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Elementary (K–5): Foundations & Storytelling
🎓 Learning Goals
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Build empathy and pride through local Black history.
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Learn about community, identity, and early activism.
📚 Sites & Activities
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Sumner High School (1875) – First Black high school west of the Mississippi
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Activity: Classroom timeline featuring founding, first graduates, and significance.
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Extension: Art project imagining a school opening in 1875.
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Floating Freedom School (1847–1860)
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Activity: Read-aloud story of John Berry Meachum’s riverboat school.
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Extension: Build a model “boat school” and discuss why learning mattered.
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Francis L. McIntosh Site (1836)
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Activity: Handle symbolic artifacts and discuss anti-violence and justice.
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Extension: Express wishes for justice through drawings or poems.oice
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