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Critical Thinking Breakout · Grades 6–8

Freedom Calendars

When the national calendar left them out, Black communities built their own — days that named freedom, faith, and community. Read the clues, then crack all four locks by weighing the evidence.

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📅 Mission Brief

Whose days get remembered?

Black communities created “freedom calendars” of observances the national calendar overlooked. In this breakout you’ll also practice a source skill: what makes a historical claim strong? Solve the locks from the evidence.

🔍 The Clues

Tap each clue to read it. (You can reopen them anytime.)

🔒 The Locks

Solve each lock using the clues above.

FREEDOM CALENDAR UNLOCKED ✓

Well reasoned, historian.

You distinguished the freedom days from the distractors and named what makes a claim strong — evidence over assertion.