Everything students need to know about the Civil Rights Era!
TOOLBOOK: You need only one for the entire class!
Perfect for Black History Month.
Action-packed lessons – students perform in front of the class!
Lectures with graphic organizers.
Documents: quotations, speeches, political cartoons. Lotsa mapping.
Games galore, including “The Gong Show.”
Group analysis and debates.
Projects: Students teach the class.
Homework on the internet.
Heavy on terms: “The ABCs of the Civil Rights movement” (recall terms). “Can you talk like Dr. Martin Luther King?” (define terms).
“Let your classroom BLOOM!” (Using Bloom’s taxonomy, explore terms in depth.)
Assessment: Learn the logic of a multiple-choice test by playing “Honk if you hate history!”
Concludes with the mother of all tests: 625 questions.
Reverse designers: give a test at the beginning of every class.
The Civil Rights Movement toolbook covers:
- The Causes: 1776, World War II, the 14th Amendment, Brown v. Board of Education.
- The Events: Montgomery bus boycott, Little Rock, Selma, Birmingham, Greensboro, March on Washington, and more.
- The People: Rosa Parks, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Thurgood Marshall, Bull Connor, George Wallace, and more. Students write persuasive essays about Dr. King.
- The Documents: “I Have a Dream,” “Letter from Birmingham Jail.”
- The Results: The Civil Rights Act (1964), Voting Rights Act (1965), 24th Amendment, school integration, plus the impact on women, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans.
The highlight: Test questions on Dr. Martin Luther King’s speeches.
Simple to use
One book for the whole class.
Lessons are ready to reproduce.
There is no learning curve. Just xerox and hand out to the class.
Saves time
All the facts are included:
There is no need to use a textbook or reference books.
Your students will zip through the material.
Each lesson is 20 minutes in and out. Perfect for block scheduling.
The Test
625 questions
Our test is tough: If your students can do well, the state test should be a
breeze.
1. The Topics
The Definition
The Crisis
The Causes
The Events
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Speeches
Supreme Court Cases
The Results
Terms & Definitions
2. The Lessons
Designed to involve students at the moment and on the day of the state test!
Chock full of facts: Using reasoning, students manipulate the facts.
Action-packed: Students perform what they know in front of the class!
| THE DEFINITION |
| The Civil Rights Movement | As you give a mini-lecture, students fill in the graphic organizer. |
| What, where, why, who, how |
| THE CRISIS |
| The rise of Jim Crow segregation in the South. |
| Timeline | The timeline explains the rise of Jim Crow laws. |
| Segregation began after Reconstruction. |
| The Gilded Age and the Progressive Era were the heyday of racism. |
| Using photographs, students decorate the timeline. |
| The highlights are: 14th Amendment and Plessy v. Feguson |
| Definitions | Jim Crow, segregation (both de jure and de facto), discrimination, stereotypes, |
| white supremacy, “Separate but equal” doctrine, disenfranchisement. |
| Jim Crow! | Break into groups. This is the most exciting lesson you will ever teach. |
| Examine the list: What an African American could not do. (Outrageous) |
| A list of expected behaviors. (Outrageous) |
| Readings aloud: Stories of those who experienced segregation. |
| Photos: 31 photos of segregation. (Outrageous) |
| Lynchings | The complete story from Ida B. Wells to Emmett Till. |
| Photos: Preview these horrific postcards. |
| The NAACP | The first organization to fight back! |
| The controversy between W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington. |
| The concept of the Talented Tenth.
| | The Great Migration | Lecture with graphics: During World War I and II, African Americans left the South and moved to Northern cities. The causes and results. |
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| | David Letterman | Top Ten Reasons Why African Americans Left the South! |
| This is an assessment. Students are rewarded for being clever. |
| The Harlem Renaissance | The story of Langston Hughes. |
| | See life in Harlem through the eyes of its poets! |
| | We interpret several poems, including: |
| | “If We Must Die” by Claude McKay |
| “I, Too, Sing America” and “A Dream Deferred” by Langston Hughes. |
| The Forerunners | Two Games: The Gong Show and The Great Race! |
| | Students learn about the forerunners of the Civil Rights Movement. |
| Students distinguish between Ida B. Wells, W.E.B. Du Bois, |
| Booker T. Washington, Marcus Garvey, and Langston Hughes. |
| The Causes | Graphic Organizer: The Four Causes of the Civil Rights Movement. |
| 1776, World War II, the Fourteenth Amendment, Brown v Board of Education. |
| Timeline | The New Deal, World War II, and the Fair Deal. |
| During the Great Depression, African Americans in Northern cities began to vote Democatic. This helped elect FDR. |
| During World War II, African Americans demanded their civil rights. |
| 1941: President Roosevelt banned racial discrimination in defense industries. |
| 1948: President Truman ended segregation in the armed forces. |
| Hitler | How Hitler and the Nazis helped change America’s idea of race. |
| The Armed Forces | Lecture with graphics: |
| World War II was the last war that the U.S. Army was segregated. |
| The Seven Steps | Graphic Organizer: The Civil Rights Movement |
| The Causes, Spark, Turning-Point, Immediate Results, Long-Range Results |
| Timeline | Timeline of the Civil Rights Movement covers every major event, 1954 to 1968. |
| There are 35 major events. |
| Using this annotated timeline, students interpret the political cartoons. |
| Political Cartoons | Break into pairs and interpret these cartoons. |
| Worksheet: How to analyze any political cartoon. |
| The cartoons cover: Brown v. Board of Education, Montgomery bus boycott, |
| Little Rock, Greensboro sit-in, the Freedom Rides, James Meredith at Ole Miss, |
| Birmingham, George Wallace, Mississippi Freedom Summer, Selma, plus the |
| riots in Harlem and Watts. |
| Mapping | As you tell the story, students map the events of the Civil Rights movement. |
| Students locate 33 places on a map of the South. |
| A Quiz | Match 21 people and events - with the correct |
| The People | A list of 31 people, plus a definition of each. |
| Cut up this page, give one name to each student. |
| Explain why you are famous. The class must guess who you are. |
| A Human Timeline | Students teach the class: Each pair tells about one big event. |
| Using these 13 cards, students tell the story and show the photographs. |
| The Organizations | Two Games: The Gong Show and The Great Race! |
| Students learn about the groups that led the Civil Rights Movement. |
| Students distinguish between the NAACP, SCLC, CORE, SNCC. |
| The Strategy | Students learn the difference between legal action and direct action. |
| Board Game | A homemade board game about the Civil Rights movement! |
| Begin at Montgomery: Roll dice and move clockwise. Every time you pass Montgomery, collect $200 from the bank. Every time you hit a "Who are YOU?" space, draw a card to tell you your next move. |
| DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. |
| The life and times of Dr. King. |
| Rosa Parks | Short summary of the Montgomery bus boycott. |
| Mapping | As you tell the story, students map 13 places in the life of Dr. King. |
| Problem-Solving | “If you had been Dr. King, what would YOU have done?” |
| Break into pairs. |
| | Students are presented with five situations. |
| Here is the problem. Here is what Southern segregationists thought. |
| Here is what the black militants thought. What would you do? |
| | (Then find our what Dr. King actually did.) |
| Quotations | Seven famous quotations from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| Students interpret them. |
| Writing Speeches | Break into groups of four. Each group writes a speech by Dr. King. |
| In the process, students write four types of essays: |
| expressive, narrative, informative, and persuasive. |
| The worksheets show students exactly what to do. |
| This rewards students who are clever! |
| Famous Essay | “Letter from Birmingham Jail” by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| It is an explanation of Dr. King’s philosophy of nonviolent resistance. |
| We provide the actual speech, plus test questions about it. |
| Famous Speech | “I Have a Dream” speech by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| We provide the actual speech, plus test questions about it. |
| Speech | President Lyndon Johnson on “The Great Society.” |
| He declared the “War on Poverty” and wanted to improve the inner city. |
| SUPREME COURT CASES |
| For each case, the teacher delives a mini-lesson. |
| Students read and interpret actual quotations from the case. |
| Students break into groups and analyze the case. |
| Dred Scott v. Sandford | An African American is not a citizen. |
| The Fourteenth Amendment | An African American is a citizen. |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | An African American is a second-class citizen. |
| Sweatt v. Painter | (Moved away from Plessy and toward Brown.) |
| Brown v. Board of Education | An African American is a first-class citizens. |
| The Southern Manifesto | Southern Congressmen vow to break the law! |
| Life is like a Rock Group | Students take a look at segregation from five different viewpoints. |
| The Supreme Court Cases Two Games: | The Gong Show and The Great Race! |
| Students distinguish between the five major Supreme Court cases. |
| The Bakke Case | Mini-lecture on the Supreme Court’s decision on affirmative action. |
| Students break into groups and analyze this controversial case. |
| California Proposition 209 | In 1996, the voters of California voted to end affirmative action. |
| Mini-lecture, then group analysis by students. |
| The Great Debate | "Resolved: Affirmative action is a good thing.” |
| We ran 50 lousy debates util we came up with this successful debate format! |
| The Laws |
| We focus on three laws, one Amendment, and a Report. |
| The Civil Rights Act of 1964, Voting Rights Act of 1965, Fair Housing Act of 1968, |
| the 24th Amendment, and the Kerner Report. |
| The Impact |
| Who did the Civil Rights movement benefit? |
| All minority groups and all women! |
| REVIEW |
| The ABCs of the Civil Rights Movmt Recall terms. |
| Can you speak Equality? | Define terms. |
| Screaming Headlines | We give you the headline in the tabloid. Your write one paragraph. |
| Rank! | Examine the list of people who made the headlines. |
| Choose your top 5 favorites: The Hall of Fame |
| Choose your lowest 5: The Hall of Shame |
| Class Discussion: Who is on everybody’s favorite list? |
| Who is extremely unpopular? |
| Mars/Venus | One guy vs one gal: What did you remember? |
| Stump the teacher | This takes guts. |
| Honk if you hate history! | Students hear the test before they take it. |
| The Last Man Standing | Based on a movie starring Bruce Willis. |
| Now take the test! | It has 625 questions. |
| That’s fair: You state test has six versions. |
| Each test has 100 questions. |
| It is the mother of all tests on the Civil Rights movement. |
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