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Title-
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Background-
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Civil Rights
Bus Boycott
Martin Luther King Jr.
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Expected Outcome Of This Lesson Plan-
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1.Understand Civil Rights
2.Appreciation for privileges
3.Expanded vocabulary |
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Teacher Objectives-
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1. Students will be able to articulate the issues surrounding the events of the early Civil Rights Movement.
2. Students will be able to identify the individuals invovled. |
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Resources-
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Teaching Methods-
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1. Lesson Introduction-
1.Tell a story of my mothers experiences in an all white school.
2.Let students give examples of unfair practices they experienced
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2. Lesson Progression-
1.Ask their opinion of where they would be if this were 1962
2.Tell them where they might be.
3.Explain Jim Crow laws. |
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3. Guided Practice-
1.Have them use a dictionary and look up words I think might be unfamiliar to them.
2.Write the definitions on a sheet of paper.
3.Look up the words in the thesaurus to see similar words for maximum understanding. |
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4. Student Practice-
1. Give them fifteen minutes to read the first chapter
2.Write what they think will happen next.
3.Write what they would do if they were part of the Logan family. |
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5. Learner Accommodations-
1. Ask students if they would prefer to discuss what they think would happen next in a small group.
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6. Assessment-
1. Sixty minute essay
2.Raise your hand and tell me your favorite charachter so far.
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7. Lesson Closure-
| Explain the importance of the Civil Rights movement and how it effects them today. Ask for questions on anything they didn't understand. |
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Measuring Student Progress-
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1.Assign a choice of a three page book report for the following week or a presentation to the class. Whichever they choosethey will be given the option to write or act out a scene in the book as if they were the charachter, to show what their reaction would be.
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