Exploring the fight for justice through the years.

Essential Question

How have people advocated and fought for justice throughout history?

Texts

Visual

Confrontation at the Bridge

This 1974 print depicts Bloody Sunday, when a group of nonviolent protestors marching for voting rights in 1965 faced police violence at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala.

Jacob Lawrence

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

Subject

Civics

History

Topic

Rights & Activism

July 2, 2014

Informational

Deaf Culture: Changes and Challenges

In his essay, Bacon provides some high-level insights into the past of America’s deaf, as well as the current culture and some potential challenges that lie ahead.

Paul Bacon

Grade Level

6-8

Subject

History

Topic

Ability Rights & Activism

May 22, 2017

Informational

The Grand Council Fire of American Indians wrote this letter in response to the Chicago mayor's 1927 campaign against the use of British textbooks in public schools. The letter condemns the misrepresentation of Native American history in schools.

The Grand Council Fire of American Indians

Grade Level

6-8

Subject

Civics

History

Topic

Rights & Activism

July 3, 2014

Literature

New Girl in School

This story follows a girl who befriends the first African American to attend High Point Central High School, as a result of desegregation. What begins as an unintended and awkward experience in the cafeteria, becomes a strong and admirable friendship.

Carol Passmore

Grade Level

3-5 6-8

Subject

Civics

History

Topic

Class Bullying & Bias

July 16, 2018

Multimedia

Teaching Tolerance Interview With John Lewis

In the graphic novel March, Congressman John Lewis documents his experiences as a young civil rights activist. Hear him describe his first arrest employing a nonviolent resistance strategy, as captured in the book.

John Lewis

Grade Level

6-8

Subject

Civics

History

Topic

Civil Rights Movement Class Rights & Activism

June 20, 2016

Informational

Muslim Girls Design Their Own Culturally Appropriate Basketball Uniforms

This article details the experiences of members of a middle-school girls’ basketball team who were torn between playing a sport they loved and wearing culturally and religiously appropriate clothing.

Joseph Erbentraut

Grade Level

6-8

Topic

Religion Gender & Sexual Identity Rights & Activism

December 7, 2015

Teaching Strategies

Word Work

Prior Knowledge and Personal Association Surveys

These surveys ask students what they know or how they feel about specific words in the text they are reading.

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

July 19, 2014

Word Work

Word Wheel

Students use a concept map to organize their vocabulary learning. This tool requires students to define words, find examples, draw on prior knowledge and connect related concepts.

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

CCSS

L.6-12.4, L.6-12.5, L.6-12.6

July 19, 2014

Close and Critical Reading

Challenge the Text

Challenge the Text helps students ask and answer their own text-dependent questions by taking multiple perspectives and uncovering assumptions and biases within the text.

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

CCSS

RL.6-12.1, RL.6-12.2, RL.6-12.3, RL.6-12.6, RI.6-12.1, RI.6-12.2, RI.6-12.3, RI.6-12.6

July 19, 2014

Close and Critical Reading

Text-Dependent Questions

Readers must refer back to the central text to answer text-dependent questions and provide evidence from the reading to support their answers. Students provide accurate, relevant and complete evidence. To do this well, students will often need to re-read the text several times. This approach privileges the text over prior knowledge, personal experience and pre-reading activities.

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

CCSS

RL.6-12.1, RL.6-12.2, RL.6-12.4, RL.6-12.5, RL.6-12.6, RI.6-12.1, RI.6-12.2, RI.6-12.3, RI.6-12.4, RI.6-12.6

July 19, 2014

Student Tasks

Write to the Source

Break It Down

Break it Down asks students to demonstrate their explanatory and descriptive writing skills.

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

CCSS

W.6-12.2, W.6-12.4, W.6-12.9

July 19, 2014

Write to the Source

What's the Impact?

What’s the Impact? asks students to demonstrate their explanatory and informative writing skills.

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

CCSS

W.6-12.2, W.6-12.4, W.6-12.9

July 19, 2014

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Exploring the fight for justice through the years.

Confrontation at the Bridge

Deaf Culture: Changes and Challenges

The First Americans

New Girl in School

Teaching Tolerance Interview With John Lewis

Muslim Girls Design Their Own Culturally Appropriate Basketball Uniforms

Prior Knowledge and Personal Association Surveys

Word Wheel

Challenge the Text

Text-Dependent Questions

Break It Down

What's the Impact?

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