PLANNING AND PREPARATION
Central Focus: Lesson Purpose and Rationale
This lesson will be on the Civil Rights Movement, the previous lesson was on the Great Depression and the next lesson will be on the Vietnam War. This lesson plan fits in with the other lessons because the Civil Rights Movement was an important social movement that happened after the Great Depression. The Vietnam War was a historical foreign policy issue that was happening abroad at the time of the Civil Rights Movement. This lesson is of great importance because the Civil Rights Movement was one of the most significant social movements in U.S. history. Specific Common Core Learning Standards (CCLS)
NY State Learning Standards and/or Professional Standards (if applicable) …show more content…
Students will read the text silently while checking periodically if their predictions about the text were correct. They will write what happened in the article on the confirmation side of the Prediction Chart.
2. Students will read up unto the Montgomery Bus Boycott section of the article and answer the following prediction questions. What do you think the bus boycott was about? What do you predict happened during the boycott? Do you think the bus boycott was successful?
3. Students will read the Bus Boycott section and answer some comprehension questions. Why was there a bus boycott? (Right There)Who organized the boycott? (Right There).What did the bus boycott achieve? (Right There).
4. Have students read up to the March on Washington and answer the following questions? What do you think the purpose of the March on Washington was? What do you predict happened during the March? Do you think the March was successful?
5. After reading the March on Washington section students will answer the following comprehension questions. What injustice was the March on Washington protesting? (Right There).What famous speech did Martin Luther King. Jr deliver in this march, what did the speech entail? (Right There).What famous Civil Rights legislation did this March help to pass?(Right …show more content…
Students will read up to black nationalism and before the reading answer the following prediction questions…
What do you think black nationalism is? How do you think Black Nationalism is related to the Civil Rights Movement? What do you think black nationalism looked to achieve?
7. Have the students read the black nationalism section and answer the following black nationalism questions.What modern day movement does the author suggest black nationalism influenced(Author and Me). What brought about black nationalism? (Right There). Who was the main civil rights leaders that encouraged black nationalism? (Right There)?
8. Students are separated into groups of 3. Every group is given a higher level question. Do you think efforts similar to those you were reading about could work today? What similar movement exist today and how is it similar to the Civil Rights Movement? What other social movement in U.S. history relates to the Civil Rights Movement and how is it related?
C. Closure
1. Review what was covered in the reading in the
Central Focus: Lesson Purpose and Rationale
This lesson will be on the Civil Rights Movement, the previous lesson was on the Great Depression and the next lesson will be on the Vietnam War. This lesson plan fits in with the other lessons because the Civil Rights Movement was an important social movement that happened after the Great Depression. The Vietnam War was a historical foreign policy issue that was happening abroad at the time of the Civil Rights Movement. This lesson is of great importance because the Civil Rights Movement was one of the most significant social movements in U.S. history. Specific Common Core Learning Standards (CCLS)
NY State Learning Standards and/or Professional Standards (if applicable) …show more content…
Students will read the text silently while checking periodically if their predictions about the text were correct. They will write what happened in the article on the confirmation side of the Prediction Chart.
2. Students will read up unto the Montgomery Bus Boycott section of the article and answer the following prediction questions. What do you think the bus boycott was about? What do you predict happened during the boycott? Do you think the bus boycott was successful?
3. Students will read the Bus Boycott section and answer some comprehension questions. Why was there a bus boycott? (Right There)Who organized the boycott? (Right There).What did the bus boycott achieve? (Right There).
4. Have students read up to the March on Washington and answer the following questions? What do you think the purpose of the March on Washington was? What do you predict happened during the March? Do you think the March was successful?
5. After reading the March on Washington section students will answer the following comprehension questions. What injustice was the March on Washington protesting? (Right There).What famous speech did Martin Luther King. Jr deliver in this march, what did the speech entail? (Right There).What famous Civil Rights legislation did this March help to pass?(Right …show more content…
Students will read up to black nationalism and before the reading answer the following prediction questions…
What do you think black nationalism is? How do you think Black Nationalism is related to the Civil Rights Movement? What do you think black nationalism looked to achieve?
7. Have the students read the black nationalism section and answer the following black nationalism questions.What modern day movement does the author suggest black nationalism influenced(Author and Me). What brought about black nationalism? (Right There). Who was the main civil rights leaders that encouraged black nationalism? (Right There)?
8. Students are separated into groups of 3. Every group is given a higher level question. Do you think efforts similar to those you were reading about could work today? What similar movement exist today and how is it similar to the Civil Rights Movement? What other social movement in U.S. history relates to the Civil Rights Movement and how is it related?
C. Closure
1. Review what was covered in the reading in the