Common Core Sociial Studies Lesson Plan: Margaret Burroughs of the Black Chicago Renaissance and Civil Rights

Lesson Plan: Margaret Burroughs of the Black Chicago Renaissance and Civil Rights

Agenda

1.      Draw KWL Chart on the Board and discuss Civil Rights, complete K-W

2.      View and discuss videos on Margaret Burroughs

3.      Discuss with the students what they have learned about the art of  Margaret Burroughs and complete part L of the KWL chart.

Lesson Plan:

CCSS Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.6-8.6

Identify aspects of a text that reveal an author's point of view or purpose (e.g., loaded language, inclusion or avoidance of particular facts).

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.6-8.7

Integrate visual information (e.g., in charts, graphs, photographs, videos, or maps) with other information in print and digital texts.

Teacher (T) tell students to take out paper and pen to take notes. Make a KWL Chart on the Board. Label the Chart: What are Civil Rights?  Remind students to copy the chart and record the students’ response placed in the chart. Next, ask students what they know about “ Civil Rights”. Use the chart to record student responses. We discuss student responses. We will complete parts K and W of the KWL chart.

Write these vocabulary terms on the Board: Justice, Civil Rights, Segregation, Right to Vote and Jim Crow. Discuss these terms with the students.

Next tell students that we will look at two videos one  about : Margaret Burroughs and the other about Rosa Parks.

Tell students to take Notes. After viewing the  video tell students to make at least one question related the video. Ask students to share their questions with the class.

Discuss at several question relating to each video, before showing the next video.

 Go to Youtube and look at the following videos:

Discuss the Margaret Burroughs video. Next look at the Rosa Parks video.

Discuss the Rosa Parks video.

After viewing the videos go back to the KWL Chart, and fill in the column on what students learned about Civil Rights.

Next distribute the Assignment. Tell students to complete the assignment.

Assessment: Students’ written responses to KWL chart, Notes and oral questioning strategies.

Exit Ticket: Student notes and completed KWL chart

Homework: Review Notes and look up vocabulary words.

Assignment

Make a close reading of Margaret Burroughs, “Riding Together”. Look at how the images in the picture are organized. Now that you have seen the videos what do you believe led Margaret Burroughs to organize the people on the bus  in the order she presents them? Explain if there was any possible significance in Margaret Burroughs  placing two Afro-American children on the Bus with two white adults.