The Supreme Court Changes Its Mind.

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The Supreme Court Changes Its Mind.

• Says No To Jim Crow

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Introduction

• Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, will serve as a
  springboard and a bridge

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• Brown v Board of Education

• Plessy v Ferguson

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Interdisciplinary Unit

• Language Arts

• Social Studies
• TIPS Resources

• Technology

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Legal Issues Are Human Issues
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Language Arts

• Standards
• The student will read, write, listen and speak
  for
• Information and understanding
• Literary response and expression
• Critical analysis and evaluation
• Social interaction

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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Author Mildred Taylor
Critcal Analysis of

• Setting

• Characters

• Plot

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Civil Rights Leaders

• W.E.B. DuBois
• and
• Booker T. Washington

• Malcolm X
• and
• Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Compare/Contrast

• Civil Rights Leaders

Civil Rights Leaders and Fictional Characters
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Social Studies

• Standards
• Students will demonstrate their understanding of
• Development and turning points in US History
• The US Constitution
• Responsibilities of citizenship

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• Show interrelationship between values, actions
  and laws

• Examined Plessy v Ferguson and
• Brown v Board of Education using
• the Compu-Legal model

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Technology

• Standard
• The student will access, generate, process and
  transfer information using appropriate
  technologies

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Conclusion

• Assessments

• Grade 8 Language Arts Rubric

Presentation Rubric
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Goals

• To provide students with skills and knowledge to
  analyze this aspect of US History
• To develop students insight into causes and
  consequences of unequal treatment before the law

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Resources

• Library
• Encyclopedia
• Books
• Internet
• TIPS Website
• www.Africana .com
• www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/moritz/x noi.html
• (Elke Moritz Malcolm X Picturebook)
• www.afroam.org

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(Resources cont)

• www.LouisanaStateUniversity/MartinLuther
  KingJrBiographicalSketch.com
• Graphic Organizers

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Presenters

• Rose Burkhart
• Jim Frey
• MaryAnn Napolitano
• Vashon Moore-Perry
• Sr. Rose Mary Sullivan