M.S. Lesson Activity no. 8
Document Based Question
Application
Students — Grades 7 and 8
Lesson Time
Depends on how the teacher uses this activity
Objectives
At the end of this lesson, the student should be able to:
- Demonstrate an understanding of the impact of Brown v. Board of Education on the civil rights movement.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the issues involved in the civil rights movement
- Demonstrate an understanding of the successful use of non-violent methods of protest in the civil rights movement.
- Analyze pictures, headlines and timelines and incorporate information from those documents into a well-organized essay
Materials
Handout A: Document Based Question
Activity
This document based question may be used in a variety of ways: as a class activity, homework assignment or a culminating assessment activity at the end of the civil rights movement unit. Individual components of the question could be used as individual activities. The decision regarding use of this material is best left to the discretion of the teacher.
New York State Standards
Students will analyze how the values of a nation affect the guarantee of human rights.
Students will analyze the sources of a nation’s values as embodied in its constitution, statutes, and important court cases.
Students will value the principles, ideals, and core values of the American democratic system based upon the premises of human dignity, liberty, justice, and equality.
Sources
- www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0517.html
- www.cjonline.com/indepth/brown/multimedia/topekastate.jpg
- www.africanaonline.com/montgomery.htm
- http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/
aopart9b.html#0909 - www.abbeville.com/civilrights/washington.asp
- Joy Hakim, All the People, Oxford University Press, l995.
- www.sitinmovement.org/history/timeline.pdf
