Dover Sherborn Middle School Curriculum Road Maps

 

 

Course Title:                 U.S. History                                                     Grade:              8         

 

Unit:                             Civil Rights Movement             

Month Presented:         June                                      Unit Length (in weeks):    3-4      

 

Essential Question (s):

·          What is the role of government in preserving and protecting rights?

·          What is the role and responsibility of the individual in preserving and protecting rights?

  • What is the role of a group in preserving and protecting rights?

 

Learning Objectives:

 

1.                    Compare and contrast the experience of African Americans in the 1860s and 1940s-60s.

 

2.                   Identify and sequence the developments of the modern civil rights movement.

 

3.                   Analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of the different tactics used by civil rights activists

4.                   Evaluate the response of the U.S. government and white South to civil rights protests.

5.                  Investigate the important role that young people played civil rights reform. 

 

Skills:               Primary Document analysis, Mapmaking and analysis, Presentation and speaking                        skills, Cooperative Group work, Organizing and framing written responses

 

Instructional Strategies & Activities:

·          Civil Rights Questionnaire

·          Timeline of Youth Activism

·          Primary Sources:

                                    “Justice in Sumner”

                                    Brown vs. Board of Education

                                    Arrest Documents:          Rosa Parks

                                    Letter from a Birmingham Jail

                                    SNCC Statement of Purpose

                                    Montgomery Bus Boycott Pamphlets

                        “Black Power”

                                    Kerner Commission Report

·        “Is this segregation” modern and mid-1900s case studies

·          Non-violence practice skits

·          “I have a Dream” poetry activity

·          Modern “Kerner Commission” assignment, using census data

·          Video/Multimedia

                                    A Shadow of Hate: The History of Intolerance in America

                                    Eyes on the Prize I, Emmett Till and Rosa Parks segment

                                    4 Little Girls

                                    Mississippi Burning (segments)

                                    Eyes on the Prize II, Boston desegregation segment            

 

Materials Utilized:         Primary Sources, Political cartoons, Graphic organizers, Rubrics, CD-                                     Roms, Video, Overhead Projector, Art

 

Assessment Strategies:  tests, quizzes, essays, daily preparation, oral presentations, mapmaking