Student Activities for Black History 6-8
Classroom Exercise for Grades 6-8
Students can read about or research the issues that led up to the civil rights movement and discuss ideas like equality, racism, segregation, and intolerance. A discussion of this sort is also a good segue into talking/learning about different groups that have been discriminated against in the past or present: Jews, Native Americans, Romani, members of the LGBTQ+ community, people with cognitive or physical disabilities, Muslims, Latinos, women, the elderly, etc.
Example Questions for Discussion:
- What does it mean to be truly equal?
- Why is having equality important?
- What are "stereotypes" and how do they relate to equality?
- What are some of the reasons someone is considered a second-class citizen or inferior? Are they ever valid?
After having a discussion about equality or other topics, have students create a storyboard that combines elements of the conversation. This might be a linear narrative, a spider map about a central theme, or a comparison T-Chart.
Additional Black History Month Activities for 6-8
- Create biography posters of a figure that students research.
- Read a Langston Hughes Poem and complete a TPCASTT (Title Paraphrase Connotation Attitude Shifts Title Theme) analysis using Storyboard That.
- Discuss Black artists like Jacob Lawrence or Faith Ringgold; have students choose one of their images and create a storyboard explaining its artistic or cultural significance.
- Have students research famous Black history firsts, "First Black Man/Woman in History to…", and create a storyboard biography on one or more.
- 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
- The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963
- Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
- Chains
- Ghost
- A Long Walk to Water
- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
- "Mother to Son"
- Midnight Without a Moon
- Crossover
- One Crazy Summer
- Elijah of Buxton
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