Goal: Discuss how tensions following the Civil War complicated efforts to heal the nation and to redefine the status of African Americans. Explain the civil rights movement as attempts by people and the government to address major social, legal, and economic problems.
Portfolio: Civil Rights Movement
Document Based Essay (25)
Lifetime Achievement Award (15)
2 Significant Summary Short Answer Responses (20)
Birth Certificate (15)
Timeline (5)
Motivator Dojo (20)
Final Product:Students will complete a document based informational essay that discusses ways in which African Americans have been denied equal rights and methods individuals, groups, and/or the government have used since 1950 to deal with the inequality faced by African Americans.
Criteria for assessment:
- Develop all aspects of the task
- Incorporate information from at least 3 primary sources
- Incorporate relevant context information
- Support the theme with relevant facts, examples and detail
- Use a logical and clear plan of organization, including an introduction and a conclusion beyond a restatement of the theme
- Actively partner read a timeline of major events associated with the African Americans' struggle for civil rights
- Important Leader - circle
- Major Organization - box
- Noteworthy Method Used/Action Taken - underline
- Momentous Successes - [bracket]
- Key Ideas behind Movement- star
- Apply the significance criteria while reading
- First time or last time events (Why?)
- Impacts many people (How many?)
- Impacts many areas of human life (Which areas?)
- Effect lasts a long time (How long? What lasts?)
- Recognizable - seen or heard it before (Where? When?)
When do YOU think the Civil Rights Movement Begin?
- Circle the time period
- Complete the chart on the bottom of the page
- Be ready to defend your decision
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