Course curriculum

  • 1

    Tutor Preparation: Please review BEFORE your first session

    • Training Resources for Reconstructors
  • 2

    Progress and Persistence: Unit Overview

    • Unit Overview
  • 3

    Orientation Lesson: Use this during the first 20 minutes of your first class BEFORE starting session one material.

    • Orientation Lesson Video: Watch First!

    • Orientation Lesson Plan

    • Orientation Jamboard
  • 4

    Lesson 1: “We Freed Ourselves” Black Soldiers and the Civil War

    • “We Freed Ourselves” Black Soldiers and the Civil War Lesson Plan and Instructions

    • Progress and Persistence- Emancipation Proclamation Close Read

    • Progress and Persistence Reconstruction Slides

    • Unit Note-Catcher: Session 1
  • 5

    Session 2: Progress - The 15th Amendment and the Rise of Black Political Power

    • Progress - The 15th Amendment and the Rise of Black Political Power Lesson Plan and Instructions

    • Unit Note-Catcher: Session 2
  • 6

    Session 3: Progress - Black Women and the Suffrage Movement

    • Progress - Black Women and the Suffrage Movement Lesson Plan and Instructions

    • Progress and Persistence Close Read WOMENS CLUBS

    • Unit Note-Catcher: Session 3
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    Session 4: Progress - Freedom Schools and Black Intellectualism

    • Progress - Freedom Schools and Black Intellectualism Lesson Plan and Instructions

    • Progress and Persistence Education Jigsaw

    • Progress and Persistence Education Manassas Industrial School

    • Unit Note-Catcher: Session 4
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    Session 5: Persistence - Did Reconstruction “Fail” or Was it “Overthrown”? Inside the “Compromise” of 1877

    • Persistence - Did Reconstruction “Fail” or Was it “Overthrown”? Inside the “Compromise” of 1877 Lesson Plan and Instructions

    • Fishbone Diagram Template

    • Unit Note-Catcher: Session 5
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    Session 6: Persistence - Ida B. Wells-Barnett and The Power of Speaking Your Truth

    • Persistence - Ida B. Wells-Barnett and The Power of Speaking Your Truth Lesson Plan and Instructions

    • Progress and Persistence Close Read Wells

    • Unit Note-Catcher: Session 6
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    Session 7: Persistence - Black Exodus and Freedom Towns

    • Persistence - Black Exodus and Freedom Towns Lesson Plan and Instructions

    • Progress and Persistence Shared Reading

    • Unit Note-Catcher: Session 7
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    Session 8: Persistence - “Was Emancipation a Fraud?”-The Sharecropping System

    • Persistence - “Was Emancipation a Fraud?”-The Sharecropping System Lesson Plan and Instructions

    • Progress and Persistence Close Read Douglass

    • Unit Note-Catcher: Session 8

    • Sharecropping Teacher Additional Activity

    • Sharecropping Student Additional Activity

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    Session 9: Capstone - Portraits of Reconstruction (Day 1)

    • Session 9: Capstone - Portraits of Reconstruction (Day 1)

    • Progress and Persistence Capstone Authentic Exemplars
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    Session 10: Capstone - Portraits of Reconstruction (Day 2)

    • Session 10: Capstone - Portraits of Reconstruction (Day 2)