ACTIVITY 2: Make Primary Sources Come Alive

Grades 6-8 Activity


The American Civil Rights Movement Timeline

MA Standard:

2018 Massachusetts Curriculum Framework 5.T5.9

Overview:

Students will use the resources in the Pack to construct a timeline of the American civil rights movement.

Strategy:

Close Reading

Activity: 

Each student will use the resources in the LaunchPack to construct a timeline of nine key events that occurred during the civil rights movement. Teachers should conduct a number of activities that encourage students to develop inquiry about the civil rights movement by completing a See-Think-Wonder with the lunch counter sit-in image included in the pack. Encourage students to read various articles in the pack and identify the event and their own reactions to major events in the civil rights movement using the Events/Ideas/Reaction Graphic Organizer. Students will summarize their learning by constructing a Visual Timeline.

Graphic Organizer:

Visual Timeline

Graphic Organizer:

See-Think-Wonder

Graphic Organizer:

Events/Ideas/Reaction

Suggested Questions:

Possible Extension:

Encourage students to research another human rights topic. Using a Venn Diagram, students are to compare and contrast the two human rights movements and the progress the movements have made over time.

SEL Connection:

Social Awareness – Discuss how social awareness relates to the civil rights movement.

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