Tag Archives: Civil Rights

Using Digital Mapping to Study History, Race, and Gentrification

March 1, 2022 – 3:13 pm

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

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

2020 Curriculum Units Vol 1: African American Poetry and the Idea of Citizenship

African American Poetry and the Idea of Citizenship

January 20, 2021 – 11:45 am

Marie Calabro, 4th Grade, Pinewood Elementary

Curriculum Unit (PDF)

Synopsis

Tags 3rd grade, 4th grade, 5th grade, African American, boycott, citizen, Citizenship, Civil Rights, country, critical patriotism, Culture, Equality, equity, Patriotism, Poetry, protest, Segregation, SEL, slavery, society | Permalink | Comments Off

Jazz, Rock, and Hip-Hop: The Intertwining of Modern American History and Popular Culture

January 24, 2020 – 3:24 pm

Zach Sanford, Exceptional Children, W.A. Hough High

Curriculum Unit (pdf)

Synopsis

Tags Afghanistan, beat, Beat Poetry, Berlin Wall, Civil Rights, Cold War, Communism, computer, concert, conservation, cyber-attack, distortion, DJ, draft, email, era, executive, festival, globalization, green energy, guitar, heavy metal, hip-hop, internet, Iraq, Jazz, judicial, Korea, protest, racial prejudice, Rap, Recycling, rhythm and blues, rock, sampling, saxophone, Segregation, smart phone, social network, space race, space shuttle, stadium, syncopation, technology, television, terrorism, timeline, Vietnam, virtual reality, wireless, women’s rights | Permalink | Comments Off

“I, Too, Sing America:” analyzing sex, race, and STEM in 20th Century America.”

January 24, 2020 – 3:22 pm

Shealynn Womble, Language Arts, Governor’s Village STEM Academy

Curriculum Unit (pdf)

Synopsis

Tags central idea, Civil Rights, classism, discrimination, Gender, historical inquiry, historical thinking, inference, Jim Crow, NACA, NASA, objective summary, plot, Point of View, Prejudice, primary sources, race, Racism, secondary sources, Sex, sexism, social class, society, STEM, textual evidence, the cold war, the Space Race, theme, World War II | Permalink | Comments Off

2019 Curriculum Units Vol 3: Childhood and the City Space in Literature

Celebrating and Exploring Diversity and Community through Multicultural Literature with integrated Arts: Our “Maybe Something Beautiful”

January 24, 2020 – 12:38 pm

Julie Soto-Pendleton, 2nd Grade, University Park Creative Arts

Curriculum Unit (pdf)

Synopsis

Tags achievable, beautiful, Civil Rights, community, Culture, diversity, equal rights, Ethnicity, family, friends, goals, hope, impossible, invisible, multicultural, neighborhood, Schools, segregated, separate, Tolerance, Traditions, triumph, united, visible, vision | Permalink | Comments Off

2018 Curriculum Units Vol 5: Exploring American Sacred Values

The Civil Rights Movement as a Social and Economic Movement

February 4, 2019 – 4:34 pm

Veronica Hall, Civics and Economics, Cochrane Collegiate Academy

Curriculum Unit (pdf)

Synopsis

Tags Civil Rights, desegregation, discrimination, Integration, Segregation | Permalink | Comments Off

Lynching: America’s Missing Narrative

January 31, 2018 – 5:08 pm

Yasmin Forbes, African American Studies, West Mecklenburg HS

Curriculum Units (pdf)

Tags American Identity, Civil Rights, colorblindness, Equality, High School, Justice, Ku Klux Klan (KKK), legacy., lynching, memory, oppression, police brutality, race, Racism, Reconstruction, Redeemers, slavery, social control, social justice, terrorism, white supremacy | Permalink | Comments Off

2017 Curriculum Units Vol 4: Memorials, Memories, and American Identity

History Repeating Itself: Looking at Slavery and the Civil Rights Movement in North Carolina and What It Means Today

January 31, 2018 – 4:57 pm

Nicole Boyd, Fifth Grade, Dilworth ES

Curriculum Units (pdf)

Tags Civil Rights, Confederate, Elementary School, memorials, Segregation, slavery | Permalink | Comments Off

We Are Charlotteans: Extending Local Charlotte Experiences to Grade 2 Students

February 20, 2014 – 4:56 pm

Barbara Broom-Devine, Second Grade, Whitewater Academy

Final Unit (PDF) Implementing Common Core Standards (PDF)

Tags 1600s, Catawba Indians, Charlotte, Civil Rights, History, levine museum, settlers, slavery, Social Studies | Permalink | Comments Off

2013 Curriculum Units Vol 1: Charlotte as a New South City: Using the Collections of the Levine Museum of the New South

From Red Shirts to Research: The Question of Progressivism in North Carolina, 1898 to 1959

February 20, 2014 – 4:40 pm

Calen Clifton, Eighth, Martin Luther King Middle School

Final Unit (PDF) Implementing Common Core Standards (PDF)

Tags business, Charlotte, Civil Rights, desegregation, Great Depression, levine museum, Progressivism, race relations, sharecropping, Textile Mills | Permalink | Comments Off

2012 Curriculum Units Vol 7: African American Literature of the Civil Rights Movement

African American Legacy: From Suffering to Suffrages to Civil Rights

March 29, 2013 – 2:38 pm

Troy M. Gray, Language Arts, Davidson Elementary School

Final Unit (PDF)

Implementing Common Core Standards (PDF)

Tags African American Children's Literature, Civil Rights, Davidson Elementary School, Elementary School, Resiliency | Permalink | Comments Off

2012 Curriculum Units Vol 7: African American Literature of the Civil Rights Movement

From Then to Now: How African American Literature Shaped Civil Rights

March 29, 2013 – 2:27 pm

Megan Woazeah, Language Arts, Francis Bradley Middle School

Final Unit (PDF)

Implementing Common Core Standards (PDF)

Tags African American Heritage, African Americans, Civil Rights | Permalink | Comments Off

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Tag Archives: Civil Rights

Using Digital Mapping to Study History, Race, and Gentrification

African American Poetry and the Idea of Citizenship

Celebrating and Exploring Diversity and Community through Multicultural Literature with integrated Arts: Our “Maybe Something Beautiful”

The Civil Rights Movement as a Social and Economic Movement

History Repeating Itself: Looking at Slavery and the Civil Rights Movement in North Carolina and What It Means Today

From Red Shirts to Research: The Question of Progressivism in North Carolina, 1898 to 1959

African American Legacy: From Suffering to Suffrages to Civil Rights

From Then to Now: How African American Literature Shaped Civil Rights

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