Unit Objectives (Content)

All students will be able to: 

1)  Identify and describe key historical background, laws, events and people of the Civil Rights movement

2)  Evaluate the role and impact of the individual on historical events

3)  Describe examples of laws that have been modified to meet the changing needs of society

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Lesson # 1

1.   View 30-40 minutes of segments from the Civil Rights Movement video series Eyes on The Prize

2.   Review and analyze Cartoon #1 and Cartoon #2

3.  Answer the questions attached to each image

Lesson #2

1.  Create a skit about the following scene on a bus:

• Bus Driver – Two African-Americans sit in the front of your bus.  They belong in the back.  You need to try your best to get them to move to the back of the bus.  What would you do?
  
• Passenger #1 – You are an African-American citizen.  You sit in the front of the bus when you know you belong in the back.  You refuse to move to the back.  You remain polite, kind, and gentle.  But no matter what, you will not move.  You always handle conflict peacefully.
• Passenger #2 – You are an African-American citizen.  You sit in the front of the bus, and you refuse to move to the back.  When people try to force you to do something – you have a fit – you argue – throw a temper-tantrum and absolutely refuse to cooperate! You are angry and violent. 
• Work with your partner to create a skit/dialogue between these characters.

 2. You will be choose three of the following topics for independent research:

SCLC

Segregation

Jim Crow laws

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Brown vs. Board of Education

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Malcolm X

Southern Christian Leadership Conference

Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee

Congress of Racial Equality

3.  Use the computers to conduct preliminary research about your topics.

4.  Complete the “Entrance Ticket” before our next class meeting. 

Lesson #3 

1.  Read "Necessary to Protect Ourselves" by Malcolm X (copies available) and the "I Have a Dream" speech by Martin Luther King, Jr.

2.  Watch video clip of Martin Luther King Jr.

3.  Watch video clip of Malcolm X

4.  Complete Venn Diagram worksheet

5.  Write response to comparison

Lesson #4 

1.  Complete the following background readings

• “Free At Last” text
• Chapter 25 in online textbook at http://connected.mcgraw-hill.com/connected/login.do
  

2.  Answers questions #1-6 in the assessment section online

Lesson #5

1.  Read "Strange Fruit" by Abel Meeropol

2.  Listen to recording by Billie Holiday at http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/strangefruit/film.html

3.  Complete SOAPSTone

4.  Read Gwendolyn Brooks poetry on Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X

5.  Complete SOAPSTONE

Lesson #6

1.  Read "The Movement" by Anne Moody (copies available)

2.  Complete the quiz 

Lesson #7

1.  View "Mississippi Burning" movie clips

2.  Complete note-taking assignment while viewing the clips

3.  Write journal entry

Lesson #8

1.  Complete Animoto final project

2.  Final Project rubric

Anchor Activities:

If you finish lessons #1-8 early you can begin working on any of the anchor activities provided for your group.  Follow the directions provided for each activity you choose.

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