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Nils I. Palsson! Fall, 2013! Pedagogy 1! Unit Plan - Civil Rights Unit!

1. Lesson 1 - Review of Civil Rights Since Jim Crow " Content Standards: 11.4, 11.5, 11.7, 11.8, 11.9 & 11.10" Learning Objective: Students will identify three instances of the early struggle for political equality for racial minorities in America. Students will describe the political and cultural tensions building up in the United States prior to 1950s." Sequence: Hook --> Entry-Level Assessment in Group Discussion --> Pair Share --> Lg. Group Discussion --> New Material presented through powerpoint and analysing primary documents --> Guided Practice (what kind?) Activity -- > Group share --> HW assignment --> Closure" 2. Lesson 2 - The Postwar Years & Preview of Vietnam and Cold War! Content Standards: 11.8 & 11.9" Learning Objective: Students will analyze three effects of the Second World War in America, including economic prosperity, the baby boom, rise of consumer culture, changes in foreign policy, McCarthyism and the Cold War. Students will chart historical developments leading up to the Montgomery Bus Boycott." Sequence: Hook --> Entry-Level Assessment in Group Discussion --> Pair Share --> Lg. Group Discussion --> New Material presented through powerpoint and analysing primary documents --> Guided Practice (what kind?) Activity -- > Group share --> HW assignment --> Closure" 3. Lesson 3 - Civil Rights Movement Part 1: Montgomery Bus Boycott to MLK" ***Tylers Lesson***" Content Standards: 11.10" Learning Objective: Students will analyze the effects of the Second World War, including economic prosperity, the baby boom, rise of consumer culture... " Sequence: Hook --> Entry-Level Assessment in Group Discussion --> Pair Share --> Lg. Group Discussion --> New Material presented through powerpoint and analysing primary documents --> Guided Peactice (what kind?) Activity -- > Group share --> HW assignment --> Closure" 4. Lesson 4 - Civil Rights Movement Part 2: Heroes and Controversial Figures " ***Nilss Lesson***" Content Standards: 11.10, 11.11" Learning Objective: Students will research, present, and personally connect to meaningful and controversial gures in the US Civil Rights movment" Sequence: Day 1 (Weds) - Hook -> Introduction of new material (Assata) -> Primary Source activity (Read A Letter to My People together -> Respond in pairs) -> Hand out assignment for Short Presentations -> Begin research on internet while also using books and handouts, teacher walking around to

listen, do progress-monitoring, and give one-on-one help -> Group discussion in circle -> Homework assignment: Continue research, write about contributions and controversies, and come back ready to share tomorrow! Day 2 (Thurs) - Recap yesterday (Who can tell me something they learned yesterday?) -> Short oral presentations (brief report back, socratic questioning from instructor) in circle -> students learn they have partner with same gure -> partner up, share about signicance and generate + turn in ve quiz questions -> report back to group as partners with new learnings > Begin work on posterboard in partners -> Homework assigned: complete poster contribution/controversy + bring an image + decorations. Day 3 (Fri) - Review of previous material -> Work on poster with partner, 15 minutes > Partner presentations, 30 minutes -> Quiz, 26 questions, compiled from student-generated questions (10 minutes) -> Homework assigned: choose your own, research deeper and CONNECT personally. Write 1 page about why and be prepared. Day 4 (Mon) - Brief recap of material -> Review and correct quiz -> Students report back to circle on their own chosen gure-> Teacher and other students will press each student for details, emphasizing personal connection, evaluation and synthesis. This will include each student making a sound and physical motion or pantomime to associate with each historical gure, which the rest of the class will then emulate, to anchor the learning -> Recap -> Preview of coming lessons and transition to next lesson on Vietnam War and Changes in the Movement. !

5. Lesson 5 - The Vietnam War & Changes in The Movement ! Content Standards: 11.9, 11.10, 11.11" Learning Objective: Students will describe the signicance of the Vietnam War and how it inuenced the expansion and transformatino of the Peoples movement in the United States. " Sequence: Hook --> Entry-Level Assessment in Group Discussion --> Pair Share --> Lg. Group Discussion --> New Material presented through powerpoint and analysing primary documents --> Guided Peactice (what kind?) Activity -- > Group share --> HW assignment --> Closure! "

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