Civil Rights Movement: Anticipation 3 and Acquiring

HW: Play Civil Rights Movement Quizlet. Improve Portfolio Assignments
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

1. Anticipation: Lifetime Achievement Award




2. Acquire: Brown v Board, 1954



3. Brown v Board of Education: 60 years later
Find EVIDENCE to SUPPORT and/or DISPROVE the following statements:

•  Schools are still segregated today.
•  Schools can help students embrace diversity.
•  All students have equal opportunities in school.

4. Lifetime Achievement Award [prep for conclusion of DBQ]