Note to advisory teachers:
This living document includes links to media to share with your
Themes for Advisory each week:
Week 1: ​MUSIC/FASHION/ART​ (February 1-5)
Week 2: ​SPORTS/THE OLYMPICS/DANCE​ (February 8-12)
Week 3: ​SCIENCE & INNOVATION​ (February 16-19)
Week 4: ​FILM/LITERATURE/PLAYS​ (February 22-26)
Other HMTCA Black History Month activities
Daily announcements
Poster Contest: Due Friday February 19th
Recipe Raffle: Due Wednesday February 24th
Bingo: Due Friday February 26th
Spirit Week February 22-26
students each day during Black History Month. You can choose what
will fit you and your students best to celebrate Black achievements in
our society. The document will be updated ahead of each week.
Email Summer Tate and/or Steven Tatum if you have ideas for
content!
Options for sharing with your advisees:
● Share your screen during a live meet to view videos, slideshows
and audio
● Use the links as an activity for an attendance question
○ What did this make you think about?
○ What is one connection you made while
watching/listening/viewing?
○ What do you know that fits into this topic?
● Have a discussion with group A students in the room and repeat for
group B students
Black History Month is also an opportunity for us as educators to
reflect on our responsibility, especially those of us who are white, to
learn anti-racist perspectives and practices. See the “TEACHER
CORNER” at the bottom of the document for some resources. If you
are wanting to commit further to this work, please reach out to
colleagues so we can support each other. We will be stronger
together.
 WEEK 1: MUSIC/FASHION/ART

Monday/Tuesday Thursday/Friday Extra Activities

2/1 2/2 2/4 2/5 Where can we find African

When Did Black History How have African Who are the famous What have African American artists celebrated?
Month start? Americans influenced African American Americans created in
HOW IT BEGAN  American music? artists? fashion? Tiny Desk Concert- Black
Pumas
BLACK HISTORY  Willis Moore: ​In his own words ​Meet Liz Montague, the  100 Years of Black
first African American  American Fashion About Her Business( Harlem
MONTH'S  Video: HMTCA SPOTLIGHT: female cartoonist to be  (2:56min) Fashion Row & Black
His you tube channel featured in the New  Designers)
HUMBLE  Willis Moore Yorker 
The Black Fashion  Black Women in Comics – 
BEGINNINGS  Video: African American  12 Dope Black Painters Designers You Should  This Heroine Paved the Way 
history: Key moments  You Should Know Know In 2020 ( Pyer Moss, 
Lift Every voice and sing through music  Hanifa , Laquan Smith &  10 Pioneers of Black
more!) Fashion Design
Hartford’s own,​ ​Jackie
McClean Photos: Hartford Fashion
Week

Black Comic heroes

 WEEK 2: SPORTS/THE OLYMPICS/DANCE

Monday/Tuesday Thursday/Friday Extra Activities

2/8 2/9
How are sports and protest
2/11
What influence have
2/12 - Black Love ​ 🖤 Black Athletes that
How have African SHATTERED records| The 5
American contributed to connected in American African Americans had on
American sports? history? dance? How does figure skater National Museum of African
Ellaj Bladé mix styles and
The Alvin Ailey  American History & Culture
expressions in this
African-Americans'  Black athletes and the American Dance  performance?
impact on sports and  struggle for racial equality Theater at 60​ (6:08)  Barack Obama & Misty 
(2:58) instagram video: ​Part 1​ ​Part 
Olympics​ (3:35)  Copeland On Race, Body 
  2
Image & Staying Humble | 
The Influencers | TIME 

​ ilma Rudolph - The

W Misty Copeland On Her 
Gabby Douglas 󾓦 - The First
African American Olympic
First American Woman to Career as a Black 
All-Around Champion | Athlete
Win 3 Gold Medals at a Ballerina​ (4:12) 
Highlights
Single Olympics | Mini
Bio | BIO​ (2:52) Misty's Copeland story

Honoring Choreographer
Bill T. Jones​ (4:22)
 WEEK3: SCIENCE & INNOVATION

Monday/Tuesday Thursday/Friday Extra Activities

2/16 2/18 2/19 Curious Tangents​ Youtube

WATCH HMTCA alum’s who
majored in a science related
major in college.
​Genesis Brooks '16 Athletic
Trainer
Myane Harris '15 Nurse
Our Piece of the Pie
Neil Degrasse Tyson- ​3
Mind Blowing Space facts!
(14:00)
5 Black Scientists in
History​ (2:33)
What do you imagine or
dream for the future of
black people?
Afrofuturism gains new
momentum as artists
reclaim black history​ (5:31)
channel
(Hidden Figures) ​Octavia
Spencer, Taraji P. Henson,
Janelle Monae On Portraying
‘Hidden Figures’ Of NASA |
TODAY​ (4:46)
These 5 African-American
inventors improved the world

WEEK 4: FILM/LITERATURE/PLAYWRIGHT

Monday/Tuesday Thursday/Friday Extra Activities

2/22 2/23 2/25 2/26

● Writers
● Directors
● Actors
● Watch film

TEACHER CORNER

General Interest:
Spoken word pieces from student perspective:
● Elizabeth Taylor, Vincent Snyder & Nia Lewis - "Black History Month"
● What I Wasn't Taught In School
Teaching Black History in Culturally Responsive Ways​ (Edutopia)
Music/Art/Fashion:
Audio: 1619 Project: The Birth of American Music (34 minutes)

Sports/Olympics/Dance:
The History of Black Protest in Sports | The New Yorker

Science & Innovation:

https://libguides.franklinpierce.edu/black-history/black-innovators
​https://www.pbs.org/education/blog/ten-black-scientists-that-science-teachers-should-know-about-and-free-resources

Film/Literature/Playwrights: