Suggested activities
- Storytelling
- poetry readings
- dramatic presentations
- translation of works by African American writers
- discussions of student-selected works
- audiotapes and videotapes or literary works
- readings by parents, neighbors, and community members
Encouraged activities
Readings of auto/biographies of African American contributors to the content areas of science, mathematics, drama, art, music, performing arts, athletics, writing, and history
Sources of literature
- school libraries
- public libraries
- elementary science units
- elementary social studies units
- literature reading series
- literature anthologies
- your students and your colleagues
- Essence, Ebony, Black Enterprise, Emerge, and other African American magazines and journals