Emulate 'What's My Line?'

• Have the students imitate the television game show, "What's My Line?" Each student mimics a distinguished African-American physician, inventor, astronaut, engineer or author. A group, consisting of five members, strives to identify a distinguished African-American's profession. For example, a student poses as the first African-American astronaut. The panel guesses, Mae Jemison.
  
  

Play 'Jeopardy'

• The teacher or a student acting as a television host reads an answer to a question in class. Afterward, students provide a question to the answer. For example the host recites, "An astronomer and inventor recognized for meticulous computations regarding celestial bodies and eclipses, and who created the first wooden American clock." Students reply, "Who is Benjamin Banneker?"
  
  

Create a Newsletter

• Produce a class newsletter depicting news. Include in the various issues an image or sketch of renowned sportscasters, editors, black journalists, such as Bernard Shaw, Bryant Gumbel or Stephanie Stokes Oliver.
  
  

Create a Classical Band Music Program

• Produce a classical music program consisting of African-American composers. The music students can play the compositions of Duke Ellington, such as "Mood Indigo" and "Cotton Tail," or they can experience the works of Count Basie's "Swing the Blues" and "One O'Clock Jump."