Spotlight On America: African Americans Grade 5-8

Enrich content area reading and encourage students to take an in-depth view of the people and events of specific eras of American history. Nonfiction reading comprehension is emphasized along with research, writing, critical thinking, history, and geography. A readers' theater is also included.

Topics include:

• African Americans in Early America
• Leaders Before the Civil War
• War, Reconstruction, and Segregation
• Leaders from the Civil War to the Great Depression
• African American Heroes, 1865-1940
• The Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1970
• Moments and Movers in the Civil Rights Movement