Use the stories, songs, and history of American soul music to teach about the civil rights movement and explore the relationship between music and social change.
In these lessons students will:
- Analyze the lyrics of several classic soul songs
- Explore the relationship between soul music and its social and historical context of the 1950s and 1960s
- Consider the role of music as an agent of social change
Black Education Curriculums From Past to Present: Lesson Plan for Black Lives Matter Curriculum
In this lesson students will:
- Integrate and evaluate multiple sources of information presented in diverse formats and media
- Evaluate author's' differing points of view on the same historical event or issue by assessing the authors' claims, reasoning, and evidence
- Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources, connecting insights gained from specific details to an understanding of the text as a whole in order to adress the overarching Question: How does your school address racism?
The African Diaspora: Teaching the Children
These lesson materials use the topics of geography, family life, seasonal celebrations, and sports and leisure to enable students to:
- Associate classroom instruction with a cultural reality;
- Evaluate the social, political, cultural, and academic concerns among trans-Africans
- Increase proficiency skills and interests in target languages (French and Spanish). Among the topics are geography, family life, seasonal celebrations, and sports and leisure
