With Open Hands and Everyday Wisdom: Black Women, Work, Survival, and Nation-Building in the United States
This curriculum honors Black women’s labor, wisdom, care work, survival strategies, and everyday leadership. Students explore how Black women build families, communities, movements, and futures through visible and invisible forms of work. Ideal for ELA, women’s history, Black studies, social studies, and culturally responsive writing instruction.
LENGTH: 10 scripted lessons
DISCIPLINES: ELA | U.S. History | Women's Studies | Museum Studies
ANCHOR TEXTS: The Delany Sisters' Book of Everyday Wisdom; With Open Hands: A Story about Biddy Mason
With Open Hands and Everyday Wisdom: Black Women, Work, Survival, and Nation-Building in the United States
This curriculum honors Black women’s labor, wisdom, care work, survival strategies, and everyday leadership. Students explore how Black women build families, communities, movements, and futures through visible and invisible forms of work. Ideal for ELA, women’s history, Black studies, social studies, and culturally responsive writing instruction.
LENGTH: 10 scripted lessons
DISCIPLINES: ELA | U.S. History | Women's Studies | Museum Studies
ANCHOR TEXTS: The Delany Sisters' Book of Everyday Wisdom; With Open Hands: A Story about Biddy Mason