Middle School Lesson Activities
Arranged by Lesson Time
One Class Period
- Before Brown v. Board of Education: "Jim Crow" and the Plessy v. Ferguson Decision
- Constructed Response Question: Was Separate Equal?
- Constructed Response Question: Excerpts from Newspaper Editorials - May 18, 1954
- Observations on the Importance of Brown v. Board of Education Decision
- Constructed Response Question: Readings of Excerpt from Warriors Don't Cry
Two Class Period
- An Overview of the Civil Rights Movement and the Impact of Brown v. Board of Eduction Decision
- The Decision of the United States Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (Kansas), May 17, 1954
- Document Based Question