📚 Part 1: Origins and Knowledge

1. Who founded what would eventually become Black History Month?

Martin Luther King Jr.

Carter G. Woodson

Viola Desmond

Frederick Douglass

2. In what year was Negro History Week first established?

1915

1926

1935

1945

3. Which month is Black History Month celebrated in Canada and Quebec?

Answer: _______________

4. Fill in the blank: The Underground Railroad helped enslaved people escape to freedom, and some routes passed through ______________.

5. True or False: Black History Month is only celebrated in the United States.

True

False

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✏️ Part 2: Canadian and Quebec Connections

6. Who was Viola Desmond and why is she significant to Canadian Black history?

7. Explain why it is important for Quebec and Canada to recognize Black History Month, even though it originated in the United States.

8. Choose one way that learning about Black history connects to the themes of identity and citizenship that we study in social studies:

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9. Before this lesson, what did you already know about Black History Month? What surprised you most about what you learned today?

10. Why do you think it's important to learn about diverse histories and not just focus on one group's experiences when studying the past?

11. How might understanding Black history help us better understand present-day Quebec society?

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What did you learn today? What questions do you still have?

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