First grade enjoyed the books

"My Brother Martin," by Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s sister,

Christine, and a biography of the escaped slave and American freedom fighter,

Crispus Attucks, as they began their two-week study of famous Black Americans.

Second-graders read about Jessie

Owens and enjoyed going out to the track and field area to measure the

length of Owens' record long jump.

Third-grade students read about

Dr. King's life and talked about his cause in relation to how we should

love and accept all people without regard to color, etc. Third-grade students

wrote about what they could do to promote peace in the world in honor

of Dr. King's cause. They also discussed Rosa Parks.

In fifth-grade English, students

created poems with the theme, "Different, but the same," based

on a poem by Shel Silverstein, "No Difference," and the following

quote from General Colin Powell: "I will not let others' opinions

of me become my opinion of me." Students wrote the poems in Microsoft

Word and added clip art. They plan to publish the poem book and donate

it to the Landmark library. In addition, these students read the story

"The Silent Lobby" by Mildred Pitts Walter, which relates to

civil rights and Rosa Parks. In fifth-grade History, students are studying

the history, geography, and current events of the African continent. They

are making portfolios and atlases, and are having guest speakers.

The sixth-grade classes have

highlighted the lives of Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Booker T. Washington,

and George Washington Carver in their study of the Civil War.

Landmark's eighth grade has

just studied the life of African-Americans during the Antebellum period,

slavery, and the Civil War. They learned about the 54th Mass. Regiment:

the first Black Army regiment, which participated in the Civil War. Over

the course of the year they also study the first African-Americans in

North America, famous black abolitionists, blacks during the Reconstruction

period, and the Civil Rights movement and the people involved in that.

Upper-school English students

studied "Their Eyes Were Watchin God" (by Zora Neale Hurston--an

African American woman) and began a unit devoted to Africa. This included

studying Chinua Achebe's book, "Things Fall Apart," and the

movie, "Cry, the Beloved Country" based on the book by Alan

Paton.

More information about Landmark

Christian School may be found at www.landmarkchristianschool.org .