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Black History Month Bundle! Don't Miss Out!
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Journey Through the Civil Rights Movement: Gallery Walk
By Sarah Austin
Begin your study of the Civil Rights Movement in a powerful way by having students participate in a gallery walk activity. Using primary sourced drawings and photographs, the gallery walk begins in Africa, and moves through slavery, the Reconstruction and Jim Crow, and carries on to present-day issues. This lesson will vicariously draw your students into the lives, circumstances, and struggle for social justice of the past and today as they engage in the analysis of primary sources. This unique resource will bring the photographs to life as students will be provided with additional background information that will come in the form of first hand accounts and testimonies of the people who experienced the injustices, and were also social agents of change.
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Civil Rights Movements: Then and Today
By Sarah Austin
Engage your students in having them draw important connections between the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960’s and contemporary grassroots movements taking place in the United States. This lesson will prompt students to analyze short documentary video clips that focus on six different contemporary grassroots movements:
1) Women’s March
2) Immigration
3) Standing Rock
4) Black Lives Matter
5) Climate Change
6) Teacher Strikes
With the corresponding video clips, students will fill out a provided T-chart that will identify the following aspects of each movement:
1) Desired Outcome/Changes
2) Group(s) involved
3) Strategies
4) Obstacle/Challenges
5) Questions
Hands-on activities: Two relevant, critical thinking activities follow that involve having students take their prior knowledge of the Civil Rights era (1950/60’s) and;
1. Using a Venn diagram, students will compare this time period with current day grassroots movements.
2. Each group will then discuss what issues are relevant and meaningful for them. Students will choose an issue that they wish to see change, and then as a group, will create a poster that promotes their cause.
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Students will have already learned about the Civil Rights era. This lesson serves as a critical thinking extension activity that encourages students to draw connections to contemporary grass roots movements & the Civil Rights movement.
Civil Rights Movement, current events, grassroots, racism, controversy, poster, Trump
Era of Reconstruction: Interactive Activities
By Sarah Austin
This resource is designed to have students critically explore the period of Reconstruction. Two highly engaging, interactive Slide Presentations will vicariously draw students into the lives of the Freedmen during this historical period of time.
LESSON ONE: Reconstruction Era [Intro]
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LESSON ONE will have students examine;
LESSON TWO: The Pursuit to Vote
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LESSON TWO will have students examine;
*Class discussion, simulations, and critical thinking is promoted throughout the entire resource.
*All THREE lessons (Era of Reconstruction, the Ku Klux Klan, & Jim Crow) is available in the BUNDLE for a discounted %.
Jim Crow Laws: Interactive Primary Source
By Sarah Austin
This resource will have students critically explore the period of the Jim Crow era, with a focus on the segregation of schools. This highly engaging, interactive, primary based Slide Presentation will have students analyze and understand the implications of the Jim Crow laws, along with the monumental Supreme Court decisions of 'Plessy v. Ferguson', and 'Brown V. Board of Education'.
The teacher will have a choice of three supplementary activities;
The 1st Optional Activity will have students analyze four political cartoons. Students will identify whether the author was FOR or AGAINST the Jim Crow Laws, & describe supportive details from the cartoon on their POLITICAL CARTOON HANDOUT.
The 2nd Optional Activity will have students critically read a primary source article titled ‘A TALE OF TWO SCHOOLS’, and respond to text dependent questions in their **‘**TALE OF TWO SCHOOLS QUESTIONS HANDOUT. The teacher can do a read-aloud, OR students can read independently. Class discussion is encouraged.
The 3rd Optional Activity will have students analyze a film titled ‘FREEDOM SONG’. Students will apply their knowledge from their guided notes, and respond to open-ended questions in their FREEDOM SONG HANDOUT.
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*All THREE lessons (Era of Reconstruction, the Ku Klux Klan, & Jim Crow) is available in the BUNDLE for a discounted %.
Afro Latinos Reading Comprehension Scavenger Hunt Mystery Black History Month
By Specialty Spanish
Is reading comprehension getting boring in your Spanish class? Turn it into a game! This reading about famous Afro-Latinos goes from dull to exciting as students work together and move around the room to solve a mystery! This is a simple “print and go” with no work for the teacher!
There’s been a robbery at a famous museum for Afro-Latinos! The students play the role of the investigator of the museum robbery. They have to read all 10 parts of the story to get the full picture of what was taken and why the objects are important. While they read the parts, they are also looking for “code words”. Students record the code words on a special answer sheet that will eventually lead them to solving the mystery of who stole the important artifacts. It’s so much fun!
After, you can decide which of the 3 follow-up activities you want to do with your students. There are 3; a True or False Activity to check for basic comprehension, a graphic organizer for students to organize notes about 4 Afro-Latinos, and a writing follow up where students use their reading comprehension and critical thinking to invent an explanation for why the thief stole the items. Answer key to the True/False is also included. Best of all? If there’s something you’d like to change for your students, you are free to edit!
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