REFERENCE
In this printable reading warm-up, students learn about the life of an explorer. Use this short biography on Sacagawea…
Study the life of Barack Obama with the resources in this literature guide to Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of…
WORKSHEETS
Teach students about journalist and feminist leader Violet Clara McNaughton with this research activity. Students will…
Study the life and work of civil rights leader W.E.B. Dubois with your students. Use the questions in this guide for Up…
Examine the life and work of Thurgood Marshall—a lawyer and U.S. Supreme Court Justice—with your students. Use the…
An article outlining the Harlem Renaissance and its major players.
A chart listing the self-reported ancestry of U.S. residents, according to the 2000 census.
Did you know that there are more than 1,000 languages spoken in Africa? To learn more, view this article.
A chart listing the fifty most widely spoken languages in the world.
Use this table as a reference for where Spanish is spoken throughout the world.
Learn the Hispanic origin of state and city names with this resource.
From Latin American to Castilian to Argentinian, there are many different Spanish accents.
Learn about the approximately 10,000 English words that have Spanish origins.
Reference an article that outlines the symbols of Kwanzaa and celebrations for each day. This information is useful…
A brief article about photographer and director Gordon Parks.
A brief article about Grammy Award-winning poet, writer, composer, and actress Maya Angelou.
A brief article about Jame Baldwin, including related resources.
Learn about Civil Rights leader James Meredith, who in 1961 was denied admission to the University of Mississippi…
Learn more about the life of contemporary novelist Toni Morrison.
Learn more about the life of Langston Hughes, American poet and central figure of the Harlem Renaissance.
An article about writer Richard Wright.
A brief article about Alice Walker.
A brief article about Ralph Johnson Bunche, the first African American to win a Nobel Prize.
A brief article about abolitionist Frederick Douglass.