Black History Month came alive at Windsor Mill Middle School this year in Ms. Helm’s 6th grade class. Students began the unit with deep thinking about the characteristics of leaders. Helm modeled the overall project with Malcolm X. Students read articles and books about Malcolm X focusing on what they knew, what they thought they knew, and what they learned. They analyzed and synthesized their learning through discussions. Students then selected figures from Black History to research and identified qualities the person had or developed to become a leader. Dawn Bray, the WMMS Discovery Ed Coach, made Board Builders on the historical figures for the class. Students asked themselves if they had similar qualities and if they could do what the leaders accomplished. Research and reflections were housed in flip books and led to a culminating paragraph on their leader recorded in Vocaroo. Ms. Helm created an interactive timeline in the classroom with QR Codes to access the student paragraphs. The unit was closed with a Socratic Seminar on how the class could bring the qualities of their leaders into their community.
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