Teaching, Reading, and Using Books in a History Class
Lesson Plans.
Responses to Europeans Colonialism in Africa: This unit plan includes how I teach students about colonialism in Africa and 10 primary sources from folks (women, Africans, African-Americans, a member of the queer community, and one straight white guy) who resisted colonialism. Readings to kick off the unit are found here.
Lesson plans developed in collaboration with Retro Report on Labor Union Activism can be found here along with Retro Report videos.
Teaching the Haitian Revolution: This unit plan was published in Social Education and is publically available. Not all the teacher resources fit inside the article, so here they are:
A must-read NYTimes article about French reparations and US intervention: The Root of Haiti’s Misery: Reparations to Enslavers
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Books.
Find reading guides, book lists, and book-specific ideas here. For what-I’m-reading updates, find me on Instagram or sign up for my newsletter.
ALL THE WAY TO THE TOP: How One Girl’s Fight for Americans with Disabilities Changed Everything by Annette Bay Pimentel, illustrations by Nabi H. Ali
PURA’S CUENTOS: How Pura Belpre Reshaped Libraries with Her Stories by Annette Bay Pimentel, illustrations by Magaly Morales
FREEDOM SOUP and DEAR HAITI, LOVE ALAINE
Pages and Presents.
When I’m feeling extra, I don’t just buy someone a book, but also give presents designed to be opened while reading. Each additional gift I wrap and label with a page number. When the reader reaches a particular page, they get to open the corresponding gift. Naturally, each present relates to events in the book.
Picture Books
Middle Grade Novels (ages 5-12)
Young Adult Novels (ages 13 and up)
Adult Books
