Students examine how music unified labor movements during the Industrial Era by analyzing historical protest songs and creating their own using lyrical substitution.

Students explore the Harlem Renaissance through visual art, historical texts, and Blues music by composing and performing an original 12-bar Blues song from a historical perspective.

Analyze geographical patterns of the Great Migration and explore the history of the "cakewalk" dance in these materials created by dance educator Kelsey Sellmon and Baltimore City teacher Shar Hampton for grade 9 Social Studies.

Baltimore artist Alyssa Fenix worked with Vesna Grujicic to integrate arts into Odell grade 9, "Who Changes the World?." Students will learn about change agents and activism by creating one pagers, concept maps, collage poems, word art, blackout poetry, political cartoons, and murals.

Analyze primary and secondary sources to determine if the 1920s advanced or limited women’s social and economic progress, and share claims through a multimedia presentation.

Spoken word artist Ephraim Nehemiah worked with Ryan Fan to create this engaging and responsive exploration of the Springboard grade 9 unit on "Compelling Evidence." Using improvised debate, rant poems, and ekphrastic poems, participants will discover how to poetic arguments are a powerful force for communicating arguments through evidence.