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Student Activities for Black History 9-12
Classroom Exercise for Grades 9-12
Students can choose an important person from history and do a storyboard biography about them and their contribution to equality and/or society. They could also analyze Martin Luther King Jr.’s "I Have a Dream" speech.
Read Barack Obama’s 2004 Democratic Convention keynote address, “The Audacity of Hope”, and MLK’s “I Have a Dream” speech. Have students create a storyboard depicting any of the following:
- Explanation of three important quotes
- Analysis of the rhetoric (one or both speeches)
- Venn Diagram looking at similarities and differences
- purpose/audience/delivery
- reception from or effect on the public
- message about community or cooperation
![Black History Month - MLK's "I Have a Dream" Speech](http://cdn.storyboardthat.com/storyboard-srcsets/rebeccaray/martin-luther-king-s--i-have-a-dream--speech.png "Black History Month - MLK's "I Have a Dream" Speech")
Additional Black History Month Activities for 9-12
- Create biography posters of a figure that students research. See more biography activities.
- Create a timeline of the Jim Crow Laws.
- Read and create storyboards for The Color Purple or other relevant pieces of literature.
- Seek out current events articles regarding equality or racism to contrast with racism in the past. Students can use a three-cell storyboard as a Venn diagram.
- Have students create a poster explaining an invention created by a Black person.
Related Storyboard That Resources
History
- Atlantic Slave Trade
- The Missouri Compromise of 1820
- 1850s America
- The American Civil War
- Presidency of Abraham Lincoln
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Reconstruction Era
- Civil Rights Movement
- Voting Rights
Literature
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- Their Eyes Were Watching God
- A Raisin in the Sun
- The Color Purple
- "Dreams"
- "Blues Ain't No Mockin Bird"
- "On Being Brought from Africa to America"
- "Letter from a Birmingham Jail"
- "Women"
- All American Boys
- Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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- Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. [Leaders of the march posing in front of the statue of Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln Memorial.], 08/28/1963 • The U.S. National Archives • License No known copyright restrictions (http://flickr.com/commons/usage/)
- Dunlap Broadside [Declaration of Independence] • The U.S. National Archives • License No known copyright restrictions (http://flickr.com/commons/usage/)
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