# Lesson 6: Day 2 - Intro to ICY

## Google Doc for This Lesson 

[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tkIeQgUeOBr7WXu97f6bBw8cI-KAotmfIzj%5F%5F9ZzV-Q/edit?usp=sharing](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tkIeQgUeOBr7WXu97f6bBw8cI-KAotmfIzj%5F%5F9ZzV-Q/edit?usp=sharing)

## **Activity 1:** Hidden Clues, Hidden Histories

**Overview:** In this activity, students act as history detectives, combing through the article [__A Love Story; How the Institute for Colored Youth Birthed a Philly Public School in 1860 (Quinones, 2024)__](https://www.1838blackmetropolis.com/post/a-love-story-how-the-institute-for-colored-youth-birthed-a-philly-public-school-in-1860) to uncover hidden clues about education, activism, community networks, and legacy. Working collaboratively, they will gather evidence, make inferences, and connect individual stories to larger themes of Black resilience and institution-building in 19th-century Philadelphia.

**Time:** 30 minutes

**Format:** Small groups

**Objective:** SWBAT analyze textual evidence from a historical article by identifying “clues” and drawing inferences about how Black Philadelphians built educational institutions and shaped a lasting legacy.

* Tell students they will search for hidden clues in the article that reveal untold stories of Black resilience.
* Project [__A Love Story; How the Institute for Colored Youth Birthed a Philly Public School in 1860 (Quinones, 2024)__](https://www.1838blackmetropolis.com/post/a-love-story-how-the-institute-for-colored-youth-birthed-a-philly-public-school-in-1860).
* * Explain to students that they will work in small groups to review the article. 
* Show  [__ICY Hidden Clues (Student Copy)__](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1G2NgsN59nBWMpyOeO25VZvEHHa20fjKcwGlL2FtNTj8/edit?usp=sharing).
* * Tell students that they will use the document to organize the clues they uncover while reading. 
  * Invite students to make their own copy: [__ICY Hidden Clues (Student Copy)- Make a Copy__](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1G2NgsN59nBWMpyOeO25VZvEHHa20fjKcwGlL2FtNTj8/copy)
* Divide students into small groups of three to four students. 
* Invite them to work in small groups to find specific “clues” (short quotes or paraphrases) and record what each clue reveals.

## **Activity 2:** Share out

**Time:** 20 minutes

**Format:** Whole Group 

**Overview**: In this whole-class discussion, students bring together the evidence they gathered during the clue hunt. By pooling their “clues” and inferences, students co-construct a bigger picture of how Black Philadelphians in the 19th century transformed education into a strategy of freedom, resistance, and legacy.

**Objective:** SWBAT synthesize evidence from multiple groups to articulate how education functioned as a tool of resistance, community survival, and institution-building in 19th-century Philadelphia.

* Invite each group to share one clue and inference from their worksheet. 
* Once all groups have shared, guide the class in a whole-group conversation using the discussion prompts.
* Encourage students to make connections across categories and to link historical examples to larger themes of resilience, activism, and love.
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* * *Looking at all the clues together, what story emerges about how Black people used education as a tool of freedom?*
  * *What role did young Black women like Cordelia Jennings and Carolyn Le Count play in shaping these institutions, and why might their contributions have been overlooked?*
  * *How does the story of places like Jacob LeCount’s shop at 930 Bonsall (now Whole Foods) or 7th & Lombard (where the Institute for Colored Youth was once housed) remind us that history is layered into the city around us?*




[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tkIeQgUeOBr7WXu97f6bBw8cI-KAotmfIzj%5F%5F9ZzV-Q/edit?usp=sharing](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tkIeQgUeOBr7WXu97f6bBw8cI-KAotmfIzj%5F%5F9ZzV-Q/edit?usp=sharing)

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**Documents**

- [L6:2 A Love Story - How The Institute for Colored Youth Birthed a Philly Public School in 1860](https://1838blackmetropolis.getoutline.com/s/aa099d92-e5c1-4fa9-ad54-9fd69ac27a28/doc/l62-a-love-story-how-the-institute-for-colored-youth-birthed-a-philly-public-school-in-1860-ftvc1P9Gio)
- [L6:2 ICY Hidden Clues](https://1838blackmetropolis.getoutline.com/s/aa099d92-e5c1-4fa9-ad54-9fd69ac27a28/doc/l62-icy-hidden-clues-oP7LbgitWn)