Indigenous Unit
Black American Unit
Quotes
People/Characters
Ms. Carina Lore
100
The term for schools where Indigenous children were sent to assimilate to white American culture
Indian Residential/Boarding Schools
100
The name of the Black Power mutual aid collective that originated in Oakland
Black Panthers
100
Name the speaker:
"Thank yuh fuh yo' compliments, but mah wife don't know nothin' 'bout no speech-makin'. Ah never married her for nothin' lak dat. She's uh woman and her place is in de home."
Joe Starks
100
The person Bigger beats up for not wanting to rob Old Blum's
Gus
100
The amount of siblings does Ms. Carina has
One! (an older sister)
200
The location of the Red Power Movement takeover from 1969-1971
Alcatraz
200
A formerly enslaved person who became one of the most famous abolitionists; published a book on his experiences as an enslaved person
Frederick Douglass
200
Name the speaker:
"'Half the time I feel like I’m on the outside of the world peeping in through a knot-hole in the fence…’”
Bigger Thomas
200
Janie's first husband
Logan
200
Ms. Carina's former high school
SI
300
How Indigenous knowledge and traditions were passed down
Orality
300
The term for the journey that forced kidnapped Africans from east Africa across the Atlantic to the Americas
Middle Passage
300
Name the speaker:
"This is what the paleface has done! Since then your father too has been buried in a hill nearer the rising sun. We were once very happy. But the paleface has stolen our lands and driven us hither."
Zitkála-Šá's mother
300
Marji has a close relationship with Him until she grows up
God
300
The book on our curriculum this year that Ms. Carina also read during her Sophomore year of high school
Persepolis
400
The Indigenous tribe forced to complete the Long Walk in 1864
Navajo/Diné
400
The location of MLK's Childrens' Crusade, in which young Black children were sent to protest and met with police brutality
Birmingham Alabama
400
Name the speaker:
"Indians don't know much uh nothin', tuh tell de truth. Else dey'd own dis country still."
Tea Cake
400
Zitkalá-Šá's older brother
Dawée
400
Ms. Carina's least favorite food
cilantro
500
The amount of warriors hanged for the Sioux Uprising
38
500
The name of the sub-movement that honors Black women victims of police brutality and highlights the intersection of race and gender
Say Her Name Movement
500
Name the speaker:
"I wanted to be justice, love, and the wrath of God all in one."
Marji
500
The young man who works in Joe's store; Helps take care of it and Janie after he dies
Hezekiah
500
Ms. Carina's current favorite cartoon character
Woodstock
