YOUNGSTOWN CITY SCHOOLS
AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY
Curriculum Guide
Unit/Topic
Textbook/Supplemental
Materials
1. Myths vs.
Realities:
Why Study
Black
History?
African-American History: A
Journey of Liberation
Chapter 52, pp. 476-482
2. A Rich
Legacy
African-American History: A
Journey of Liberation
Chapters 1-7, p. 2-222
The African American
Experience (reference)
Assessments/Assignments
• Images: Myths and Realities
discussion
• Bamboozled or Classified X
stereotyping discussion
• Hip-Hop Music reading and group
activity
• Images of African Americans
collage activity
• “Blood, Gore, Sex, and Now:
Race” reading
• Stereotyping exercise
• Hip Hop and Stereotypes Internet
assignment
• African-American sitcoms
Skull article
• Mother of Mankind reading
• Ancient Africa Timeline
• Egyptian Daily Life Internet
assignment
• Imhotep reading
• West African Trade Routes Map
exercise
• West Africa Research project
• Letter from an Enslaved African
• Advantages and Disadvantages to
the Slave Trade
YOUNGSTOWN CITY SCHOOLS
AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY
Curriculum Guide
Unit/Topic
3. Lost in
America
Textbook/Supplemental
Materials
African-American History: A
Journey of Liberation
Chapters 1-7, pp. 2-222
The African American
Experience (reference)
Assessments/Assignments
• Olaudah Children’s Book
• Analyzing Images of Slavery
• Slave Trade reading learning
• Comparing Slavery – Egypt/U.S.
• Chapter 8 reading- de-centering and
dislocation discussion
• Phillis Wheatley poems
• Breaking the Chains of
Psychological Slavery reading
• Early Attempts to Justify Slavery
reading and response
• Alex Haley Biography
• Roots movie and quizzes
• Roots First Person Narrative
• Slavery in the U.S. Reading
• Slave Narratives and diary entries
• Runaway Slave Notices
• Solomon Northrup reading
• Plantation Website assignment
• Slave Rebellions
• Slavery and Independence
• U.S. and War of 1812
• African Resistance Comparison
Chart
• Where Africans Were Taken
Activity Sheet
YOUNGSTOWN CITY SCHOOLS
AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY
Curriculum Guide
Unit/Topic
Textbook/Supplemental
Materials
Assessments/Assignments
• African American Population
• Black Inventors PowerPoint
• Free Mind and Spirit reading
• Resistance to Enslavement
Newspaper
• Group lesson presentation for
chapters 15-19
• Slavery in the United States
reading
• Recognizing Point of View
assignment
• Blacks Fight for America’s
Freedom reading
• Recognizing Cause and Effect
• Locke, Jefferson, Douglass
4. Challenges
to Slavery
African-American History: A
Journey of Liberation
Chapters 20-30, pp. 188-286
The African American
Experience (reference)
The African American
Experience (reference)
• Obituary writing assignment
• Where do we go from here?
Activity
• Emancipation Proclamation
writing assignment
• Spirituals in African slave culture
• Abolitionist biographies
YOUNGSTOWN CITY SCHOOLS
AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY
Curriculum Guide
Unit/Topic
Textbook/Supplemental
Materials
Assessments/Assignments
• Fugitive slave diary entry
• Breaking immoral laws debate
• Dred Scott reading
• Anthony case writing assignment
• Juneteenth poster
• Glory movie
• HBCU Poster Presentation
• Reconstruction laws brochure
• Abolitionist poster
• Suffrage concept map