This item includes a Black History Month assembly and follow-up materials for tutor-time/PSHE (or can be incorporated into the assembly itself) which aims to ‘flip the thinking’ around BHM and make students think about it in a way that they can relate to other areas and themselves. For example, the assembly plays the famous Morgan Freeman interview in which he says he “doesn’t want a BHM”, before students are invited to display whether or not they agree with Morgan’s comments (it is made clear that Freeman’s comments are not discriminatory; he is coming at it from an inclusive angle). The assembly goes onto ask who would say the same of Remembrance Month, before also showing how BHM can relate to Remembrance, Pride, mental health, among other areas, and asking who has changed their mind at the end. PLEASE REFER TO THE ‘NOTES’ SECTION OF THE PPT FOR HELP/CLARIFICATION/SCRIPT IDEAS.

This unit bundle includes 5 lessons on the history of Native Americans. Lessons are scaffolded (orange = low ability, green = middle ability, purple = high ability) and include fun tasks such as creating tipis and totem poles. Lessons also include homeworks. Lessons 1 - Tribes and Tipis Lesson 2 - Buffalo and Warfare Lesson 3 - Migration and Westward Expansion (alternative migration lesson included that requires access to Disney’s Pocahontas film) Lesson 4 - Battle at Little Bighorn and Wounded Knee Massacre Lesson 5 - Reservations and Totem Pole