Get academically sound language arts lessons while keeping it 100!✌️ with Black History. Black Wall Street- Build a Community: Greenwood is a five-part teaching lesson that will teach reading comprehension, history, the impact of segregation laws, critical thinking and community building. There is a lesson for each day for one week.
Day 1 teaches reading comprehension with a general reading comprehension passageabout the Greenwood community. It features a reading passage, a vocabulary activity and practice writing a summary statement.
Day 2 teaches critical thinkingabout the specific segregation laws enacted against the Greenwood community and how they helped the community thrive.
Day 3 teaches about the entrepreneurs and other business professionals that helped build the Greenwood community.
Day 4 is another reading comprehension passage about the Tulsa Race Riot with a vocabulary activity and practice writing a summary statement.
Day 5 is another critical thinking activity that covers desegregation and how it hurt the Greenwood community.
This Black History product was created to point out the positive aspects of Black History such as community development, entrepreneurship, and the pride that comes from hard work when mixed with creativity and the betterment of a society.
Follows Common core standards:
CCSSRF.5.4a
Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding.
CCSSCCRA.R.2
Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.
CCSSCCRA.R.3
Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.
CCSSCCRA.R.10
Read and comprehend complex literary and informational texts independently and proficiently.
CCSSRI.6.2
Determine a central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments.
CCSSRI.6.3
Analyze in detail how a key individual, event, or idea is introduced, illustrated, and elaborated in a text (e.g., through examples or anecdotes).
CCSSW.6.1
Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence.
CCSSW.6.1a
Introduce claim(s) and organize the reasons and evidence clearly.
CCSSW.6.1d
Establish and maintain a formal style.
CCSSW.6.1e
Provide a concluding statement or section that follows from the argument presented.
CCSSW.6.2a
Introduce a topic; organize ideas, concepts, and information, using strategies such as definition, classification, comparison/contrast, and cause/effect; include formatting (e.g., headings), graphics (e.g., charts, tables), and multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension.
CCSSCCRA.L.1
Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
CCSSCCRA.L.2
Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
CCSSCCRA.L.4
Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases by using context clues, analyzing meaningful word parts, and consulting general and specialized reference materials, as appropriate.
CCSSCCRA.L.6
Acquire and use accurately a range of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases sufficient for reading, writing, speaking, and listening at the college and career readiness level; demonstrate independence in gathering vocabulary knowledge when encountering an unknown term important to comprehension or expression.
CCSSWHST.6-8.1a
Introduce claim(s) about a topic or issue, acknowledge and distinguish the claim(s) from alternate or opposing claims, and organize the reasons and evidence logically.
CCSSWHST.6-8.1c
Use words, phrases, and clauses to create cohesion and clarify the relationships among claim(s), counterclaims, reasons, and evidence.
CCSSWHST.6-8.1d
Establish and maintain a formal style.
CCSSWHST.6-8.1e
Provide a concluding statement or section that follows from and supports the argument presented.
CCSSWHST.6-8.7
Conduct short research projects to answer a question (including a self-generated question), drawing on several sources and generating additional related, focused questions that allow for multiple avenues of exploration.
WHAT OTHER TEACHERS HAVE SAID...
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ MEYA H., was extremely satisfied says, “Great Resource!” She used it with 12th grade students primarily with learning difficulties.
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⭐⭐⭐⭐ Estelle B., was very satisfied says, “My students really enjoyed this resource. I was able to pair it with a documentary that highlighted the amount of talent and abilities of blacks in the Greenwood district. Such a disturbing thought to see how so much of U.S history has been concealed. I used this during Black History Month. Thank you!”
