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What does Africatown Need and How Can I Help?

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Post date September 20, 2023
Categories In 9-12, English, North Carolina
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The Power of Oral Storytelling in Teaching Tough History

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Post date September 20, 2023
Categories In 9-12, Connecticut, English
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Novel Study of Barracoon

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Post date May 11, 2023
Categories In 6-8, English, Social Studies, Tennessee
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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

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Post date May 11, 2023
Categories In 6-8, English, Michigan
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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

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Post date May 11, 2023
Categories In 9-12, English, Massachusettes
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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.