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We need more information about black history! (We are the future yet we…
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reason #2
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We want them to look at a challenging task with the determination and belief that they can do it…whatever it is.
Without knowledge of history, the world, for a young child, is a very small place. Black History provides our students with wonderful models of people who
persevered in some of the
most difficult situations.
Our heroes in Black History may have been born at a time when our world was unjust and unfair to African Americans, but they did not let that define them. Instead they moved forward, broke barriers and achieved their goals against the odds.
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reason #3
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Life is full of problem solving opportunities, big and small. It’s critical that children learn to solve problems;
but it’s also important for them to learn peaceful ways to do so. Martin Luther King Jr. epitomized peaceful problem solving.
Martin Luther King Jr. and his persistence to make substantial changes in a world that, at the time, was so unjust is hard for young learners to imagine.
They are intrigued, shocked, and disappointed when they learn how differently people were treated solely by the color of their skin.
Developmentally, that is an enormous part of their world – “That’s not fair!” is a phrase we hear all too often in our classrooms and our homes. So, when they learn that people couldn’t go to certain restaurants because of the color of their skin, they become unglued.
It’s hard for them to wrap their brain around such a thing. They will say things like “That’s crazy!” or “That doesn’t make any sense!”. And they are right. It is crazy and it doesn’t make any sense, but it did happen.
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