Washington Post). As our passion project we ask that our students and community write letters to their local police chiefs and state representatives imploring that change be made to protect Black American's from a pervasive system of stereotyping that ends with mass incarceration and death.

Works Cited; ( https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/nationwide-police-shot-and-killed-nearly-1000-people-in-2017/2018/01/04/4eed5f34-e4e9-11e7-ab50-621fe0588340_story.html?utm_term=.f49fdc240a7d)

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https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-30220700/tamir-rice-shot-within-two-seconds-of-police-arrival

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Plot: A young boy is shot by police officers while playing with a toy gun. This experience causes him to exist as a ghost seeing the events leading up to his death, and how he tries to make peace with the world.

Setting: Chicago, Illinois in the afterlife

Mood: Sorrowful, painful, & eventually peaceful

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Plot: A young boy is forced to give up his pet fox, and in a moment of deep regret he sets out on his own to find him.

Setting: The story mostly takes place in a forest, although the protagonist spends some time at a farmhouse with a woman who helps heal his broken foot.

Mood: Hopeful & Reminiscent