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2023 Vol 2: Race, History, Change, and Social Activism: Baseball's Impact on America

Hidden Baseball: The Legacy of the Negro League

Shannon McFarland, 6th Grade English Language Arts, Alexander Graham Middle School

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Synopsis: Students explore the legacy of the Negro League in America, the impact of segregation on American life in the 1920s and 1930s, and write poetry to celebrate the accomplishments of early Black and Latin American baseball players.

2023 Vol 2: Race, History, Change, and Social Activism: Baseball's Impact on America

America’s Favorite Pastime: Analyzing the Cultural and Political Impact of the Negro National League

Jazmyne Capel, 3rd Grade, Billingsville-Cotswold Elementary School

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Synopsis: In this unit students will explore and critically think about how race, access (or lack thereof) to resources, and legislation have impacted society through the lens of baseball. While examining these historical events, students will learn that the impacts of said events can be both positive and negative, and that there is more than one perspective on most stories. To drive student inquiry, the essential question this unit is based around is “How does the past influence the present?” Utilizing past and modern literature on the subject, historical artifacts, and local and national events, students will expand their critical thinking and enhance their knowledge of various topics. Topics including but not limited to, national and local baseball history, how African American players and players of color have influenced policy and politics, how Baseball is played globally, and women’s influence in the sport. Generally, this unit guides students on an exploration about historical events that have impacted our community, state, nation, and even the world. This unit aligns with the North Carolina Social Studies standards of explaining the lasting impact historical events have had on local communities. Another aligned North Carolina Social Studies standard is the use of primary and secondary sources to compare multiple interpretations of various historical symbols and events in local communities. Students will use their student notebook to take notes and complete daily exit tickets that will serve as knowledge checkpoints.

2023 Vol 2: Race, History, Change, and Social Activism: Baseball's Impact on America

An American Pastime: Exploring How Negro Leagues Baseball Influenced Business and Entrepreneurship

Thomas Murphy, Entrepreneurship and Digital Marketing, Rocky River High School

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Synopsis: This Curriculum Unit aims to inform students about the historical origins of the Negro Leagues formation, while also exploring the many aspects that Negro League baseball paved the way through entrepreneurship and digital marketing. The modules will facilitate ways to discuss and explore in depth how the impact of the Negro Leagues Baseball not only produce top talent, but was extremely vital and impactful in developing community abolitionists, social activists, coaches, managers, business owners, entrepreneurs, while showcasing some of the greatest baseball players to ever play the game. The Negro Leagues should also be credited with creating some of the greatest money-making barnstorming events in the history of not only for the Negro Leagues but in all of baseball during that time. It’s speculated that many opportunities were missed to integrate baseball. Clearly, MLB remained silent and fostered unspoken recognized success of the Negro Leagues avoiding the need to bridge a working relationship but continue its greed in capitalizing on the lucrative ways to sustain the Negro Leagues enterprises to maintain massive paydays achieved during this time. The main objectives of this study will be centered on challenging students to witness the ongoing development throughout history by reflecting on the eyewitness accounts that fostered personal and community growth in the wake of segregation. My goals for the students are to aid them in exploring the Negro Leagues through the various readings and resources to identify the valuable contribution of these legends who were entrenched in the struggles of segregation. Many of these players only wanted to make an honest living by simply seeking to be accepted on their merit in their communities. By the end of this study students will be able to answer if the Negro Leagues were political.

2021 Curriculum Units Vol 2: Using Digital Mapping to Study History, Race, and Gentrification

School Segregation in Charlotte: Then and Now

Megan Meadows, 5th Grade, Lebanon Road Elementary

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2021 Curriculum Units Vol 2: Using Digital Mapping to Study History, Race, and Gentrification

“No Boundaries”

Mary McElhaney, 7th Grade, Mountain Island Lake Academy

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

African American Poetry and the Idea of Citizenship: Citizenship, Rights, and the Constitution

Pia N. Townes, Social Studies, Wilson STEM Academy

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

My Country, My Voice: Teaching the Progression of the Concept of Citizenship from the Eras of Slavery, Reconstruction, Jim Crow and the Civil Rights Movement

April Louzini, 4th Grade, E.E. Waddell Language Academy

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2019 Curriculum Units Vol 8: Time Travel: Using Music to Explore Past, Present, and Future Messages

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

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

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2019 Curriculum Units Vol 4: Children in War and Conflict

The Civil Rights Movement: Young Participants, Martyrs and Volunteers

Pia Townes, Social Studies, Wilson STEM Academy

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2019 Curriculum Units Vol 4: Children in War and Conflict

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere”

Cassandra Alexander, Social Studies, James Martin Middle

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

Untaught Major Turning Points in Southern African American History

Angela Gile, Social Studies, Bailey Middle School

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2012 Curriculum Units Vol 2: Reading African American Lives

The Rebirth of African Americans

Nicki Kincaid, US History, English Language Arts, Bailey Middle School

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