The Beginning
February 14, 2010
By the time they are 10, most children have ideas in their mind that have the potential to be the foundations for racist beliefs in the future. It is because this is a reality that an educators job can not stop at teaching reading, writing and math. It is our duty to provide students with experiences that force them to question their pre-existing ideas about race and class, and examine ways in which racism has effected people throughout history. Our vision is to give our students experiences that will encourage them to empathize with people throughout history that have been effected by racism as well as see the action that has been taken to stop it. This blog will show you lesson plans, recourses, and student work that we have used to execute a unit that gives students an understanding of what racism and activism looked like in North Carolina in the 1930′s, the Civil Rights Movement and to present day America. Here you will see a unit go from a simple read aloud, to a Living Museum of the Civil Rights Movement.
