Ruby's Notes

This worksheet makes an excellent extra credit assignment in ELA or Social Studies. The passage explores a Phillip Randolphs education and major career accomplishments in the labor movement. After reading, students are asked to recall key facts and encouraged to reflect on the relevance of his experience today.

Use this worksheet as a launch to a unit on India, Hinduism, World Religions or Perspective. Students will expand their understanding of perspective and explore its relation to the various interpretations of Hinduism by analyzing an Indian folktale. Comprehension questions can be completed with a partner or independently. Class discussion encouraged.

This is can be printed as a poster. Ubuntu is an African philosophy of humanism in which your sense of self is shaped by your relationships with other people. In the classroom, this philosophy fosters what the Nguzo Saba refers to as collective work and responsibility. I have successfully used this call and response as a classroom management tool. At the bottom are featured two Adinkra Symbols (left to right): Aroma Ntoaso - a symbol of agreement, togetherness, and unity. Boa me na me mmoa wo

This worksheet makes an excellent extra credit assignment in ELA or Social Studies. The passage explores Marcus Garvey's international education and major career accomplishments. After reading, students are asked to recall key facts and encouraged to reflect on the relevance of his experience today.

This worksheet makes an excellent extra credit assignment in ELA or Social Studies. The passage explores James Weldon Johnson' s classical education an major career accomplishments. After reading, students are asked to recall key facts and encouraged to reflect on the relevance of his experience today.

This assignment makes an excellent extra credit assignment in ELA or Social Studies. This short-read explores the influences that made up the majority of Thomas Fortune's education. As a leading 20th century journalist, orator, and speech writer, Fortune's success was grounded in his passionate commitment to the free press. After reading, students are asked to recall key facts and encouraged to reflect on the relevance of his experience today.

This assignment makes an excellent extra credit assignment in ELA or Social Studies. This short-read explores the story of Booker T. Washington's educational journey. As a leading 20th century educator, orator, and politician, Washington's success was grounded in his passionate commitment to education. After reading, students are asked to recall key facts and encouraged to reflect on the relevance of his experience today.

This assignment makes an excellent extra credit assignment in ELA or Social Studies. This short-read explores the story of W.E.B. DuBois' educational journey. As a leading 20th century thought leader and human rights' advocate, his commitment was fortified in adolescence. After reading, students are asked to recall key facts and encouraged to reflect on the relevance of his experience today.

This assignment makes an excellent extra credit assignment in ELA or Social Studies. This short-read explores the story of Ida B Well's educational journey. As an advocate for anti-lynching laws and other human right's issues, her commitment to justice was fortified by her adolescent experiences. After reading, students are asked to recall key facts and encouraged to reflect on the relevance of her experience today.

Use mapping and inquiry based learning to teach colonialism. This worksheet features a brief excerpt from Howard Zinn's, "A People's History of the United States" to introduce a broad definition of a colony. Students then use inquiry to draw conclusions about list of contemporary countries apart of the British Commonwealth and the United States' Territories. NOTE: Ideally, students will use a world map to assist in understanding the location of each country.