Costello Elementary School – Stories of Yourself & Others

Apr 2026 · 2nd Semester

This is an interdisciplinary inquiry-based course that explores the power of storytelling, writing, and narrative through the lens of reconstruction history. Students will investigate the role of identity in marginalized communities during the Reconstruction Era by evaluating and synthesizing primary and secondary resources. Fiction and non-fiction narratives that model self-reflection and storytelling will be read and discussed in a Socratic Seminar format. The course culminates in a student research project into their own history and identity or a self-selected marginalized group and will be presented in a medium of the student’s choice.