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- Martin Luther King, Jr. Online Visitor Information Center
- Maintained by the National Park Service this web page is useful for anyone planning a trip to the King historic site in Atlanta, GA or interested in the life of the civil rights leader.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Boy at Martin Luther King Memorial
- A boy sits on a low wall by the pool that surrounds Martin Luther King's marble tomb.
- Format: image/photograph
- Martin Luther King, Jr.'s “I Have A Dream” speech
- Students will display their understanding of the symbolism and references that Dr. King used to enrich his famous speech on August 28, 1963 from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial by constructing a “jackdaw,” a collection of documents and objects.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Charlotte Lammers.
- Martin Luther's Reformation in Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- The setting of Victor Hugo's novel, The Hunchback of Notre Dame is the fifteenth century, the transitional period between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance/Reformation era. This era ushers in the period known as the modern age and historical events are chronicled through Hugo's novel. Hugo sets The Hunchback of Notre Dame at the decline of feudalism and the infancy of absolutism through Louis XI (Spider King), the rise of a urban middle class and the beginnings of commerce as it is known today. Primarily this novel satirizes the Catholic Church's absolute power -- its abuses, and its excesses. Students will discover how Hugo's satire operates to show the Catholic Church's abuse of power during the late Middle Ages and the early Reformation in The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Nancy Webber.
- Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, and Charlton Heston at the 1963 March on Washington
- Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, and Charlton Heston stand at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963. The march drew over 200,000 people to the nation's capital, and was the site of Dr....
- Format: image/photograph
- Black American Leaders as Responsible Citizens: Their Roles, Their Contributions, Their Diversity
- The focus of this lesson will be to help third grade students to clearly identify the need for having leaders arise from the citizenry of a given community. Students will review factual information to guide them in distinguishing the positive and negative qualities of leaders. Techniques will include guided reading of factual historical text during a Jigsaw, student note taking, student development of open-ended questions, and student engagement in a Socratic seminar.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Social Studies)
- By Debbie Rollins.
- A living timeline of civil rights
- This fifth grade lesson plan is one piece of a civil rights unit. This particular lesson is an opportunity for students to demonstrate knowledge of a specific person or event that occurred during the civil rights movement. The students will share their research with others as they take on the role of a museum artifact.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Social Studies)
- By Laurie Lietz.
- Beginning biography research
- Encyclopedia research skills will be taught using biographies of famous people. This is one lesson in a collaborative unit taught by both the classroom teacher and library media coordinator
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2–3 English Language Arts and Information Skills)
- By Joan Milliken.
- Jim Crow and segregation
- This is an integrated lesson plan that incorporates both eighth grade language arts and history. Using Internet research, literary analysis, and persuasive technique, students will practice reading and writing skills while analyzing the impact of Jim Crow Segregation on African Americans living in North Carolina and elsewhere.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Burnetta Barton.
- Civil rights wax museum project
- In this lesson plan, students will choose African Americans prominent in the Civil Rights Movement and research aspects of their lives. They will create timelines of their subjects' lives and a speech about their subjects, emphasizing why they are remembered today.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Sabrina Lewandowski.
- Daisy Bates oral history excerpt
- Daisy Bates was a civil rights activist and the head of the state chapter of the NAACP. She served as advisor to the Little Rock Nine, nine black students who enrolled at the all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Alabama in 1957. She helped the students...
- Format: audio/interview
- Experiences of the Civil Rights Movement: A roundtable project
- This activity allows students to participate in a roundtable discussion by taking on the persona of someone who lived and experienced the Civil Rights Movement. By participating in a role playing simulation, students are more able to achieve higher-level thinking skills and, as a result, hopefully be able to think more critically about the Civil Rights Era.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 11–12 Social Studies)
- By Kathleen Caldwell.
- Oral history links and resources
- In Oral history in the classroom, page 6
- Guides, tips, lesson plans, and examples of student projects on the web.
- Format: article
- By Kathryn Walbert.
- Multicultural cross-grade level unit plan
- This unit of study integrates reading, writing, math, and social studies. It is designed to help first and third grade students relate to other cultures of the world. They will understand and compare the similarities and differences of children, families, and communities in different times and places. They will analyze religious and other cultural traditions. They will apply basic geographic concepts.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts, Mathematics, and Social Studies)
- By Shirley Young.
- Grandparent interview
- Students will interview a grandparent and write a news article based upon their interview. They will also do research on historical events to develop questions to be asked during the interview.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 English Language Arts)
- By Jim Carson.
- The Civil Rights Movement in Context: Online course syllabus
- Syllabus for the course The civil rights movement in context which investigates the precursors to the Civil Rights Movement, its leadership, its opposition, and its legacy, including lesser-studied events of the movement and primary sources.
- Format: syllabus
- Code-switching
- Code-switching is the practice of moving between variations of languages in different contexts. This article explains the history of code-switching, explores important literature on the subject, and discusses approaches to language response in the classroom.
- Format: article
- By Heather Coffey.
- School desegregation pioneers
- In this lesson, students will learn about the challenges faced by the first students to desegregate Southern schools. Students will hear oral histories telling the story of desegregation pioneers from Alabama and North Carolina and critically analyze images of school desegregation. They will synthesize the information by writing a narrative from the point of view of a black student desegregating a white school.
- Format: lesson plan
- By Dayna Durbin Gleaves.
- African American history
- A guide to lesson plans, articles, and websites to help bring African American history alive in your classroom.
- Format: bibliography/help
- Making reading passages comprehensible for English language learners
- English language learners can read the same content-area material as their peers, but may need special help. Teachers can make difficult reading comprehensible by building vocabulary, decoding difficult syntax, and teaching background knowledge.
- By Ellen Douglas.
