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Author Archives: Scott Gartlan

Let’s Take a Walk through the Community

March 1, 2022 – 3:30 pm

Monique Hall, 4th Grade, Devonshire Elementary School

Synopsis

Tags “White Flight” Housing and Urban Development (HUD), African American, Colored People, community, demographics, gentrification, urban renewal | Permalink | Comments Off

Off to College: Where Am I Going and What Really Happened There?

March 1, 2022 – 3:28 pm

Kimberly Palmer, English, Merancas Middle College High School

Curriculum Unit (PDF)

Synopsis

Tags busing, De Facto, Digital Mapping, Disinvested, Education Reform, gentrification, Insurrection, Integration, massacre | Permalink | Comments Off

Segregation: Understanding the Lasting Effects of the Explicit Governmental Policies that Created Segregation

March 1, 2022 – 3:25 pm

Kathryn Kinser, History, East Mecklenburg High School

Curriculum Unit (PDF)

Synopsis

Tags blockbusting, Brown v. Board of Education, De Facto, De Jure, desegregation, Digital Mapping, gentrification, History, Integration, redlining, Social Studies, Swann v. CMS | Permalink | Comments Off

Mapping The World Around You: Using Digital Mapping and Inquiry to Interpret Historical Moments of Segregation

March 1, 2022 – 3:16 pm

Jasmine Dozier, World History, iMeck Academy at Cochrane Collegiate Academy

Curriculum Unit (PDF)

Synopsis

Tags Constitutional Amendments, De Facto, De Jure, Digital Mapping Sociology, gentrification, marginalized, Racism, Segregation, Social Stratification, urban renewal, world history | Permalink | Comments Off

Using Digital Mapping to Study History, Race, and Gentrification

March 1, 2022 – 3:13 pm

Brad Baker, U.S. History, Hough High School

Curriculum Unit (PDF)

Synopsis

Tags 1920s, Brown v Board of Education, Civil Rights, CMS v Swann, Culture, gentrification, Great Migration, Harlem Renaissance, Mapping, New Negro, Plessy v Furguson, Segregation, Urban Shifts, Urbanization | Permalink | Comments Off

My Community: Exploring Communities Around Me

March 1, 2022 – 3:10 pm

Andrea Calderon, 3rd Grade, Starmount Academy of Excellence

Curriculum Unit (PDF)

Synopsis

Tags community, Digital Mapping, Oral History, Past and Present, Then and Now | Permalink | Comments Off

Extra, Extra, read all about it! Children Advocating for Freedom and Equality in Mississippi and Honduras

March 1, 2022 – 2:59 pm

Wendy Tolbert, 2nd Grade, Starmount Academy of Excellence

Curriculum Unit (PDF)

Synopsis

Tags 2nd grade, advocate, oppression, resistance | Permalink | Comments Off

Lessons from Southern Ghosts: Themes of Folklore and Fairytales

March 1, 2022 – 2:56 pm

Shannon McFarland, Language Arts, Alexander Graham Middle School

Curriculum Unit (PDF)

Synopsis

Tags Cautionary Tales, EL Curriculum, folktales, plot, podcasts, read aloud, Scary Stories, Short Stories, theme | Permalink | Comments Off

American Southern Literature Near and Far

March 1, 2022 – 2:54 pm

Meagan Boozer Missigman, 3rd Grade, Palisades Park Elementary

Curriculum Unit (PDF)

Synopsis

Tags new south, Old South, Southern, Southern Environment, Unchanging South | Permalink | Comments Off

Self-Reflection of African American Culture through Southern Children’s Literature

March 1, 2022 – 2:51 pm

LaShonda Alexander, 7th-8th Grade, Wilson STEM Academy

Curriculum Unit (PDF)

Synopsis

Tags African American traditions, cultural Awareness, morals, self-awareness, Self-Validation, Social Purpose | Permalink | Comments Off

Can You See Yourself?Students Finding Themselves in Southern Children’s Literature

March 1, 2022 – 2:48 pm

Latonda Mitchell, 6th Grade, Mountain Island Lake Academy

Curriculum Unit (PDF)

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Whodunnit? Southern Detective Fiction in the Forensic Science Classroom

March 1, 2022 – 2:43 pm

Jackie Smith, Forensic Science, Hough High School

Curriculum Unit (PDF)

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The Meaning of Family and Home in the New South

March 1, 2022 – 2:40 pm

Jashonai Payne, 4th Grade, Clear Creek Elementary

Curriculum Unit (PDF)

Synopsis

Tags Character Analysis, family, Grandparents, new south, Poetry, Southern Children’s Literature | Permalink | Comments Off

Changing the Narrative: Southern Children Stories of Hope, Resistance, and Social Change

March 1, 2022 – 2:32 pm

Jocelyn James, 4th Grade, Mountain Island Lake Academy

Curriculum Unit (PDF)

Synopsis

Tags black history, Black literature, changing the narrative, children’s literature, empowering students, social change, stories of hope | Permalink | Comments Off

Incorporating the Local with the National: Using Digital Mapping to Explain Neighborhood Injustices Committed against Minorities

March 1, 2022 – 2:14 pm

Andrew Bartkowiak, African American Studies, Northwest School of the Arts

Curriculum Unit (PDF)

Synopsis

Tags blockbusting, Racial Covenants, redlining, urban renewal | Permalink | Comments Off

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