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Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Civil Rights Movement: Diagnostics & Anticipation

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.

1. Total World War II Portfolio
2. Diagnostic Activity
Topic: Tuskegee Airmen
Task:

  • Discuss ways which African Americans were denied equal rights
  • Discuss methods that the Tuskegee Airmen used to deal with inequality
Criteria for Assessment:
  • Develop all aspects of the task 
  • Incorporate relevant context information (time/place/other events) 
  • Support the theme with relevant facts, examples and details 
  • Incorporate information from at least 1 source 
  • Use a logical and clear plan of organization (topic and concluding sentence beyond a restatement of the theme)
3. Anticipation Activity 1
     From the images on your desk associated with African American fight for civil rights, decide what 2 images are the "most popular" images of the movement.
  • Why does that image last?
  • What makes a person/event/group/idea stand out?
  • Student Friendly Significance Criteria
    • 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?)


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