Student Learning Map

  • Topic:Civil Rights Movement
  • Subject(s):Social Studies
  • Days:14
  • Grade(s):11
Key Learning:

All citizens in a democracy must share in the rights of citizenship.

Unit Essential Question(s):
 
 
Which civil rights are worth fighting for?
   
Concept: Segregation and Discrimination
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Latinos and Native Americans fight for change

Concept:

Changes in the Civil Rights Movement

Lesson Essential Question(s):

Are all Americans entitled to the same civil rights?

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What are the risks of demanding civil rights? ( A )

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What strategies did African American leaders use to gain their rights?

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How did the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act help their cause?

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Lesson Essential Question(s):

What did Native Americans hope to accomplish with AIM?

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How did Latinos work to improve their lives economically, culturally and politically?

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How did the Latino campaign for economic and social equality affect Non-Latino Americans?

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Lesson Essential Question(s):

How was segregation in the North different than the South?

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How did new leaders like Malcolm X and Stokely Carmichael differ from earlier leaders?

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How did opportunities increase for African Americans as a result of the Civil Rights movement?

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Concept: Leadership
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Lesson Essential Question(s):

What impact did tthe Women's movement have on society, the economy, the government and the legal system?

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Why might some people fight against equal rights?

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How did the Johnson Administration further the cause of Civil Rights?

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Additional Info:

History of the Twentieth Century (DVD series), History Alive, Maps, The Americans chapters 21 &23, timeline, graphic organizer

Resources:

Vocabulary Report

  • Plessy v. Ferguson -
  • War on Poverty -
  • Civil Rights Act of 1964 -
  • Brown v. Board of Education -
  • Black Panthers -
  • Fannie Lou Hamer -
  • de facto segregation -
  • freedom riders -
  • de jure segregation -
  • Black Power -
  • segregation -
  • affirmative action -
  • Malcolm X -
  • sit-in -
  • Freedom Summer -
  • Civil Rights Act of 1968 -
  • James Meredith -
  • Southern Christian Leadership Conference -
  • Nation of Islam -
  • Rosa Parks -
  • Stokely Carmichael -
  • Voting Rights Act of 1965 -
  • defacto segregation -
  • dejure segregation -
  • ERA -
  • Martin Luther King Jr. -
  • Black Power -
  • Stokely Carmichael -
  • Kerner Commission -
  • Fannie Lou Hamer -
  • Stop-ERA campaign -
  • Thurgood Marshall -
  • Phyllis Schlafly -
  • Malcom X -
  • Civil Rights Act of 1968 -
  • Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee -
  • affirmative action -
  • Kerner Commission -
  • Civil Rights Act of 1964 -
  • AIM -
  • Nation of Islam -
  • United Farm Workers -
  • Cesar Chavez -
  • freedom riders -
  • Freedom Summer -
  • Russell Means -
  • LaRaza Unida. -
  • Caesar Chavez -

  • NOW -

  • James Meredith -
  • AIM -
  • Voting Rights Act of 1965 -
  • Betty Friedan -
  • Russell Means -
  • feminism -
  • Gloria Steinem -
  • Roe v. Wade -