A Complete Black History Month Unit for Grades 6-12 ($7)

4 weeks, 20 lessons, built on primary sources. $14, now $7 through Nov 30.

Black History Month is in February, and this unit is ready now. It is a complete 4-week, 20-lesson unit for grades 6-12, built on primary sources, and it is $7 (regularly $14) through November 30.

👉 Get the Black History Month Unit for $7

What is inside (102 pages)

• 20 teacher lesson plans, each 45 to 60 minutes, with a hook, timed procedure, check for understanding and differentiation

• Student pages for every lesson: close reads, stations, card sorts, census data and graphing, myth-vs-record investigations, poetry analysis and a Socratic seminar

• Primary sources including Douglass, Wells, Equiano, Du Bois, the Reconstruction Amendments, Plessy, Brown and Executive Order 9981, with citations

• A Missing Chapter Museum project with a topic bank, checkpoints, rubric and gallery walk

• Exit tickets, a 30-question unit test, short answers, an essay with rubric and a full answer key

• A unit guide with C3 and Common Core alignment, a 4-week pacing calendar, ELL notes, a 2-week version and guidance for teaching hard history respectfully

Teach the full sequence from African kingdoms through the Voting Rights Act, or pull single lessons into your U.S. History course. It fits social studies, ELA and advisory classes.

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The sale ends November 30. Created by a certified 6-12 social studies teacher.