African+American+History+Unit

** __ African American History Unit __ **

[|**Sweet Honey In The Rock**] ** The above link is to //Sweet Honey In The Rock's// website. A singing group dedicated to keeping the songs of slavery alive. Check it out! **  **//__Literature:__//** **//Kindergarten: __Martin's Big Words__ and __Funga Alafia__ //** **// First Grade: __This Jazz Man__, __The Jazz Fly__ and __It's Okay to be Different__ //** **// Second Grade: __A Picture Book of Harriet Tubman__ and __Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt__ //** **// Third Grade: __Night Boat to Freedom__, __Henry’s Freedom Box__ and __Under the Quilt of Night__ //** **// Fourth Grade: __Night Running__, __Priscilla and the Hollyhocks__ and __Friend on Freedom River__ //** **// Fifth Grade: __Dizzy__, __Little Stevie Wonder__, __If I Only Had A Horn Young Louis Armstrong__, __I See Rhythm__ //**

**<span style="color: #2d56a9; display: block; font-family: 'Segoe Print'; font-size: 16pt; text-align: center;"> <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt; text-align: center;">__Music:__ ** <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"> //**Follow the Drinking Gourd, Funga Alafia, Miss Mary Mack, Down, Down Baby, Draw a Bucket of Water, Kumbaya, This Little Light of Mine, Jacob's Ladder, Juba Jive, The Road to Freedom, The Water is Wide. Many songs, rhymes and chants from the book __Shake It To The One That You Love The Best__.**// <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"> **//Students will listen to several selections from the music group Sweet Honey in the Rock, an a capella singing group of African American Women who strive to keep the songs of slavery alive.//**

<span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"> **//All students learn to sing the song Free At Last written by Teresa Jennings in honor of Martin Luther King Jr.; we perform the beautiful sign language along with the chorus.//**