Sea Girt Elementary School

While the 8th grade was at the T. Thomas Fortune Museum In Red Bank, we learned several different life lessons and people. Each student researched an African American activist who made an impact on our country. This connected to the art project we did. We took our activist and put it on a notecard that had colorful and creative backgrounds, which is what Kehinde Wiley does. We put our activists in power poses, just like Kehinde Wiley did because he noticed in the 1800s, only white people were painted. We explained what our person did and looked at a fence at the T. Thomas Fortune Museum that contained all of the activists. It was a great opportunity to learn about different activists that other peers researched. We also got a chance to learn about who T. Thomas Fortune was. He was an American civil rights leader, journalist, writer, editor, and publisher. He strongly believed against racial discrimination, segregation, and slavery. Lastly, we had a group and each student in the group researched an artifact about The Great Migration. For example, my group (Sam, Ronan, Henry, and Zac) had “Life In the North.” We each took our artifacts about getting jobs, finding homes, and making their way north. We took this information and made a mural/timeline starting with riots near Illinois and heading all the way to buying homes that don’t have a bathroom. Each of the groups did a fantastic job depicting their part and helped everyone else learn about what they researched. Overall, this trip was successful in learning about the T. Thomas Fortune Museum and had so many interesting facts in each room of the house. #sges