Common Core lessons and activities for teaching the Civil Rights Movement
Civil Rights Movement - Common Core Lessons and Activities book
Meet the new Common Core State Standards for ELA as well as Literacy & Writing in History and Social Studies! This book is designed to supplement your Social Studies resources, adding new Common Core rigor, analysis, writing inference, text-dependent questions and more into your daily instruction. ©2013. 24 pages. Middle/high school levels.
Here's how it works!
- Work through the lessons and activities as a class to teach your students higher-order thinking, analysis, and 21st century skills necessary to meet new Common Core State Standards expectations.
- Allow students to work through the lessons independently to build and practice these new skills.
- Include technology, collaboration, presentations, and discussion in the activities as you desire - you can decide how in-depth to go.
- Watch your class develop new abilities to meet the rigor of Common Core State Standards, right before your eyes!
Civil Right Movement - Common Core Lessons and Activities includes:
- Reading for Information
- Higher-Order Thinking
- Writing Problems
- Primary Source Analysis
- Vocabulary
- Graphic Organizers
- Map Activities & More!
Tips for using and reproducing the book pages:
- Use some of the pages - or use them all - based on your grade, your students, your curriculum, and your needs.
- Use these pages at their current size, or if you prefer them to be 8.5 X 11 inches, enlarge them 125% on your copy machine.
- Use the CCSS correlations grid to easily see which Common Core standards are covered in each lesson.
©2013. Soft cover, 24 pages, 8-1/2 x 5-1/4, reproducible. Middle/high school.
ISBN: 978-0-635-10586-8
Table of Contents include:
Black Codes & Jim Crow: Reading Informational Text GO1
Jim Crow Political Cartoon: Primary Source Analysis
13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments: Reading Informational Text
Civil Rights Vocabulary: Vocabulary Activity GO10
Plessy v. Ferguson & Brown v. BOE: Comparison of Primary Sources
Effects of Discrimination: Cause & Effect G
Peaceful Protest Tactics: Reading Informational Text
Civil Rights Organizations: Graphic Organizer G
Civil Rights Quotations: Primary Source Analysis G
Separate Facilities: Primary Source Analysis
Civil Rights: Summative Graphic Organizer G
Little Rock Nine: Reading Informational Text
Voices of Civil Rights: Influential People G
Montgomery Bus Boycott: Reading Informational Text
Freedom Rides: Map Activity
March on Washington: Primary Source Analysis
"I Have a Dream" Speech: Primary Source Analysis
Malcolm X & MLK Ideology: Comparison of Primary Sources
Civil Rights Act of 1964 & Voting Rights Act of 1965: Writing
Voting Statistics: Data Analysis
Civil Rights Events: Chronological Events
Common Core State Standards Correlations
