This is My Name
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Students in Grade 8 will construct timelines about the history of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and the Clotilda‘s voyage in order to understand the causes and effects of the slave trade and enslavement in the United States.
Students in Grades 6 through 8 will read and analyze Barracoon by Zora Neale Hurston in order to understand the role of empathy in learning histories of marginalized people.
Students in Grade 7 will identify different types of communities in different cultural settings in order to understand the role of cultural values in the lives of both the early residents of Africatown and their own lives today.
Students in Grade 8 will analyze a selection of primary sources–including the Constitution, legislation, and court decisions–related to the Trans-Atlantic Slave trade in order to understand the conditions which allowed for continued trafficking of Africans and the Clotilda’s voyage.
Students in Grade 6 and Grade 7 will study the ways in which African cultures, values, and innovations have contributed to the contemporary United States and other countries.
High school students will engage with readings and videos about Africatown’s founders and the community’s founding in order to appreciate how the community is one of America’s greatest success stories.