Civil Rights Movement

Essential Question

What clues help me know when and how people are being treated unfairly?
Why is it important for me to stand up for others and myself?

Texts

Literature

What If There Were No Black People?

In this poem, the speaker explores how our culture would be lacking—in people, in music, in movements, in contributions—without contributions of African Americans.

Sean Mauricette (aka SUBLIMINAL)

Grade Level

3-5 6-8

Subject

History

July 3, 2014

Informational

Freedom Riders

The freedom riders, black and white, joined together to effect change. Traveling across the South while enduring ridicule and pain, they helped ensure that doors were open to all people, regardless of skin color.

Rhonda Brownstein

Grade Level

K-2 3-5

Subject

Civics

History

Topic

Civil Rights Movement Rights & Activism

July 5, 2014

Teaching Strategies

Close and Critical Reading

Agree/Disagree Statements

Agree/disagree statements challenge students to think critically about their knowledge of a topic, theme or text. The strategy exposes students to the major ideas in a text before reading—engaging their thinking and motivating them to learn more. It also requires them to reconsider their original thinking after reading the text and to use textual evidence to support and explain their thinking.

Grade Level

3-5

CCSS

RF.3-5.4, RL.3-5.1, RI.3-5.1, RL.3-5.2, RI.3-5.2

July 19, 2014

Student Tasks

Do Something

Picture Books

Students work in small groups to write and illustrate an original children's picture book to teach others about a social justice or diversity topic present in the central text.

Grade Level

3-5

July 13, 2014

Plan Built By

katlyn.coker

Civil Rights Movement

What If There Were No Black People?

Freedom Riders

Agree/Disagree Statements

Picture Books

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