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African-American Heroes

Grade Levels: 3 - 5

Objectives
  • Students will use vocabulary related to important African Americans.
  • Students will read the biographies of several famous African Americans.
  • Students will appreciate the honor associated with having a stamp named after someone.
  • Students will identify an important African American and write a letter recommending that this person be honored with a postage stamp.
Materials Procedures
  1. Introduce key vocabulary: accomplishments, excelled, honor, invention, obstacles.
  2. Have students work with a partner to complete the African-American Heroes worksheet while they explore websites about African-American history.
  3. Encourage pairs to brainstorm lists of African Americans who deserve to be honored with postage stamps.
  4. Have students select one person and write a letter recommending this person for a stamp, citing specific reasons why the person should receive such an extraordinary honor.
  5. Set aside a time to share the letters of recommendation with the rest of the class and then mail the letters to the postmaster in each student's community.

Assessment

  • Use students' worksheet responses and letters of recommendation to evaluate their ability to synthesize information and form opinions backed by facts.
  • Find a variety of assessment techniques to use with this lesson.
Extension Activities
  • Discover a huge collection of lessons and activities for Black History Month.
  • Choose from a large collection of cross-curricular activities for all grade levels.
  • Have students work with partners to make up their own black history quizzes and give them to each other.

Standards Correlations

Standards for the English Language Arts
Students:

  • employ a wide range of strategies as they write and use different writing process elements appropriately to communicate with different audiences for a variety of purposes.
  • participate as knowledgeable, reflective, creative, and critical members of a variety of literacy communities.

National Educational Technology Standards
Students:

  • are proficient in the use of technology.
  • practice responsible use of technology systems, information, and software.


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