Red Summers: 1919
Episode
This is a story of a time of extreme and widespread violence against African-Americans and African-American communities. At the heart of the story is the power and resilience that can be seen in the multitude of ways that Black people stood up to and fought back against the injustices and violence they faced.
Curriculum Materials
Basic Lessons
These activities consist of viewing the episode and responding to the discussion prompts embedded in the episode.
Standards & Frameworks
These documents map the activites in this module to numerous national and state standards and frameworks.
The Conversation Continues
This activity consists of additional discussion prompts and resources that delve into the issues raised in the episode.
Into the Archives
These activities ask students to (1) generate their own questions and plan larger inquiries into the historical record regarding the stories presented in the video, and then (2) find, evaluate, and interpret historical documents to develop a research claim.
Opening Up the Textbook
These activities ask students to consider the implications of the dominant narrative by seeing how the story in the episode is (or isn’t) talked about in their textbooks.
Document Analysis
These activities pose questions related to one of the stories presented in the episode by providing students with curated, sometimes modified, documents with headnotes and guiding questions.
Creative Responses
These activities ask students to practice perspective taking and use creative expression (poetry, music, visual arts, media production, etc.) to deeply process the stories presented in the episode.
Timelining to Understand
These activities ask students to place the events discussed in the video in a larger historical context by working with a timeline of US history.
Connections, Echoes, and Projections
These activities extend the themes of the story presented in the episode to other events and into the future. These resources and activities help students see how we can use an understanding of the past to make sense of more recent events and imagine a different future.
Deep Dive Read
These activities ask students to closely read, annotate, and interpret complex primary texts mentioned in the episode.
Additional Resources
These are additional resources that may be useful for teachers and students.