Unit: The 60s

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UnitThe 60s

• Lesson Plan
• The Civil Rights Movement

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CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

• Counter Culture
• Hippie Culture, Anti-War Movement, Music
• Civil Rights Movement
• Segregation, Approaches to desegregation, the
• People of the Civil Rights Movement
• Womens Movement
• - History, Work Day, Presentations
• Vietnam War
• Protests, Reasons for the War, the homefront

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ActivitySplit into 2 Groups!
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Introduction

• Start with activity
• Ask what was learned yesterday
• Ask questions about knowledge of the Civil Rights
  Movement
• Discuss significance of activity

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Objectives

• Students will understand segregation and the
  approaches taken to desegregate.
• Students will learn about the major events and
  people involved in the civil rights movement.
• Students will compare/contrast people, events,
  and documents

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Materials

• Copies of historical documents
• Chalk

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Procedures

• Discuss the conditions of segregation and what
  the students know about the civil rights movement
  have students raise their hands.
• Have 20 minute lecture about the Civil Rights
  Movement.
• Hand out reading materials- work in groups to
  discuss and debate.

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Lecture topics

• Jim Crow laws, state laws that mandated racial
  separation
• Attempts at desegregation. Talk about the
  Plessey vs. Ferguson case and the term separate
  but equal and Brown vs. the Board of Education
  when separate but equal was struck down.
• Introduce the people of the Civil Rights
  Movement. I will talk about Martin Luther King
  Jr., Malcolm X.

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Another ActivityA Debate!

• One group reads hand- out from MLK Jr. and
  discusses his approach of non-violence in hopes
  for equality.
• Excerpts from "Letter from a Birmingham City
  Jail"
• letter

• The other group reads hand-out about Malcolm X
  and the Black Panthers.
• "The Ballot or the Bullet"
• Malcolm X Speaks It's The Ballot Or The Bullet'

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DEBATE
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Assessment

• Informally observe students reactions to first
  activity to see if they are actively involved
  see if students re-evaluate their opinions.
• Informally observe students participation in
  group activity.
• Collect final papers on heroes.

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Closing

• One last quick activity
• Have closing statement about todays lesson and
  what we will be working on tomorrow
• Discuss future project

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Activity one last one!

• Who is your favorite baseball player?
• Who is your hero?
• Who is your favorite actor/Actress?
• Who is your favorite singer?

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Possible biographys

• James Chaney, Eldridge Cleaver, Medgar Evans,
  Andrew Goodman, Fannie Lou Hamer, Thurgood
  Marshall, James Meredith, Huey P. Newton, A.
  Philip Randolph, Rosa Parks, Michael Schwerner,
  Bobby Seale, Fred Shuttlesworth, Emmett Till.

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THE END

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