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Here are the teacher pack items for The Impact of the Civil Rights Movement:
Overview This experience is designed in a PBL framework. Students begin by brainstorming a classwide list of ways that people can be involved in their communities. Then they explore the websites of various civil rights organizations to identify an existing issue for further research. Next they research their selected civil rights issue, gathering information and considering causes and effects. Then they brainstorm possible solutions and weigh the advantages and disadvantages of their three best ideas. They propose a solution and implement it. Finally they evaluate their solution. Students will collaborate in small groups for scene 2 to scene 5. There is no quiz at the end of this experience. Strategies for teaching this experience: Set the duration of the experience to cover the period that you have allotted for students to complete their projects. Objective
Work with students on how to brainstorm options, choose the most promising, and evaluate advantages and disadvantages.
Together with your class, implement a service project related to one of the civil rights issues raised by one of the groups.
Have students produce an artifact, such as a video or booklet, that can be shared within the school setting.
The first twenty years of the twenty-first century have seen some major developments in civil rights. Barak Obama was elected as the first African American president (2008). Sonia Sotomayor was appointed as the first Hispanic woman to serve on the Supreme Court (2009). Kamala Harris was elected as the first female and first person of color to serve as vice president (2020). Pete Buttigieg became the first openly gay member of the Cabinet (2021), and Deb Haaland became the first American Indian member of the Cabinet (2021). But these developments do not mean that everyone has achieved equal rights. There is still room for significant progress in the area of civil rights in the United States. In this experience, you will choose a civil rights issue that interests you to examine in depth.
Objective
Sonia Sotomayor became the first Hispanic justice to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court.
As a class, list some ways that people can take action to expand political rights and economic opportunities for minorities. If someone has already listed your idea, try to think of something else to list.
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