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THE IDA B WELLS COMMUNITY
ACADEMY
1180 Slosson Street, Akron, Ohio 44320-2730
African and African American
Cultural
Learning Standards Infusion Model
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An Introductory Note
The Infusion Model's learning standards are presented under the
focus areas (in bold) for each
grade level – K thru 6 – and
indicate, but without any particular sequence order implied, what each
grade level teacher should infuse into his or her lesson plans and all
subject areas of the standards-based curriculum (see the sample
Curriculum
Matrix). That is, Language Arts, Social Studies, Citizenship, Science,
Mathematics and Reading – for that particular standard. The focus areas
are not given to limit or restrict the instructors' ability to choose
the material they want their students to learn so long as they remain
within their students capabilities. Those focus areas without suggested
emphasis areas allow the teacher to search the Internet for relevant
information. Moreover, it should be obvious that, if an instructor is
unfamiliar with a focus area and / or standard, she / he can enter the
subject, an individual's name, etc. in the Google search engine at:
http://www.google.com/. Google
will, then, quickly retrieve a number of
Web sites with information on the subject.
Using the Internet is easy; however, it will consume large amounts
of time, for teachers will have to read, scan or peruse
selectively the
information found to see if it is exactly the information they are
looking for, and, if not, continue to search. At the end of
this Infusion Model, we have listed a number of links that address
several of the areas suggested plus maps, African counting
games, internet research subjects, Black Experience video tapes and
several instruction aids. This should help reduce the time
required to find suitable information. Moreover, it is, then,
imperative for teachers to use the comprehensive Web links
to educational resources in the Academy's "Selected African Education
Focused Bibliography," on
the Academy's Web site. This Webpage provides not
only relevant links to cultural infusion resources but also provides
teachers with a wealth of books on African and African American life,
history and culture. Additional information on the Academy – its Board
members, administrators, faculty, educational philosophy, registration
and employment applications, and much more – can be accessed at:
http://hierographics.org/Academylndex.shtml.
Teachers are expected, during the course of the academic year, to
teach as much as possible of each subject area suggested
for each grade level. Teachers may, of course, have to make adjustments
as they develop their lesson plans to assure their
instruction of each subject area is grade specific and related to
Ohio's standards-based curriculum. What is expected,
moreover, is that teachers will have tried to have their
students introduced to and learn as much as they can about Africa and
African America in each grade. It
is also expected that enterprising teachers will
periodically – weekly, monthly and at the end of each grading period –
examine their students to ascertain exactly how much their
students have retained not only of the infused content, but also of the
ODE mandated curriculum. Most importantly, all teachers are
expected to study these Infusion Model standards carefully
and, as members of a committed instructional team, offer to team
members constructive criticisms, new ideas, possible
teaching methodologies, suggestions for improvement, etc.
KINDERGARTEN
Knowing Your World and Place in It
Find the United States on a Map of the World
Find Ohio and surrounding states on a Map of the United States
Find Africa, Europe, Asia, Australia, Iraq, Arabia, Russia, China
on a Map of the World
Names of African Nations
Find any 10 of African nations on a blank Map of Africa and give
their names and short description.
Locations of African Ethnic Groups
Locate these Ethnic Groups in African Nations: Yoroba, Masai,
Kikuyu, Hausa, Ewe, Akan, Zulu
Locate where descendents of these Ethnic Groups may live in the
United States
Names of Native Peoples and Languages
Spoken in these Locations
South Africa, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Egypt, Guinea, Angola
Recitation: The Ida B. Wells Community
Academy Pledge
(Should be memorized and displayed by overhead projection during
Assemblies.)
I am a student of the Ida B.
Wells Community Academy, and I want to learn.
I pledge to uphold all rules
and policies the Academy has established.
I pledge to study a lot and
to complete my home work assignments on time,
I pledge to attend school
regularly and to always pay attention in class.
I pledge to be loyal, to
show school spirit, to be proud and to respect myself,
My fellow students, my
teachers, my parents, and the Academy.
I pledge to strive for
excellence in my studies and to learn to read by reading.
I pledge to be proud of my
community, my neighborhood, and my home.
I pledge never to forget the
greatness of my African and African American heritage.
I pledge to behave at the
Academy, at home, and in the community according to
The NGUZO SABA – The Seven
Principles
This pledge I make freely
with loyalty, enthusiasm, concern and understanding.
I AM
SOMEBODY!
I AM PROUD OF WHO I AM!
FIRST
GRADE
Names of African Nations
Find any 20 African nations on a blank Map of Africa and give
their names and short national details.
Names of Classical African Civilizations
Kush, Axum, Nubia, Songhay, Ghana, Egyptian, Meroe,
Mali, Great Zimbabwe, Kanem Bornu
Names of Early African Explorers In the
Americas and Elsewhere
Abu Bakari II, Estavanico, Pedro Alonzo Nino, Mandingo Merchants,
Nuflo de Olano
Kashkash Ibn Saeed ibn Aswad, Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable, Ibn
Battuta, Leo Africanus
Martin R. Delany, Matthew A. Henson
African Americans in the American West
Bill Pickett, Deadwood Dick, Jim Pierson Beckwourth, Isom Dart
Nat Love, Mammy Pleasant, Willis Meade
Names of the Rivers of Africa
Niger, Congo, Zambezi, Limpopo, Nile (White and Blue), Orange,
Volta, Benue
Memorizing the Academy Pledge
SECOND GRADE
Names of African Nations
Find any 30 African nations on a blank Map of Africa and give
their names and short national details.
Names of Rivers, Deserts, and Mountains
of Africa
Niger, Congo, Zambizi, Limpopo, Nile, Sahara, Kalahari, Atlas
Mountains,
Mt. Kilimanjaro, Mountains of the Moon
How Africans Came to America
pre-Columbian Explorers, Indentured Servants, Enslaved Africans
Those Who Came as Visitors
Abu Bakari II: Africa's Greatest Explorer, Estavanico, Cinque and
the Amistad
Those Who Were Forced to Come Against
Their Will
Akan, Yoruba, Twi, Mandingo, Moors, Hausa, lgbo, Fulani
Senufo, Malinke, Guro, Ewe, Berbers
Kwanzaa: Founder, Purpose, Meaning
Founded in 1965 by Dr. Maulana Karenga
See his Kwanzaa: Origin, Concepts, Practice. San Diego: Kawaida
Publications, 1977
THIRD GRADE
Names of African Nations
Find any 35 African nations on a blank Map of Africa and give
their names and short national details.
What Enslavement was Like
The Slave Family, The Peculiar Institution, Slave Narratives
Life of Olaudah Equiano (Gustavus Vassa), Soloman Northup
How Africans Resisted Enslavement
Maroonage, Slave Revolts, Steal Away, Puffin' Ole Massa On,
Underground Railroad
Martin R. Delany, Frederic Douglass, Henry Highland Garnet, Edward
W ilmot Blyden
David Walker, Nat Turner, Harriet
Tubman, Sojourner Truth
Walker's Appeal, Nat Turner's Revolt, Sojourner's "Ain't I a
Woman" Speech,
Harriet Tubman: Moses of Her People
Take the Underground Railroad with
Harriet Tubman, William Grant Still, Levi Coffin
Ancient Egypt and Nubia
Seven Principles of Kwanzaa
Umoja, Kujichagulia, Ujima, Ujamaa, Nia, Kuumba, Imani
FOURTH GRADE
Names of African Nations
Find any 40 African nations on a blank Map of Africa and give
their names and short national details.
Five Great Spirituals: The Epics of a
People
"Precious Lord, Take My Hand," "Go Down Moses"
"I've Been 'Buked, I've Been Scorned,” “His Eye Is On the Sparrow"
"Amazing Grace," "Swing Low Sweet Chariot"
African American Inventors -- Men and
Women
Lewis H. Latimer, Virgie Simmons, George Washington Carver, Louise
H. Andrews
Norbert Rillieux, Patricia Bath, MD, Granville T. Woods, Miriam E.
Benjamin
Garrett A. Morgan, Theora Stephens, Madam C.J. Walker, Elijah McCoy
Harlem Renaissance: What Was It?
The Great Mass Movements of
Pap Singleton, Bishop Henry McNeil Turner, Marcus Garvey, Noble
Drew Ali
Sweet Daddy Grace, Father Divine
African American: Writers
Langston Hughes, Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Claude McKay, CounteeCullen
Gwendolyn Brooks, W.E.B. DuBois, Henry Dumas, Maya Angelou, James
Baldwin
Margaret Walker, Alice Walker, Ama Bontemps, Toni Cade Bambara
From Phyllis Wheatley to Toni Morrison:
African American Women Writers
For a general alphabetical listing, click here:
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/_generate/AFRICAN%20AMERICAN.html
Ancient Axum
FIFTH GRADE
Names of African Nations
Find any 45 African nations on a blank Map of Africa and give
their names and short national details.
Ghana, Mali, and Songhay Civilizations
Biographies of Famous African
Americans
Life of Ida B. Wells
Life of Benjamin Banneker
Life of Charles Drew
Life of Daniel Hale Williams
Life of Mary Mcleod Bethune
African American Artists: Dancers,
Musicians, Painters
Katherine Dunham, Elizabeth Catlett, John Biggers, Charles White,
Pearl Primus
Henry Ossawa Tanner, Jacob Lawrence, Sissieretta Jones, Duke
Ellington
Count Bassie, Josephine Baker, Bessie Smith
Against the Odds: African American
Athletes and Scientists
Charles Drew, George Washington Carver, Jack Johnson, "Hammering
Hank" Armstrong
Jim Brown, Percy Lavon Julian, Mamie "Peanut" Johnson, Ernest
Just, Jesse Owens, Joe Lewis, Pele,
Henry Aaron, Daniel Hale Williams, Althea Gipson,
Overcoming Racism and Apartheid at Home
and Abroad
Ida B. Wells, Frederick Douglass, Martin R.-Delany, Martin Luther
King Jr.
W.E.B. Du Bois, Oliver Tambo, Malcolm X, Walter White, Nelson
Mandela
Queen Mother Moore, Mary McLeod Bethune
SIXTH GRADE
Names of African Nations
Find all 53 African nations on a blank Map of Africa and give
their names and short national details.
Capital Cities of Modern African Nations
Give the capital cities for all 53 African nations.
Ten Historical Black Colleges and
Universities (HBCUs)
Tuskegee University, Spelman College, Atlanta University, Hampton
Howard University, Lincoln University (Pa), Morehouse,
Bethune-Cookman
Wilberforce, Texas Southern, Dillard University
African and African American Folklore
and Proverbs
John Henry, Stagolee, Brer Rabbit, People Who Could Fly,
Signifying Monkey, High John the Conqueror
Ananse Tales, Dolomite, Jack and the Devil's Daughter, The Old man
Who Wouldn't Take Advice
Read Langston Hughes
Read Paul Laurence Dunbar
Read Zora Neale Hurston
The Foundations of Jazz and Soul Music
Lester Young, Sarah Vaughan, Thelonius Monk, Smokey Robinson, Nina
Simone,
Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Coleman Hawkins, Cannonball Adderley,
Sonny Rollins
Dinah Washington, Billie Holliday, Milt Jackson, Carmen Macrae
Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Mingus, Dexter Gordan, Lil' Esther,
Roberta Flack
Five Major Civil Rights Events
Montgomery Bus Boycott, March on Washington, Sit-ins at Segregated
Restaurants
Selma March to Montgomery for Voting Rights, School Desegregation,
The Black Experience In America
This Series of 60 half-hour VHS tapes, donated by Dr. Crosby, will
be placed in the Academy's
library where they can viewed or signed out for lesson planning
purposes.
A complete list of the titles of each program covered in the
series is found below.
Links to African and African
American Educational Resources
This is an updated listing of Africa related information provided
by Mr. Darrell Davis of Miami, Florida, and included in the "Selected
Bibliography" section of the Academy's Web site.
Maps
of Africa, the United States and the World
• Map of
Africa I
(Political): http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/africa/africa_pol0l.ipg
• Map of
Africa 11
(Reference): http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/africa/africa_ref0l.pdf
• Maps of
Africa and All
African Nations: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/africa.html
• Africa
Map Puzzle:
http://www.vourchildiearns.com/Puzzle_afr.htm
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Interactive Map of Africa:
http://www.yourchildlearns.com/africa_map.htm
• United
States Map Puzzle:
http://www.yourchiidleams.com/puzzle_us.htm
• Mega
Maps of the United
States and the World: http://www.yourchildlearns.com/megamaps.htm
Africa
Counts
• Omweso
in Uganda:
http://www.geocities.com/omweso/
• Mancala,
an African
Counting Game: http://members.aol.com/agcrump/mancala.htm
• African
Counting Games:
http://www.cs.uu.nl/~hansb/d.gam/mancala.html
Online
Research Topics
Africa World Press
Africa's Science and Indigenous Knowledge
African and African American Libraries
African American Educational Resources
African Origins of Science and Mathematics
African Philosophy
African American Scholarships
African Centered
African Diaspora in Latin America
African Traditional Religion
African Timelines
African Diaspora in Pan-African Perspective
African Mathematics
African Science in School Curriculum
Africanism by Aloysious M. Lugira
Afro-Asian Committee
Afro-Latin American Bibliography
Afroasiatic Languages
Afrocentric Studies
Afrocentric Books
Afrocentric Resources
Afrocentric Libraries
Bargain Books `
Barron's Educational Series
Bibliography of Global History
Black Studies
Clyde A. Winters
COINTELPRO (FBI Counter Inteligence Program)
Dalitstan Organization Homepage
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Diaspora Bibliography
Dorling Kindersley
Edward R. Hamilton
Global African Presence
HBCU (Historic Black Colleges and Universities
Internet School Library Media Center
Jim Crow
Journal of African Civilizations
K-12 African American Educational Resources
Karnak House
Lynchings in America
McGraw Hill Children's Publishing
McGraw Hill
Muslim Scientists and Islamic Civilizations
Pan-Negroism
Rudolf Steiner
Science and Eurocentrism
The African Origins by Muata Ashby
The Sudroid
The Afroasiatic Project
UNESCO
UNESCO Collection of the History of Huma ity
White Privilege
Whiteness in America
Whiteness Studies
Willie Lynch (How to Make a Slave)
Womanism (or Womanist)
World Religions, Beliefs, History, and Art |
THE
AFRICAN NATIONS
Algeria
Angola
Benin
Botswana
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cameroon
Central African Republic
Chad
Comoros
Congo
Djibouti
Egypt
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Gabon
Ghana |
Guinea Bissau
Guinea
Kenya
Le Cote d'lvoire (The Ivory Coast)
Lesotho
Liberia
Lybia
Madagascar
Malawi
Mali
Mauretania
Mauritius
Morocco
Mozambique
Namibia
Niger
Nigeria
Republic of the Congo |
Reunion
Rwanda
Sao Tome & Principe
Senegal
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Somalia
South Africa
Sudan
Swaziland
Tanzania
The Gambia
Togo
Tunisia
Uganda
Zambia
Zimbabwe |
The
Black Experience in America VHS Video Tape Series
The Complete Series of 60
half-hour VHS tapes is in the Academy's
Library / Teacher Resource Room
and can be viewed or checked out for lesson planning
purposes.
TAPE
I:
1. African Beginnings
2. African Communities !:
Traditional
Societies
3. African Communities II: West
African
Kingdoms
4. Atlantic Slave Trade I:
Competition
for Slaves
5. Atlantic Slave Trade II: Impact
on
African Life
6. Atlantic Slave Trade III: The
Business
of Slaving
7. Atlantic Slave Trade IV: Middle
Passage
8. Atlantic Slave Trade V:
Seasoning in
the Islands
TAPE II:
9. Africans & Colonial
America I: The
South
10. Africans & Colonial
America II: The North
11. Slavery and Racism in
Historical Debate
12. The Contagion of Liberty
I: The War
13. The Contagion of Liberty
II: The Aftermath
14. The Black Community I:
The Haitian Revolt
15. The Black Community II:
Institution Building
16. The Black Community III:
The Varieties of Black Experience
TAPE III:
17. Slavery as an Economic
System
18. Slavery as a Social
System
19. Comparative Slave Systems
20. Slavery in the Cities
21. Slavery and Personality
22. Patterns of Slave
Resistance
23. The Antebellum South I:
The
Meaning of Slavery
24. The Antebellum South II:
The
Limits of Freedom
TAPE IV:
25. North of Slavery
26. Abolition I: The Problem
of
Coalition
27. Abolition II: The
Political
Question
28. The Crisis of the 1850's
29. Blacks in the Civil War
30. Freedom!
31. Reconstructing the
Nation: The
Crucial Years -- 1864-1866
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32. Building Community: The Freedmen
TAPE V:
33. Revolutions Go Backwards
I: The
South
34. Revolutions Go Backwards
II:
The Nation
35. Revolutions Go Backwards
III:
Redemption
36. I Am Jim Craw
37. Institution Building:
Tuskegee
38. The Crisis of National
Leadership
39. Radicals and Conservatives
40. Seeking Community I: The
North
From 1877-1900
TAPE VI:
41. Seeking Community II: The
South
From 1877-1900
42. Seeking Community III:
The
Exodus
43. Seeking Community IV:
African
Exodus
44. Seeking Community V: The
Migration
45. The Urban Experience
46. Institution Building:
Harlem
47. Institution Building:
Chicago
48. Violence: The Tragic
Legacy
TAPE VII:
49. Black Music
50. The New Negro I Harlem
Renaissance
51. The New Negro II:
Nationalism
and Garveyism
52. National Crisis: The
Limits of
Politics
53. Internal Crisis: The
Definition
of Politics
54. The Black Worker
55. The Black Family
56. Black Literature in the
20th
Century
TAPE VIII:
57. Pride: Preface to Politics
58. Civil Rights: The
Evolution of
Tactics
59. Towards a New Community
I: The
Search for Alternatives
60. Towards a New Community
II: The
Experience of Blackness
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This Black Experience series is
donated by Dr. Edward W. Crosby,
Kent, Ohio, from his VHS Video Cassette Collection.