Black History Month Scavenger Hunt in Avalon & The Villages
Saturday, February 27th from noon – 4 PM
Select a figure in Black History with your house number, street and email address. We will email you a data sheet on your person. Create a socially distanced, contactless presentation – living history re-enactment, posterboard taped to garage door, slide show or movie projected on your garage door, etc – BE CREATIVE! Our Riojas students will participate in a scavenger hunt based on the addresses listed, and fill out a crossword puzzle or word search based on the historic figure. Sign-Up here Riojas PTO: Black History Month (signupgenius.com)
Saturday, February 27th from noon – 4 PM
Select a figure in Black History with your house number, street and email address. We will email you a data sheet on your person. Create a socially distanced, contactless presentation – living history re-enactment, posterboard taped to garage door, slide show or movie projected on your garage door, etc – BE CREATIVE! Our Riojas students will participate in a scavenger hunt based on the addresses listed, and fill out a crossword puzzle or word search based on the historic figure. Sign-Up here Riojas PTO: Black History Month (signupgenius.com)
Riojas PTO is grateful to Black Pearl Books, an independent, Black woman-owned book store in Austin, for compiling a list of both primary and intermediate titles focusing on themes of diversity and inclusivity. Non-fiction titles include history and biographies. Fiction titles include protagonists of color and celebrate both our uniqueness and shared human experience. We are excited to support locally owned Black Pearl Books by providing a variety of titles focused on diversity and inclusion for our amazing staff to use to supplement their lesson plans!
- Meet Yasmin! by Saadia Faruqi and Hatem Aly
- Ada Twist, Scientist by Andrea Beaty and David Roberts
- Dreamers by Yuyi Morales
- Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family's Fight for Desegregation by Duncan Tonatiuh
- Peaceful Fights for Equal Rights by Rob Sanders and Jared Andrew Schorr
- Those Shoes by Maribeth Boelts and Noah Z. Jones
- Cilla Lee-Jenkins: This Book Is a Classic by Susan Tan and Dana Wulfekotte
- Stella Díaz Has Something to Say by Angela Dominguez
- Jada Jones Sleepover Scientist #3 by Kelly Starling Lyons, Vanessa Brantley-Newton, and Nneka Myers
- New Kid by Jerry Craft
- The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
- The Crossover by Kwame Alexander and Dawud Anyabwile
- Pashmina by Nidhi Chanani
- Piecing Me Together by Renée Watson
- Blended by Sharon M. Draper
- Civil Rights Then and Now: A Timeline of the Fight for Equality in America by Kristina Brooke Daniele, Woo! Jr. Kids, and Lindsey Bailey
- We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices by Wade Hudson and Cheryl Willis Hudson
- Diary of Charlotte Forten: A Free Black Girl Before the Civil War by Charlotte Forten
- The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora by Pablo Cartaya
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