The Onset of the Civil Rights Movement

Lesson Overview

Using 21^st century skills of critical thinking and analyzing the students will use technology to examine primary and secondary sources, provide relevant feedback to peers in blog/social media setting. Students will be provide various sources to gain access to credible information.

The goal is to introduce the students to primary resources in the Library of Congress. In a two session class, the topic of Civil Right Movements will be the focal point. Students will learn to analyze primary sources provide feedback and communicate their perspective in computerize format with classmates. In an academically intense environment, student will have opportunities to connect lessons to real world in the 21^st century. 

Student will look at primary sources to analyze and contextualize clips, letters and speeches from 1863 throughout the climax of the Civil Rights Movements in 1968.The lesson will bridge writing, research and analyzation of history.