3/12/2027

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Morning Meeting Agenda

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Last day of Black History Month — look at everything we learned!
ROAR Friday · Black History Month Finale

What eighteen people had in common

Today’s ROAR value is RESPECTFUL, and our house is Amistad, the House of Friendship. We’ve met eighteen remarkable people this month. Time to ask what connects them.

Today’s ROAR letter is R — Respectful! Our house is Amistad, which means friendship.

The Amistad house crest

Amistad — the House of Friendship!

Look at all the amazing people we met this month!

Four kinds of work we learned about this month: inventors, scientists, writers, and helpers
Let’s talk
  • Who was YOUR favorite person we learned about this month? Why?
  • Lots of them were told “you can’t.” What did they do instead of quitting?
  • Which job would you want — inventor, scientist, writer, or helper?
Lion Trivia

Memory challenge! Who was the six-year-old girl who walked into a brand new school with helpers beside her?

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Ruby Bridges! And she’s still alive today. How many other names from this month can you remember? Let’s list them together!

[STAFF TRIVIA: add a question about a staff member — e.g., “Which teacher is in the Amistad house?”]

Today’s ROAR value is Respectful, and our house is Amistad, the red House of Friendship.

The Amistad house crest

Amistad, the House of Friendship.

Eighteen people. A historian, an abolitionist, an agricultural chemist, a NASA mathematician, a pilot, a first-grader, a poet, an eye surgeon, an astronomer, a ballplayer, another poet, an astronaut, a GPS pioneer, a student organizer, a Supreme Court justice, a folklorist, an inventor, and a programmer. Now find the pattern.

Three patterns that kept repeating: told no first, self-taught, and lifted others
Let’s talk
  • On February 1 we met Carter G. Woodson, who created this month. His actual goal was that Black history become part of all American history — so that a separate month wouldn’t be necessary. Has that happened yet?
  • Several of these people waited decades for credit: Gladys West, Katherine Johnson, Garrett Morgan, Zora Neale Hurston. Why do you think recognition came so late, and so often only after someone went looking?
  • Today’s value is Respectful. After a month of these stories, has your definition of respect changed?
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Woodson’s question is still open, and reasonable people disagree about the answer — that’s a real debate worth having, not one with a settled reply. But notice what you can now say for yourself: you know who calculated John Glenn’s orbit, who invented the yellow light, whose math runs your phone’s GPS. Those aren’t “Black history” facts. They’re American history facts, and now they’re yours. Recognition came late for many of these people because history gets written by whoever holds the pen — which is exactly why Woodson picked up one, and why Alice Walker went looking for a grave. The work was never the problem. The telling was.
Lion Trivia

Month-long challenge: name ten of the eighteen people we studied this February. Go around the room. No repeats.

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Carter G. Woodson • Frederick Douglass • George Washington Carver • Katherine Johnson • Bessie Coleman • Ruby Bridges • Maya Angelou • Patricia Bath • Benjamin Banneker • Jackie Robinson • Amanda Gorman • Mae Jemison • Gladys West • Barbara Johns • Thurgood Marshall • Zora Neale Hurston • Garrett Morgan • Dorothy Vaughan

[STAFF TRIVIA: add a question about a staff member — e.g., “Which staff member learned something new this month?”]

Additional Notes/Activities

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