Category: slavery
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History in the Kitchen: The Declaration, Equality, & Mac and Cheese
Today’s at History in the Kitchen we took a look at three documents, the Declaration of Independence, the Declaration of Sentiments, and Frederick Douglass’s speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” Similar to a lesson I teach in the classroom, I think it is vitally important to reiterate the ideals of the…
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Whose Independence?
I spent quite a lot of time thinking about independence this year. It isn’t that I hadn’t considered the Declaration of Independence through the lens of equality and inequality before, but a recent PD session at Academy for Teachers helped me think about independence in a historical way that I’d not really considered. The idea…
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Using Ancient Civilizations to Teach Citizenship
Besides learning a TON from fellow educators at the NCSS 2019 conference in Austin, Texas, I was also lucky enough to be able to give a presentation on Friday afternoon. The link below will direct you to a Google Drive folder with the lessons I presented in “Using Ancient Civilizations to Teach Citizenship.” A couple…
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African & American Folktales
World history in 5th grade took an (even more) exiting turn prior to leaving for spring break. Having just finished our Egypt research papers, we decided to travel to countries in East and West Africa as well as to the Carribean and Southern United States to explore how and why histories intersect through folktales. I…
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Invisible Founders Part 3: Hercules & Assessment
It has been quite a week in my history class and I have so much to share. The students in my class worked on completing their study of Hercules and the book A Birthday Cake for George Washington. The final piece of the unit was to study the real Hercules. I wanted students to find…
