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Black History Month Lesson Plans

In honor of Black History Month, we are proud to introduce lesson plans with a focus on black history that feature fiction and non-fiction titles from RFB&D’s audiobook collection.
Accessible audio versions of these titles are available from RFB&D.

Grades: K - 2

Subject: Reading and Language Arts

Title: The Black Snowman by Phil Mendez
Theme: Black History
Duration: 45 minute class session

Grades: 3 - 5

Subject: Reading and Language Arts

Title: Sounder by William H. Armstrong
Theme: Lives of Freed African American Slaves from Reconstruction Era Through Mid-20th Century 
Duration: Two class periods
Title: The Bat Boy & His Violin by Gavin Curtis
Theme: Black History – Negro National League
Duration: Two 45 minute class sessions
Title: Circle Unbroken by Margot Theis Raven
Theme: Black History
Duration: 45 minute class session
Title: Double Dutch by Sharon M. Draper
Theme: Black History
Duration: 45 minute class session
Title: In Daddy’s Arms I Am Tall: African Americans Celebrating Fathers
Theme: Black History
Duration: 45 minute class session
Title: Me, Mop, and the Moondance Kid by Walter Dean Myers
Theme: Black History
Duration: 45 minute class session

Grades: 6 - 8

Subject: Reading and Language Arts

Title: Follow the Drinking Gourd by Jeanette Winter
Theme: Black History
Duration: 45 minute class session
Title: We Beat the Street by Sampson Davis, George Jenkins and Rameck Hunt
Theme: Black History
Duration: 45 minute class session

Grades: 6 - 8

Subject: Social Studies

Title: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
Theme: Jim Crow Laws, Early Era of American Civil Rights Movement, African American Life after the Civil War and Early 20th Century
Duration: Several class periods 
Title: Copper Sun by Sharon M. Draper
Theme: Black History
Duration: Two 45 minute class sessions

Grades: 9 - 12

Subject: Reading and Language Arts

Title: Autobiography of My Dead Brother by Walter Dean Myers
Theme: Black History
Duration: 45 minute class session

Subject: English

Title: Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
Theme: Characterization, Analytical Response to Literature 
Duration: 2-3 class periods 
Title: Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons: The Story of Phillis Wheatley by Ann Rinaldi
Theme: Famous African Americans, Timelines, Understanding the Lives of Slaves in Colonial America
Duration: Several class periods including time to read book.
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