Category: English
The Whippets Den: Homemade Museums as Expressions of Care and Continuity
The Power of Oral Storytelling in Teaching Tough History
Novel Study of Barracoon
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.
Interweaving Community and Identity
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.
Oral Storytelling – Our Past & Our Present
Students in Grade 9 and Grade 10 will study the role of oral history in preserving Africatown’s history and the history of the Clotilda survivors in order to understand the complex relationship between oral history traditions, truth, and their own family history.
Revisiting the Controlled Narrative
Adult learners will engage with the laws, customs, and power-dynamics that controlled the lives of those enslaved on plantations in order to build research skills that center the lives, experinces, and agency of Black folks during America’s plantation years.