Sullivan County Students will explore the racial composition of Sullivan County through a structured source analysis of a Mystery Source. This is the first stage of a multi-step instructional strategy referred to as the Box Protocol. This activity is designed to help students practice their source-analysis skills and deepen their understanding of racial segregation today through an analysis of the Mystery Source, a US Census dot map of 1 Sullivan County in 2020. The Mystery Source is divided into four quadrants and shown to students one quadrant at a time to spur their thinking. 2 Ultimately students will make a claim (their guess identifying the source) and support it with evidence. Students will then explore a variety of current local data such as homeownership rates, income, and more. Analyzing the data will allow students to draw further conclusions.  

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Each student will have a copy of the Common Reading which will focus on redlining and a brief overview of housing segregation through several sources. The teacher and students will analyze excerpts from the FHA Underwriting Manual and area descriptions for different neighborhoods rated across NY. Together, they will analyze the remaining parts of the common reading including an excerpt from the National Housing Act. In their teams of four, students will each be assigned a collaborative social studies superhero role (Capt. Context, Mister E, The Connector, or Cred

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Students will explore race and equity in Sullivan County through a structured analysis of four jigsaw source sets. This is the third stage of a multi-step instructional strategy referred to as the Boxing Protocol. This activity is designed to help students practice their source-analysis skills and deepen their understanding of racial segregation and resistance through four sets of sources. All sources are related to specific racist policies and/or the people who resisted.

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Students will explore the ways in which African-American activist and New Yorker, Dr. Walter Cooper worked to build a more equitable community. Students will identify an action strategy from Dr. Cooper’s story or from the Sullivan County local jigsaw sets to apply to a problem at school or the community in which they live.

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