The Roots of Rap

Students Learn About Slavery and How its Effects are Still Present Today in Rap Music This project is intended to help students draw connections between the history of oppression (slavery) in the American south and contemporary issues that plague the African-American community today.  Students begin researching the oppressive nature of colonization and subjugation and then […]

Celebrating Me, Celebrating You: We Are Alike and Different

Students Learn About Culture and Diversity This unit is literacy based, integrating culture and diversity.  A center-based, hands-on approach is used to facilitate instruction and differentiation, while promoting tolerance, diversity, and acceptance. Children move from center to center in heterogonous groups.  A class library is also available for self-selected reading of fiction and nonfiction texts […]