Civil Rights Movement: The beginning of legislation to end segregation

"Civil Rights Acts and Movements in the 60s: The Beginning of Legislation to End Segregation in the U.S.A."

Comastri, Lucía Candelaria - Argentina Ol Kong, Sam - Cambodia Pramateftaki, Elissavet - Greece Stavraki, Christina - Greece

2021

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General Project Overview

Lesson #2

Civil Rights Acts and Movements in the 60s

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Lesson #3

Project Description

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Lesson #4

Lesson #1

Resources

ICT tools

Tasks

• WIFI connection
• Computers
• Handheld devices like tablets or smartphones
• IWBs

• G. docs, G. Slideshares and G. Drive
• Youtube Videos
• TED lessons
• Padlet

• Mentimeter
• Answergarden
• Fake Tweet Generator

• Flipped learning tasks
• Class debates
• Poetry Analysis
• In-class activities to check understanding
• Social Movement Campaign creation

Team / Organization

Evaluation Methods

Broadcast

• Formative Assesment
• Personalized feedback
• Rubric to evaluate the campaign.

• In some instances, students will work solo and for the final product they will work in groups of 4.

• Google Classroom (for the group)
• School Campaign (school blog)
• S<Students' Social Media Platforms

Learning objectives

Key Skills

Final Product

• Explore the Civil Right Movement in the 60s
• Interpret Civil Right Acts
• Formulate and support opinions in connection to systemic racism in the U.S.

• Raise their fellow students’ awareness by starting a new social movement
• Practice critical thinking skills and creativity

• Retrieving, recognizing.
• breaking material into constituent parts.
• classifying, outlining, creating.
• justifying, evaluating, summarizing.

• To outline, design and create a social movement campaign after analyzing legislation in the U.S. in the 60s.

Project Description

Overall Objective

Estimated Length of Time of Each Lesson: 45 min

To outline, design and create a social movement campaign after analyzing legislation in the U.S. in the 60s and what a social movement consists of.

Intended Audience: 15-16 year old High School Ss.

The next project will be carried out by means of online synchronous meetings and face-to-face lessons as well.

Lesson 1:

Introducing Segregation, Jim Crow Laws and Federal vs State Laws in the U.S.

Lesson 2:

Exploring Civil Rights Acts Through Poetry

Lesson 3:

Redlining + The Fair Housing Act of 1968

Lesson 4:

Civil Rights and Social Movements

"No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite." Nelson Mandela

Pramateftaki, Elissavet

Comastri, Lucía C.

Stavraki, Christina

Ol Kong, Sam

Greece

Greece

Argentina

Cambodia