Patriots can start a winning streak while the Titans look for 1st home win of the season

New England (2-6) at Tennessee (1-6)

Sunday, 1 p.m. EST, Fox.

BetMGM NFL Odds: Titans by 3 1/2.

Against the spread: Patriots 2-5-1; Titans 1-6.

Last meeting: Patriots won 36-13 at New England on Nov. 28, 2021.

Last week: Patriots beat Jets 25-22; Titans lost 52-14 at Lions.

Patriots offense: overall (32), rush (23), pass (32), scoring (30).

Patriots defense: overall (23), rush (22), pass (23), scoring (21).

Titans offense: overall (30), rush (17), pass (31), scoring (28).

Titans defense: overall (1), rush (12), pass (1), scoring (T29).

Turnover differential: Patriots minus-1; Titans minus-13.

Quarterback Jacoby Brissett is expected to get his sixth start of the season — his first since being benched in favor of first-round draft pick Drake Maye, who left last week's game with a concussion. Brissett's numbers have been pedestrian, but he led New England to two go-ahead scores in the fourth quarter against the Jets, including a 14-yard scramble on a third-and-9 to keep the game-winning touchdown drive alive.

QB Will Levis. The 33rd pick overall out of Kentucky in 2023 has missed the past two games with a sprained AC joint in his right, throwing shoulder. He hurt the shoulder on Sept. 30 at Miami, which was the Titans' lone win of the season. The Titans are hoping Levis is able to play. If not, Mason Rudolph will make his third straight start.

Patriots: Maye was pulled from the Jets game by an NFL spotter and is in the concussion protocol, but he had progressed enough for limited practice during the week. He was designated as questionable for the game. ... T Vederian Lowe (ankle/shoulder) and LB Christian Elliss (abdomen) missed practice on Wednesday but had limited participation later in the week and was listed as questionable on Friday. ... WR Ja'Lynn Polk was also in the concussion protocol.

Titans: CB L'Jarius Sneed (quadriceps) was ruled out and will miss a third straight game. ... RB Tyjae Spears (hamstring) was also listed as out, as was OL Andrew Rupcich (triceps). ... Levis had limited participation on the final practice report of the week and was listed as questionable.

The franchises are both charter members of the AFL and played twice each year from 1960-69. ... The Patriots won seven straight from 2003-18, but the Titans have won two of the past three. The Titans also are 11-7 at home. ... Tennessee won the wild-card playoff game after the 2019 season. ... The Patriots are 19-7-1 at home. ... This game features a pair of first-year coaches with Jerod Mayo, who played at the University of Tennessee, overseeing New England after playing for the Patriots. The Titans hired Brian Callahan in January after firing Mike Vrabel, who won three Super Bowl rings as a linebacker in New England. ... Nick Folk kicked five field goals for New England the previous time these teams played. He's now in his second season with Tennessee after the Patriots traded him to the Titans.

Patriots TE Hunter Henry leads the team with 32 receptions for 358 yards. If he catches eight passes on Sunday he would be the first New England tight end with at least eight receptions in three different games since Rob Gronkowski in 2017. ... The Patriots did not turn the ball over in either of their past two games. ... CB Marcus Jones averages 13.1 yards per return — second in the NFL and first in the AFC. He had a 62-yard return last week. ... P Bryce Baringer has had at least one punt of 50 yards in 25 straight games, the longest active streak in the NFL. ... He is tied for the league lead with 20 punts inside the 20 yard-line. ... The Titans have played three of their past four away from home. ... They are 0-3 at home this season. ... The Titans have played a season-high eight rookies each of the past two games. ... Folk has made 97.4% of his field goals since the start of the 2023 season, which is first in the NFL in that span. ... Titans WR Calvin Ridley tied a career high with 10 catches last week when he also had a season-high 143 yards receiving. That tied his third-best receiving game of his career. ... Rudolph threw for a season-high 266 yards and ran for 29 yards. He threw a TD pass and ran for a score. ... Titans OLB Arden Key had a career-high two sacks last week and has three sacks over the past two games. He also forced a fumble last week. ... Titans WR Nick Westbrook-Ikhine has caught a TD pass in each of the past three games.

Titans RB Tony Pollard had a season-high 94 yards rushing last week and has had at least 100 yards from scrimmage twice against AFC East teams this season.

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New England Patriots running back Rhamondre Stevenson, center left, celebrates his touchdown with wide receiver Kayshon Boutte, right, in the second half of an NFL football game, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2024, in Foxborough, Mass. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Tennessee Titans wide receiver Calvin Ridley (0) makes a catch past Detroit Lions safety Brian Branch (32) during the first half of an NFL football game Sunday, Oct. 27, 2024, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

New England Patriots running back Rhamondre Stevenson (38) celebrates after his touchdown with center Ben Brown (77) in the second half of an NFL football game against the New York Jets, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2024, in Foxborough, Mass. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Tennessee Titans wide receiver Nick Westbrook-Ikhine, right, celebrates a touchdown with teammates during the first half of an NFL football game against the Detroit Lions, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2024, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

New England Patriots running back Rhamondre Stevenson (38) celebrates after his touchdown in the second half of an NFL football game against the New York Jets, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2024, in Foxborough, Mass. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Tennessee Titans head coach Bria Callahan looks onto the field during the second half of an NFL football game against the Detroit Lions, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2024, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

New England Patriots head coach Jerod Mayo shouts from the sidelines in the first half of an NFL football game against the New York Jets, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2024, in Foxborough, Mass. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Tennessee Titans quarterback Mason Rudolph (11) runs into the end zone for a touchdown during the first half of an NFL football game against the Detroit Lions, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2024, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

New England Patriots quarterback Jacoby Brissett, right, passes to running back Rhamondre Stevenson, left, in the second half of an NFL football game against the New York Jets, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2024, in Foxborough, Mass. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) — A Virginia museum has nearly finished restoring the nation's oldest surviving schoolhouse for Black children, where hundreds of mostly enslaved students learned to read through a curriculum that justified slavery.

The museum, Colonial Williamsburg, also has identified more than 80 children who lined its pinewood benches in the 1760s.

They include Aberdeen, 5, who was enslaved by a saddle and harness maker. Bristol and George, 7 and 8, were owned by a doctor. Phoebe, 3, was the property of local tavern keepers.

Another student, Isaac Bee, later emancipated himself. In newspaper ads seeking his capture, his enslaver warned Bee “can read.”

The museum dedicated the Williamsburg Bray School at a large ceremony on Friday, with plans to open it for public tours this spring. Colonial Williamsburg tells the story of Virginia’s colonial capital through interpreters and hundreds of restored buildings.

Smithsonian Institution Secretary Lonnie Bunch told the crowd outside the refurbished school that it was one of the most important historic moments of the last decade.

“History is an amazing mirror,” Bunch added. “It’s a mirror that challenges us and reminds us that, despite what we’ve achieved, despite all our ideals, America still is a work in progress. But oh, what an amazing work it is."

The Cape Cod-style home was built in 1760 and still contains much of its original wood and brick. It will anchor a complicated story about race and education, but also resistance, before the American Revolution.

The school rationalized slavery within a religious framework and encouraged children to accept their fates as God’s plan. And yet, becoming literate also gave them more agency. The students went on to share what they learned with family members and others who were enslaved.

“We don’t shy away from the fact that this was a pro-slavery school,” said Maureen Elgersman Lee, director of William & Mary’s Bray School Lab, a partnership between the university and museum.

But she said the school takes on a different meaning in the 21st century.

“It’s a story of resilience and resistance," Lee said. "And I put the resilience of the Bray School on a continuum that brings us to today."

To underscore the point, the lab has been seeking descendants of the students, with some success.

They include Janice Canaday, 67, who also is the museum's African American community engagement manager. Her lineage traces back to the students Elisha and Mary Jones.

“It grounds you,” said Canaday, who grew up feeling little connection to history. “That’s where your power is. And those are the things that give you strength — to know what your family has come through.”

The Bray School was established in Williamsburg and other colonial cities at the recommendation of founding father Benjamin Franklin. He was a member of a London-based Anglican charity that was named after Thomas Bray, an English clergyman and philanthropist.

The Bray School was exceptional for its time. Although Virginia waited until the 1800s to impose anti-literacy laws, white leaders across much of Colonial America forbid educating enslaved people, fearing literacy would encourage them to seek freedom.

The white teacher at the Williamsburg school, a widow named Ann Wager, taught an estimated 300 to 400 students, whose ages ranged from 3 to 10. The school closed with her death in 1774.

The schoolhouse became a private home before it was incorporated into William & Mary’s growing campus. The building was moved and expanded for various purposes, including student housing.

Historians identified the structure in 2020 through a scientific method that examines tree rings in lumber. Last year, it was transported to Colonial Williamsburg, which includes parts of the original city.

The museum and university have focused on restoring the schoolhouse, researching its curriculum and finding descendants of former students.

The lab has been able to link some people to the Jones and Ashby families, two free Black households that had students in the school, said Elizabeth Drembus, the lab's genealogist.

But the effort has faced steep challenges: Most enslaved people were stripped of their identities and separated from their families, so there are limited records. And only three years of school rosters have survived.

Drembus is talking to people in the region about their family histories and working backward. She also is sifting through 18th-century property records, tax documents and enslavers' diaries.

“When you’re talking about researching formerly enslaved people, records were kept very differently because they weren't considered people,” Drembus said.

Researching the curriculum has been easier. The English charity catalogued the books it sent to the schools, said Katie McKinney, an associate curator of maps and prints at the museum.

Materials include a small spelling primer, a copy of which was located in Germany, that begins with the alphabet and moves on to syllables, such as “Beg leg meg peg."

Students also received a more sophisticated speller, bound in sheepskin, as well as the Book of Common Prayer and other Christian texts.

Meanwhile, the schoolhouse has been mostly restored. About 75% of the original floor has survived, allowing visitors to walk where the children and teacher placed their feet.

Canaday, whose familial roots include two Bray School students, wondered on a recent visit if any of the children “felt safe in here, whether they felt loved.”

Canaday noted that the teacher, Wager, was the mother of at least two kids.

“Did some of her mothering bleed over into what she showed those children?” Canaday said. “There are moments when we forget to go by the rules and humanity takes over. I wonder how many times that happened in these spaces."

Knob and tube electrical wiring at the Bray School on Wednesday, Oct 30, 2024 in Williamsburg, Va. (AP Photo/John C. Clark)

Katie McKinney, is the Margaret Beck Pritchard Associate curator of Maps and Prints for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation on Wednesday, Oct 30, 2024 in Williamsburg, Va. (AP Photo/John C. Clark)

Elizabeth Drembus discusses the known family trees of some of the students that attended the Williamsburg Bray School on Wednesday, Oct 30, 2024 in Williamsburg, Va. (AP Photo/John C. Clark)

Janice Canaday, Colonial Williamsburg Foundations African American community engagement manager, stands outside near the Williamsburg Bray School on Wednesday, Oct 30, 2024 in Williamsburg, Va. (AP Photo/John C. Clark)

The classroom of the Williamsburg Bray School on Wednesday, Oct 30, 2024 in Williamsburg, Va. (AP Photo/John C. Clark)

Matthew Webster, the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation's executive director of architectural preservation and research, speaks about the Williamsburg Bray School's construction on Wednesday, Oct 30, 2024 in Williamsburg, Va. (AP Photo/John C. Clark)

Matthew Webster shows an original rail from the classroom of the Williamsburg Bray School on Wednesday, Oct 30, 2024 in Williamsburg, Va. (AP Photo/John C. Clark)

Janice Canaday, Colonial Williamsburg Foundations African American community engagement manager, in the classroom of the Williamsburg Bray School on Wednesday, Oct 30, 2024 in Williamsburg, Va. (AP Photo/John C. Clark)

Replicas of the books that students would have used at the Williamsburg Bray School on Wednesday, Oct 30, 2024 in Williamsburg, Va. (AP Photo/John C. Clark)

Katie McKinney speaks about the curriculum of the Williamsburg Bray School on Wednesday, Oct 30, 2024 in Williamsburg, Va. (AP Photo/John C. Clark)

Residue from the original plaster walls of the Williamsburg Bray School on Wednesday, Oct 30, 2024 in Williamsburg, Va. (AP Photo/John C. Clark)

Elizabeth Drembus, the genealogist at the Williamsburg Bray School Lab, speaks about her work on Wednesday, Oct 30, 2024 in Williamsburg, Va. (AP Photo/John C. Clark)

Janice Canaday, Colonial Williamsburg Foundations African American community engagement manager, has traced her ancestors to the Williamsburg Bray School, on Wednesday, Oct 30, 2024 in Williamsburg, Va. (AP Photo/John C. Clark)

18th century nails shoved in between hand craved joints in the stairs leading up to the second floor of the Williamsburg Bray School on Wednesday, Oct 30, 2024 in Williamsburg, Va. (AP Photo/John C. Clark)

Katie McKinney, is the Margaret Beck Pritchard Associate curator of Maps and Prints for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation on Wednesday, Oct 30, 2024 in Williamsburg, Va. (AP Photo/John C. Clark)

A dog's paw print (left of arrow) is seen in one of the chimney bricks at the Bray School on Wednesday, Oct 30, 2024 in Williamsburg, Va. (AP Photo/John C. Clark)