Lesson Overview
This lesson can be a component of a year-long project based lesson on civil rights or one part of a single, shorter PBL focusing only the civil rights era after World War II. This particular extension deals specifically with the 8th grade standards that are noted. The other standards included in the PBL are intended to be used should the teacher choose to look at civil rights progressively throughout the school year. Although a Word Analysis Sheet has been included with this text, there is also a separate resource sheet that helps in understanding terms specific to the Civil Rights Movement.
Background
Using background sources and a narrative about Minnie Kennedy’s life, students will learn about the Civil Rights Movement and racial inequality. Students should examine their own experiences and draw modern parallels, discussing ways in which to improve equality.
Essential Question
In what ways are laws and/or policies affected by the culture of a place and the cultural beliefs of people?
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- 5-1 The student will demonstrate an understanding of Reconstruction and its impact on the United States.
- 7-2 The student will demonstrate an understanding of the concepts of limited government and unlimited government as they functioned in Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
- The relationship between citizens and their government is a fundamental component of political rule. To understand the role of constitutions, the characteristics of shared powers, the protection of individual rights, and the promotion of the common go...
- 7-2.3 Analyze the Enlightenment ideas of John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Montesquieu, and Voltaire that challenged absolutism and influenced the development of limited government.
- 7-2.5 Explain how the Enlightenment influenced the American and French revolutions leading to the formation of limited forms of government, including the relationship between people and their government, the role of constitutions, the characteristics o...
- The relationship between citizens and their government is a fundamental component of political rule. To understand the role of constitutions, the characteristics of shared powers, the protection of individual rights, and the promotion of the common go...
- 8-5 The student will understand the impact of Reconstruction, industrialization, and Progressivism on society and politics in South Carolina in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
- 8-7 The student will demonstrate an understanding of the impact on South Carolina of significant events of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
- 5-3 The student will demonstrate an understanding of major domestic and foreign developments that contributed to the United States becoming a world power.
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Log In to View LessonLesson Created By: Kelly Hogan Kinard - Edited by Lisa Ray and Lewis Huffman
Lesson Partners: The Belle W. Baruch Foundation, ETV Education, Knowitall.org