How to Start Homeschooling Middle Schoolers for Black History Month

Make this month special for homeschooling middle schoolers. Emphasize Black History Month as an event with a cast of millions and a history that will fill the centuries of the future. One of the people they could learn about is Mary McLeod Bethune, the 17th child of former slaves who became the presidential adviser to Franklin D. Roosevelt and founder of Bethune-Cookman University. Read on to learn more.

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

1. A Black History Month wall of events may become a permanent place in your homeschooling space once it's been created. It can continually inspire conversation and be a self-esteem booster. The Black History Month wall can be dedicated to an individual, a time period or a subject. You may want to highlight the role black musicians have had.

2. Homeschooling middleschoolers for Black History Month rehearses the challenges that history makers went through. By recognizing the successes wrought from several mountains of adversity, homeschoolers will be inspired by their lives. By identify with someone in history, your homeschooler can make a history for themselves in the future.

3. Black history Month ideas can vary from coloring pictures of history makers to solving puzzles that celebrate Black History Month. You could also take them on field trips so that they could attending functions at community centers or churches. Wherever history they see, hear or speak this month, make certain to emphasize recording what you present. Emphasize that is how history is remembered: by recording and rehearsing it. We must tell the world how we want to be remembered.

4. Encourage the homeschoolers to dress as a hero or heroine--with wig and all the trimmings--when they read a poem or small speech. Record it all together and upload to your favorite social networking site. Remember to applaud everyone's efforts at the number of people who visit it on the Internet.

Tips & Warnings

• Black history Month ideas are best inspired by the children who will participate in the presentation.
• Attics and basements full of old trunks or dressers are usually full of history.

Resources

• Mary McLeod Bethune info from Africawithin.com