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Multicultural Histories and Herstories

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Teaching Multicultural Histories and Herstories with Culturally Relevant Materials

Assignment Due September 7 at 4:00 PM

READ: Coverage vs. UnCoverage

Choose Activity 1 or Activity 2

Activity 1: Plan an OUT (Opening Up the Textbook) Activity

Activity 2: Sketch Note a Multicultural History Wiki Page

Everyone Does Activity 3

Activity 3: Design a Black and Brown Lives Matter Learning Experience

Stage 1 Gateway Assessment

Hidden Histories and Untold Stories Resources for Your Teaching

Examples of Mandated Multicultural History Curriculum in Schools

READ: Coverage vs UnCoverage

Uncoverage in History Survey Courses

Calder, L. (2006). Uncoverage: Toward a signature pedagogy for the history survey. Journal of American History

The End of the History Survey Course: The Rise and Fall of the Coverage Model. Joel M. Sipress & David J. Voelker, The Journal of American History, March 2011

A Letter to America: Why We Need a New History Education, Linda Morse (History News Network, July 12, 2020)

Activity 1: Plan an OUT (Opening Up the Textbook) Activity

READ

Opening Up the Textbook (OUT) from TeachingHistory.org

Opening Up the Textbook from University of Texas El Paso

LISTEN

Analysis Finds Big Differences in School Textbooks in States with Differing Politics, All Things Considered, January 13, 2020

DEVELOP an OUT (OPENING UP THE TEXTBOOK) LEARNING PLAN

Choose a topic from a textbook used at your school that your sponsoring teacher and students will be reading

Review how the textbook covers the topic

In two or three paragraphs, describe how you would open up or uncover the topic"

What new information do you want students to learn?

How will you organize student learning experiences for this topic?

Here are more resources to guide your planning:

Lesson Plans for Opening Up the Textbook from Historical Thinking Matters

Teacher Educator Lesson: Opening Up the Textbook (OUT) on Rosa Parks

OUTS Opening Up the Textbook from Northern Nevada Teaching American History Project

Beyond the Bubble: Opening Up the Textbook from Stanford History Education Group on YouTube

Online U.S. History Textbooks

Activity 2: Sketch Note a Multicultural History Wiki Page

Choose one of the following wiki pages and sketch note its diverse history information.

Sketch Notes are a teaching method you will want to use with students

Overview of Sketchnoting from resourcesforenglishteachers

What is Sketchnoting?

Scroll down the whole page to see all the resources.

Select at least three that catch your interest.

Open and learn from those three information to reveal in your sketch note.

African American History: A Philip Randolph, African American Labor Activist

Immigration History: Ports of Entry

Latino History: Mexican Immigration to the United States

LGBTQ History: The Lavender Scare

Native American History: Cahokia and Etzanoa

Labor History: Mother Jones and the March of the Mill Children

Women's History: Lowell Mill Girls

Submit Your Sketch Note

Activity 3: Design a Black and Brown Lives Matter Learning Experience

This Learning Plan Is Your Stage 1 Gateway Assessment

Civil rights demonstration in front of a segregated theater: Tallahassee, Florida 1963

READ: Let's Rethink How We Teach Black History. Daniel Osborn, Mass Humanities (June 29, 2020)

EXPLORE: Black Lives Matter Learning Pathway in Building Democracy for All ebook

DESIGN AND SUBMIT a Black Lives Matter learning experience based on one of the following grade levels and social studies content areas:

Grade 5 - United States History

Grade 6 - World History and Geography

Grade 7 - World History and Geography

Grade 8 - Civics and Government

Grades 9 -12 - United States History, World History, Government, Economics

Use the following model in the course syllabus for your learning plan. This will serve as your Stage 1 Gateway Assessment

LEARNING PLAN FORMAT

Rationale (Why is this critical academic content and how is it relevant to your students?)

Curriculum Frameworks (What Massachusetts History & Social Science Learning Standards and National Council for the Social Studies Themes are you addressing in this lesson? Write a paragraph on how this lesson will teach students about key ideas and concepts related to the NCSS theme)

Learning Objectives (What do you want students to know and be able to do at the end of the lesson. In other words, how does your lesson complete the statement “Students will be able to . . .” or SWBAT?)

Teaching Methods(What teaching methods are you using in this lesson?)

Procedure (What will the students and teacher be doing during the introduction, body and conclusion of the lesson? How much time will be spent on each activity?)

Assessment (How will you know what your students have learned?)

Materials (What important handouts, student work, etc. are used in your lesson? Please include copies)

Reflection (Where does the Learning Experience you designed fit on James Banks' Levels of Integration of Multicultural Content, 1988)

Full text of James Banks article

Submit Your Learning Plan

Optional Information

Resources for Hidden Histories and Untold Stories for Your Teaching

READ: The Impact of Ethnic Studies and Multicultural History on Student Learning

The Causal Effects of Cultural Relevance: Evidence from an Ethnic Studies Curriculum, American Educational Research Journal, 2016

High school students taking a course examining "the roles of race, nationality and culture on identity and experience" improved their grades, attendance, and graduation rates

Academic Benefits of Mexican-American Studies Reaffirmed in New Analysis

Students who participated in the ethnic studies courses were more likely to graduate from high school and pass standardized exams they had previously failed

Learning Plan Idea: Students Create History-Makers Trading Cards

For examples, link to Unique Scientist Trading Cards by Jaye C. Gardiner

Massachusetts Graduation Requirements: Teaching of History and Social Science

Massachusetts state law requires the instruction of American history and civics (G.L. c. 71, § 2) and physical education (G.L. c. 71, § 3).

The Massachusetts High School Program of Studies (MassCore)

4 years of English; four years of mathematics;
3 years of lab-based science;
3 years of history;
2 years of the same foreign language; 1 year of an arts program;
and 5 additional "core" courses such as business education, health, and/or technology.

Examples of Mandated Multicultural History Curriculum in Schools

Social Science Curriculum Mandates: Illinois

Mandates teaching African American history, women's history, and holocaust and genocide studies

Illinois Becomes First State to Require Teaching Asian American History in Schools (beginning in 2022-23)

African American History

African American History, School District of Philadelphia

First major city to require African American history for all high school graduates in 2005

Across America, States are Removing Black History from Schools, Virginia is Doing the Opposite

statewide African American history class to be taught as an elective in high schools

Native American History

Montana State Constitution Article X and Indian Education For All, Montana Office of Public Instruction

1972 constitutional amendment requires teachers to integrate information about Native American cultures and history in all instruction

Native American History is often overlooked in schools. One state is trying to change that, Huffington Post (March 17, 2015)

North Dakota Passes Native Education Bill, April 6, 2021

Connecticut Budget Implementation Includes Native Studies (beginning in 2023-24 school year)

Beginning in fiscal year 2023, the bill makes those communities with school mascots, logos and nicknames depicting Native Americans ineligible for grants provided from the Mashantucket Pequot Mohegan Fund, which comes from the state's share of slot machine revenues generated at Connecticut's two tribal casinos

Governor Lamont Announces Connecticut Becomes First State in the Nation to Require High Schools Provide Courses in Black and Latino Studies (2020)

California's FAIR Education Act

The Fair, Accurate, Inclusive, and Respectful Education Act, Senate Bill 48 in California, requires representation in public school learning resources of diverse populations' contributions to the development of the United States and the state of California.