Task on entry: Look at this image. Write two statements about the photo answering the following questions;
Challenge Question: Compare and contrast the first image with the image of Rosa Parks arrest on the right. |
Lesson Objectives:
Grade 4: You can describe the key events of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. You can identify the values or limitations of a source. Grade 5: You can explain both the causes and consequences of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. You can explain the values and limitations of a source by considering its origin, purpose or content. Grade 6/7: You have considered the significance of the Montgomery Bus Boycott in the Civil Rights Movement in the USA. You can explain the values and limitations of a source by considering its origin, purpose and content. You support your answer with detail from the sources. |
What distinguishes a better historical account from a worse one? How can we judge the value of historical sources? Key Terms
Boycott MIA (Montgomery Improvement Assosciation) |
IB Learner Profile Communication - You will collaborate with others and listen carefully to the views of other students. You will also express your own views and opinions to others in the group. Inquirer - You will use toolkits to develop your source analysis and inquiry skills. You will learn independently and with others. |
Activities
1. Connect: How much do you already know about the Montgomery Bus Boycott? Complete the progress tracker. 2. Activate Activity 1: Research the Montgomery Bus Boycott using the textbook (p41-49), video and extension resources. Create a tree diagram to show the key events, causes and consequences of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. 3. Activate Activity 2: In pairs analyse one of the sources below to decide how valuable it is for a historian studying The significance of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Source A Source B Source C Need some help? Use the toolkits for source analysis 4. Demonstrate Activity: Speed dating challenge. You will have 5 minutes to present your source analysis to another student. Remember your focus: How valuable is this source to a historian studying The significance of the Montgomery Bus Boycott? Take notes on the other sources, you will have to decide overall which is the most valuable. 5. Consolidate Activity:
6. Home Learning: Write a Teams post in conversations about the significance of the Montgomery Bus Boycott to the Civil Rights Movement in the US. Consider the following:
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Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others. Rosa Parks Want a Challenge? Analyse the language in your source. Is it emotive? Persuasive? How can you tell? Extension Resources Find out more about Fred Gray Listen to the full speech made by MLK Montgomery Bus Boycott website Eyes on The Prize (1987) Comprehensive and moving 14-hour PBS documentary on the Civil Rights Movement. |
Lesson 2 - Sit-ins and Freedom Rides
Pre-reading: M.Scott-Baumann & P.Clements, 'Rights and Protest' pages 49-58 Activities Download the PowerPoint or view online Create fact files on the sit-ins and freedom rides using the guidelines on the PowerPoint. Resources Article - 'The Dawning of a New Day. The Nashville Sit-Ins', February 13-May 10, 1960 Author(s): Linda T. Wynn Review of 'Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice by Raymond Arsenault' |
If you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have a moral obligation to do something about it. John Lewis |
Lesson 3 - Project Confrontation: Birmingham 1963
Pre-reading: M.Scott-Baumann & P.Clements, 'Rights and Protest' pages 58-66 Activities 1. Download the lesson PowerPoint. 2. Connect Activity: In pairs complete the card sort and diamond nine task. 3. Update your summary timeline with all 9 events. 4. Activate Activity: Create notes in your class notebook on Project Confrontation. Make sure you include the following;
Write a paragraph explaining how far you agree with this statement. 6. Consolidate Activity: Create a video on the class Flipgrid which summarises your main points. Your video can only be a maximum of 1 minute, 30 seconds. |
Resources Website (contains videos and primary sources) http://www.pbs.org/black-culture/explore/civil-rights-movement-birmingham-campaign/#.XDDZF1wzbD4 |
Lesson 4 - The March on Washington, August 1963
Pre-reading: M.Scott-Baumann & P.Clements, 'Rights and Protest' pages 66-71 Activities 1. Complete the Knowledge test 2. Download the lesson PowerPoint. 3. Listen to the full speech by Martin Luther King Jr. Resources The complete text and audio version of the 'I have a dream speech'. |
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