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Junior Great Books® and our Shared Inquiry™ methodology in your classroom can be used as a means of celebrating Black History Month. Our mission is to support civic engagement and discussion and to share stories that reflect the wide breadth of human experience. Download the free lesson plans below to try in your classroom.

“Those Shoes” by Maribeth Boelts

“At work with my father” by Eve L. Ewing

“The Hill We Climb” by Amanda Gorman

“New Day’s Lyric” by Amanda Gorman

“Second Inaugural Address” by Abraham Lincoln and “Let American Be America Again” by Langston Hughes