World Regional Studies: India & Pakistan, Afro-Cuban Jazz

Resource guide. By Taylor Carroll and Eric Jimenez. In collaboration with Da’Jhon Jett.

These resources for 6th/7th grade social studies include two curricular units: “Afro-Cuban Jazz” and “India and Pakistan: Past and Present” and provide students with critical and culturally conscious lenses to learn about past and present communities around the world.

Each mini-curriculum is split into 4 units.

“India and Pakistan: Past and Present” is organized into 4 project-based lessons that invite student collaboration, dialogue, and creativity. Unit 1: Pre-colonial India (1526-1858), Unit 2: British colonization (1858-1947), Unit 3: Decolonization and 1947 Partition, Unit 4: Legacies of Partition and Indo-Pak Unity and Conflict Today.

The Afro-Cuban Jazz curriculum is split into 4 units that attempt to teach students the history of Cuban and American relations through the lens of cultural shifts: Unit 1: Setting the stage for Afro-Cuban jazz, Unit 2: Afro-Cuban jazz’s emergence and sound, Unit 3: Encore: the reverbs of music in society, Unit 4: Afro-Cuban jazz’s impacts today: the riffs and the rifts.